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Re: Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers

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Post by colechristensen »

simonblack wrote: post #4

I 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…

There is also misdirection via (apparent) incompetence. Give as little information as possible, or wrong vague suggestions to the people writing the press releases.

That makes it look like you're trying to mislead/lie/coverup.

It's a good strategy to advertise new capabilities to adversaries and/or let them know you know about theirs or just to make them think rare atmospheric/sensor phenomena are scary new tech.

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Post by m463 »

simonblack wrote: post #4

I 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…

could it be one of these?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinis...

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Post by lamp_book »

rblion wrote: post #2

I 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?

Maybe considered ball lightning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

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Post by ak217 »

NGC404 wrote: post #6

~same topic now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20997012 older: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828448

You missed the most sane thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20018535 and in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375.

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Post by ummonk »

rblion wrote: post #2

I 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?

Could you provide a little more detail as to what they looked like, how they moved, etc.?

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Post by kart23 »

I think theres two possibilities that are believable for me. I dont think its 'aliens' or other extraterrestrials.

Either it is completely fake, made up by the navy to hide something else that they wanted to cover up, and could also serve as a confusion tactic for other countries aerospace programs, some sort of fake internal thing to tease out a mole or another situation like that.

The other possibility is that it really is some sort of new propulsion device being tested by a top-secret government agency or some other private party, and somehow they made the fatal mistake of being sighted by the jet. I simply dont believe the us military would release this video if it was actually a new secret technology they were trying to hide.

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Post by burnte »

simonblack wrote: post #4

I 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…

I hate to be the pedant, but UFO really does just mean unidentified flying object. Everything is a UFO before you know what it is, so this isn't even a lie.

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Post by egfx »

rblion wrote: post #13
egfx wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I have. I posted about it in an unrelated article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198 I’d make a correction though. It was not as fast as a super fast bird but more akin to a lightning fast game of laser tag or air hokey. The weirdest thing is that for some reason it immediately impressed on me that this was technology.

It's interesting for sure. It's a mystery. Could be intentional misdirection by the government, could be beings from another planet or dimension, could be something I can't even wrap my brain around.

It could be silicon based life reassembling itself into a super computer. And maybe it has evolved to a point where it’s capable of exploring the outside world just as we have as humans. At least that’s my leading hypothesis. After all silicon is one of the most abundant material inside the crust. It worked on the surface for carbon based life. And I can’t imagine anything being able to travel here from interstellar space. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-530...

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Post by carbocation »

m463 wrote: post #22
simonblack wrote: post #4

I 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…

could it be one of these? https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinis...

Does this image [1] from that article purport to depict landing gear down... with afterburners?

1 = https://the-drive.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazo...

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