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| Onnie at Christmas. |
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| Onnie yesterday in Brooklyn at a friend's house. |
My dreams are out of control. Too vivid, too Fellini-esque, too long and too involved. So I awake each morning with my head so full of ideas and thoughts that I'm now convinced I'm losing my mind.
It doesn't help that I use earbuds all night while sleeping. I listen to C-Span radio or NPR so I hear lots of book reviews, political commentary, Senate/House hearings, interviews with various interesting people. Husband Doug logically reminds me that I shouldn't listen to this stuff at night. Maybe I'll try to stop because of course he's right. It's a very old habit and will be hard to give up.
This morning, in listening to the C-Span call-in show, Washington Journal, I realized that lots of people in this country are fascinated by and obsessed with the balloon story -- Chinese (possibly) surveillance balloons being seen and shot down over the US. Our government has been aware of this for years.
Here's what the US Office of the Director for National Intelligence reported in June 2021 and below is how the New York Times covered that story:
U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It Out, Either
A new report concedes that much about the observed phenomena remains difficult to explain, including their acceleration, as well as ability to change direction and submerge.
WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military, according to senior administration officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government report.
The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology, the officials said. That determination would appear to eliminate the possibility that Navy pilots who reported seeing unexplained aircraft might have encountered programs the government meant to keep secret.
But that is about the only conclusive finding in the classified intelligence report, the officials said. And while a forthcoming unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.
