For decades, the U.S .government has dismissed reports of unidentified flying objects, known more familiarly as "flying saucers."   Pilots learned that reporting what they saw could end their careers.  Their sanity could be called into question. That policy actually created a threat to national security.  Military pilots who were intimidated from reporting what they thought were extraordinary airborne objects could just as easily have been discouraged from reporting actual enemy threats from communist or terrorist nations.  With the advent of advanced radar and optics, and with millions of people carrying video-capable cell phones, the danger to national security has given way to the far lesser danger of embarrassment to the government.  It may be only a matter of time before coordinated sightings by radar, pilots, and civilian witnesses on the ground become so widespread that official denials will be seen as...(Read Full Post)