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US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by mrexcess »

mmooss wrote: post #200
mrexcess wrote: post #164

Shades of late Soviet distractioneering, of the sort one would see in Pravda back in the day. Really disconcerting tbqh.

Is there a serious study of that somewhere, do you know?

“Operation Infektion” attempted to blame the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 80s to biological weapon attacks by the US. There has been some coverage of the explosion in occult and ufo stories from TASS etc, such as “The New Age of Russia” compiled by Otto Sagner, but that work is more focused on historically documenting the phenomenon, rather than analyzing its causes.

Not my area of expertise, I should say!

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Post by tzs »

nolok wrote: post #169
ahmetcadirci25 wrote: post #21

The US Department of Defense has published a CSV dataset containing UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) observation records. It appears to include structured entries that can be used for independent analysis and research. Dataset: https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-csv.c... Mirror: https://gist.github.com/ahmetcadirci25/e4edb7d30109fdb8ff14b... Could be useful for anyone interested in data analysi…

I'm pretty sure they renamed it the departement of war, for some reason

Polling I saw says only about 18% of Americans are calling it that, with 72% sticking with the actual legal name (Department of Defense). Even a majority of Republicans are still calling it the Department of Defense.

The other name changes by the Trump administration are also not catching on.

70+% also continue to call the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of Mexico".

A large majority also continue to call Mount Denali "Mount Denali".

A significant majority is still calling the Kennedy Center that instead of "The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts".

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Post by thegrim33 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #228

This is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.

Ah, a commenter claiming something is propaganda .. let's go look through their submissions to HN and see their posting pattern .. Let's see ..

- Trump-related political posts

- China-related political posts

- Iran-related political posts

- DOGE-related political posts

- RFK-Jr-related political posts

- Covid-19 related posts

- Economy-related political posts

- Election-related political posts

- Anti-Russia/anti-"nazi" political posts

My oh my, with that post history, I surely trust you to decide for us what's "propaganda' and what's not. Surely you yourself aren't a huge propaganda account.

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Post by wredcoll »

krapp wrote: post #258
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> DoD I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy who made his campaing on ending wars the first thing he does after being elected changes the name from DoD to DoW and starts new wars.

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy was well known for being a liar and a charlatan and yet he was apparently the only politician Americans took implicitly at their word. Like you'd think Americans would have learned after "read my lips, no new taxes" even if they somehow memory-holed Trump's entire first administration. But I guess not.

It is ridiculously hard to understand. I don't get it either. There's something about not just knowing they're a liar but constantly being told that? Trump benefits a great deal from friendly mass media.

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Post by wredcoll »

jayGlow wrote: post #188
nolok wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No the interpretation is that the more we could prove it if real, the less we do Sailors saw mermaids all the time too, I don't think they're all hiding under a rock since we invented the camera

sailors also reported seeing kraken as well, they were eventually proven right with the giant squid.

They reported seeing a lot of other things as well. Rationalizing that as "they were right about big squids existing" is a bit of a stretch.

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Post by wredcoll »

6stringmerc wrote: post #147
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.

Yeah, that an advanced intelligent entity, like me, is averse to having their photo taken by any old yokel who will post it online for clout. That’s the correct interpretation, yes?

Wait, your argument is that aliens and bigfoot are just camera shy?

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Post by [deleted] »

estebank wrote: post #235
anigbrowl wrote: post #228

This is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.

> The UFO nut community is being weaponized for political leverage Always has been, at least since 1947.

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Post by wredcoll »

moralestapia wrote: post #98
dylan604 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes yes, because the right was completely tolerant of democratic administrations. both sides are blind to their own faults which is natural as nobody likes wallowing in their own issues. it's much easier to whataboutism the topic instead. Trump has blamed his predecessors to the point it seems obsessive. As someone that leans left more than right, I'm willing to accept the faults of the platform. would you be willing…

Too much text. It’s much simpler to me. Do I have the right to choose a preferred political party? Yes. Do I have the right to express which political party I prefer? Yes. Yet people attack me for that ... it seems deranged.

> Do I have the right to express which political party I prefer? Yes.

Do I have the right to express my opinion of your choice?

Your answer here please: __________

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

anigbrowl wrote: post #228

This is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.

It's the next distraction. They have a new one queued up every week until November.
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