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Do You Believe in UFOs? An Actual Answer May Be Near
Red State ^ | 05/24,2021 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 05/24/2021 10:11:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind


Mysteries intrigue the human mind. Things you don’t understand or can’t see. Mysteries draw you in, books, TV shows, real-life, even lingerie. You want to see, to understand.

I don’t mean stupid mysteries like algebra. I mean scientific stuff. Our country has just gone through a messy pandemic year full of scary scientific mysteries that government folks were afraid to admit they really didn’t understand (or, that they did, and why).

So, they pretended to understand this new mysterious virus and what to do about it. We were afraid, so fell for their charade of dictums–two weeks to flatten the curve. Then, maybe two months. Job-crushing, savings-draining lockdowns. Masks for everyone everywhere. Perhaps two of them. Other hokum.

As a result, now and for some future time, millions of us newly-trained cynics from the University of Covid will dismiss all kinds of government warnings. They may indeed prove accurate ultimately, but no one wants to be a sucker in this age of information and misinformation. So, they’ll be dismissed out of hand.

Now, we come to one mystery that has endured for decades. But wait. We may finally be on the verge of solving at least part of it.

Flying saucers. Unidentified Flying Objects. Or in Pentagon vernacular, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

Over the years thousands have claimed to see UFOs, weird objects, or lights in the sky that appeared to do things our minds can’t explain or grasp. Many such reports proved fraudulent, the product of vivid imaginations, light phenomenon, even too much Budweiser.

Incidents were catalogued and closed away in a secretive Pentagon, sparking conspiracy theories, as our Townhall Media colleague Jazz Shaw has written at HotAir. A couple of years ago two convincing Navy videos were leaked by experts then confirmed as genuine. Watch them here.

Caught by sophisticated gun cameras and radars near military equipment off both coasts, they show lighted objects moving and maneuvering at high speeds. They have no apparent engines, control surfaces, or cockpits. In one case the object plunges into the ocean at high speed, emerging elsewhere.

Two highly-trained Super Hornet pilots told of approaching the object, which maneuvered around them and then, poof, disappeared. Activate cloaking device?

Last December, while everyone’s mind was consumed by media’s panic porn of the virus from China and election results Donald Trump’s camp found non-credible, Florida’s Marco Rubio, then chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, inserted in the Covid relief bill a requirement for the Pentagon and intelligence community to finally draft an unclassified report detailing what is known and unknown about UFOs.

That report is due next month. There seem to be three possibilities:

These objects are either super-secret U.S. technology, foreign technology far beyond anything known to our government, or an unexplained, potentially alien presence. What’s not secret are the obvious national security implications that not even Will Smith could handle.

Gallup has done some polling about UFOs. It found, believe it or not, real bipartisan agreement: 30 percent of Republicans and 32 percent of Democrats agree these craft are alien from another planet or galaxy. Independents were even more convinced (38 percent). I’m kinda drifting in that direction too, to be honest.

A clear majority (60 percent) still believe there’s some other explanation for UFOs, probably human-related. Seven percent don’t know anything, like Adam Schiff.

However, many more Americans say they do believe there is life beyond Washington. No, I mean that there is life elsewhere in the universe. Three-quarters say there is “life of some form” somewhere. Nearly half (49 percent) think there are “people like ourselves” living on other planets.

Can you imagine one of NASA’s amazing planetary rovers transmitting images back to Earth? Scientists call them up on desktop screens. And there, from the farthest frozen reaches of space staring back into the lens, all grins, is an alien photobomber.



TOPICS: Astronomy; Conspiracy; Government; Science; Society; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aatip; adamschiff; ajntsa; andrewmalcolm; astronomy; california; hotair; jazzshaw; nasa; ohsomysteriouso; redstate; scaredschiffless; schiffforbrains; science; ufo; ufos
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To: dljordan

It is rather amazing the technological advances humans have made since 1947. Let alone the evolution of our species over the past 50,000 or so years.


101 posted on 05/24/2021 3:08:26 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: garryowenartillery

Before Space Force, I started rewriting the words for the Marines —

“From the halls of Montezuma... To the Ice in Saturn’s rings...

