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Re: Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage

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Post by crashity2 »

lend000 wrote: post #38
ak217 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375

I have a thread, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353309 Frankly, I don't think these videos alone are the highest quality evidence of this kind of thing, but they are interesting because it is difficult to dispute the credibility of the witnesses and the timeline of events described by them. Usually you get some tangible evidence (video) or solid witness testimony, not both at the same time. I've never cl…

Great Filter... you mean like a pandemic brought about by a population density and economic footprint that exceeds the carrying capacity of the planet? Handled ineffectively by a retarded former reality TV host? With a population desperate to "get back to business" at the peak of the disease because they want someone to do their nails?

No way a technological society could destroy itself through collective stupidity... just not possible.

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Post by kart23 »

MarcScott wrote: post #22

I thought this was a pretty good explanation of the 3 sightings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus

It doesnt say anything about the radar readings recieved, or the pilots reactions. You dont think these navy pilots know what planes look like on their radar and thermals? Mutiple ship and aircraft radar picked up consistent readings, movements, speeds that simply weren't possible.

Personally, I think it's some black-budget government project that somebody wasn't supposed to reveal. It might be from us, it might be foreign. But I really dont believe its extraterrestrial.

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Post by ramphastidae »

joan_kode wrote: post #50
jiggawatts wrote: post #17

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Currently, the human race has several billion cameras readily available to take footage of rare occurrences. Not just mobile phones, but think also of CCTV security cameras, dash cams, etc... The simple logical conclusion is that footage of rare but real events ought to be more readily available. And in fact, that's exactly what's observed! There is now a wide variety of high quality videos to choose from, if what yo…

On the contrary, there are rare but real phenomena that have no good videos. Meteors aren't that rare, try ball lightning instead. The only videos we have are blurry unclear blobs of pixels, totally unconvincing. Here's the "highest quality" video ever made of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXm3zDM_v80

https://youtu.be/4XRzD-2iuGU

Re: Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage

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Post by rtsil »

lend000 wrote: post #38
ak217 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375

I have a thread, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353309 Frankly, I don't think these videos alone are the highest quality evidence of this kind of thing, but they are interesting because it is difficult to dispute the credibility of the witnesses and the timeline of events described by them. Usually you get some tangible evidence (video) or solid witness testimony, not both at the same time. I've never cl…

> considering we may be less than a century from self sustaining space stations

The jump between space stations and interstellar travel is huge. I agree that it's improbable that we're the only planet with life, but being visited by aliens is as, if not more, improbable.

Consider the age of the universe, our (humanity, with the ability to apprehend the existence of alien life) existence in it is but a blip. What are the odds that one or several forms of life capable of interstellar travel exist during that same time period, not before or after. That alone, among myriad other reasons, makes me pessimistic.

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Post by javert »

ak217 wrote: post #29
lend000 wrote: post #26

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Mick West's explanation of "Go Fast" seems highly plausible (the video could be reproduced by a weather balloon, with parallax producing the difficulty of getting a radar lock and the appearance of fast movement). But for the other two, even ignoring witness testimony, it seems like grasping at straws to fit a narrative to a predetermined conclusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375

This is an amazing explanation.

If this is the explanation, why didn't the Pentagon just say so?

Re: Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage

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Post by catalogia »

lend000 wrote: post #48
catalogia wrote: post #42

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If he's right about the Go Fast video, doesn't that call into question the others as well? They all come from the same organization; figuring out that one of the videos is obvious horseshit should have us extra suspicious of the others, no?

We don't know that he's right, and the Navy has officially verified the videos belong to them just last week -- these aren't a product of the organization that released them. However, the Go Fast video was not the interesting one from a witness testimony standpoint. See the Nimitz incident [0], in which the object was observed by dozens of witnesses from several vantage points, including three fighters (at two differ…

Whether we know anything at all is a matter I'll leave to philosophers. I'm sufficiently confident that he's right about the Go Fast video that I'd bet my left nut on it.

The Go Fast video being wrapped up in this matter leads me to conclude that the Navy didn't try very hard to figure out that video, which leaves me with no reason to believe they tried harder with the others.

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Post by samplatt »

mattkrause wrote: post #20
Zenst wrote: post #5

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Yeah, if only Aliens had face masks that filter out bacteria and viruses, would totally of changed the whole War of the Worlds ending. [EDIT ADD WOTW reference for those who missed out upon that at school] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds

Still better than Signs , where the aliens have interstellar travel but not spectroscopy--or tools that can deal with wooden cellar doors.

Not only that, but apparently the point of having super strength and agility is to stand menacingly against the night sky, scare some farmers, and not actually do anything.

God, I hate that movie.

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Post by postalrat »

rtsil wrote: post #54
lend000 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a thread, too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353309 Frankly, I don't think these videos alone are the highest quality evidence of this kind of thing, but they are interesting because it is difficult to dispute the credibility of the witnesses and the timeline of events described by them. Usually you get some tangible evidence (video) or solid witness testimony, not both at the same time. I've never cl…

> considering we may be less than a century from self sustaining space stations The jump between space stations and interstellar travel is huge. I agree that it's improbable that we're the only planet with life, but being visited by aliens is as, if not more, improbable. Consider the age of the universe, our (humanity, with the ability to apprehend the existence of alien life) existence in it is but a blip. What are…

If they are sending out probes how long do those probes remain active? Can they repair themselves or build more on their own? I assume that is what we would be seeing.

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Post by joshschreuder »

takeda wrote: post #35
Renaud wrote: post #27

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Another one released today by Thunderf00t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs

Also, I could swear I saw the gimbal and flir videos few years earlier. The time of release also seems like this is an attempt to draw attention away from the disinfectant and UV light blunder, as this administration did many times before. The fact that one of the videos is called gimbal and another FLIR Forward Looking InfraRed), tells us that Pentagon knows those are artifacts and most likely those are training vid…

As per Mick West’s vid, these were declassified in 2017 so it’s very possible you saw them earlier.

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Post by andrewflnr »

HenryKissinger wrote: post #19
HenryKissinger wrote: post #2

1) Bow respectfully to our visitors 2) Serve them tea

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