In a recent series of Wall Street Journal opinion editorials, columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. has argued that military UAP encounters might be the result of a "secret military laser program", which he suggested might have been tested on active-duty pilots and that the Pentagon “may know exactly what [UAP] are.” His criticisms of the topic, and of military personnel who have had such encounters, recently evoked a response from former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves, who wrote in a rebuttal published by The Debrief that "This kind of cynical speculation gives rise to the stigma that has long surrounded UAP. Not only does it have a chilling effect on military and commercial pilots coming forward, but it also discourages scientists from pursuing funding to study these phenomena." 

This week, we dive into the controversy surrounding UAP and the military, as we examine the testimony of pilots who say they have encountered anomalous phenomena while on duty, as well as the opinions of various commentators who suggest that UAP are likely to be nothing more than secret government technologies. Is there a large-scale deception underway, in an effort to guard the "real" truth about UAP from the public... and even active-duty members of the military who encounter them? We explore these, and other possibilities in this week's installment of The Micah Hanks Program. 

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Show Notes

Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:

• NEWS: Americans Largely Pessimistic About U.S. Prospects in 2023 
• Spanish police find hundreds of archaeological artefacts at two homes
• Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots 
• HAARP Experiment Bounces Radio Signals Off Space Object to Help Boost Planetary Defense 
• Why the US is enlisting a spy agency during hurricanes | Stars and Stripes 
• RYAN GRAVES: As a Former Fighter Pilot Who Encountered UAP, We Need Science—Not Stigmas and Conspiracies—to Solve This Mystery
• JENKINS: UFO ‘Mystery’ Shouldn’t Drag On
• The UFO Crowd Wants an Alien Invasion for Christmas
• MORE: Are UFOs Visitors from Space? Government Report Won't Rule It Out
• Stunned by UFOs, ‘exasperated’ fighter pilots get little help from Pentagon
• Adversary Drones Are Spying On The U.S. And The Pentagon Acts Like They're UFOs 
• What the military might know about all those UFO sightings 
• UFOs Could Be Secret U.S. Military Craft, Says Electromagnetic Drive Inventor

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