Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California,

now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert.

There's a strangely unsatisfying story in the news these days.

It's this Pentagonagon UFO story.

Maybe you've heard about it.

Or maybe not.

We've talked about some of these stories not too long ago.

Anyway, if you're sitting in the Barka Loungeer watching Morley Safer and Andy Rooney

on 60 Minutes, you might have

the idea that the only place UFOs appear

in the 21st century is on these little black and white

game boy screens for the top gun fighter pilots always zipping around the aircraft carriers

off San Diego before they join Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise at the Disneyland

Southern-style barbecue dining experience.

So I want to tell you that if you're left cold by all this history channel stuff,

about these UFOs that only the Navy sees,

don't worry, don't be alarmed.

UFOs still occur, flying saucers continue to baffle and bedevil the people of earth.

Regular people, people getting off work at midnight or driving to work at four in the morning.

People walking their dogs around the block, picking up a roasted chicken at the supermarket,

smoking a cigarette outside, fishing with a buddy on a Saturday evening, driving a big rig across the continental divide,

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