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U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’

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Re: U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’

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Would definitely explain the sightings of rapidly moving objects with no propulsion. Also the "object was mirroring my movements" thing.

Also the stories of strange lights above Area 51 that became so popular. Although that was probably a charged particle beam; high power particle beams have been around longer than high power lasers.

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People need to wake up and face the fact that we are being monitored by an alien race. A trained observer and fighter pilot doing exercises off the coast of Santa Barbara has gone on record saying that he saw an alien moving at thousands of miles per hour. The craft actively jammed his radar which is an act of war. The New York Times and other major news outlets have reported on this.

Except the fact that lots of things can move that quickly, like an atmospheric plasma phenomenon. When they say “actively jammed his radar,” all they are saying is that the object emitted a scattered signal of radar light which lots of things could do, including things that don’t have anything to do with sentient life.

Re: U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’

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I remember finding that 3D projection using same tech in 2012 it was cool but loud (popping).

What controls the distance?

You shine a laser beam in some direction in order to create an image/flashbang/whatever twenty meters away. Why does it ionize the air twenty meters away but not ten meters away (along the same ray from the laser to the projection)?

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People need to wake up and face the fact that we are being monitored by an alien race. A trained observer and fighter pilot doing exercises off the coast of Santa Barbara has gone on record saying that he saw an alien moving at thousands of miles per hour. The craft actively jammed his radar which is an act of war. The New York Times and other major news outlets have reported on this. Except the fact that lots of thi…

I call it B.S. We heard this story before so it's nothing new. Looks like the aliens monitor the U.S only....

The fact that "major news outlets have reported on this" makes even more "credible". When we gonna see people kidnapped by aliens on TV?

Re: U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’

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I remember finding that 3D projection using same tech in 2012 it was cool but loud (popping).

What controls the distance? You shine a laser beam in some direction in order to create an image/flashbang/whatever twenty meters away. Why does it ionize the air twenty meters away but not ten meters away (along the same ray from the laser to the projection)?

There are two ways off the top of my head (assuredly there are more): (1) use two lasers; or, (2) the geometry of a laser is hour-glassed shaped, so only the “neck” may have sufficient energy density.
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