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American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
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#72I think the proper term here is "Unidentified Flying Object" for a reason. The pilot clearly said it looked like a cruise missile. The notion that "Unidentified = Alien" is rather far fetched. The acronym should be more accurately called "Undisclosed Flying Object".
The way that "Unidentified Flying Object" and "Alien Spacecraft" have become synonymous is a remarkable pernicious evolution of language. It's a strange thing - I don't think there's any conspiracy to create a cult, just a certain bias in the use of symbols makes "I couldn't explain what that was" become "intelligent creatures from other worlds created this effect".
This is exactly there's been a shift to using other acronyms, such as UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), which don't have the same baggage.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a huge mystery how an airline pilot could possibly see a cruise missile shaped object right outside of the White Sands Missile Range. Probably aliens.
Because cruise missiles regularly do close unannounced fly-by's of passenger jets in civilian airspace /s.
Depends. In the 80s there were “UFO” sightings in upstate NY which were tomahawk missiles flying between Rome and Griffis AFB for testing purposes. I believe they appeared triangular from some angles due to landing gear.
Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
#74I think the proper term here is "Unidentified Flying Object" for a reason. The pilot clearly said it looked like a cruise missile. The notion that "Unidentified = Alien" is rather far fetched. The acronym should be more accurately called "Undisclosed Flying Object".
It's a huge mystery how an airline pilot could possibly see a cruise missile shaped object right outside of the White Sands Missile Range. Probably aliens.
There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft.
The pilot was at 37,000 feet and said the object was above them. Commercial planes top out at about 42k feet and would have shown up on ADS-B. A U-2 flying at 60k would look like a long cylindrical object about the size of a cruise missile (in the same way a 747 looks small from the ground), and not show up on instrurments. Oh and they regularly fly out of Nevada to swoop down over New Mexico/Texas on their way to Mexico and Central America.
Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
#75I think the proper term here is "Unidentified Flying Object" for a reason. The pilot clearly said it looked like a cruise missile. The notion that "Unidentified = Alien" is rather far fetched. The acronym should be more accurately called "Undisclosed Flying Object".
Going a bit further, once an object has been confirmed as alien, then it's not really "Unidentified" anymore, now is it? Almost a linguistic catch-22 version of the "ATM Machine" phrase. Not redundant, but guaranteed to be either colloquially misinterpreted, or technically incorrect. It's kinda weird how words can just get coopted by popular use. Take calling someone a "Nimrod" -- before Loony Tunes, that would have…
>Going a bit further, once an object has been confirmed as alien, then it's not really "Unidentified" anymore, now is it?
Somehow confirming that it is not from Earth doesn't identify it. There are multiple types of flying objects, like planes and missiles, and could be multiple different aliens groups it could be from.
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#76Aren't the recent explosion in UFO news and declassifications a little strange? Especially the ads Northrup Grumman is running talking about invisible aliens amongst us? Is this some sort of propaganda campaign? Distraction from something else? Enticing public support for the new space force to fluff some politician's pockets?
Northrup Grumman is running ads about invisible aliens? What? Do you have a link??
I’m pretty sure they are referencing an article published by a science journalism company owned by Northrop - it was discussing the possibility of alien biospheres. That is waaaay different than what op is suggesting. A bit clickbaity in the title- sure. Ad driven propaganda campaign? Lol no
https://now.northropgrumman.com/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-ar...
Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
#77If it comes that close it's a hostile irrespective of origin.
Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a huge mystery how an airline pilot could possibly see a cruise missile shaped object right outside of the White Sands Missile Range. Probably aliens.
There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft. The pilot was at 37,000 feet and said the object was above them. Commercial planes top out at about 42k feet and would have shown up on ADS-B. A U-2 flying at 60k would look like a long cylindrical object about the size of a cruise missile (in the same way a 747 looks small from the ground), and not show…
Tell that to the people on the plane that was shot down above Ukrainian airspace.
Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
#79> I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing Holy smokes, that would be quite alarming. American Airlines confirms...the radio transmission was from one of their pilots. OK. It will be interesting to see how the 6-month pentagon directive goes. (I personally have no opinion on this, as to weapon or sky dolphins or aliens) One of my pet theori…
Same as covid response. Which is unbelievable.