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

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What I do consistently see uniting all of these articles is Tom Delonge and TTSA, which has a big “Invest” button up at the top of their website. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to marketing in 2019. Looks like Tom Delonge is operating some kind of quirky investment scam. Next up, a Blink 182 reunion tour.

You don't get it, there is a huge race to commercialize these very real ET technologies and the private black budget defense sector has a massive head start. Tom has the first public fund going, wait till venture capital gets their teeth into this!

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As a mundane note, what is the reason that the audio quality in this video is so poor? It sounds like they're using walkie talkies from the 1970s. How can the US military, which spends more money than anyone else, have Navy pilots using heavily distorted audio communication systems that aren't even as good as a standard cell phone?

Practical voice comms do not require very high fidelity or resolution, so there is little reason to spend resources increasing the quality beyond the threshold of intelligibility. It works and works well. What point would an upgrade serve? They aren’t singing through it.

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Earlier 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…

Nothing your saying makes sense, multiple pilots are not going to see the same reflection, not to mention these objects were tracked by spaced based radar, the radar on the ships, the radars on the fighter jets, sonar, and via infrared and high def video! The video that has been available to the public is a grainy copy of the original as many of the Navy witness have stated.

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Lots of people like to think about alien vessels, UFOs, in a positive light. But very few though about how would world powers would actually react to dangerous aliens, like something that could just drill into your advanced air defenses without leaving any trace all available sensors.

One possible outcome could be just to agree to keep their presence under plausible deniability, just till something lands somewhere infront thousands of witnesses (considering our simulated scenario, based in the current situation, "very public" actions are not the alien's playbook).

The other obvious outcome should be to precisely coordinate military presence in the planet, trying to cover any territory with some kind of military response - the ASAP one+highly guarded airspace close to key infrastructure/cities in the planet - in case of detections / ingress of UFOs.

Kind of obvious, you would need to agree with ALL the players, Russian Fed, China, India, and a dozen more. The nuclear players with missiles capable of targetting stuff in low orbits should be the premium resources,

Space related industry should be developed at accelerated pace, and attempts to reach close things in the solar system would be at some point almost a monthly thing.

There are a tons of ones, many which you won't find in any scifi book, because the scenario where you just watch UFOs (IF you can detect them), trying to do something on the planet without knowing WTF is going on for decades is not a compelling base for anything entertaining

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Reading the linked Vice article >"Based on pilot accounts, encounters with these UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) often involved complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering, which demand extreme advances in quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics.” - Walker > Republican representative Mark Walker of North Carolina This is laughably stupid. QM and nuclear science? Can we call…

If you're going to call his use of those terms incorrect, can you explain a craft travelling supersonic without jets or rockets, leaving no emissions, utilizing no airfoils, consistent with our understanding of physics?

I don't know, the video didn't show me that the objects traveled at any speed -- that's from the pilots testimony, but maybe it appeared to move against the backdrop as they were banking around it. I would expect fighter pilots to be a good judge, but maybe you lose some sense of velocity when you're surprised by something you haven't seen before.

Separately, radar operators saw something they didn't understand. It could have been noise as they are now looking out for tiny drones and very small radar signatures, they have sensitivity turned way up. Sometimes you see things that aren't really there.

I'm honestly going weather balloons on this one.

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

White-colored, orb-shaped. They moved around in a non-linear fashion at will, they were intelligently operated. One of them disappeared in a flash... Strange thing was during encounter #2, they appeared in the spot in the sky 2 nights in a row.

Sounds like ball lightning.

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Reading the linked Vice article >"Based on pilot accounts, encounters with these UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) often involved complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering, which demand extreme advances in quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics.” - Walker > Republican representative Mark Walker of North Carolina This is laughably stupid. QM and nuclear science? Can we call…

It seems like there is a historical pattern where people observe something they can't explain and then note that "it must mean X" maybe that is advances in something, or it's just magic, or aliens or whatever.... rather than "We just don't know enough to explain what we think we observed". And often later we find explanations that fit within the confines of things we understand just fine.

"We just don't know enough to explain what we think we observed" -- this is literally what UFO means.

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Time for me to burn some karma. What evidence do we have that these phenomena are strictly natural? There are some ingenious explanations in this thread of how you could create something like this effect with known technology. If we don't a priori eliminate it on the grounds it is impossible (as a Christian, I do not, but many here do), I imagine that supernatural beings trolling humans (especially modern scientific…

If it occurs in nature, and interacts with nature, why would it be supernatural? Why does “supernatural” have to be the first answer we think of when we face a baffling unknown?

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I feel like a lot of commenters on here must first be hearing of this or have not even looked into the tic-tac case even a small amount. You have a top gun pilot and his WSO on record saying they saw it visually along with a huge underwater craft. It moved in ways that nothing using conventional propulsion can. Hovering for example is extremely difficult, made all the harder with no wings, blades or visible exhaust.…

I probably just didn't understand the HUD but to me the tic-tac video I saw behaved a lot like dust in my camera lens. It seemed almost perfectly stationary within the field of view, and that kind of artifact will of course "travel" at impossible speeds and accelerate in impossible ways.

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I watched Joe Rogan interview Bob Lazar [1] which seemed mind blowing if everything he said was true. But then I went and researched it and seems more likely he came up with some fantastic stories to keep himself out of prison after he got caught taking a bunch of friends up to the mountains to watch some classified experiements of a particle beam device. It's not my field of study, but some opinions I read were that…

I think Lazar is 100% fraud. Consider how "he doesn't like the attention" (quoting from his Netflix documentary) from the UFO stuff while accepting every interview and selling Area 51 merch on his website, United Nuclear. He is profiting from the attention. Also zero records of his claimed degrees, can't even name a prof from his alleged alma maters. Any university degree leads to a paper trail a mile long. He should have a notebook, a transcript, ID card, receipt from a campus bookstore, or something.
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