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Re: More UFOs Than Ever Before

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Post by exabyte »

antonvs wrote: post #6

> Some suggest it was the first atomic bomb [that] sent a shock wave across the universe. It registered in distant solar systems as deep-sea earthquakes register with us. It was a clarion call. It said: DANGER! It meant the previously harmless human race had gotten ahold of matches that could immolate all of creation. ...or all of planet Earth, whichever comes first. Hint: it's not the former.

Assuming that UFO's are being controlled by an alien species and that they are in fact more frequent since the event of nuclear explosions on earth, then I think the safest assumption we can make is that the nuclear event sent a strong enough signal to notify them of our existence.

If that's the case, I don't think we should speculate too quickly on how they would interpret the signal.

However it does seem like there has actually been action taken by an alleged UFO. Look at the following link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-dea...

There's a youtube video with testimony given by a commander that I can't find at the moment, but it's pretty insane.

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Post by exabyte »

"Robert Jamison, a retired USAF nuclear missile targeting officer, told of several occasions having to go out and 're-start' [nuclear] missiles that had been deactivated, after UFOs were sighted nearby. Similar sightings at nuclear sites in the former Soviet Union and in Britain were related. ... The incidents were never officially explained."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-dea...

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Post by leeoniya »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #9

There are so, so many atmospheric phenomenon that can produce 'ufos'. Every time someone sees a jetliner compressed by humidity and heat into a row of dots (the windows) around a cigar shape, they're convinced its the first time anyone has ever seen such a thing. The burden of proof for a 'real' ufo is heavy, and nobody makes any real effort. Its reasonable to dismiss the entire topic as overheated descriptions of no…

crown flashes and ball lightning have to be some of the strangest

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPk0mKVnnCs

Re: More UFOs Than Ever Before

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Post by theli0nheart »

allnightowl wrote: post #3

Maybe it’s hysteria, but I’ve seen 2 clear examples of UFOs/UAPs with my own eyes and I can assure anyone reading this that multiple types of craft either not of this world or ultra top secret are a part of our reality.

Can you explain in more detail what you saw / what happened?

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Post by Sharlin »

nerf_javascript wrote: post #5

The end of the article is really crazy when you look at it -- Stimson growing up w/ great-grandma who was told stories by GW as a child, advising Truman about the atomic bomb. That "one life" thing really shocks you into perspective... In less than 200 years, we went from rioting farmers at the mercy of nature to the most powerful war-faring nation on the planet with the ability to turn a war in which other superpowe…

To be fair, in 200 years most of the developed world went from bickering nobles and rioting peasants to a bunch of powers capable of waging megadeath war. Industrialization is like that. Honestly, the transition of the Soviet Union was even more impressive, going from an agrarian backwood to a hydrogen-bomb-wielding superpower in less than fifty years, albeit cutting some corners in the process.

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Post by goda90 »

The argument that the government wouldn't be able to cover something like that up is kind of weak imo. They had just spent years keeping the Manhattan project under wraps and they were starting to ramp up all sorts of spying and secrets surrounding the Cold War. And for info that does get out(like numerous eye witnesses), we've seen real life examples of how effective the strategy of treating believers like they're nuts is when it comes to other government programs like PRISM. People talked about NSA spying for years but got dismissed until we got some big document dumps.

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Post by clubm8 »

scottmsul wrote: post #10

I think there's probably something to the UFO phenomenon. However I'm convinced Bob Lazar is a fraud. It's a tricky case because certain parts of his story are verifiable, like that he worked at Los Alamos and that his friends did see a moving light in the sky. The best explanation I've seen is here: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange... http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-s…

Why would someone want to shoot a particle accelerator into the sky? (The article mentions plasma balls, but as a non physicist I wonder still "Why?")

The US military probably does not want plasma balls because they look pretty.

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Post by archgoon »

> Lazar believed these were the components of a nuclear reactor powered by an element then unknown on earth: element 115, which, once dismissed as fantastical, was synthesized into existence in a Moscow lab in 2003

The element isn't fantastical, and anyone with a basic understanding of chemistry would expect it to exist (albeit, not for very long); Lazar's attributed properties to it were (and are). As a side note, since 2010, the entire bottom row of the Periodic Table has now been filled out with synthetic elements (and names since 2016).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium

Re: More UFOs Than Ever Before

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Post by scottmsul »

clubm8 wrote: post #17
scottmsul wrote: post #10

I think there's probably something to the UFO phenomenon. However I'm convinced Bob Lazar is a fraud. It's a tricky case because certain parts of his story are verifiable, like that he worked at Los Alamos and that his friends did see a moving light in the sky. The best explanation I've seen is here: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange... http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-s…

Why would someone want to shoot a particle accelerator into the sky? (The article mentions plasma balls, but as a non physicist I wonder still "Why?") The US military probably does not want plasma balls because they look pretty.

Radar spoofing, it's mentioned in the second link. But the author admits it's only a guess.
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