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What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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I think this class of UFO (the floating tic tac) is the result of secret rail gun testing projects, with novel inertial guidance packages inside them. Hence the lack of any obvious propulsion. They’re a new kind of guided ballistic penetrator, maybe with aerogel exteriors, and steerable internals.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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> is that there is no real way to distinctly classify something like a UFO or USO in such a way that it gets reported and an investigation occurs on an official level within the military.

This is what is all about. A UFO is probably not an alien, it is probably a human mistake, an innocent flyer (weather balloon, etc), or a non-expected craft (civilian, enemy, etc). If the military doesnt know about them, isnt trying to figure out which, and isnt improving its ability to determine which, then it is ignoring data and allowing intel and intel training to lapse.

In other situations it might pay off well to have those skills, practices, and policies established.

It's not mysterious, it's not exciting, it's just just military paying attention where it is boring yet useful to pay attention.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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post #3

> is that there is no real way to distinctly classify something like a UFO or USO in such a way that it gets reported and an investigation occurs on an official level within the military. This is what is all about. A UFO is probably not an alien, it is probably a human mistake, an innocent flyer (weather balloon, etc), or a non-expected craft (civilian, enemy, etc). If the military doesnt know about them, isnt trying…

Only useful if it doesn't expose your own projects/secret associations.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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My guess is it's the US military projecting. They've almost certainly got covert flying vehicles cruising around so naturally they'd want to know about any sightings of their own craft, or an enemy doing the same thing in the airspace.

What better way to gauge how well the tech is working than by crowdsourcing the sightings?

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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"Let me underline this again for you, the Nimitz encounter with the Tic Tac proved that exotic technology that is widely thought of as the domain of science fiction actually exists. It is real."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A blurry video and some eyewitness reports are not extraordinary evidence. Humans lie all the time, but very rarely discover new physics.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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If these incidents were aliens, I would expect a lot more reactions from the military, politic, and financial markets. All reactions seem muted.

Secondly, why would aliens reveal themselves in such a way? Either land on the White House lawn or stay out of sight. This 50 year UFO appearances, with some but not really a lot of witnesses, don't make sense for me.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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post #6

"Let me underline this again for you, the Nimitz encounter with the Tic Tac proved that exotic technology that is widely thought of as the domain of science fiction actually exists. It is real." Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A blurry video and some eyewitness reports are not extraordinary evidence. Humans lie all the time, but very rarely discover new physics.

>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

No, it doesn't require extraordinary evidence.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-016-9779-7

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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post #6

"Let me underline this again for you, the Nimitz encounter with the Tic Tac proved that exotic technology that is widely thought of as the domain of science fiction actually exists. It is real." Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A blurry video and some eyewitness reports are not extraordinary evidence. Humans lie all the time, but very rarely discover new physics.

See also Hitchens' razor: "That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
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