Again with the Aliens and Balloons

Sigh.

From a New York Post article on the ongoing Balloonapalooza:

The US Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said Sunday he was not ruling out aliens after a string of shoot-downs of unidentified objects.

Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three floating objects shot down by warplanes in as many days, Gen. Glen VanHerck said: “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.”

If I’d been in the press pool, my follow-up question would have been:
“Have you ruled out werewolves? Have you ruled out Jedi, or ghosts?”

Because outside of a particular meteorite discovered in Antarctica, there’s as much evidence for aliens as there is for werewolves. This is the same pet peeve I have about zombie shows, in that they somehow have a patina of gritty realism conferred to them when they are just as supernatural as fairies or goblins. Here’s the thing:

There truly is no reason to believe that there is intelligent alien life out there.