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UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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Re: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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Actual link to the tweet that has all the actual content:

https://twitter.com/IrishAero/status/1061669444093730820

Direct link to the audio:

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018...

Side note; including a screenshot of a tweet with out a link to it, is pretty lame.

Re: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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post #2

Actual link to the tweet that has all the actual content: https://twitter.com/IrishAero/status/1061669444093730820 Direct link to the audio: http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018... Side note; including a screenshot of a tweet with out a link to it, is pretty lame.

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Re: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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Do any airlines have high-def video cameras on planes? Seems like something that would be financially feasible with modern technology and would provide very useful data for unexplained phenomena like this. I imagine I'm not the only one who would pay to subscribe for a streaming service for airline footage, even when there aren't UFO sightings to examine.

Re: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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post #3

Audio: http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018... (skip to 17min40s)

Would love a transcript if anyone happens to find one. I have a very difficult time making out what is said, I'm not sure how they understand each other.

Re: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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post #7

Are the archives just really low quality or do ATCs and pilots possess superhuman abilities to understand super low quality audio

This is all captured by civilian equipment on the ground. The stuff the ATCs themselves have access to is much better.

Re: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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Since we don't usually get UFO threads on Hacker News, I may as well brush the dust off my tinfoil hat...

What's always puzzled me about UFO sightings is the preponderance of "bright lights" being what people report seeing. If some extraterrestrial being came to visit, why make itself known? And in such an obviously unnatural way, too?

One immediate counterargument I can think of is that it's good camouflage. Who needs difficult shit like invisibility when we can just pound the earthlings' pupils with light so they can't see us well! Nevertheless, has always made the skeptic in me raise my eyebrows recursively.

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