It should be reminded that UFO means "unidentified flying object" not that it's totally unexplainable. Just that there wasn't enough to go on to figure out what they were at the time.
Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers
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#102I was a skeptic of a lot of things until I saw some flying orbs around Mount Shasta, California last October. I saw similar moving orbs again in upstate NY this year on two occasions. I don't know what I saw but they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors. Anyone here ever see something similar?
I wouldn't describe the weird thing I've seen in the exact same way, but I understand the feeling of seeing something you can't explain as a skeptic and being shaken by it. I'd have happily just doubted my sanity altogether and left it at that if my husband hadn't been right there seeing the same thing and reacting the same way.
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#103I was a skeptic of a lot of things until I saw some flying orbs around Mount Shasta, California last October. I saw similar moving orbs again in upstate NY this year on two occasions. I don't know what I saw but they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors. Anyone here ever see something similar?
Only once: While on an Army training exercise at Fort Irwin California, through the IR scope of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, at night (~ 9:45 PM) in the summer of 2009. I was gazing at the exhaust of a hovering black hawk when a perfectly spherical, very hot, object moved into my field of view. It was behind the helicopter, and as I followed it I realized It was rotating 360 degrees -- at an unknown distance -- around…
Were you able to get any footage?
Yeah, we are both in the same place. I want to be a rational as possible but I also want to believe we are not alone in the universe. This is as human of a feeling as I know, right?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only once: While on an Army training exercise at Fort Irwin California, through the IR scope of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, at night (~ 9:45 PM) in the summer of 2009. I was gazing at the exhaust of a hovering black hawk when a perfectly spherical, very hot, object moved into my field of view. It was behind the helicopter, and as I followed it I realized It was rotating 360 degrees -- at an unknown distance -- around…
Were you able to get any footage? Yeah, we are both in the same place. I want to be a rational as possible but I also want to believe we are not alone in the universe. This is as human of a feeling as I know, right?
Unfortunately not. I share your sentiment; that "something bigger than us" feeling seems to nag at us.
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#105I was a skeptic of a lot of things until I saw some flying orbs around Mount Shasta, California last October. I saw similar moving orbs again in upstate NY this year on two occasions. I don't know what I saw but they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors. Anyone here ever see something similar?
Only once: While on an Army training exercise at Fort Irwin California, through the IR scope of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, at night (~ 9:45 PM) in the summer of 2009. I was gazing at the exhaust of a hovering black hawk when a perfectly spherical, very hot, object moved into my field of view. It was behind the helicopter, and as I followed it I realized It was rotating 360 degrees -- at an unknown distance -- around…
So how many other people were with you and saw the 6 spheres? Did you all see the same thing? Did anyone try to range any of them the 2nd time?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with that? That's how you'd typically take off from a carrier. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterburner#/media/File:FA18_o... As long as you don't exceed the max speed for the gear, no problem.
Let's just say that at that attitude and height, it's an unusual configuration.
They're also posing for a picture.
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#107I reckon it's misdirection. "We'll say it's a UFO, but really it's a hypersonic plane in development." Just like the SR71 had a cover story during its development phase. "The wreckage was recovered in two days, and persons at the scene were identified and requested to sign secrecy agreements. A cover story for the press described the accident as occurring to a F-105, and it is still listed in this way on official rec…
It can also be another country’s tech in our airspace US is so not used to that!
This happened all the time during the Cold War, and probing air and sea defenses is something that every military does on regular basis.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about a third option, it's a visual artifact on the FLIR recording?
This. It fits a lot of aspects of past "UFO" sightings that were actually just a reflection. The major issue in this case is multiple witnesses, and also supposedly multiple instruments detecting it (I've seen this claimed in comments but not the evidence itself) If the thing behaves as though it has no inertia and does all these amazing movements, what else does? A reflection or otherwise illusory object can do all…
How do you explain the pilots who said they saw it visually for 5 minutes?
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#109I reckon it's misdirection. "We'll say it's a UFO, but really it's a hypersonic plane in development." Just like the SR71 had a cover story during its development phase. "The wreckage was recovered in two days, and persons at the scene were identified and requested to sign secrecy agreements. A cover story for the press described the accident as occurring to a F-105, and it is still listed in this way on official rec…
It can also be another country’s tech in our airspace US is so not used to that!
We have Airbus and Embraers flying around in the US every day. And that's just from my limited knowledge of airplanes.
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#110Whenever I see “UFOs are real!” or “it must be a UFO!” I immediately in my head think, of course if it’s flying and you don’t know what it is, it’s an Unidentified Flying Object, why wouldn’t that be real??
So what I’ve done is accepted the fact that usually what people mean is an UNIDENTIFIABLE Flying Object, and it makes me feel a little bit better...