Of the globe and other mysteries

From the perspective of the hallucinated times that the pandemic inaugurated, the statements of the head of the United States Air Force about possible UFOs could be seen as the logical culmination of the events experienced in recent years, closer to the genre of cinematographic fiction. and literary than the predictions of some expert analysts.

Beginning with the confinement and (in Spain) the televised declaration of the state of alarm by President Sánchez.

A transmission with surreal overtones that evoked a scene from Almodóvar's cinema where the newscaster ranted when she strayed from the pre-established script.

Two years later, when we thought we were back to normality, Vladimir Putin surprises us, hours before invading Ukraine, with a speech that could well have come from

, the James Bond film in which the megalomaniacal Soviet general Orlvo plans to attack and invade the West with nuclear weapons.

The only thing missing was the announcement of contacts with beings from other planets, preferably along the path of

, although without ruling

So the denial of the White House was a relief for the planetary community.

If we're worried about tensions with Beijing over puncturing the hot air balloon, imagine a hypothetical military escalation with an alien power.

Safe from interstellar strife, other concerns arise.

Those related to the mysterious balloon of Chinese origin sighted in Montana.

The first of these, the verification that what happened cannot be repeated without increasing the rivalry between China and the United States.

If, as reported by the Pentagon, spy balloons have flown over 40 countries spread across all continents, public knowledge of this data will generate a new awareness of external threat that will force greater scrutiny of airspace.

As detection capacity and frequency increase, new objects will be sighted, alarms will be triggered, and with them, paranoid reactions.

An international response can also be expected to counteract Beijing's operations, add surveillance capabilities and strengthen antagonistic alliances.

In this direction, Japan has just announced that it will consider collaborating with Taiwan in intelligence matters, an area hitherto unexplored.

Speculation about the possible alien origin of the downed objects is still a smoke screen that hides the failure of the North American alert and surveillance systems.

A maneuver that takes us back to the "red fear" of the Cold War, when film productions about Martian invasions projected the metaphor of an eventual Soviet invasion.

Beijing, for its part, also winks at paranormal phenomenology.

On the night of January 28, enigmatic rays of green light fell on the island of Hawaii.

As reported by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, which recorded the rarity, they came from a Chinese satellite.

New steps in the drift towards a cold war.

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