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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/drollere on 2024-12-02 15:22:46+00:00.
I came across this article in The Atlantic that describes a very significant intrusion of military priorties into scientific research and, by extension, into public awareness and democratic governance.
The specific action is that the military, in secret, can review and, if it deems by unilateral decision necessary, delete from "all sky" astronomical images any evidence that may compromise US national security secrets.
The article presents the national security concerns as cloaking the position and orbits of US "space assets", although obviously anything else that the national security state deems necessary to edit out of images would get edited out of images as well. No review and no appeal.
That raises the question of which intelligence function would be tasked to cloak the presence and movement of -- not US space assets but something else. At minimum, for example, foreign space assets. But what, in the view of secret agencies, is "foreign"?
I add my personal experience. Recently a post here in r/UFOs linked a short (~5 sec) video record of a bright object apparently moving rapidly in space.
I pointed out in my comment to that post that the observable was highly likely a valid UFO image because it oscillated rapidly in flight (a sine wave oscillation), which is not only a trajectory unknown in natural phenomena (because it violates the principle of least action) but also because it couldn't be anything manmade (because an oscillating trajectory is both aerodynamically challenging to any physical structure but also a pointless waste of maneuvering energy).
I came back a few days later to link the post to my "UFO as wildlife" page as one of the few public examples of UFO imaged in space.
My comment did not appear in my comment history and the original post, so far as I can find out, has been deleted. (If you recognize my description and can post the link here in a comment, please do so.)