These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.

The article describes a federally funded program that investigated reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, the take-me-seriously acronym that includes UFOs). And within the story, the Times embedded videos of two such UAPs.

Then are you blind, dull-witted, and bedaft.

[…] the unstyled backyard images by Lise Sarfati, who began her career as a photojournalist.