So went the chorus of a 1960’s song, one of the songs that wasn’t quite as obnoxious as something some unfortunates witnessed last week at the Grammys.

 

Who could have imagined back then that balloons would be in THE NEWS? Surely not the 5th Dimension, who sang that catchy song. Maybe not even Rod Serling.

 

I know I’m not alone (not in the space aliens sense, but in the we are the world sense) when I feel a bit like we’re living in The Twilight Zone. I don’t know how recently the acronym UFO (Unidentified flying object) was changed to UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), but it seems to me the different term allows for expansion of the definition. And while airspace was closed over Montana, parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron; and while there have been some “incidents” off the coast of South Carolina, Lake Huron, and Alaska not to mention other parts of the world; the chatter makes a great distraction. Compare it to losing track of your keys when the dog bolts out the door into traffic. It’s natural to . . . become flustered.

 

Only now (instead of keys) people lose track of things like the US blowing up the Nordstream Pipeline, big tech companies colluding with the FBI to influence elections and to censor our First Amendment right to free speech, the H. Biden laptop from hell; the Epstein client list of possible pedophiles and worse, Pfizer, Died Suddenly, and a recent train derailment in Palestine, Ohio leading to the spill of vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene resulting in widespread contamination including farmland (figure it out). Am I missing anything? Oh yes. People’s attention is being drawn away from illegal aliens (who come over our southern border, not in spaceships), confusion over which ones are the good guys and which ones are the bad guys during this time of wars and rumors of wars, who’s using balloons, and who’s sending up drones. And let’s not even start talking about EMPS and their cousins. I’ll bet you can think of others not listed here.

 

I don’t mean to dismiss UFO/UAP concerns. Some of the folks I follow warned even five or six years ago about plans of the powers that ought not be to disseminate this kind of stuff. Project Blue Beam didn’t just appear out of nowhere, you know. (Thank you to the one reader who got that joke.) And there are more people than you might think who believe we are not alone (not in the we are the world sense, but in the space aliens sense). The times being what they are, we might just find out what they were hiding at area 51 in Roswell after all. Or maybe we’ll be told another lie. It’s quite fashionable to do so just now. Or maybe we’ll find ourselves deeper than ever in learning about the  ’emergent physics’ and ‘spatio temporal displacement effects’ that the Navy is reported to have emailed each other about.

 

Maybe Rod Serling was on to more than we knew. There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

 

In the meantime, go ahead. Hum along.

 

 

And while you’re at it, remember there is good *reason to contemplate things not of this world.