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Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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So, in at least a couple of cases, these events coincide with the deployment of new air defense tech with advanced information processing capabilities? One should at least consider the possibility that they are machine-generated artifacts, possibly responses to unusual conditions that have mundane explanations.

The article detailing the tic-tac incident has links to video interviews with roughly 15 pilots who made visual contact with the UFO, and whose stories corroborate one another.

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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So, in at least a couple of cases, these events coincide with the deployment of new air defense tech with advanced information processing capabilities? One should at least consider the possibility that they are machine-generated artifacts, possibly responses to unusual conditions that have mundane explanations.

Wasn't there optical and IR footage? Seems unlikely that many discrete systems would all have ghosting artifacts at the same time and location. Or maybe I am mixing reports. I've read about several recently.

IR is optical too; same phenomenon can affect both.

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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post #6

So, in at least a couple of cases, these events coincide with the deployment of new air defense tech with advanced information processing capabilities? One should at least consider the possibility that they are machine-generated artifacts, possibly responses to unusual conditions that have mundane explanations.

Wasn't there optical and IR footage? Seems unlikely that many discrete systems would all have ghosting artifacts at the same time and location. Or maybe I am mixing reports. I've read about several recently.

The footage was IR only...

The pilots audio discussed 'seeing' the things, but it's not 100% assertained, except via post-hoc assertion by the rights owner of the video, that the pilots aren't referring to what they see on their MFDs.

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn't there optical and IR footage? Seems unlikely that many discrete systems would all have ghosting artifacts at the same time and location. Or maybe I am mixing reports. I've read about several recently.

IR is optical too; same phenomenon can affect both.

Both radar and IR? From different vantage points? Seems just as far fetched as aliens or someone else's (China, Russia?) black budget tech saying "hi." Or hell maybe it's some of our own secret tech being tested against our own conventional tech. That would explain why the military brass showed up right after. They were collecting their data.

I have to come out of the closet though and say I don't totally dismiss aliens. I would need a lot more evidence to make it more than a speculation, but IMHO it is not an unreasonable one. The discovery that Earth like planets are likely common makes the Fermi paradox very paradoxical. One potential answer is indeed "they are here but are not making overt contact." There are numerous rational reasons an intelligence might avoid overt contact, too many to list here...

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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When the stealth bomber was top secret and still being tested, most of the army, air force, and navy was unaware of it. Something flying at such a high altitude was considered impossible. Naturally, Air Force fighter pilots were some of the first to observe it, and some of those pilots wondered out loud if it was an alien encounter. No one at Area 51 corrected them. So, this could be a similar scenario. It could even be the case that those working on this unidentified flying object did not know the new radar tech was being tested. The many branches of the DoD are not as coordinated as they may seem.

I still don’t believe there was unassisted visual confirmation. And if they are using combined radar imagery, it seems that much more likely that a glitch in one radar system would cause a glitch in all systems. Then again, I’m heavily speculating.

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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When the stealth bomber was top secret and still being tested, most of the army, air force, and navy was unaware of it. Something flying at such a high altitude was considered impossible. Naturally, Air Force fighter pilots were some of the first to observe it, and some of those pilots wondered out loud if it was an alien encounter. No one at Area 51 corrected them. So, this could be a similar scenario. It could even…

Sometimes a perceived "lack of coordination" is built into the program to ensure the principle of least privilege is followed, lowering the risk of leakage and many other issues that may occur.

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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When the stealth bomber was top secret and still being tested, most of the army, air force, and navy was unaware of it. Something flying at such a high altitude was considered impossible. Naturally, Air Force fighter pilots were some of the first to observe it, and some of those pilots wondered out loud if it was an alien encounter. No one at Area 51 corrected them. So, this could be a similar scenario. It could even…

Do you mean SR-71 instead of the B2?

Re: Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

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When the stealth bomber was top secret and still being tested, most of the army, air force, and navy was unaware of it. Something flying at such a high altitude was considered impossible. Naturally, Air Force fighter pilots were some of the first to observe it, and some of those pilots wondered out loud if it was an alien encounter. No one at Area 51 corrected them. So, this could be a similar scenario. It could even…

Pretty sure more than one pilot had unaided visual confirmation.
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