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

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Post by lenerdenator »

I'll repost what I said in the other thread since this has more legs as a discussion:

Honestly, what difference does it make?

Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing. I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to $5/gal in Kansas City, and I'll still be wondering if I'll be replaced by AI before I finish up saving for retirement.

And that's to say nothing of Epstein or Iran.

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

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Post by vkou »

Hikikomori wrote: post #240
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #226

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.

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The distraction is not releasing them. If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted. They were sealed from the public not from the DOJ.

The reality is that there's no shortage of dirt in them (that likely doesn't pile up to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), but his base doesn't care, and will never care.

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

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Post by tootie »

krferriter wrote: post #220

Several of these look like balloons and birds. Two of them have already leaked before. Both of those are missiles being viewed with an infrared camera. One of them shows a missile passing through the field of view rapidly with a motion blur streak behind it. The other shows a missile performing maneuvers and a camera artifact showing a star-like diffraction+aperture artifact around the bright IR light source. None of…

Of course, everything is just something boring. The chances of us espying extraterrestrials in our atmosphere by chance are essentially nil. People looking for secret photos and buried evidence will absolutely positively never find it. People inside the DoD are just as crazy and irrational as the general public if not moreso. If a flying saucer lands in your front yard and little green men come out and say "take me to your leader" it's still infinitesimally likely that it's actually aliens. Meeting aliens will be nothing like any movie or book ever written (except maybe Contact).

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

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Post by lenerdenator »

Hikikomori wrote: post #240
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #226

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.

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That actually wouldn't be a distraction.

More than anything, that's the one thing that they want to avoid. That's something that's radicalized at least one person into doing something rash and could radicalize more.

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

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Post by lenerdenator »

vkou wrote: post #272
Hikikomori wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The distraction is not releasing them. If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted. They were sealed from the public not from the DOJ. The reality is that there's no shortage of dirt in them (that likely doesn't pile up to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), but his base doesn't care, and will never care.

There's likely enough for more convictions, but two things:

1) Maxwell was under prosecution at the time, so some of it was related to that.

2) The kind of people being mentioned as potential indictees are the kind who can do something about it.

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

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Post by dfxm12 »

wredcoll wrote: post #264
krapp wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy was well known for being a liar and a charlatan and yet he was apparently the only politician Americans took implicitly at their word. Like you'd think Americans would have learned after "read my lips, no new taxes" even if they somehow memory-holed Trump's entire first administration. But I guess not.

It is ridiculously hard to understand. I don't get it either. There's something about not just knowing they're a liar but constantly being told that? Trump benefits a great deal from friendly mass media.

Most mass media is conservative owned. It follows that they'll be friendly to conservative politicians.

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

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Post by danbruc »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #141
danbruc wrote: post #50

What fraction of the population of your average country has done some serious thinking about UFOs? What fraction of those thinks at least one of those unexplained events involved aliens?

Argumentum ad Populum.

No, I was only wondering how many people believe that we were visited by aliens for somewhat reasonable reasons. I would guess quite a few people would say that they believe that at least one of the UFO sightings was an actual UFO but I would also guess that most people are only informed by headlines or History Channel documentaries and only relatively few people have dedicated some non-trivial amount of time to look into the topic like you would for other topics that interest you.

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

Arodex wrote: post #132
angelgonzales wrote: post #72

This is so cool. For instance the asset FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - COMPOSITE SKETCH indicated that “Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.” https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1…

>I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery. The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids). Tells you something.

> Tells you something.

It would tell you that they are not of this world. The same way as you can't photograph (other) spiritual experiences.

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