UFOs

The United States Defense Department this month mentioned something that had been kept secret until now: up to last year, there have been 114 sightings of what are usually called UFO, Unidentified Flying Objects. What does it mean to us?

Goenawan Mohamad

May 30, 2022

EARTH: A pale blue dot, a tiny, barely visible spot in the vast universe, an isolated point where humans made history. 

Or, in the words of the famous astronomer Carl Sagan, planet Earth is just “a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” 

He went further with this dramatic picture in his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, published in 1994. There are no signs in this vastness that there w

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