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"Secret drones" that for some reason keep their nav lights on... definite public hysteria.

See: Governor Larry Hogan mistakes stars of Orion for part of drone conspiracy.

See: 1954 Seattle - Windshield Pits

Aliens:

As an ardent "visiting aliens" skeptic with an astronomy background, here's some thoughts:

1) Water is not scarce in our universe. It's one of the most abundant molecules. Right here in our solar system, there's strong evidence that Europa contains oceans twice the volume of all of earth's water. Enceladus (moon of Saturn) as well likely has massive oceans. Comets are also massive balls of ice. Additionally, the ability to create water from even more abundant hydrogen and oxygen is already available technology to we primitive humans: fuel cells.

That the author suggested our water is what makes our planet valuable and that this was an idea by "respected" individuals is disqualifying. I would not trust a single word out of this person's mouth. Life does seem to need liquid water to exist, and this might be more rare. But an already existing alien life form that has the technological capabilities to see us as ants probably has the capability to melt ice. That the author's making this mistake reeks of someone who is just making things up off the top of his head and claiming it's authoritative. He's making objectively unreasonable and misleading suggestions and claiming that they're authoritative. That's a major red flag and a reason to dismiss any other claims he makes on the basis of authority. For what it's worth, the Pentagon does not accept his claim that he was director of this program.

2) Seems like a more likely reason for UAPs appearing after WWII is that it corresponds with a massive increase in both numbers and technology of human made aircraft.

3) So much wild speculation about alien motives. And the motives are all mysteriously understandable and relatable to human motives. Is it that aliens are conducting a very human-like experiment? Or is it that humans are imagining the experiment we might like to do with primitive aliens and then projecting this notion onto hypothetical aliens we know next to nothing about.

4) It's also suspiciously American-centric. Americans are the ones discovering them and hiding them. Why didn't the USSR discover them? Why wouldn't their secrets have come out with the collapse of the Soviet Union? How has the US been able to keep it a secret in spite of all of the massive intelligence leaks over the past 50 years? And why did the Pentagon allow the author to publish this if it's so secretive about it?

5) "There is an alien base thing that we can see but we can't prove it because it disappears every time we try to study it." So they allow us to know they're there despite having protective disappearing technology? If we can't study it, how do we know so much about it, like for instance that it's a base? It's a flying spaghetti monster argument. "There's a thing that's there, but we can never prove or disprove it, so just trust me."

Admittedly not having read the book (and not likely going to), the highlight summary does seem like sci-fi, and not at all convincing.

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