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Bullfrog posted:it's a risk you have to be able to take. i mean, there was a chance that covid would have turned out to be nothing. obviously..... that didnt happen lmao. but lots of people were hedging at the time, i remember it clearly. I'm not saying the thread is wrong about this being a big loving deal, I'm saying everyone will act like it is unless and probably even if the aliens land on the whitehouse lawn. My actual, serious speculation on the reason for this whole media push is that it is, actually, exactly that they say it is: There's something flying around that the military does not understand, and they're doing their best to legitimize reporting it instead of having pilots that see a UAP treated like a joke. I also don't think it's going to work, at least not quickly. The military will probably manage a reasonable change of culture, though I couldn't say if it'll last, but everyone outside is just going to say "lol aliens, sure" just like half this thread, and things will go nowhere. I'm also very pessimistic though so I'm probably wrong.
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Jun 5, 2021 06:27
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Hatebag posted:Aliens only like jojo, akira, and a couple seasons of ranma *aliens that like Attack on Titan begin the Earth rumbling*
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Jun 5, 2021 06:29
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I, for one, will be getting vaccinated for aliens
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Jun 5, 2021 06:30
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Inspector Hound posted:I, for one, will be getting vaccinated for aliens
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Jun 5, 2021 06:30
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Tekne posted:Yeah, the first thing we noticed were the hosed up clouds crossing a bridge towards the refinery, as they were really bright like something was illuminating them from the inside and also seemingly low in elevation. As we began to pass the refinery, my friend who was driving said "look!" and that's when I caught a glimpse of the object above poking out of the clouds. The exposed portion looked cylindrical with a silvery metallic sheen and huge rectangular panels oriented vertically that pulsed red/orange from what I remember. It was also long enough to extend past my vision looking upward from the car. The whole thing was surreal as hell and my bud did not want to stop to get a better look. Please consider submitting your cool as hell report to nuforc! I've seen more than a few singular reports end up being backed up by people looking for what they saw years ago. You could also check out mufon's records but their search is a lot more involved Bullfrog posted:The only possible UAP sightings I have are two, from roughly the same era, around 2013 / 14. please cross check them on nuforc!! i have zero affiliation with nuforc but its such an easy database to search by state and time
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Jun 5, 2021 06:31
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Lampsacus posted:I am interested to know if the uap report will include the supposed high-definition footage/photographs taken of the ALIENS. Because that would be cool. At the very least it will probably have a bunch of text reports of consistent sightings which would also be cool. I don't see how the confiscated Nimitz stuff from 2004 could still reasonably be deemed top secret or whatever but even then I highly doubt it.
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Jun 5, 2021 06:32
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WEH posted:Please consider submitting your cool as hell report to nuforc! I've seen more than a few singular reports end up being backed up by people looking for what they saw years ago. You could also check out mufon's records but their search is a lot more involved woops, thats what i meant when i said mufon. number 1 on my post matches up with this one relatively closely though i cant confirm the exact date or details http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/097/S97586.html i do remember them, in fact, fading in and out.
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Jun 5, 2021 06:35
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WEH posted:Please consider submitting your cool as hell report to nuforc! I've seen more than a few singular reports end up being backed up by people looking for what they saw years ago. You could also check out mufon's records but their search is a lot more involved
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Jun 5, 2021 06:38
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Bullfrog posted:woops, thats what i meant when i said mufon. number 1 on my post matches up with this one relatively closely though i cant confirm the exact date or details http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/097/S97586.html  Tekne posted:I'll consider it. In my attempts to convince myself we didn't have a shared hallucination, I've found that sightings around oil refineries aren't exactly uncommon. That would track with all the reports with activity being heightened around nuclear reactors and other industrial or military sites. Fair enough!
