{"id":48092,"date":"2021-05-22T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48092"},"modified":"2021-05-22T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:22:00","slug":"ufos-absolutely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48092","title":{"rendered":"UFOs? Absolutely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/news-ufo-woods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31821\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/news-ufo-woods-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/news-ufo-woods-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/news-ufo-woods.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few of the leading media talking heads have been yapping lately about unidentified flying objects.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to this question: Do I believe in UFOs?<\/p>\n<p>You bet I do!<\/p>\n<p>Now, before you think I have flown off the rails, I need to stipulate one important caveat: I do not believe that UFOs are alien beings that have flown to Earth to invade us, to observe us, or to just make us ask dumb questions.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to stipulate that I have seen hundreds of UFOs over my more than seven decades on Earth. I don&#8217;t what they are. Hence, they were &#8220;unidentified.&#8221; However, this speculation from some media types about whether the UFOs <em>might<\/em> be from some world out there carries as much weight as the discussions about a second gunman in Dealey Plaza the day President Kennedy was murdered &#8230; which is to say that I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted all by himself.<\/p>\n<p>This UFO chatter serves only to give some folks something about which to talk. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>I am not inclined to get into any discussion about whether we&#8217;ve been visited by space creatures. It&#8217;s just not in my wheelhouse.<\/p>\n<p>However, we need to come up with another name for those things we see that we cannot identify. The term &#8220;UFO&#8221; takes on an entirely different meaning that it <em>does not deserve.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com A few of the leading media talking heads have been yapping lately about unidentified flying objects. Which brings me to this question: Do I believe in UFOs? You bet I do! Now, before you think I have flown off the rails, I need to stipulate one important caveat: I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UFOs? 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