UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
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Re: UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
#2This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics.
It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land.
Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformation campaign, to throw off our nationstate adversaries and keep the public in fear and/or distracted. It requires one to be super cynical, but our government has done worse to US citizens in terms of disinformation [0] (but not since the 70s that i know of).
That explanation accounts for why these sightings only appear to happen in the US, and is (to me) far more believable than an encounter with otherworldly technology.
At least with respect to the 2004 encounter, I think the least likely explanation is that the object belonged to another superpower - b/c it feels like something totally out of reach in multiple domains for 2004 tech.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#:~:text=COINTELPRO%....
Re: UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
#3This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics. It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land. Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformat…
I've been pondering these reports as well, and my hunch is that the US is recognizing an increasing occurrence of drone or otherwise long distance, stealth aircraft that are regularly penetrating US airspace... and they want to know more. A regular feature of such articles is a well respected aviator stating, "if I'd seen it while alone, I might not have reported it."
Even if it just gets US mil personnel to feel more comfortable reporting unidentified aerial things, ie by distancing that experience from UFO kookery, then it's a PR campaign success.
edit: what's in the videos? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
#4This is pretty interesting! I hope it's at least some new and exciting drone capabilities that someone has developed. Do we know if any other nations have observed anything similar? Are there other nations with similar pilots/activity to our navy pilots who might have seen similar activity over the ocean that we could ask?
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#5This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics. It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land. Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformat…
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a32452418...
Not only that they happen in the US, they frequently happen to US military, the very kinds of sensors arrays you would want to spoof.
Re: UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
#6Any report that cites the navy videos from last year is not going to be very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA
Videos of blurry splotches and eye witness testimony that repeats the word "technology" over and over to imply that unlike the last 6, _this_ blurry splotch is an alien spacecraft is really just annoying at this point.
EDIT: Hey judge2020 did you watch Dr Mason's analysis I linked above? It's very informative and pretty entertaining too. I'll take your downvote as a no.
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#7This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics. It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land. Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformat…
There's no way these are advanced technology from any country. If someone invented any technology that's 100X better than the state of the art, not to mention something that violates the laws of physics as we know them, it would be impossible to keep it a secret. There would have to be too many people involved. At a minimum you'd have credible rumors, like there were during the Manhattan and Apollo projects
Re: UFOs regularly spotted in US airspace, report on the phenomena due next month
#8Any report that cites the navy videos from last year is not going to be very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA Videos of blurry splotches and eye witness testimony that repeats the word "technology" over and over to imply that unlike the last 6, _this_ blurry splotch is an alien spacecraft is really just annoying at this point. EDIT: Hey judge2020 did you watch Dr Mason's analysis I linked abov…
> _this_ blurry splotch is an alien spacecraft is really just annoying at this point.
I don't think anyone taking themselves seriously is considering these alien spacecraft; 'UFO' simply means unidentified flying object, which very well might be some another world superpower testing their own tech or testing the U.S. military's reaction and response to these things, likely using simple drone tech with outer shells that make it easy to stay 'unknown' by keeping their distance.
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#9This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics. It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land. Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformat…
> It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land.
and they almost all happen over declared testing areas where the air force has trialed new stuff on navy crews without telling them in the past...
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#10This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics. It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land. Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformat…
There's no way these are advanced technology from any country. If someone invented any technology that's 100X better than the state of the art, not to mention something that violates the laws of physics as we know them, it would be impossible to keep it a secret. There would have to be too many people involved. At a minimum you'd have credible rumors, like there were during the Manhattan and Apollo projects
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