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Jun 5, 2021 06:53
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if it’s underwater beings that tracks with them shutting down nukes and stuff. I can’t explain why they allow oil tankers tho
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Jun 5, 2021 06:55
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For everybody having a lil crack ping about this, think about the exponential nature of covid. First, it - suddenly it's everywhere and a Thing. Perhaps this will be similar. Or, it might really be the peak now, or perhaps when the report drops, and then that's it, back to normal. Who is to say.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:04
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if its underwater aliens they would have wiped us out by now for filling their home with garfield phones and beanie babies its non human time travelers, the next intelligent race to rise on this dead gay earth come back to find out what caused that dark grease stain on the geological record
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Jun 5, 2021 07:07
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This being A Thing that is officially acknowledged to exist will have a huge effect on the public imagination. It is correct to note that the initial attention will wear off relatively quickly. But there will be a lot more general interest in the subject, and conversation can't exactly be shut down by spock cosplayers very easily when the dominant military force on the planet is willing to take the subject seriously.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:11
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I am genuinely curious as to what could come out which would explain this away. Maybe a report from NASA or somesuch proving the footage was all software glitches or newfound limitations of the equipment. Or maybe admitting its a black project. Maybe if they came out and said 'it was a weather balloon', check Mick West's youtube videos.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:16
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Lampsacus posted:I am genuinely curious as to what could come out which would explain this away. Maybe a report from NASA or somesuch proving the footage was all software glitches or newfound limitations of the equipment. Or maybe admitting its a black project. Maybe if they came out and said 'it was a weather balloon', check Mick West's youtube videos. it depends on exactly what phenomena they officially acknowledge, but im sure we'll get a better understanding of rare atmospheric phenomena from this as well as anything else.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:21
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Hodgepodge posted:This being A Thing that is officially acknowledged to exist will have a huge effect on the public imagination. It is correct to note that the initial attention will wear off relatively quickly. But there will be a lot more general interest in the subject, and conversation can't exactly be shut down by spock cosplayers very easily when the dominant military force on the planet is willing to take the subject seriously. alternatively, a vaguely positive report causes everyone to just double down hard on their previously-held beliefs, leading to a net increase in conflict and negative emotional energy in the world even better if this somehow gets politicized like covid in america, bringing balkanization one step closer Lampsacus posted:I am genuinely curious as to what could come out which would explain this away. Maybe a report from NASA or somesuch proving the footage was all software glitches or newfound limitations of the equipment. Or maybe admitting its a black project. Maybe if they came out and said 'it was a weather balloon', check Mick West's youtube videos. assuming it's not full disclosure, i'm just hoping for better descriptions/clearer visual evidence. then you can start testing hypotheses about what's going on, and maybe prove that X phenomena can be caused by Y under Z conditions, to start narrowing things down Mola Yam has issued a correction as of 07:24 on Jun 5, 2021 |
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Jun 5, 2021 07:21
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Mola Yam posted:alternatively, a vaguely positive report causes everyone to just double down hard on their previously-held beliefs, leading to a net increase in conflict and negative emotional energy in the world ron watkins is starting a wikileaks for aliens (something which is looked upon with extreme disgust in the ufo community) so i could see q drops suddenly pivot to "china contacted the aliens and is using them to mind-meld biden into instituting full communism"
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Jun 5, 2021 07:33
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Inspector Hound posted:The mudflood thing mostly seems like people being astonished to learn Washington, D.C. and other cities were built on a literal swamps and that American infrastructure has been crumbling steadily for decades. It reminds me of the Wayfair child trafficking conspiracy theory, where people were looking at the prices on Wayfair's site and saying "that much for a desk? No way, that's got to come with a kid stuffed in there" I`m sorry for the 10 page reply but the point of the wayfair thing was the 15k shelves had the names of recently kidnapped children in the product listing. That's why people freaked.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:36
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drat what if aliens really did do 9/11 but it was some important alien's kid drunk flying so they covered it up
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Jun 5, 2021 07:42
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Mola Yam posted:alternatively, a vaguely positive report causes everyone to just double down hard on their previously-held beliefs, leading to a net increase in conflict and negative emotional energy in the world i think this will prompt people to take the subject more seriously. i doubt everyone will go straight to UFOs, especially people who think of themselves as skeptics. if the evidence is of high enough quality on examination and difficult enough to explain with our understanding of physics, many skeptics will begin to consider aliens and similarly unusual hypotheticals due to the need to go beyond the usual in search of an explanation. most will probably nevertheless simply feel the matter is unresolved rather than believe this or that about them. but this would be a longer term effect. i think the official admission of a mystery of this magnitude will be good for our collective psyche. even the wackos will get a bit of a healthy outlet, in the sense that they'll be able to express their ideas in ordinary conversation and have some chance of an actual exchange of ideas occurring, or at least a fun conversation. also if we do start taking the idea that aliens are watching seriously, it might just put some pressure on us to clean up our act a little. we're a loving embarrassment of a species at the moment and while it may make no rational sense whatsoever, knowing that something smarter and more powerful than us is watching does in fact make being such utter shitlords that we're ruining our planet for life itself let alone future generations completely different. suddenly someone can judge us as at least an equal and they are, right now. and we're loving sad, no wonder they don't talk to us. we're like someone who is strung out and drunk and shouting about how they'll suck dick for a fix and you feel bad for the poor fucker but you're not loving talking to them. e: and you might be like "what if that's their thing," but from their perspective, we can't even consent. that's where it's at. Hodgepodge has issued a correction as of 07:59 on Jun 5, 2021 |
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Jun 5, 2021 07:44
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Lampsacus posted:For everybody having a lil crack ping about this, think about the exponential nature of covid. First, it - suddenly it's everywhere and a Thing. Perhaps this will be similar. Or, it might really be the peak now, or perhaps when the report drops, and then that's it, back to normal. Who is to say. the NY times article from 2017 was the equivalent of the first reported covid case back in december 2019 or whenever the current report is like when tom hanks got covid then u hit the india stage and its nonstop probing by interdimensional squidmen
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Jun 5, 2021 08:00
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squidmen birdmen lizardmen show urselves
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Jun 5, 2021 08:01
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blatman posted:if its underwater aliens they would have wiped us out by now for filling their home with garfield phones and beanie babies maybe they like garfield
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Jun 5, 2021 08:10
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https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Alien_(Garfield) Alien is a one-time hidden antagonist character of the TV animated show Garfield and Friends. History He only appears near in the end of episode "Nighty Nightmare" when he abducts Garfield while he was looking for food. Garfield asks him if there something to eat. However, Alien reveals that he wants to fatten Garfield for the entire planet of Clarion and the alien's Thanksgiving dinner, causing him getting nervous and wishes to escape and see Odie and Jon again as he is being taken away from the earth. Garfield wakes up whilst denying being a meal himself for the entire planet of Clarion and the alien's Thanksgiving dinner and receives licks of Odie.
