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

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

wonderwonder wrote: post #85
baybal2 wrote: post #70

I think if we ever see an alien, he will either fly to us in a completely enormous nuclear rocket which we will spot years before his arrival and deceleration. This is in the case if there is really no other way to traverse stars besides conventional rocketry. But in case if there is a way to trick any of the fundamental physics we know after all, then very likely the guy will come right at our porch, and they've pro…

This assumes they are not coming from some giant station on the other side of our sun, parked there for the last several hundred years. They could also be anywhere in our solar system, that our technology is not advanced enough to detect. We cant really keep track of all the space rocks floating near us and they aren't trying not to be seen.

If they're using any technology that we know to be feasible (and they haven't already been here for a century or more), their approach would involve a star-hot plume of nuclear flame that burns in the sky for weeks or months at least.

Now, as Baybal said, if they've uncovered fundamental physics that we don't know about, all bets are off. Or they could have showed up centuries ago and been hanging around ever since, for all we know, recorded by history as a supernova or something. But if they arrived recently and use known physics, we most likely would have seen them.

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

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Post by ubertoop »

throwaway7951 wrote: post #45

https://www.ovnis-armee.org/11_plasma_technology.htm The above discusses exploiting the Bethe Formula to produce a radiant point at some distant from a beam generator. IIUC the energy falloff suddenly increases below a threshold energy level therefore the particle beam will deposit most of its energy in a very short distance. Could the reported 'tic tacs' i.e. bright white elongated balls be the result of this? Would…

Exactly my thinking... I just made a comment asking basically the same thing - Could this have just been an IMAGE projected via a satellite.

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

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Post by jameslk »

ubertoop wrote: post #98

I wonder... Could you project an image into the atmosphere via satellite. Maybe this was just an image. It accelerated with apparently 0 mass. It left no exhaust plumes. It was invisible to radar EVEN as they got close. Fit's all the criteria for something that isn't really even there.

Wasn't it captured on radar? That should eliminate this possibility

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

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Post by CalChris »

gpderetta wrote: post #83
djsumdog wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought maybe the poster was talking about the SR-71, but it too didn't stay classified for very long.

A-12 did stay classified for a while.

There were actually two A-12s. The Lockheed A12 was introduced in 1967 and retired in 1968. The McDonnell Douglass A12 was never built and finally cancelled in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...

The SR71 succeeded the Lockheed A12. It was hard to keep secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/keeping-the-sr-71...

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

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Post by nradov »

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...

Yes the Space Shuttle could basically do that.

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

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Post by 8bitsrule »

If these are alien craft, maybe they're not flying through space ... or even warping space (Alcubierre-ish) but just leaping through it. Like stepping through a curtain.

If our whole understanding of space is wrong, then they'd be asking themselves "why are they making it so hard?".

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

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Post by JimmyRuska »

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…

Wouldn't the boring answer be they made something that can disrupt radar systems into creating fantom objects. Creating fake objects that are remarkable would be useful for when distractions are needed. The final QA would be a real in the field test where the observers are not aware of the experiment.

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

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Post by dvh »

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…

Here's my theory about the recent influx of UFO footages coming from high places. US military was working on advanced drones. Nothing fancy, think current best tech, add 15 years and billion in r&d, that kind of stuff. Then when it was ready for test they flew it secretly before their own pilots and waited for reports. And waited. And waited some more. Silence. They disabled stealth, added flashlights, nothing. Military pilots didn't reported it. Maybe Venus. Or moonlight bouncing off swamp gas, but not UFO. Why?

In past decades whenever military pilot reported UFO they were laughed at, sent to psychologist, evaluated, sent behind the desk. Other pilots knew and when they saw something really weird they have kept it for themselves.

Then the higher ups panicked. If they don't report our drones, they will not report Chinese or Russian drones either. We have hundreds and thousands of eyes in the sky but they will not report because they are afraid to speak.

So they came up with a campaign. They started to publish official UFO footage and started more openly talk about it to show pilots that it is now ok to talk about UFO. Don't be afraid pilots, if you see something strange jus tell us, we take it seriously now.

There are no aliens. Videos you saw are created or modified to look legit, and officially supported or confirmed.

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

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Post by OrgNet »

baybal2 wrote: post #70

I think if we ever see an alien, he will either fly to us in a completely enormous nuclear rocket which we will spot years before his arrival and deceleration. This is in the case if there is really no other way to traverse stars besides conventional rocketry. But in case if there is a way to trick any of the fundamental physics we know after all, then very likely the guy will come right at our porch, and they've pro…

> I think if we ever see an alien, he will either fly to us in a completely enormous nuclear rocket which we will spot years before his arrival and deceleration.

I think that they will teleport here and be minuscule and invisible (at first).

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