This is the month we're supposed to find out more about what in the world (or not-world) the U.S. military and intelligence communities think about those mysterious flying objects we keep hearing about.
The government calls them "unexplained aerial phenomena" — UAP. The common term to the rest of us is UFOs. Either of which could suggest a range of possibilities: Other countries' spying hardware. Or some secretive technological advance that America's left hand doesn't know its right hand has made. Or something that creates the illusion of being more than it is.
Or, to go out on a limb, aliens from outer space.
But just so we're all on the same page, here's the specific thing we seem to be discussing:
"Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700 G-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space. And, oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing."
Cool.
Unless it turns out to be not cool.
Or not so precise.