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Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and 'airborne clutter,' Pentagon officials reveal
Space.com ^ | 11/4/2022 | Brandon Specktor

Posted on 11/06/2022 10:01:09 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Intelligence agencies in the U.S. have spent the last few years analyzing footage of hundreds of recent UFO encounters, and they want the American people to know: It's still not aliens.

According to several U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials who spoke anonymously to The New York Times last week, many recent sightings of UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as the government prefers to call them — are likely just observations of foreign surveillance operations or airborne clutter, such as weather balloons.

Several UAP incidents have been officially identified as "relatively ordinary" Chinese surveillance drones, the anonymous officials said. China has previously stolen plans for advanced U.S. fighter planes, and is interested in how the U.S. trains its pilots, the DoD officials added.

Other UAP sightings recorded by military aircraft, which appear to show airborne objects moving in seemingly physics-defying ways, are likely the results of optical illusions. This includes the infamous video known as "GOFAST," which was recorded by a U.S. Navy aircraft and leaked to the media in 2018. (The video, along with two other leaked films of military encounters with UAPs, was eventually declassified by the government.)

While the object in the GOFAST video appears to be zooming over the water at incomprehensible speeds, this is just an optical illusion created by the angle of the recording relative to the water, the DoD officials told The Times. In reality, the object is moving at no more than 30 mph (48 km/h), the officials added.

A classified UAP report delivered to Congress this week by the DoD's intelligence agencies likely includes the findings reported by The Times. The new report adds new details to cases described in a document that officials publicly released in June 2021, describing 144 alleged UAP incidents reported by U.S. government personnel between 2004 and 2021.

The 2021 report acknowledged that, due to a lack of high-quality data, most alleged UAP encounters could not be conclusively explained. However, the report offered several blanket explanations for UAP in general, including "technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or a non-governmental entity," as well as "airborne clutter" such as birds and weather balloons.

Nowhere in the report were aliens or extraterrestrials mentioned — however, that did not stop alien conspiracy theories from arising, due in part to the government's general lack of transparency about UAP incidents.

Sue Gough, a DoD spokesperson, told The Times that the government was committed to sharing whatever UAP information it could without putting national security at risk. Government officials also tend to refrain from discussing UAP incidents publicly because there is simply not enough data to conclusively explain them, Gough added.

"In many cases, observed phenomena are classified as 'unidentified' simply because sensors were not able to collect enough information to make a positive attribution," Gough told The Times. "We are working to mitigate these shortfalls for the future and to ensure we have sufficient data for our analysis."

As the DoD continues its investigation into UAP sightings, NASA has also launched an independent UAP study team, which will operate from October 2022 to mid-2023. According to NASA, the team will focus on collecting and analyzing as much UAP data as possible, in order to develop new methods for identifying the unidentifiable objects in America's skies.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: asssmoke; coverup; moreliesanddeciet; ohgoodgawdsheesh; opticalillusion; russiarussiarussia; uap; ufo
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VLyNFqxxuQ


61 posted on 11/06/2022 3:26:14 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: pfflier

I had a similar experience when I saw a Vandenberg SpaceX launch near Christmas 2018. I was in Death Valley at the time. What kills me is that these launches happen all the time and Californians still lose their minds when they see them. UFO people are mental, no doubt about it.


62 posted on 11/06/2022 3:30:11 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: waterhill

That’s good. I’m from Wyoming. Nobody knows what you’re talking about, dude. You’re alone on that one.


63 posted on 11/06/2022 3:32:06 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: cgbg

Wow, FR really has declined. The lack of reading comprehension is something I never thought I’d see on here.


64 posted on 11/06/2022 3:33:39 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Listen to this podcast—if you want to attack him go for it:

https://podbay.fm/p/aliens-and-artists/e/1645119331


65 posted on 11/06/2022 3:37:22 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Probably a good thing. Gibbs Creek was spooky sometimes.


66 posted on 11/06/2022 3:54:44 PM PST by waterhill (Resistrain)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Interesting how many people need the government to tell them what to think.


67 posted on 11/06/2022 3:55:25 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave
Interesting how many people need the government to tell them what to think.

Indeed. What will it take to finally kill this 'cult of the experts' which seized our society when 'science' became our religion and which has demonstrably led us to wreck and ruin?

It was not airborne clutter (whatever the hell that is) or Chinese drones which hovered over the runway of the SAC base I lived near to in the '60s. From a neighbor who worked on the base and local news reports I knew the runway incursions were happening in near real time but I didn't know that at about the same time our birds in Montana were being knocked off alert status (failing self-check) until decades later. In various ways the US military was made aware that the nuclear arsenal is not ultimately controlled by the military chain of command. AFAIK that status has not changed.

68 posted on 11/06/2022 5:32:45 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: JustaTech

“AFAIK that status has not changed.”

Correct.

There are many sources of information on the current status of this stuff.

UFOs and Nukes are like bread and butter—totally inseparable around the world.

Some of my favorite podcasts to try to keep up with the latest info:

https://podbay.fm/p/that-ufo-podcast

https://podbay.fm/p/ufo-thinker-podcast

https://podbay.fm/p/anomalous-podcast-network

https://podbay.fm/p/uap-studies-podcast

https://podbay.fm/p/ufo-warning

https://podbay.fm/p/need-to-know-with-coulthart-and-zabel

and many many more....


69 posted on 11/06/2022 5:41:10 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BitWielder1; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; ...

No-No it’s a Weather Balloon filled with smoke and being blown up Our collective A$$€$.

Again...


70 posted on 11/06/2022 5:44:47 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: cgbg

Sounds like something the captive Uighurs could easily put together...


71 posted on 11/06/2022 6:04:48 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: mabarker1

post8


72 posted on 11/06/2022 6:05:38 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

It’s called an (Uup) Ununpentium Reactor or S4 Disc Reactor.

https://paranormalpeopleonline.com/bob-lazar-and-his-ununpentium-the-story-of-element-115/

Element 115
Atomic Mass 290
Also known as Moscovium.

https://byjus.com/chemistry/ununpentium/


73 posted on 11/06/2022 6:16:34 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: wgmalabama

And Malmstrom AFB B-52 Flight and ICBM Sites Incident never happened.😎


74 posted on 11/06/2022 7:15:26 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: mabarker1

*demons assuming current cultural expectations.


75 posted on 11/06/2022 8:29:06 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Salamander


76 posted on 11/06/2022 8:43:25 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: mabarker1

https://qr.ae/pvBNXE


77 posted on 11/08/2022 10:15:17 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

That was funny—thanks—needed a good laugh today.


78 posted on 11/08/2022 10:16:53 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Wow, Pentangle sez the chicoms are violating our airspace with impunity. Doesn’t make for a very good look for our DOD.


79 posted on 11/08/2022 10:19:35 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Squantos

ROFLMAOPIMP !!!

Trust issues ?


80 posted on 11/08/2022 12:23:37 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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