We will fight our country’s battles... Far beyond our signals reach...” 😂 🇺🇸


102 posted on 05/24/2021 3:15:37 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: SeekAndFind

Not sure about UFO’s, but I used to believe in Honest Elections.


103 posted on 05/24/2021 3:17:27 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Magnum44
In the original story, he was flying his old Crop Duster, not an F-18.

I think they even filmed the scene, but they figured out that the Audience wouldn't buy that fantasy.

104 posted on 05/24/2021 3:21:40 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
There's been a real push on about UFOs among Demagogic Party politicians, and the only reason they push anything is to get their boots on our necks. Hey, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

105 posted on 05/24/2021 4:43:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Whatever ET wants, the answer is no.


106 posted on 05/24/2021 5:05:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Read the book, learn about boundary layer control. It’s straightforward aeronautical engineering.


107 posted on 05/24/2021 6:16:37 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: butlerweave

My thoughts exactly.

We suffer from what could be called a collective human insecurity complex.

If there is other life out there, and I’m sure there is, what if they aren’t so smart?

What if they’re dumb?


108 posted on 05/24/2021 6:22:06 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Starboard

Look, it’s a UFO! Let me grab my crappiest camera and take a picture!


109 posted on 05/24/2021 6:24:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Mars needs women.


110 posted on 05/24/2021 6:25:38 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anything that has lights is not an alien. Why would aliens have lights? To be seen? If they wanted to be seen they would just announce themselves. Any lighted craft that can’t be identified is either some type of anomaly or a known aircraft...known by someone.


111 posted on 05/24/2021 6:29:31 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Tallguy

“Most of these Radars can ‘slave’ an IR camera to bring up a magnified image of what the radar is pointed at. Only that thing ain’t real. But the Infrared Camera sees a temperature gradient where the vortex is.”

If this is widespread tech you would think fighter pilots would be familiar with it and not be fooled.

As far as the UAP images being a projection, watch the the portion of the video linked below from 43-47 seconds. See how the UAP movement from side to side varies in speed and elevation. Its not a precise movement like you would expect from an autopilot or electronically programmed system. It looks like when someone moves the cursor back and forth across their computer screen. The movement looks fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVL6jv-h1W0


112 posted on 05/24/2021 6:32:52 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
See how the UAP movement from side to side varies in speed and elevation. Its not a precise movement like you would expect from an autopilot or electronically programmed system.

It's not moving side to side, or back and forth. It's moving one direction while they were slewing the camera, attempting to lock onto it which they eventfully did. Hint; watch the water.

113 posted on 05/24/2021 7:01:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sirius Lee

Are you accusing aeronautical luminaries Ludwig Prandtl and Oscar Schrenk of being NAZIs? They were working on boundary layer control technology before the NAZIs came to power.


114 posted on 05/24/2021 11:57:22 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo
boundary layer control. It’s straightforward aeronautical engineering.

Then it should be easy for you to prove prove that all the ufos reported in the last century were nothing more than airplanes without flaps.

Otherwise it's just another BS theory. Right up there with ETs, interdimensionals and weather balloons.

115 posted on 05/25/2021 3:59:42 AM PDT 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: Sirius Lee

Why do I have to prove ALL of them?

Most UFO are simply unidentified prosaic phenomenon like weather balloons, Swamp gas , radio controlled drones, meteors, ball lightning, etc.

Requiring ALL sightings to fall under one umbrella 🌂is extremely irrational.

By calling boundary layer control experiments “airplanes without flaps” , you betray your own ignorance of the technology, such as related sinterization processes and how it conquers skin friction drag.

Apply some rational thinking here, as well as some good common horse sense.


116 posted on 05/25/2021 4:11:12 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

So you got nothing. That’s what I thought.


117 posted on 05/25/2021 4:15:37 AM PDT 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: BenLurkin
They're interested in Earth's unique wine production, of course, mainly because they want to serve us in a nice wine-based sauce.

118 posted on 05/25/2021 4:17:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Is it even possible? Yes, it is.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

119 posted on 05/25/2021 4:20:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sirius Lee

You’re hidebound. You wouldn’t know a rational thought if it bit you in the butt.


120 posted on 05/25/2021 4:22:43 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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