The US government has been investigating UFO's for like 2 decades lol

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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

i cba to quote the whole thing but harry reid helped start it etc

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/

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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

reminder that the US military released this for whatever reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWOtrke0HY

# ? Feb 15, 2020 22:31

Pontificating Ass: Aug 2, 2002; What Doth Life?

Jose posted:

reminder that the US military released this for whatever reason

I wonder if the release of this video signaled a shift from the US government trying to keep a lid on this stuff. Maybe they realized ignoring UFOs is more of a national threat than trying to control the situation because it isn't possible.

If aliens wanted to fly around the atmosphere and watch us like an ant-farm they could do it with relatively minimal technology, and if they are spotted they can just fly away at UNPRECEDENTED speed.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 02:06

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Well it seems highly likely that many "UFOs" that have been historically reported were experimental aircraft being tested by the military.

Given that, the US government may really be concerned about other countries flying their own aircraft over US territory undetected.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:10

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnxF6Hwwmg

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:15

Oiled and Ready: Oct 11, 2004; He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

WOWEE ZOWEE posted:

Well it seems highly likely that many "UFOs" that have been historically reported were experimental aircraft being tested by the military.

Given that, the US government may really be concerned about other countries flying their own aircraft over US territory undetected.

that seems concerning to me, yeah

Oiled and Ready has issued a correction as of 07:55 on Feb 16, 2020

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:15

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

my mother saw a UFO in the early 70s and she would never tell a lie

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:24

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Pontificating rear end posted:

I wonder if the release of this video signaled a shift from the US government trying to keep a lid on this stuff. Maybe they realized ignoring UFOs is more of a national threat than trying to control the situation because it isn't possible.

If aliens wanted to fly around the atmosphere and watch us like an ant-farm they could do it with relatively minimal technology, and if they are spotted they can just fly away at UNPRECEDENTED speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPMmC0UAnj0

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:27

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

the book btw was "Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications Of The Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life" by paul davies

re: my mother's story. she was a teenager growing up in the texas panhandle when she saw this object floating in the sky. she remembers some of her neighbors also seeing it, and they ran down their street towards it and then it took off extremely fast. she told me this story when i was child. i later showed her that FLIR footage from the nimitz and she said it looked like that.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:31

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

well Hillary has said she is not even human on at least one occasion.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:39

Siljmonster: Dec 16, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

guess i should talk about my sightings as well as what my grandfather did with radio post korea

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:47

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

go for it

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:49

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

my mother saw a UFO in the early 70s and she would never tell a lie

i believe women

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:49

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyGnFFilP0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident

edit: this is the kind of poo poo where there are enough gaps in the official story, even if they're gaps due to omission, to make me think something weird is going on, but no actual evidence of what that weird thing would be. i'm assuming that it's just classified military technology being tested tho

Finicums Wake has issued a correction as of 06:58 on Feb 16, 2020

# ? Feb 16, 2020 06:52

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SFRJCk8oK4&t=1330s

# ? Feb 16, 2020 07:13

Fleetwood: Mar 26, 2010; biggest hochul head in china

Did they ever discover what the black knight object was?

I want to believe but HyperNormalisation tells me it's just a distraction

# ? Feb 16, 2020 07:23

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Fleetwood posted:

Did they ever discover what the black knight object was?

I want to believe but HyperNormalisation tells me it's just a distraction

According to James Oberg, it may have been a thermal blanket.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 07:31

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!: May 31, 2006

a very short version of most of these stories is "we were using test pilots as lawn jarts for most of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, as a result of which there were a lot of booms, crashes, and military people saying NOTHING TO SEE HERE across the southwest"

seriously look up the F104, that glorified V2 pretended to fly so the Osprey could pretend to land

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:02

comedyblissoption: Mar 15, 2006

it's so they can justify more money for a Space Force and for the military industrial complex op

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:08

Ora Tzo: Feb 26, 2016; HEEEERES TONYYYY

Reminds me about how there's a few ex-Inteligence people in the UFOlogy community.
Dunno if its because they want to keep a watch on who's spotted their new aircrafts, or that these guys failed to find a better grift.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:09

Siljmonster: Dec 16, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Sighting #1 happened in Queen City, TX sitting on the front porch with my paternal grandfather in the late evening. I don't remember what we were talking about but I remember the pace of the porch swing slowing and stopping as we watched a black rectangle with smooth/curved edges cross the sky near a natural gas plant that was a few miles away. It drifted across the sky for at least 15 to 20 minutes before dusk finally turned into night and it vanished. My grandfather made a phone call after I kept asking him what it was the entire time we watched it.

Sighting #2: In 2000 in early August, after taking a miserable train ride to Tuscon, AZ from Dallas, TX. I got off at about 2am and into a car with my brother driving and his roommate riding shotgun. Laying in the back seat I watched the stars pass between Tuscon and Phoenix. Roommate piped up about a really fast plane coming in from his point of view. As I sat up an immense bright light flew over us towards what looked like an airport or small town in the distance.
It then floated to that place and hovered directly over it. My brother slowed the car and pulled it over. We watched in awe as it sped from one corner of the town to the next in seconds at just unbelievable speeds, which the town looked like lot up small office buildings and tall lamp posts a few miles from us. It continues it's frantic path and and forth until it comes to a dead still stop, shoots a single beam of light out and shoots off into the distance towards a mountain???. As the light went into the distance suddenly stopped again, became brighter, and shot through the clouds upwards and vanished, a moment later lightning ripped through the cloud.

