I sometimes wonder, “What planet am I on?”
The Pentagon is demanding a “Patriotic Press.” Imagine that? Perhaps the secretary of defense should borrow a line from the late writer Mark Twain: “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
Apparently, the headlines aren’t going the way the White House wants them to in the Middle East. Trump officials like Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have berated the press, accusing the media of spreading false information to try to change Americans’ perceptions about the war in Iran.
President Trump has also been lashing out at news reporters on his “Truth Social” page and during recent press briefings. He blasted ABC News as “maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet.”
Then, federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr added to the pile-on, warning that broadcasters’ licenses could be revoked for coverage of the war that the Trump administration perceives as unfair.
The president posted on social media that he was “thrilled” to see Chairman Carr “looking at the licenses of some of these Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations.”
Out of this world
Speaking of strange stuff on Earth, there’s been a lot of chatter about aliens, UFOs and the disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, who left his Albuquerque home on foot at about 11 a.m. on Feb. 27. McCasland has not been in contact with family or friends since then, and the FBI remains involved with the search.
McCasland went missing just days after President Trump announced plans to release government UFO records. McCasland was also the former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, long rumored to house extraterrestrial debris linked to Roswell, New Mexico.
In 1947, the “Roswell Incident” concerned the alleged crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and the recovery of alien occupants by the U.S. military.
Trump says he doesn’t know if aliens are real or not but has ordered the release of government UFO records, saying the public has an interest in them. He wants the information published on July 2, the Roswell anniversary. Meanwhile, the Trump administration just registered the domain name “Aliens.gov.”
What do I think?
Maybe it’s another “wag the dog” tactic to keep American minds and eyes away from other problems. U.S. presidents have been known to do this throughout their terms by creating overlapping narratives. The sophistication of digital media today has made political distraction easier to accomplish in our modern world.
A 2024 Pentagon report perhaps summed it up best, saying that U.S. government investigations since the end of World War II had found zero evidence of extraterrestrial technology and that “most sightings were misidentified ordinary objects and phenomena.”
Tell that to the many who believe UFOs and aliens exist. The National UFO Reporting Center was established in 1947, and according to its website, “The Center has processed over 180,000 reports and has distributed its information to thousands of individuals.”
Both New Hampshire and Massachusetts have reported many UFO occurrences throughout the decades. Here are a few of the latest:
On 3/10/2026, 8:12 p.m. in Wrentham, Mass.: “Two high-speed orbs at great distance, one higher than other. Parallel flight. Abrupt turn out of atmosphere.”
On 2/28/2026 at 8:16 p.m. in Derry, N.H.: (Unknown Shape) “Using Dwarf 3 Lab Smart Telescope, saw UFO while imaging of the Cosmic Keyhole nebula (NGC 1999) —1350 light years away.”
On 2/03/2026 at 5:45 p.m. in Brentwood, N.H.: “Triangular-shaped, with cut corners. Saw while driving down highway. Low altitude.”
Eyes to the sky, everyone.