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Jun 5, 2021 08:13
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Hodgepodge posted:i think this will prompt people to take the subject more seriously. i doubt everyone will go straight to UFOs, especially people who think of themselves as skeptics. After seeing a billionaire's live in girlfriend do a video on utopia with a image from a manga of char who explicitly rapes and kills people to become a demon lord I have no confidence aren't going to just get worse. its just people grasping for the one last thing that might make things better and turn life around
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Jun 5, 2021 08:29
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lol ill give the aliens covid ur welcome
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Jun 5, 2021 08:34
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Google Butt posted:lol ill give the aliens covid ur welcome area 51 more like area 19
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Jun 5, 2021 08:46
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pancake rabbit posted:lol eve fartlow
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Jun 5, 2021 08:47
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Armadillo Tank posted:There is no good reason to assume aliens are more moral than us. There as moral as natural selection encourages and that would suggest not at all. There is no reason an alien culture wouldn;t still be controlled by psychopaths and narcissists like our culture. i think the rationale is that the evil people in our society are destroying the world, so if the aliens are so advanced then maybe they figured poo poo out
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Jun 5, 2021 09:00
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Zokari posted:i think the rationale is that the evil people in our society are destroying the world, so if the aliens are so advanced then maybe they figured poo poo out Disproof of the Great Filter means humanity actually can achieve more, whether they do or not, which is pretty darn cool in and of itself.
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Jun 5, 2021 09:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_eXsOovx4w There she goes / there she goes again.
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Jun 5, 2021 09:23
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Armadillo Tank posted:There is no good reason to assume aliens are more moral than us. There as moral as natural selection encourages and that would suggest not at all. There is no reason an alien culture wouldn;t still be controlled by psychopaths and narcissists like our culture. assuming our ideas about ethics even apply to the mindset of another species, i think a species we might consider more evil overall would probably murder the gently caress out of their equivalent of billionaires. capitalism requires parts of the middle and most of the working class to be nice and to believe they are moral.
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Jun 5, 2021 10:03
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Rah! posted:the NY times article from 2017 was the equivalent of the first reported covid case back in december 2019 or whenever no it isn’t. there are NY times articles going back to the 60s where they published ufo sightings. this isn’t even the first or second time the government has officially acknowledged investigating ufos
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Jun 5, 2021 10:03
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Vomik posted:no it isn’t. there are NY times articles going back to the 60s where they published ufo sightings. this isn’t even the first or second time the government has officially acknowledged investigating ufos sorry i made a joke post lol
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Jun 5, 2021 10:28
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lol i even thought about wording that joke post so that it mentioned that 1500s sky battle or roswell or ancient alien pyramid-flying snakemans or something like that, as the first covid case equivalent instead, sir please forgive me
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Jun 5, 2021 10:34
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the aliens edited my post its a psyop
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Jun 5, 2021 10:36
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Rah! posted:nonstop probing by interdimensional squidmen Okay maybe 2021 won't be so bad
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Jun 5, 2021 10:48
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my bony fealty posted:my dad does have a story he likes to tell about when he was driving home at 2am or so and saw a green light streak across the sky, like a sci fi laserbeam, that lasted a few seconds before fading. I think that was probably weird miltech testing and not aliens tho your dad just saw a meteorite. they easily look like bright green flares, I saw one my first Halloween night in America in Californian, 1991. but you saw something way cooler so every time he tells that story feel free to interrupt with what you saw
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Jun 5, 2021 13:52
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Lampsacus posted:So just following on from this, there are a bunch of reports of sightings that seem to match the tic tac from ages ago all around the world. I mean, with the sheer quantity of ufo reports its basically the library of babel but still kinda fun to go down this rabbit hole: I'm sure those swedish pilots from 70 years ago just made it up and the nimitz pilots were aware of this relatively unusual description and decided to copy it almost perfectly for reasons
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Jun 5, 2021 14:16
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blatman posted:if its underwater aliens they would have wiped us out by now for filling their home with garfield phones and beanie babies And yet they seem to come from the ocean. The obvious answer hollow earth, with the hole in some underwater trench.
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