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As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Post by bitcurious »

m3kw9 wrote: post #285
3pac wrote: post #3

I 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…

Same here it’s always always like that as if the ufo has an earth camera detector, I fathom it may still be technically feasible if they are advanced enough. This would explain why nobody has had a clear picture taken of an UFO. /sarcasm

Surely you’re joking, but I had an experience that would line up with that theory. About 6 years ago, well into the iPhone age, I saw a weird looking triangle just kind of floating in the sky. It looked to be the size of an airplane, except it didn’t appear to be using its wings to generate lift. I grabbed my phone to take a photo, but as soon as I had it pointed in the right direction, it shut off! Then it zoomed off.

A bit later I was at lunch, and my phone turned on with 40% of the charge still left.

Realistically, it was some weird drone and a failing battery. But if I allow myself to dream for a moment, that was an alien UFO.

Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Post by TrapLord_Rhodo »

driggs wrote: post #214

> Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence. Occams Razor suggests that if these objects appear almost exclusively over US military facilities and US military training ranges, they're most likely operated by the US military. (Sorry to the Navy pilot whose security clearance is too…

Yeah - also, if something can travel light years and have no major signs of atmospheric entry and exit then they have definitely mastered cloaking. The f35B is pretty close already. There's way to many holes in the 'Alien Theory', to many technological absurdities. If these's truly are aliens, then they are the steam punk kind with awkward technological leaps.

The easy explaination is they are advanced military craft. Northrop Grumman built the B-2 in the late 80's and that already looks like a UFO to me. The US doesn't even publish it's full TS budget. The unclassiified spend on the f35 is almost $400B. Imagine what else the US been cooking up with it's unlimited checkbook and army of engineers at the big defense contractors.

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Post by teawrecks »

pmarreck wrote: post #198
smiley1437 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (Sagan Standard)

Exactly how many eyewitness accounts, devoid of good physical evidence, constitute "Evidence" with a capital "E"? If this number is "infinity" for you, that is unreasonable.

The number is infinity.

Without being taught or gathering evidence, the first conclusion that every human would come to on their own is that they live on a flat plane. Yet this is patently untrue. The human perspective is often fundamentally flawed, and only after conducting actual science can you arrive at something even slightly representing the truth.

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Post by ramraj07 »

nonethewiser wrote: post #273
smiley1437 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (Sagan Standard)

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (Sagan Standard) This response doesn't make sense because there wasn't an extraordinary claim being made. He just said we don't know what it is and shouldn't assume it's uninteresting.

So we have a handful of barely confirmable observations with no repeatability. I’ll file it under “case open, but nothing to do about it for now.” Happy?

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Post by joeyjojo »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #318
supernova87a wrote: post #147

In grad school in astronomy, there was a fellow grad student who was extremely excited after a night's observations that he'd discovered something remarkable -- it was a long hoped for distant galaxy that appeared in his images that night, and had all the right spectral signatures because it appeared in different filters, different exposures, and you could see it there in the image files, raw. Turned out, it was nois…

This comment - interesting though it is - has irked me. To me it's sometimes amazing the lengths people will go to in order to insist something they can't believe must be because another party is at best mistaken, or at worst lying. The article states that UAP were likely - in the view of the author who is speaking from personal experience and knowledge of incidents and people involved - witnessed by 50-60 people "ev…

It just seems to be the same guy going on the podcast circuit talking about the Tic Tacs, and all I see is a video with a black blob in the centre. Have you got any links to back up your claims about all these people telling their stories?

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Post by wpietri »

belter wrote: post #414

- 40,000 to 70,000 Amateur Astronomers, scan the skies every night, with precision instruments capable to distinguish Jupiter atmosphere bands. Hardly any noticed these anomalous phenomena... - About 500 observatories in the world, most of which are located in the Northern hemisphere study nightly stars, galaxies, planets and other celestial objects. Hardly any noticed these anomalous phenomena... - By some rough est…

And I'd add that in the last 20 years, we have increased by orders of magnitude people's ability to capture photos and video. Billions of people now have smartphones on their persons all the time. Billions!

But the evidence we have is somehow the same quality as before. So it seems that either space aliens have coincidentally gotten orders of magnitude better at avoiding recordings, or the explanation is not about what's out there, but about how people deal with things.

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Post by nradov »

FpUser wrote: post #425
nradov wrote: post #364

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, That's not how it works. From the perspective of an observer on the ground, a satellite can seem to suddenly disappear as it passes into the Earth’s shadow. It's entirely possible that you saw two different satellites. https://www.space.com/6870-spot-satellites.html

>"satellite can seem to suddenly disappear" And another one conveniently appears at the same point and same time just going 90 degrees different course? Sure.

Yes, that can sure happen. Some satellites are in low-inclination orbits and others are in polar orbits. There are many such satellites and their paths will occasionally appear to intersect. Seeing that is just a matter of luck.
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