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That's true, but "abberations or artefacts" are more of a low-effort non-explanation than an explanation, and unlikely to satisfy anyone who isn't already skeptical. Active jamming is... the kind of role that a high-intensity two-photon laser would be being tested for.
What would a "high-intensity two-photon laser" be? A two-photon X-ray laser?
As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
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Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
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"To them a fighter jet might as well be a Cessna." To play devil's advocate for a moment: they'd have to know the capabilities of these jets to make that determination, and observation of some sort would be required to do so. "Artifacts" (anomalous errors) appear on flight systems' sensors all the time, and atmospheric distortions can easily appear to the naked eye as flying/moving objects. I don't buy either that ot…
>> To them a fighter jet might as well be a Cessna I always find it odd that we ascribe a human understanding of logic to an alien species. Seems to me we wouldn’t know jack shit about motivations, capabilities, approaches to decision making, etc…
From the descriptions, the aliens act like we would with a slightly better tech: they act like rangers in a national forest monitoring suspicious activity of smart beavers, but otherwise don't mess with the wildlife.
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
#123I saw a UFO maybe 12-13 years ago. It did not look like anything a human would design, even with advanced technology. It looked something like the oblong silver blob in The Flight of the Navigator, just hanging there, "much in the way that a brick doesn't." It must have been 5 km away so it would have been pretty large. It was a breezy overcast day with low clouds, and the moving clouds obscured but never completely…
Could it have been a large mylar balloon?
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
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> it’s affecting military training operations and putting our fighter jet pilots at risk
I didn’t forget. This issue could be both a security risk for our military members, and also an exciting venture for science.
If it was just a science thing or they didn't care about the security risk, I don't see why they'd keep forming new organizations that are increasingly secretive.
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
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It absolutely could be an adversary spoofing our sensor systems. But, I would argue the testimonies of the 4 pilots that saw the object with their own eyes may rule that out (unless it was some kind of hologram). Whatever it is, we need to further study it because more and more military pilots are seeing them and their military exercises are being disrupted
A ball of super heated plasma would show up visually.
Have you heard Cmdr Dave Fravor’s testimony of the incident? A ball plasma does not exhibit intelligent movement as the way the tic tac began to mirror him as he descended on to it
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
#126Why don't commercial pilots report the same things? I believe they have far more time in the air. It seems very, very unlikely aliens would have any interest in our military capability. Even ignoring the technological implications of interstellar flight or the ability to enter our atmosphere without being detected, these objects are apparently massively more capable than any kind of vehicle we have. To them a fighter…
They do, in fact all the time. You just don't hear about it because of stigma. See this NARCAP (civilian flight safety) report https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20 for a case where a FedEx flight crew documented an encounter with the commonly reported pulsating orb type anomaly. There is a video. Observed behavior: > The UAP/Light came from above and stopped/hovered near FL37, about the same altitude as the aircraf…
That video looks like a distant light / laser that's tracking the airplane, going on and off target.
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
#127Johnny Harris just made a good video on this last week.
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
#128I saw one myself when I was at University. Was watching night sky, lying on a beach at Black Sea resort. Basically it looked a regular satellite crossing a night sky of which one can usually see more than enough. Suddenly the "satellite" has made an instant 90 degree turn and kept going before disappearing over the horizon.
You might have seen two satellites. The second one appeared to intersect the path of the first from your perspective just as the first one faded from view.
Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
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I sometimes wonder if these galactic powers (if they exist) will prevent the creation of AGI.
If they don't then is that evidence that AGI is NBD? To be clear: I don't think this is a good line of thinking from the beginning, so I'm not surprised when the conclusions are not useful.
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Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
#130I worked on stealth aircraft that would occasionally cause civilian UFO reports. It was common for the reports to mention that these UFOs maneuvered unlike any man-made aircraft, which was always a good chuckle because they were usually just flying straight or banking normally. However when seasoned military pilots like Fravor speak on the matter, I listen. When a bunch of them speak about the same incident, I take t…
Fravor admitted to UFO pranks in the 90s (gliding over camp fires and then turning on afterburners). Some were found reported on UFO forums at the time.
Yeah, it can undermined his credibility a bit. Maybe a prank from someone else?