1. Someone somewhere on the internet has probably already said it, but the situation as it has developed keeps striking me as something very like the opening of a James Bond film. Sure, it's usually military or similar items being snatched or destroyed by an evil genius who does not make his plans public, but close enough. [Update: Ah yes, I see today that James Fallows in The Atlantic perhaps made the James Bond connection a couple of days ago.]
2. The discussion about the relative paucity of radar cover across the globe indicates that there may be more room for UFOs of the nuts and bolts variety to be cruising around the Earth than I would have thought. Radar sightings of UFOs are pretty sparse; visual/radar sightings even more so. There is the occasional muttering around that NORAD has had radar tracks of pretty inexplicable things (very fast objects doing very fast turns, for example) but I don't know at what height and perimeter it can be expected to see things. It certainly appears that there is plenty of space over plenty of parts of the globe that something could sneak in if it did not want to be detected.
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You need to be reading a better class of comic.
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