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Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by sandworm101 » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Arodex wrote: post #132

angelgonzales wrote: post #72

This is so cool. For instance the asset FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - COMPOSITE SKETCH indicated that “Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.” https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1…

>I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery. The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids). Tells you something.

Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1235/

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by mannanj » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

yalogin wrote: post #207

Oh wow did not realize they changed the web site to war too. Wonder how many million they spent on that name change. Just such a bad look for the country

You didn't see their YouTube video when they launched. it looked like a movie trailer meets a Donald Trump's marketing company's yes-men agreement in a board room: "Yes, this we like this movie, make our trailer look a movie trailer from that badass Tom Cruise movie!" and it was very much like they were monetizing and marketing war as a movie, with entertainment and business value.

Pathetic. They launched like a business, and I guess for the bourgeoisie class, war is a business.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by trunkiedozer » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #206

MostlyStable wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the resolution criteria, I would say that that market should trade much much higher than OP's hypothetical market. Any governmental agency stating that "Extraterrestrial life exists" would count. NASA/Seti finding evidence of algae on an exo planet or Io or something counts.

Which has already happened. Clinton basically announced the discovery of life on mars back in the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhZQWAtWyQ

A visionary

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by arcastroe » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

GolfPopper wrote: post #178

Arodex wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery. The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids). Tells you something.

Lots of gorgeous images as a result, though: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sun-dogs

I remember being amazed when I saw this as a kid and told everyone I had seen a "rainbow around the sun". I've never seen it again in person. Maybe I've learned not to stare in the direction of the sun. But thank you for teaching me it's called a sundog!

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by Tubelord » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

SiempreViernes wrote: post #165

abacadaba00 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you read carefully, only “inconclusive” reports have been released. I guess that’s what “Unexplained Areal Phenomena” means.

That's a good point, they should also release all the reports that have been conclusively shown to have an ordinary explanation.

They have. Even during the congressional hearings on the subject they were talking about and referencing many already fully debunked UAP sighting footage

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by hx8 » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

yalogin wrote: post #207

Oh wow did not realize they changed the web site to war too. Wonder how many million they spent on that name change. Just such a bad look for the country

Why would it cost millions? I've switched domains for just a couple bucks before.

1. Have both domains point to the same IP address.

2. Make sure both domains are working and DNS has fully propagated.

3. Make your old domain a 301 redirect.

4. Do a couple of find and replaces in your codebase and ship it out.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by Hikikomori » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

motohagiography wrote: post #102

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Want to point out some evidence for this?

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by starik36 » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #195

I'm achieving nearly 2 FPS scrolling down the page in Firefox. I guess it's not too bad considering there are dozens of text elements here.

Scrolls fine in FF on a 2020 era Dell laptop.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by OutOfHere » Fri, May 08, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

techteach00 wrote: post #205

bigyabai wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one is a favorite among Mongolian basket weavers: https://catbox.moe/

Okay here we go. I think this was two winters ago. They floated, sometimes would briefly hold position. Third time in the past decade I encountered them. I pulled to the side of the road. Nobody else pulled over or noticed. Encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes. I honestly don't remember. https://files.catbox.moe/05tysy.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/g46n6f.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/xz7bux.jpg

We're seeing two sets of UAPs -- blue on the left and yellow on the right. Were there really two sets when you were looking? Or is one of them a photographic artifact?

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by krferriter » Fri, May 08, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

Several of these look like balloons and birds.

Two of them have already leaked before. Both of those are missiles being viewed with an infrared camera. One of them shows a missile passing through the field of view rapidly with a motion blur streak behind it. The other shows a missile performing maneuvers and a camera artifact showing a star-like diffraction+aperture artifact around the bright IR light source.

None of these pieces of imagery look like something doing something particularly interesting. What happens is a military personnel records a video. They don't know what it is in the moment. It gets labeled "unknown" and put on a DoD file server, and then either they or someone else who stumbles across it clips out part of it and starts to spread rumors about this amazing video of a UAP they saw. There are people who work for the DoD who appear to spend a great deal of their free time scrolling around internal DoD file servers looking for anything they can portray as proof of aliens, and sometimes they leak their stories and even clips to public UFO influencers like Jeremy Corbell.