Posted on 05/14/2020 4:51:39 AM PDT by C19fan
Reports newly released by the Naval Safety Center reveal more information on the bizarre encounters U.S. Navy pilots have had with unidentified flying objects off the east coast of the United States. Eight hazard reports filed with the center's web-based reporting system were acquired under the Freedom of Information Act by The Drive and detail strange run-ins that include a near mid-air collision with a balloon-like object and a sighting of a suitcase-sized aircraft. In one 2014 encounter, the Navy jet reported even being able to lock onto the object with an air-to-air missile.
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I think 50 years is an exaggeration. Maybe 20 years, but not 50
We know a little about the Aurora project and it's advanced pulse detonation engine, and these things may have came out of that same skunworks area.
I hate the way they diddled with the original series by putting in their stupid CGI effects. I'd rather see the old cheesy original effects than look at that retrofitted CGI crap. Same thing with George Lucas mucking up his original Star Wars movie with all that unnecessary and irritating CGI crap he put into later releases of the movie.
WWII pilots were far less trained because there simply was not time given the horrific casualty rates: 70,000 USAAC dead in less than 4 years. Pilots would go directly from Flight School to combat with nothing between.
This isn’t about opinion, its about what are the facts and what do they mean.
These are not “foo fighters” they are something else entirely. “Foo fighters” were never filmed or electronically recorded.
My dad tells of sitting around a campfire late one night during the Apollo 12 training days and hearing Pete Conrad talk about when he was testing some new airplane and the base he was flying out of had to shut down because something no-one had ever seen landed on the end of the runway.
It also means it can be shot down.
Hardly ET stuff.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there is technology developed by the military in the '60s that we still don't know about.
20 years is your figure, but the common one is 50 years - also quoted by notable people in the secretive aviation community like Kelly Johnson and others who worked at either the Phantom or Skunkworks
Actually, we know absolutely nothing about the Aurora project beyond its name and even that is suspect. All else is internet speculation.
Why didn't ground controllers confirm the reports?
.. these UFOs are the USAF :-)
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Yes.
Way back in the fifties there were standing orders to shoot at these UAPs. We lost a lot of planes and pilots ...
In earlier cases the CVN did, but land-based Giant Killer used an older less capable radar. Earlier radar tapes were removed from the CVN concerned and never seen again.
Super Hornets use the more modern AN/APG-79 AESA radar.
Also odd - later in the piece there is a 2018 report of numerous 3-4 foot wide quadcopter drones moving at 76 mph with some hovering or drifting at 20,000 feet with the nearest ship 15 miles away. The ‘drones’ were scattered over 40-50 mile area
They might be part of the new Space Force.
“Some pilots have said that “some” of the east coast sightings appear to be drones of some kind and quite different than what was encountered by the USS Nimitz in the San Diego area.”
Yes. People forget that UFO means simply “Unidentified Flying Object,” not always some impossibly-high performance aircraft.
Me too. I find that when the CGI from a few years ago starts to look dated, it actually makes the shows look worse than the original episodes. At least the originals had a uniform artistic vision. The jarring dichotomy suspends belief, and ruins the theatrical experience.
Possibly, but much of it may have been supplanted by better technology. One of my hobbies is to learn about interesting alternative past technology. There is a gal on youtube called "Fran", and she's always coming up with technology from the 1960s and playing with it and discussing how it works. I believe her channel is called "Fran's Lab", or some such. I've watched several of her videos, but she's not the only one that discusses old technology. There are quite a few others as well.
I love old technology.
Well they should be in a better position to know than I, but I suspects the issue hinges on how we define "50 years ahead".
Perhaps they are talking about 50 years ahead of adoption by the commercial industry or some such?
I would also have to say it's not necessarily linear, and that modern companies are more willing to adopt advanced technology faster than they were in the past.
Also, I wonder if they are taking into account the non linearity of research and development? The more we learn, the faster we develop new technologies. 50 years later at a linear progression is a very different thing than 50 years later at an exponential progression.
I happen to know the Navy is very interested in Fusion propulsion systems for their ships because they had/are funding the Polywell fusion reactor research. If the technology is viable, we will likely have fusion powered ships, planes, trucks, whatever in much less than 50 years.
50 years advanced from now? It's unfathomable.
Warp drive maybe.
Based on some reasonable evidence. Those "donuts on a rope" trails are consistent with pulse detonation engines.
We already know that this stuff is trying to be hypersonic, and that is within the capabilities of what is known about this technology. We also know about quantum radar, and various other exotic and advanced technologies.
Some of what they are doing can be extrapolated from what is known and what we currently understand about physics.
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