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UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by CalChris »

awb wrote: post #33
CommieBobDole wrote: post #28

As much as I want to believe, I feel like this almost has to be some sort of disinformation campaign, either to cover up some sort of testing that the US military is doing and thinks someone else might have seen, or to make US adversaries think that we've made some sort of fundamental breakthrough and we're ineptly trying to cover it up by calling it a UFO. Probably the latter. Would be interesting to read the articl…

One of the pilots in this incident was on Rogan saying how they used to fly silently without lights above remote campsites, then once they saw a campfire blast the lights and go straight up. They'd laugh as the UFO reports flowed in. Similarly, the stealth fighter was in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it. It's not unrealistic to consider top secret tech as a possible explanation. One counter poin…

No, the stealth fighter was not in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it. The F-117 was delivered in 1982 and operational in 1983. It was 'declassified' in 1988 and displayed in 1990. And it wasn't even a fighter. It was for ground attack.

https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117.htm

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by [deleted] »

awb wrote: post #33
CommieBobDole wrote: post #28

As much as I want to believe, I feel like this almost has to be some sort of disinformation campaign, either to cover up some sort of testing that the US military is doing and thinks someone else might have seen, or to make US adversaries think that we've made some sort of fundamental breakthrough and we're ineptly trying to cover it up by calling it a UFO. Probably the latter. Would be interesting to read the articl…

One of the pilots in this incident was on Rogan saying how they used to fly silently without lights above remote campsites, then once they saw a campfire blast the lights and go straight up. They'd laugh as the UFO reports flowed in. Similarly, the stealth fighter was in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it. It's not unrealistic to consider top secret tech as a possible explanation. One counter poin…

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Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by squarefoot »

spookyuser wrote: post #36

Hypothesis: Any aliens advanced enough to build an objecting moving as impossibly as the pilot says would also be advanced enough to not be detected doing so.

Or maybe...

"Let's turn off the stealth systems and see if they keep regarding us as divinities like they did thousands years ago, keep attempting to shoot at us like they did in the last 50 years, or have evolved in the meantime therefore they're now ready to be welcomed in the galactic federation. Although from watching their entertainment and news feeds I'd bet this starship they won't be in another 3000 years".

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by CyanLite2 »

So let me get this straight: We believe an alien civilization has traveled across the galaxy with faster-than-light technology, and has deployed aircraft that has broken our known laws of physics. But is susceptible to 1970s-era infrared radar technology? Okay. Got it.

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by joshuaheard »

jijji wrote: post #49

last week a story came out quoting an air force general saying that "technology exists that could transport a human anywhere on earth within an hour" [0]... [0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired...

I think he was referring to the new NASA supersonic plane, and meant "hours", not "hour".

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-x-59-quiet-superso...

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by golergka »

awb wrote: post #33
CommieBobDole wrote: post #28

As much as I want to believe, I feel like this almost has to be some sort of disinformation campaign, either to cover up some sort of testing that the US military is doing and thinks someone else might have seen, or to make US adversaries think that we've made some sort of fundamental breakthrough and we're ineptly trying to cover it up by calling it a UFO. Probably the latter. Would be interesting to read the articl…

One of the pilots in this incident was on Rogan saying how they used to fly silently without lights above remote campsites, then once they saw a campfire blast the lights and go straight up. They'd laugh as the UFO reports flowed in. Similarly, the stealth fighter was in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it. It's not unrealistic to consider top secret tech as a possible explanation. One counter poin…

> Similarly, the stealth fighter was in operation for 20 years before the public knew about it.

Wouldn't it look just like an unusual plane to a naked eye observer?

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by Zenbit_UX »

spookyuser wrote: post #36

Hypothesis: Any aliens advanced enough to build an objecting moving as impossibly as the pilot says would also be advanced enough to not be detected doing so.

That seems like false causality to me. If you or I made a really cool drone that could move that fast and be a major breakthrough in inertia, velocity and acceleration, would you bench it for 40years until you could make it invisible or would you test it out?

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by nprateem »

JRKrause wrote: post #47

Is there any part of this footage that can't be explained by a bit of matter stuck on the FLIR lens? Even it being apparently "cold" seems well explained by the dust/bug whatever casting a shadow onto the IR sensor array.

The object was allegedly tracked by ground-based radar

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by monk_e_boy »

CyanLite2 wrote: post #54

So let me get this straight: We believe an alien civilization has traveled across the galaxy with faster-than-light technology, and has deployed aircraft that has broken our known laws of physics. But is susceptible to 1970s-era infrared radar technology? Okay. Got it.

Maybe they don't care if we see them?

Re: UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

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Post by mark-r »

bloopernova wrote: post #11

While I know that I'll never be able to sit down with the intelligence analysts who looked at this video and sensor information, I really wish I could convene some sort of group to do just that. I'd love to see some calculations on how much energy this UFO would have needed to perform the maneuvers it did. Whether there were any observable atmospheric effects like a wake even though there was no exhaust seen. Did it…

You would need to estimate mass before you could estimate energy. Any idea how you'd do that?
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