Don’t dismiss sightings

Everyone seems to want in on the Pentagon’s budget bonanza, the most recent being a group that believes our skies are being penetrated by aircraft that can only be called alien.

A Toledo-born naval fighter pilot who saw an unidentifiable object that looked like a Tic Tac in the sky over the Pacific Ocean is telling his story now, 14 years later . ...

Some think that what Commander Fravor saw was a high-tech invention of the Russians or Chinese. By now, one would think the existence of such a fantastic machine would be known.

Commander Fravor thinks it came from another world.

Though he has a commendable sense of humor on this subject, Commander Fravor, a decorated 24-year naval aviator, is dead serious about what he saw. And his career compels us to treat his observations with respect ....

Yet Pentagon leaders should not dismiss sightings of unexplained objects by members of the military. People like Mr. Mellon are primarily calling for the sharing of information from various services and agencies, in order to avoid the “stovepiping” that afflicts government bureaucracies. The level of funding required would be a flyspeck in the military budget, not an endless boondoggle.

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