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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.

Talk about nominative determinism!

There is a sub for that!

https://old.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism/

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

#492

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What about Avi Loeb's theory that 'Oumuamua is an UFO with a solar sail, which would explain its apparently unusually flat pancake-like shape?

That's an example of ambiguous or misunderstood phenomena explained by a professor who decided that there's more money in UFO BS than in his previous career (or sincerely lost his grip on reality, who knows).

I don't know, he seems to be really smart. Maybe it's a good UFO theory for a change.

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

#493

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No, these releases are UFOs as of now, after extensive cross-agency review. Your premise of "one person didn’t know what it was" is demonstrably false. This is not a release of identified anomalous phenomena or IAP or IFOs.

You are vastly overestimating how much analytical work gets put into investigating the original context and flight modeling for videos like these before they are released. The UAP Task Force did a presentation to Congress in which the head of the office showed a frame of the now-viral “green triangles” UFO video filmed with night vision camera on the deck of a US Navy vessel. The UAP Task Force was staffed with UFO b…

> The UAP Task Force was staffed with UFO believers

This here is the source of the problem. Also, the Congress critters that fund this are UFO believers too. That's the only reason this is still going on.

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

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This is even more true when there are so many blurry photos. It's as if Nugs acolytes keep putting up photos and making claims but not a single photo clearly shows his three heads or single pogo stick leg. The more photos there are, the more likely it is that at least one of them should clearly display Nug.

Huh. You're right, I never thought about it that way. I had to look it up and apperently there are multiple theories that the reason ufo photos are always terrible quality is that there's some kind of terrible-photo-force-field around them. Great stuff! The truth is that when we see photos of Nug the mind-bending eldrich horror of the sight disturbs the vision part of our brain. The photos are all perfectly clear, bu…

Douglas Adams coined this effect as SEP: Someone Else’s Problem

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Lol "deep lore" - what are you really some sort of priest on this topic? Ok, priest, what is your read of the bigger picture - not the narrow DoW released videos, but the larger context. Re the counterpost - i admit it's a good effort to match the graphics - but it still looks markedly different. Thermal overexposure seems less likely given paucity of other examples - what about active jamming? IR laser pointing? Hun…

The full quote is "don't cite the deep lore to me, I was there when it was written". The intention is to imply that he was there when the thread was created.

well the full full quote is from C.S Lewis' Narnia, where Aslan says:

Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

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What kind of birds are cold in black-hot imagery? What sort of missiles don't have an exhaust but a "ghost shell" trailing behind? What sort of balloons show up as contrast instead of neutral? Your comment is all certainty, and the thread has rewarded that. People are seeking definite answers - seems proportional to the uncertainty they sense. Do you really feel qualified to provide that? Seems a big responsibility t…

This is one of those things where an objective person shouldn't start out with a completely neutral attitude. Have you ever heard that phrase "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? For example, If I take a blurry photo of something I see outside on a full moon that's probably a raccoon and proclaim its a photo of the elder god Nug, spawn of Azathoth, the Lord of All Things, and someone points out that…

Great Old Ones and beings from the ultimate void can be blurry in photos from the ionization of air around their bodies as they attempt to synchronize their quantum spin states with our normal universe. But it’s not just like a blurry photo. Usually you see some ionization glow of the right color for nitrogen and oxygen emission lines.

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

#499

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.

It has no purpose to release militarily. This only weakens the US position. Know their enemies know their detection capabilities.

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

#500
I don’t know what I was expecting. Not much from this crew. But it’s less than that. It’s a pile of trash.

It’s already known stuff, old hoaxes, cases from preexisting UFO literature, things that have already been leaked, and hilarious photos like people holding up a little humanoid alien.

Sorry folks but if an EBE, an actual living being, crashed and climbed out, and if they could actually breathe and live in our atmosphere and at our temperature range, you’d seriously want to consider dropping a fuel air bomb or even a nuclear bomb immediately. Not because the alien is hostile, but because the millions of different forms of microbes utterly alien to our biosphere don’t care and would start looking for stuff to eat.

Physical meetings with alien biology are going to be ruled out either environmentally — oxygen burns them like acid and we gasp and die in their hydrogen-ammonia air — or if not by the extreme mutual existential danger of contamination. A microbe with an alien biology could be, for instance, inedible to our microbes and hard for our immune systems to target but boy does it love the stuff in cell membranes on our planet. The inverse is true too.

The “grey goo” nanotech scenario already happened. It’s called biology. It’s literal nanomachine goo that tries to eat everything.

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