Space Aliens on the Move?

It’s late deadline day, The Advance is still recovering from Thanksgiving get-togethers, a four-day weekend, a Monday that took some doing just to get started, so if we’re behind with a frontpage story, top of the fold, forgive us.

“You guys suck as a newspaper.”

“Yeah, well, here’s to you, pal.”

Anyway, as we were saying, getting behind the curve ball is part of the business.

We had planned for this issue an interview with Hidalgo County Sheriff “Eddie” Guerra about the business of policing the county. What we talked about can be included in a story on next week’s front page.

Big surprise. With the growth of the county, the cost to house prisoners doesn’t come cheap. Plus, the state isn’t accepting them. Leaving it up to county taxpayers to foot the bill.

These are prisoners already adjudicated, with their traveling papers signed for travel to a state prison, but here they remain. Apparently, the issue isn’t the number of available state prisons, beds, per se, but the state government, brilliant as it’s known to be, placed too many of these state prisons in counties with low populations, making it that much more difficult to hire prison guards, AKA, a job that can be dangerous, depressing, civilly liable on a personal level, for which guards aren’t paid nearly enough for the work they do.

Meaning, because these prisons are in remote counties, the guards need to drive a stretch to work, each way.

Result: a shortage of prison guards.

The state probably paid $100,000 for a prison-location study, and this is what they came up with — build them in remote, low-populated areas. What can go wrong?

Meanwhile, have you noticed lately the increase in UFO, AKA, unidentified anomalous phenomena, sightings? Currently, among the 50 states, Texas ranks sixth in the number seen per capita. How much that has to do with alcohol consumption, who knows?

The UFO Report

The US Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released an annual report on UFO sightings in November 2024, which included 757 new reports made between May 2023 and June 2024. If you include the number seen between 2021 and 2022, the number jumps to 1,652. (Source: U.S. DoD.)

“Reports of unidentified anomalous phenomenon, particularly near national security sites, must be treated seriously and investigated with scientific rigor by the US government,” said Jon Kosloski, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). (Source: CNN.)

Not counting the Chinese balloon that traversed the entire U.S. in February 2023.

Apparently, though, there is no evidence of space alien activity:

“It is also important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology,” said Kosloski. “None of the cases resolved by AARO have pointed to advanced capabilities or breakthrough technologies.”

Thankfully, we know that our government would never lie to us.

This Sunday night, Texas residents spotted a UFO hovering over San Antonio with a “glowing aura” to it. (Source: MySA.com.)

In 1951, dozens of reports of blue-green lights in a v-formation were reported over the skies of Lubbock, Texas. It's one of the earliest UFO reports that included photos showing the UFOs. (Source: KICKS 105.)

However, officials eventually offered to say that the UFOs were migrating birds reflecting streetlights.

Say what?

By the way, that Department of Defense report referenced earlier in this story follows a U.S. House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing, amid claims that the U.S. government “is hiding information about alien tech.” (Source: The Hill.)

Luis Elizondo, the former head of the now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated UAPs, told the subcommittee that the U.S. was “seeking to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”

Said Elizondo:

“Advanced technologies not made by our government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe,” he said. “Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.” (Source: The Hill.)

With SpaceX so close by, the increase in space interest is a given in South Texas.

In fact, just last month, the creator of the private space program and the world’s richest human, Elon Musk, with a launch pad in Boca Chica, said jokingly that he was a “time-travelling, vampire alien,” prompting a mix of amusement, laughter, and real curiosity on social media platform.

Could this be true?

If this space-alien theory carries over to D.C. — elected officials, career bureaucrats — some people may claim that this space alien/UFO phenomena, with the idea that some living among us are from far, far away, would help explain a lot.