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Prompted by a podcast appearance with former President Barak Obama, in which he answered in the affirmative to the question whether aliens exist—keeping in the spirit of the rapid fire round with quick unqualified responses, later explaining in a more nuanced fashion that whilst he was not privy to direct evidence, given the size of the Cosmos and in the fullness of time, it defied logic to think we are alone—Trump replied to reporters that he did not know if aliens were real or not and ordered the Pentagon to release documents related to UFOs—intimating that he might get Obama out of trouble for disclosing classified information. Since the panic over Chinese spy balloons (see previously, see also), the US government has been more forthcoming and indulgent about its knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena, even holding congressional hearings, but what’s remarkable about this alien autopsy, aside from wanting to undercut and imitate his predecessor, was swiftness and the lack of hesitation of the directive, particularly against the backdrop of the release of the Epstein files (the existence of extraterrestrials and cover-up is course huge if true but an insult to victims and survivors) with the announcement coinciding amazingly with only the third individual associated with Jeffrey Epstein to be arrested, in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former Duke of York—with the other two being Epstein himself and Ms Ghislaine Maxwell.  We have reservations about anything substantive or interesting to be disclosed in that latter tranche. 

synchronoptica

one year ago: Instant Karma (with synchronopticæ), un-renaming Fort Bragg plus the Swiss Museum of Transport

twelve years ago: baking traditions and gluten intolerance 

thirteen years ago: food integrity, the Browser, geopolitics and rare-earths plus the dream of home ownership 

fourteen years ago: rationalising the undead