“Solid Data for Aliens among Us”: A Review of The Unknown Other and the Existential Proposition of Alien Contact by Lester Velez
(2021). ISBN: 9798534419412 There’s been increasing mainstream coverage of supposed UAP “disclosure” in the past 5 years, beginning with the New York Times “leak” about the Pentagon’s AATIP program, followed by former government insiders joining To the Stars Academy and promising significant revelations that never came—insiders who have since gone back to the Beltway. The DoD release of US Navy footage of UAPs also happened at this time. Chairman Marco Rubio of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence then requested a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. When that much-anticipated report’s unclassified version arrived in June 2021, it was nine pages of denials and calls for increased defense funding. This past April, 1,500 pages of declassified material requested through FOIA by The Sun were released. Aside from some data on physical evidence and possible abductions, there was nothing really new, and no one’s talked much about them. For t...