#2 is still vivid, and as we were traveling down the highway we only a few cars at that time of the night, and a diesel truck passed us as we were pulled over and stopped a bit to also watch.

I've got 2 more sightings.

My maternal grandfather worked for one of the US Army designing and installing radio arrays in South America and Alaska post Korea. He ran his own radio stations on W and K but he apparently could access and broadcast on any band he wanted. He would show me insane old software and all his components that worked with vacuum tubes. He told me about a few of his sightings, one in an airplane over the Alutian islands.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:10

Oiled and Ready: Oct 11, 2004; He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Theres a UFO show on CBS right now btw

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:16

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Ora Tzo posted:

Reminds me about how there's a few ex-Inteligence people in the UFOlogy community.
Dunno if its because they want to keep a watch on who's spotted their new aircrafts, or that these guys failed to find a better grift.

The video from MonsieurChoc details a case of an Air Force operative feeding BS about aliens to someone as a red herring.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:21

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Siljmonster posted:

Sighting #2: In 2000 in early August, after taking a miserable train ride to Tuscon, AZ from Dallas, TX. I got off at about 2am and into a car with my brother driving and his roommate riding shotgun. Laying in the back seat I watched the stars pass between Tuscon and Phoenix. Roommate piped up about a really fast plane coming in from his point of view. As I sat up an immense bright light flew over us towards what looked like an airport or small town in the distance.
It then floated to that place and hovered directly over it. My brother slowed the car and pulled it over. We watched in awe as it sped from one corner of the town to the next in seconds at just unbelievable speeds, which the town looked like lot up small office buildings and tall lamp posts a few miles from us. It continues it's frantic path and and forth until it comes to a dead still stop, shoots a single beam of light out and shoots off into the distance towards a mountain???. As the light went into the distance suddenly stopped again, became brighter, and shot through the clouds upwards and vanished, a moment later lightning ripped through the cloud.

#2 is still vivid, and as we were traveling down the highway we only a few cars at that time of the night, and a diesel truck passed us as we were pulled over and stopped a bit to also watch.

Well that's disturbing. Were you riding on Interstate 10 to Phoenix? Do you remember what time exactly it was when you first saw the plane? I want to get some picture of where this was.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:33

Oiled and Ready: Oct 11, 2004; He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

WOWEE ZOWEE posted:

The video from MonsieurChoc details a case of an Air Force operative feeding BS about aliens to someone as a red herring.

If I was a scientist in the 1950s tasked with abducting people for government tests, you know how I'd make them too ashamed to tell anyone, and too insane to be believed if they did?

I'd dress up in a gray alien suit and shove a dildo up their rear end

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:36

Chokes McGee: Aug 7, 2008; This is Urotsuki.

Oiled and Ready posted:

Theres a UFO show on CBS right now btw

this can�t be a coincidence :tinfoil:

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:36

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

So apparently triggering lightning with lasers may be a thing:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13669-shooting-clouds-with-lasers-triggers-electrical-discharge/

And there is an airpark near to Interstate 10:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...1.3332176?hl=en

E: may be a thing

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:37

America Inc.: Nov 22, 2013; I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

I don't see any publicly known military bases between Tucson and Phoenix:
https://militarybases.com/arizona/

There's an aircraft boneyard in Tucson, but that's neither here nor there.

There is an AFB near Phoenix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Air_Force_Base

Phoenix and Tucson also appear to be pretty active in UFO sightings.

America Inc. has issued a correction as of 08:49 on Feb 16, 2020

# ? Feb 16, 2020 08:46

Siljmonster: Dec 16, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

WOWEE ZOWEE posted:

Well that's disturbing. Were you riding on Interstate 10 to Phoenix? Do you remember what time exactly it was when you first saw the plane? I want to get some picture of where this was.

Yeah it was 10, I'd say anywhere between 210am and 330am. Unsure where exactly it was. 20 years have passed since then too. People tell me it was early drone testing but no loving way.

# ? Feb 16, 2020 09:48

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

# ? Feb 16, 2020 10:32

Prester Jane: Nov 4, 2008; by Hand Knit

Jose posted:

reminder that the US military released this for whatever reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWOtrke0HY

So a number of the military members involved in that incident got together and made a little mini documentary about that video.

(Just LOL if you think that the imaging systems on combat aircraft are as piss poor/low resolution as what you see in the official video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgoisHRmUE

I highly recommend the documentary, has a variety of interviews with eyewitnesses, including the pilots and radar operators who were involved.

Prester Jane has issued a correction as of 19:23 on Feb 16, 2020

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

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# ? Feb 16, 2020 22:23

Dr. Killjoy: Oct 9, 2012

are you telling me that an advanced race travelled millions of light years to get here and all to join an Internet forum where they can ironically call someone else the n-word?

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