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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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post #71

Check out this documentary Sirius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C_-HLD21hA

I'm quite familiar with S. Greer's work and I would recommend taking all his documentaries and videos not with one but multiple grains of salt.

More like those huge salt licks for horses.

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

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post #7

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.

The planet could have been seeded with life to free bound oxygen or concentrate certain elements on the surface for easy retrieval at a later date. Semi intelligent life could have been an accident. It is probably not the case but fun to think about.

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

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I'm surprised the article doesn't reference the recent Bob Lazar documentary which deals with this alleged tech from a first-hand perspective (Bob was a whistleblower in a lab that worked on a kind of gravity drive, according to him.) It's quite well-produced, and it's probably the only UFO-related film I consider worth watching: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/bob-lazar-area-51-flying-s...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Lazar&secti... I don’t think anyone serious takes Bob Lazar seriously!

Why not?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

With everyone glued to smart phones it is getting easier and easier to be "stealthy"

There's actually schemes to detect stealth aircraft through the changes in signal strength they induce in cell phones below their flight path. Not precise enough for targeting, but good enough to put up a plane to confirm...

I suppose that's plausible, but is it realistic?

What's the range of a cell phone signal? The signals from the cell towers will be aimed parallel with the ground. There is going to be an inverse square relationship with the signal strength and distance. A stealth plane is also more likely to be up way high too. The more signals there, the more populous the area, the more likely that a plane would be even higher. How many signals are needed for a disturbance to be noticed/tracked?

Maybe if the stealth plane was 50,000ft or lower, but considering comercial traffic usually flies up to 39,000ft, and some private traffic at 45,000ft, you probably won't find stealth aircraft below 50,000ft.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's actually schemes to detect stealth aircraft through the changes in signal strength they induce in cell phones below their flight path. Not precise enough for targeting, but good enough to put up a plane to confirm...

Assume this only covers stealth planes flying below the height of the base stations?

Not necessarily, but I still doubt this would be successful in detecting a stealth plane.

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

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Friendly reminder: UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, not Suspected Alien Aircraft From Another Planet. Asking "why the hell" the DOD would be interested in Unidentified phenomenon in its territory goes well beyond sensationalism and straight into stupidity.

I think that's why people are wondering why they weren't as officially interested before. Most of the speculation seems pretty far-fetched, though.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

With everyone glued to smart phones it is getting easier and easier to be "stealthy"

There's actually schemes to detect stealth aircraft through the changes in signal strength they induce in cell phones below their flight path. Not precise enough for targeting, but good enough to put up a plane to confirm...

Passive Radar IIRC. Though I believe the 1999 F-117A shootdown in Yugoslavia was a result of the bomb-bay door detection.

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

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post #106

Friendly reminder: UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, not Suspected Alien Aircraft From Another Planet. Asking "why the hell" the DOD would be interested in Unidentified phenomenon in its territory goes well beyond sensationalism and straight into stupidity.

I think that's why people are wondering why they weren't as officially interested before. Most of the speculation seems pretty far-fetched, though.

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