In December, 2017, a ground-shaking article appeared in the New York Times authored by Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, and Helene Cooper that almost no one I know noticed. People who view themselves as informed, interested and concerned about current events simply ignored the piece. In what should have caused the entire planet to to come to a standstill, the story somehow avoided being one of the most dramatic and fascinating mysteries that everyone was talking about due to the nature of the subject, which has been ridiculed and demeaned and relegated to the fringes of serious discussion. The piece, accompanied by stark and strange videos taken by Navy aviators (later authenticated by the Pentagon), which showed craft of unknown origin exhibiting remarkable flight characteristics well beyond anything known to exist within the bounds of human technology interacting with and outperforming the Navy F-18’s. The craft, recorded by FLIR cameras, have not yet been adequately explained. How they operate and under who’s control they are guided remains unknown. Why this hasn’t received greater attention is likely a consequence of decades of enforced stigma attached to the subject of UFO’s, now referred to as UAP. This revelation has implications across every aspect of life on earth, yet aside from new congressional investigations and the formation of a data collecting effort within the defense establishment, humanity goes on as blithely as ever.
The UAP stamps are an effort to broaden exposure of this topic, and a an opportunity to ponder what might an official U.S. postage stamp commemorating these interactions look like if the government were more candid and forthcoming. The images are based on stills captured from the FLIR footage, and are presented in a no-nonsense, almost mundane way. The titles of the stamps refer to the various Navy videos, Gimbal, Tic-Tac, Go-Fast, etc, as well as the names of the carriers the pilots were attached to. The denominations indicate either the year the events took place or relate to the year the Times article appeared.
The Times article hit me with such persuasive force, my view of this entire topic switched from skepticism or even antagonism to a hunger to know more and digest the history of this mystery which has decades (some would say centuries), of precedent.
