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US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by krferriter »

motohagiography wrote: post #102

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> - there exist technologies on our planet that human engineers and physicists do not know the underlying principles of their operation

> - there exist unknown physical principles and forces that a party other than the USG has harnessed and implemented for advanced flight capability

These certainly have not been shown to be true. People have told stories alleging these are true, but they have for decades failed to substantiate them with evidence. All they've been able to do is tell wild fantasy stories and occasionally get a video or photo released that is laughably bad and does not support the story at all.

Which keeps happening, but the people who believe in alien visitation to Earth never seem to care that the alleged "evidence" keeps falling apart when it's actually released and scrutinized. They just move on to hyping up the next alleged evidence. It's honestly a cult dynamic at play here. Always reference to secret evidence and no epistemic adjustment after repeated cases of what they believed was evidence for their belief turning out to not be evidence for their belief. They never learn from all the past times they got scammed.

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Post by yalogin »

hx8 wrote: post #216
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.

Ha no, they changed it everywhere not just the URL. Physical changes cost a lot

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Post by abacadaba00 »

jazzypants wrote: post #128
abacadaba00 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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*I* believe in the rule of law, but I don't think it's actively being enforced in the country that I love. I won't pretend that America has ever been the place that we pretend to be, but there have always been people who believe in its promise. We will never achieve our potential with fatalistic defeatism. We need the common will of the people to push us in the right direction, and that doesn't happen if we just run…

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

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Post by hx8 »

mghackerlady wrote: post #239
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

don't they control the .gov tld? They don't really have to pay a domain registrar and war.gov probably wasn't used anywhere else

Who is "they"? Yes the US Government owns .gov. No it isn't owned by the Department of War/Department of Defense/War Department. It's owned by the Department of Homeland Security.

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

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Post by hx8 »

yalogin wrote: post #242
hx8 wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ha no, they changed it everywhere not just the URL. Physical changes cost a lot

Yeah that's expensive. So many signs and letterheads.

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Post by pear01 »

Hikikomori wrote: post #240
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #226

So with The War having ground to an unsatisfactory halt, they're now releasing distraction #2. I wonder how many will be needed between now and November? Convince me I'm wrong.

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They will never release them. The distraction will morph into all the electoral subterfuge they will attempt as they increasingly fear losing power at the polls. They know what's in those files and what will happen to them if they lose in 2028. Thus they will be even more incentivized to behave badly.

If gas prices double from here it will be less stupid distraction and more overt authoritarianism... the ICE question has not been settled. ICE is still violating your neighbors and making a mockery of what is supposed to be a society of free people. They merely thought the overt city takeovers and shooting Americans in the head had become a bad look that wasn't worth it politically. The persistence of this calculus is not inevitable.

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Post by krferriter »

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

What do you mean by "encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes"? Where did the lights go after the 5 minutes? From your description these could potentially be military grade illumination flares, which fall very slowly and can burn for several minutes.

From the photos alone it's also hard to rule out distant airplanes with their bright forward landing lights on. When planes are flying towards you they appear to move very slowly and at a distance they appear as single bright orange/yellow glowing spots. Take this example showing 3 airplanes a few miles away:

https://i.imgur.com/vVB6Cf0.png

They could also be drones or helicopters with bright spotlights on. Hard to say with this.

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Post by vjvjvjvjghv »

jazzypants wrote: post #37
david-gpu wrote: post #2

According to US congresswoman Luna this is the first of several releases that will be coming out in the following weeks. Edit: I had a look at a bunch of the videos and didn't find anything remarkable, in my opinion. The witness testimonies read like so many others.

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That’s what she wants to be. I am always shocked how many intelligent and capable people are happily joining the Trump person cult.

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Post by techteach00 »

OutOfHere wrote: post #219
techteach00 wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The blue is water on my window. I forgot to mention.
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