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American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by wetpaws »

human wrote: post #78
mike_d wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

shh, those were aliens too, at least according to Russia.

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

human wrote: post #78
mike_d wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by ttt0 »

kube-system wrote: post #40
tyrust wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you mean to reply to another comment? The article doesn't make any mention of "alien".

The last two paragraphs of the article is clearly talking about aliens. > Former CIA Director John Brennan thinks there may be life on other planets too. December’s Covid-19 relief bill included a directive to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to share what they know about UFOs within 6 months. People with the highest of security clearances think there’s something out there. > ‘Something’ of course doesn’t neces…

> December’s Covid-19 relief bill included a directive to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to share what they know about UFOs within 6 months.

Seems like that Covid-19 relief bill was about everything but the Covid-19 relief, lol

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by boomboomsubban »

vnxli wrote: post #47
kube-system wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last two paragraphs of the article is clearly talking about aliens. > Former CIA Director John Brennan thinks there may be life on other planets too. December’s Covid-19 relief bill included a directive to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to share what they know about UFOs within 6 months. People with the highest of security clearances think there’s something out there. > ‘Something’ of course doesn’t neces…

Is that 6 months up yet? I forgot to put that date into my calendar

They released their files, it hasn't been six months yet. I haven't looked at them, but the lack of hype makes me assume they're nothing huge.

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-centr...

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by astrea »

jjcon wrote: post #76
maxk42 wrote: post #22

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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...

Clickbait title with an even stranger ad campaign

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by ameister14 »

human wrote: post #78
mike_d wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wait, wait, wait...you're saying that because a missile has shot down a plane before in another country during a conflict, the United States military is firing cruise missiles without clearing civilian airspace?

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

human wrote: post #78
mike_d wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by motohagiography »

The UFO pilots are figuring out whether they need to wipe us out (again), or let us join the community of space faring species. Challenge is, we need to demonstrate that our cultures can arrive at a specific and necessary ethical conclusion ourselves, so that there could be some shared moral basis on which to engage other species. If we don't get there ourselves before developing advanced propulsion, we're too much of a risk and they press reset.

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by TacticalCoder »

themodelplumber wrote: post #43
jimmysjohn279 wrote: post #27

How is this not on film in 4k stereo in the age of smart phones and dash cams

At 37K feet, above the airplane, tracking really fast moving objects, in the direction the cockpit is facing, we are expecting a phone or a dash cam? C'mon

Why isn't everything that the pilot can be seen recorded in some black box?

If the pilot can see it, certainly a cam from inside the cockpit can see it.

I understand that planes aren't cars but... We have cars doing just that: recording absolutely everything in case something unexpected happen.

It's 2021: I'm sure airliners could have it at some point. It doesn't look like a feature too much out of a science-fiction movie.

And this would settle quite some of the UFO sightings.

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Post by mike_d »

human wrote: post #78
mike_d wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down with a surface-to-air missile, a weapon intended specifically for targeting aircraft. A "cruise missile" by comparison is intended for terrestrial targets and has a minimum range of a few hundred miles. Should the missile come in contact with an aircraft during its initial launch phase, your warhead would basically come right back down on top of you - which is why they close the airspace.
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