Released Videos From The Pentagon's First Batch Of UFO Files

[Lance Payette]

Keen-eyed observers may have noticed that no one, including me, had anything whatsoever to say about the video Duncan posted. I found it about as exciting as watching my microwave cook a Banquet pot pie (fairly yummy if cooked properly, and still only $1 at Walmart!). If you think you saw something interesting, do let us know.

It would seem that the UFO research community found the release equally underwhelming. The Anomalist, a weirdness site I have visited daily for many years, linked to several reactions to the release in its entries for May 11 and May 12: https://www.anomalist.com/.

FWIW, an Arizona law firm where I was a partner used a court reporter who had also been used by NASA during the moon missions. He said there was both the public transmission and a private one. Technology was so primitive that they used court reporters to transcribe the private line. He said he heard astronaut Michael Collins have some sort of mental or emotional breakdown but never heard anything juicy in the UFO vein.

[Benjamin Cole]

Those Banquet pot pies, with cheese melted on top, with pepper...not half bad.

[Lance Payette]

Those Banquet pot pies, with cheese melted on top, with pepper...not half bad.

Indeed, a bigger mystery perhaps than the UFO phenomenon. Through all the ups and downs of the last 6 or so years - COVID, Biden, Trump, tariffs, Aaron Rodgers - they have steadfastly remained exactly $1 at Walmart (and 5 for $5 if you buy them at Safeway). It's become my personal check on the actual state of the economy. I have actually asked Walmart cashiers "How is this POSSIBLE?" without a meaningful response. I have three theories: (1) they were actually all made in 1957 and are sitting by the millions in some warehouse; (2) they only cost $0.03 to make anyway, and Banquet isn't greedy; or (3) they are, in fact, tied into the UFO phenomenon. At least at Walmart, there is a new sausage one that is muy bueno for breakfast.

[John Corbett]

I tried a few Banquet dinners and decided the cardboard box would have been tastier.

[Lance Payette]

Your culinary expert cannot in good conscience recommend Banquet frozen dinners. Banquet has, however, perfected the $1 pot pie. 5 minutes in the microwave, let stand in the microwave 5 minutes with a damp paper towel over the top, dump into a dish and squish around, and consume while telling yourself "Hey, it was only a dollar!"

[Lance Payette]

Separated at birth? Coincidence? I think not.

The bottom image, for you ufology-challenged folks, is from famous one-armed Swiss farmer and Pleiadian contactee Billy Meier. Billy endorses nothing but Banquet pot pies.

The question is, which image is cheesier?

OK, I think we're done.