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

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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?

We live in an age where nearly everyone has a smartphone capable of recording video, satellites record the earth, and ground cameras record the sky. You either have to believe there is some massive conspiracy to cover the truth, or you are seeing some mundane phenomenon for which you just don't have the explanation available to you.

Ever take a picture of the beautiful moon with that snazzy phone ?

Turns out like crap. I doubt even the best camera phone could catch meaningful video of an object at 20k ft

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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…

So Captain Fravor is s liar? He claims to of seen the tic-tac and chased it. So if it’s a secret jet, he’s a liar, or we developed anti-gravity tech in secrecy somehow.

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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.

That's just the "literally" argument again. Literally doesn't mean literally, and UFO means flying saucer.

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I have always wondered why the US government never took advantage of this sort of thing to make serious money. Just think of a massive extraterrestrial-themed resort in the desert in the vicinity of Area 51. Think of all the licensing deals.

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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…

It can also be another country’s tech in our airspace

US is so not used to that!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know they were intelligently operated?

What organic phenomenon moves around like that? is what we asked ourselves. One of the people with me was from Columbia University and he is as 'rational' as they come, even he was baffled...

Next time you see it, break out your phone or camera and capture a video. Then we can discuss the actual video!

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I have always wondered why the US government never took advantage of this sort of thing to make serious money. Just think of a massive extraterrestrial-themed resort in the desert in the vicinity of Area 51. Think of all the licensing deals.

People don’t actually want the government to be a for profit enterprise. It would mean the government being influenced by private interests with money.

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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?

"Anyone here ever see something similar? "

Nobody who wasn't off their face on drugs or mentally ill probably, no.

"they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors."

Other than little aliens in magic flying machines what do you think they could have been?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I watched Spider-Man:Far From Home as well. Seriously though, the pilots reported visual sighting as well. Projecting a hologram is one thing, projecting one while flying at 800km/hr is another.

> Yeah, I watched Spider-Man:Far From Home as well. I haven't; what was in the movie? > Projecting a hologram is one thing, projecting one while flying at 800km/hr is another. Like I was saying: short-throw laser projectors (or rather, in this case, long -throw projectors, but same diff, tech-wise.) Have a missile vanguard blow through the airspace first, making the air turbulent and perhaps "doping" it with some dye…

>I haven't; what was in the movie?

Pretty much exactly what you're describing haha (with obviously a fair bit of artistic license).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4onAJ-3FAM

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

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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?

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 our position. I attempted to range the object with my gun, but once I did, it immediately froze in its position, went from white hot to cold black and back again, and then shot up (very quickly) and out of my view where I lost sight of it. I shared this with the rest of my platoon afterwords, after which we all took to our scopes, ... and it came back, but six spheres this time and in a diamond shaped formation. After one full rotation, the objects slowly broke formation and disappeared into the sky. I never knew what to make of it, but like Mulder, I want to believe.
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