I’ve written about the subject of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) once before in this paper, and I don’t want to give the impression it’s a subject I’m obsessed with. But I have become increasingly interested in UAPs since the flap of “drone” sightings we had in our area a bit more than a year ago.

I consume a lot of news each day from a wide range of sources. In doing so, I’ve seen the number of articles and interviews about UAPs increasing in recent weeks. Perhaps that’s because congress passed a bill recently with imbedded instructions to the intelligence community to...