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UFOs are (probably) not secret Chinese spy planes
The Hill ^ | MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF

Posted on 06/08/2021 10:16:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

A forthcoming government report on UFOs is fueling intense speculation among skeptics and believers. Now, with ultra-secret U.S. technology no longer a viable explanation for these phenomena, two extraordinary theories appear to be in play.

According to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a foreign government may have achieved “one heck of a technological leap” and is operating highly advanced aircraft in restricted American airspace. Alternatively, as some intelligence officials and analysts speculate, U.S. military personnel may have witnessed “non-human technology” that defies the laws of physics.

As observers grapple with these possibilities, clues are beginning to emerge that a leading theory for the military’s UFO encounters – advanced Chinese aircraft – is increasingly unlikely.

For one, the South China Morning Post recently revealed that China has established its own task force to analyze unidentified objects appearing in its airspace. Beijing, like Washington, appears to take these phenomena seriously.

Moreover, Chinese analysts are reportedly so “overwhelmed” by UFO reports that China’s military is now relying on artificial intelligence to assess such incidents more efficiently.

Make no mistake: These revelations are not accidental. Opaque, authoritarian states such as China do not simply volunteer information about glaring national security gaps on a whim.

This raises two possibilities. Either China is engaging in an elaborate disinformation campaign, or it is genuinely perplexed by phenomena it cannot explain.

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: china; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; uap; ufo; ufos
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To: PIF

Big Foot

81 posted on 06/08/2021 1:12:46 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

82 posted on 06/08/2021 1:14:49 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

I love jelly fish


83 posted on 06/08/2021 1:15:59 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Boogieman

I see. So, in 2004 (at least), the US had developed a novel propulsion system on an aircraft that employed no fixed wings nor rotors that allowed the craft to loiter in fixed space for an hour or more and then accelerate to 15k-knots in an instant to then resume a stationary and fixed position and/or minimal forward velocity and this was not experimental, but instead, was a fully operational aeronautical platform that was capable of navigating mixed-use air space?

For almost 20-years, they’ve managed to maintain the secrecy of technology that would win any number of Nobel Prizes and revolutionize aviation moving that field forward by generations (or more)? Fascinating.

Does that sound likely?

For some historical perspective, under the cover of darkness and in absolute secrecy, the B-2 Spirit made its first flight in 1989. It remained secret until 1997 when it was finally revealed to the public after being tested for almost a decade by the US Air Force. Why reveal it to the public? So they could put it into operational service (IOC). It’s tough to put an airplane into service in civilian airspace without giving it a transponder and it’s tough to give a transponder to an aircraft that doesn’t publicly exist.


84 posted on 06/08/2021 1:37:54 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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“Does that sound likely?”

Certainly sounds more likely than “It’s gotta be aliens!”


85 posted on 06/08/2021 2:07:21 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Eddie01

That’s Saturn’s moon Iapetus doing a stand in for Star Wars’ Death Star


86 posted on 06/08/2021 3:47:03 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cuban leaf

This guy “lost” me when he claimed his teachers believed his most outlandish explanations for being late to school the most, and never believed the mundane / most likely to be true explanations?

Not MY teachers.

Plus, he is effectively telling us right up front he is unreliable on multiple levels. I didn’t bother watching / listening further.

What are these “inexplicable” UFO sightings (a small % of the total)? Dunno. Maybe something a lot less mundane than “space aliens”. Or, maybe something that in 100 years will make people say “DOH!” Perhaps someday we will find out. :-)


87 posted on 06/08/2021 4:00:24 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: PIF

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12570

Mimas my FRiend.


88 posted on 06/08/2021 4:05:34 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01
Looks a lot like Iapetus minus the inexplicable 12 mile high ridge encircling the moon. NASA makes it very difficult to find images from past missions, but I guess that's to be expected from them these days.


89 posted on 06/09/2021 3:06:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Boogieman

Time was before space .... interesting concept


90 posted on 06/09/2021 1:55:52 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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