Anyone who writes about UFOs in America has been ostracized, ridiculed and lampooned. This situation has gone on for decades, with growing groups of citizens and alternative news sites taking up the slack left by MSM. People who have reported seeing UFOs include one ex-president, a governor, astronauts, many pilots and military officers, and perhaps 10% of the population of the US.
Today's article follows an article a year and a half ago: Link But for the intervening time, the Times has, bizarrely, continued business as usual.
Some commentators in the UFO world are saying the government is in the embarrassing position of having suppressed reports and denied major DoD research programs since 1947, and to save face they are gradually allowing the truth to leak out, rather than making a dramatic announcement.
Weird sh*t coming down the road...