Regarding John Kelly’s July 22 Metro column, “The time when the city thought aliens had descended”:
The Post continues to allow a columnist whose bias on unidentified flying objects has been revealed in previous articles to write on the subject. Kelly shows little objectivity about UFOs and has chosen to dismiss reports as fantasy. He could have done a little research and written a sincere treatment of the UFO phenomenon, which is still mired by a lack of scientific inquiry and a mainstream press that chooses the sensational over facts and eyewitness reports.
Nowhere in the 1952 Post article Kelly wrote about did reporter Paul Sampson speculate that the aerial phenomena might be related to visitation from intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, but Kelly inserted his assumptions about prevailing views with regard to “aliens” piloting the alleged craft.
As to the official stance that a “weather inversion” created the phenomena, The Post reported in 1952, “A traffic control center spokesman said the nature of the signals on the radar screen ruled out any possibility they were from clouds or any other ‘weather’ disturbance.”
The sightings were one of the most significant reports of UFOs in the nation’s history and spawned an inquiry by the CIA. Like it or not, the UFO phenomenon is a part of our cultural and military history and should be treated with a little more objectivity and a little less contempt.
Shepherd Johnson,
Gum Spring, Va.
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