The Biggest UFO Mystery

Never mind those grainy videos. I want to know why the media can't find any relevant subject experts to help make sense of all this.

My faith in journalism is being tested by the UFOs. I keep thinking the fever will break, but no, every day brings a stunningly credulous new media report of mysterious objects encroaching U.S. military airspace.

You need to watch this Today show segment to truly grasp how bad we are at this.

TODAY @TODAYshow

The world is getting a glimpse at leaked military radar readings showing possible UFO activity near a Navy warship off the coast of California. @GadiNBC has more.

To start, this footage was “leaked” to a UFO fanatic and filmmaker named Jeremy Corbell. He is known for his documentaries on poltergeists and a fraudulent flying saucer whistleblower named Bob Lazar, who claims to have reverse engineered alien technology at Area 51.

That should be the first red flag. If I’m an NBC journalist, I’m wondering why military radar images and data are being leaked to a UFO buff and not a reputable journalist who would presumably vet the source and provenance of the footage. It looks like the journalist took a stab at the latter before going on the air.

Gadi Schwartz @GadiNBC

There appear to be 4 different clips included in @JeremyCorbell’s video. I’m clipping out each out here. Also, big favor... if you are retired/active duty or a contractor that has direct knowledge of this system & reading radar... my DM’s are open. 1/4

Props for including the #UFO twitter hashtag, which is a kind of bat signal to the flying saucer brigade.

Gadi Schwartz @GadiNBC

4th clip included in Corbell’s video. 8-9 contacts this time. If you have direct knowledge of this incident or this system, my dms are open 🙏🏽#USSOmaha #ufotwitter 4/4

Evidently, the journalist had little luck in finding aerospace or aviation experts who could help him make sense of the radar footage. So he went with the next best thing:

Gadi Schwartz @GadiNBC

Radar images tracking unidentified objects around the #USSOmaha in 2019 have been released by @JeremyCorbell. We asked him why he thinks the pentagon keeps confirming his videos as part of the UAPTF review. All coming up in minutes on @NBCNewsNow #UFOTwitter

Actually, Corbell—the well-known radar expert (err, UFO enthusiast)—was asked by NBC to interpret the footage in the segment. Way to go, Team Journalism!

To be fair, Corbell is also the go-to expert on UFO/military encounters for MSNBC and Fox News, where he said:

UFOs are real and they fly with impunity within our restricted airspace. Finally people are acknowledging that this is an issue, that there is a UFO problem.

CNN has posted other similarly“leaked” footage from Corbell in a stand-alone montage video. There’s no context, just the images overlaid with a musical score.

CNN @CNN

The Pentagon has confirmed these images of UFOs are part of ongoing investigations cnn.it/3uarkOa

Amidst this media fueled UFO frenzy, science journalist and former Discover magazine editor-in-chief asks:

Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell

In what universe would an actual "national security worry" result in the US military handing out fuzzy images and saying, "I dunno, what do YOU think these things are?" There are many agendas at work here. None of them have anything to do with alien technology.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

How UFO sightings went from joke to national security worry in Washington https://t.co/sCmGSYlk8J

Ha! That’s what he thinks. I will be revealing all the alien technology secrets in a conversation this afternoon with several other journalists, scientists and scholars. Seriously, I think they know everything there is to know about UFOs, so check it out.

Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin

@GadiNBC @JeremyCorbell @NBCNewsNow Dissecting the new media pulse around #UFOs #UAPs at 2pm US eastern: earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/su…