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What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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So, what if the US Airforce.. or CIA.. have technology that can bugger around with the cockpits and instruments of US Navy fighters? Or arbitrary other aircraft cockpits.

Now, they don't want to say that they have this, but they want other people (like the Russians and Chinese and French) to know that they do have it.

Or at least to make them think that they would like them to think that they have it.

Would you see films like this?

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate you providing a link, but am hoping for a tl;dr after realizing just how long that article is.

You may acquaint yourself with the concept of an abstract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_(summary) . The one in question has 1326 characters, which is, I dare say, quite manageable.

Thanks for the snark. I read the abstract and found it uninformative, but I guess I should've mentioned that.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

#53

My guess is it's the US military projecting. They've almost certainly got covert flying vehicles cruising around so naturally they'd want to know about any sightings of their own craft, or an enemy doing the same thing in the airspace. What better way to gauge how well the tech is working than by crowdsourcing the sightings?

Soon they’ll be A/B testing stealth designs. “Model AST—12-7 flying over NYC generated 23 reports of UFO sightings, whereas model TYR-X3 generated 5 along the same route; moving forward, we should adopt TYR-X3 for all chemtrail operations...”

With everyone glued to smart phones it is getting easier and easier to be "stealthy"

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

#55
I have seen UFO-s twice.

First time in early 1990ies, second time it was about 10 years ago.

First sight looked like a formation of lights that moved in sync across the night sky in a straight line. The formation was long, like a long rectangle or long cylinder made of stars. Not too many stars, maybe a hundred. Moving slowly straight in the direction of it's length. I could not tell how far it was, so I can't really judge for the size of it, but it was "flying" higher than the peak of the nearby mountain (which is 1km high and about 10km away), and the lenght was comparable to 1/2 of the south-west ridge of that mountain which itself is aprox. 5-6km long. So the UFO would have to be at least 1km long if it was closer, but it could be many km long if it was further. My family members saw it, as we were on the balcony at home and had clear unobstructed view. I might exagerate about the size of it, but I really did saw it. It could be easily recorded if someone had a videocamera, but we did not. We always had a photo camera at that period but nobody thought about the possibility of taking a picture. We could have tried if we had film, but I don't remember why we did not try. We didn't even talk about the possibility. When you see something like it, it does not occur to you that you might need proof and that nobody will believe. But I don't care, since I saw what I saw. Of course there can be millions of explanations what it was, but there weren't any gived and nobody else mentioned seeing it when we asked around the next day. It could have easily been a formation of airplanes.

The other sight, was when I was by the nearby river with my partner, who did not see the UFO. It was a regular summer night, and something flew across the sky, at extreme velocity, just like a meteorite does. But suddenly right before going out of sight, it changed direction nearly 90 degrees and continued with the same high velocity. It all happened in a blink of an eye, of course it would be very hard to have it recorded.

The point of my stories is that you don't always have a chance to make a recording when you see something strange.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

#56
Friendly reminder: UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, not Suspected Alien Aircraft From Another Planet.

Asking "why the hell" the DOD would be interested in Unidentified phenomenon in its territory goes well beyond sensationalism and straight into stupidity.

Re: What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

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Several civilian aircraft reported UFOs over Ireland a few months ago - here’s an ATC recording: https://youtu.be/pv7x4dRye3U?t=300

Is this from a confirmed source?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ireland-ufo-pilots-intl/i...

> "It came up on our left hand side (rapidly veered) to the north, we saw a bright light and it just disappeared at a very high speed ... we were just wondering. We didn't think it was a likely collision course .. (just wondering) what it could be," she said.

> A pilot on Virgin Flight 76 added that his flight crew had seen "two bright lights at 11 o'clock (which) seemed to bank over to the right and then climb away at speed."

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