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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

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To: mabarker1

yep ......


81 posted on 11/08/2022 12:25:53 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: cgbg

Why doesn’t this stuff ever happen post-1975?


82 posted on 11/25/2022 12:07:00 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: sergeantdave

No joke. UFO people have screamed forever how the govt. is damn born liars, always have, always will. Any skeptic is a government stooge. As soon as the big bad guv slips them a little something they want to hear, “Dude, big guy, I Looooooooooove yooooooooouuuu!!!!!” Lots of people setting themselves up for one hell of a disappointment. It’s proving to be an interesting experiment in mass-psychology, though.


83 posted on 11/25/2022 12:14:50 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

“It’s proving to be an interesting experiment in mass-psychology, though.”

It certainly is. Whenever government orthodoxy is challenged, government-trained monkeys in media and academia pour out and spew the latest government-approved propaganda. They don’t like it when their false government gods are challenged.

Propaganda works.


84 posted on 11/25/2022 6:45:23 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

We saw this coming from a mile away.

Ignore the fact that the videos are backed up by supporting data from other platforms. It was recorded on radar as well as video. It was seen by eyewitnesses. Nope, skeptics will now jump on the DoD claim that the video “really” shows something moving at 35 mph. Those experienced pilots that physically saw it? They were just seeing a mylar party balloon or Chinese drone…that moved 60+ miles in less than 30 seconds…

At the same time the DoD has said they will not release any more videos in the name of “national security” which means they can now use that label to squash any further investigations.

Add Starlink satellites, Chinese drones, and mylar balloons to the time honored list of swamp gas, the planet Venus, and distant car headlights.

Anyone here who is posting the skeptical line at this point is either woefully ignorant or purposefully spreading misinformation.


85 posted on 11/25/2022 7:19:57 AM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

“Why doesn’t this stuff ever happen post-1975?”

Good question—and here is the answer.

Pre 1975 we now have a lot of data because FOIA requests have been honored for many incidents that are now “aged” enough that they are not (all) considered “national security”.

If you follow the field closely you will realize that crazy UFO stuff happens at nuclear bases constantly—up to this day.

Witnesses are told to keep it secret—often told to sign additional non-disclosure agreements—and they are threatened with prosecution, termination and/or loss of military pension if they violate their security oaths.

That is why Congress has just included in the current defense authorization act an exemption for military witnesses that testify before them in future hearings.

In UFO discussion groups naive folks often ask:

“How do I get to see a real UFO?”

My answer:

“Sign up for the military. Get assigned to a base with stored nuclear weapons. Have a job that gets you outside (truck driver, outside maintenance etc.)”

If you are around for a couple of years the odds of a solid sighting are very good—probably in the 50% range.


86 posted on 11/25/2022 7:31:59 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: Crusher138

Here’s the problem, I don’t just believe stuff that people say. Why the hell would an extraterrestrial travel a kazillion light-years to fly circles around an F-18 and harass Earth shipping traffic? Your gullibility is the problem. How much money did you send to the Nigerian prince?


87 posted on 12/06/2022 3:20:25 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Here’s the problem, I don’t just believe stuff that people say. Why the hell would an extraterrestrial travel a kazillion light-years to fly circles around an F-18 and harass Earth shipping traffic? Your gullibility is the problem. How much money did you send to the Nigerian prince?

Sad to be you...never believing anything anyone ever tells you.

I sure didn't say they traveled a kazillion light years to get here. Heck, I don't even know what they are...that is why they are "Unidentified".

They could be lots of things. What I am pretty sure they are not is conventional technology or misidentified common atmospheric phenomena. The pilots that have seen these things are well trained. The radar operators are well trained. They know the difference between a Mylar balloon and an object traveling several times the speed of sound.

88 posted on 12/07/2022 3:16:46 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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