There is a piece of really interesting video that was shown live on CNN the day of the inauguration. As Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper are outside at a table, discussing the activities, what appears to be a large, cigar shaped silver object darts across the screen in the background, at what appears to be a speed much faster than aircraft. The Washington Monument is seen in the distance, and the object appears behind it and is quickly out of the picture.

The internet is abuzz with the story, although mainstream media has failed to address it, thus far. Perhaps they will. Today's corporate media seldom perform the function we once expected of major media. Now, they're mainly cheerleaders talking incessantly about stories that once were seen mainly on entertainment shows.

If you wish to see screen shots made of the object, they can be found at this internet site: http://news1800.com/2009/01/most-popular/cnn-catches-ufo-on-camera-during-inauguration/.

The video can also be seen at CNN, provided it remains up. Earlier, it was taken down for a while: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/01/20/inaug.blitz.gergen.obrien.cnn?iref=videosearch

That site still has the video up, so I invite you to look at it and make your own determination. I do not know what it is, but I am open to all possibilities. That's what the true scientific mind is about. It's not about excluding anything that cannot be proved in a court of law or through objective evidence. It's about reaching out into the unknown and searching until a hypothesis can either be proved or disproved.

Some incorrectly believe the scientific method means anything that cannot be proved to one's satisfaction is therefore untrue. That sort of thinking once kept humans in the dark ages, once kept great scientific minds considered heretics for stating that our planet was not the center of the universe.

There are an incredibly large numbers of Americans who believe that UFOs are something that require open and public investigation. The silliness of UFOs detractors appeals to the lowest kind of debate: the ridiculing of those who say "why don't we keep an open mind about it?"



I look forward to the detailed and thoughtful analyses I know will follow this event. Sane, well adjusted, rational individuals will be ridiculed for their investigations into the event. Isn't it about time our government took a more intelligent, open minded look at UFOs, particularly this event? It was an Unidentified Flying Object, and no matter what it was, don't we, as a nation, need to know?

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Pappy Moore is a humorist, a native son of East Texas who still makes the piney woods his home.

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