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NASA Administrator: There have been "hundreds" of UFO sightings by pilots
hotair.com ^ | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 10/26/2021 2:59:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was back in public last week, taking part in a University of Virginia live stream event hosted by Larry Sabato.

“Before we leave,” Nelson interjected near the end of the live stream, “I haven’t even talked about the search for extraterrestrial life.” …

“Now I know what you’ve seen is what those Navy pilots saw in 2004,” Nelson said during the live stream chat. “And there have been some three hundred sightings since then.”

“I’ve talked to those pilots,” Nelson added, saying that “they know they saw something, and their radars locked on to it. And then all of a sudden it was here on the surface, and then it’s there. And they don’t know what is. And we don’t know what it is.”

Nelson went on to reiterate that we don’t know where the objects are coming from or who controls them, but “we hope” that it’s not an adversary such as Russia or China. That would have been more than enough to set any number of tongues wagging in the ufology community, but Nelson wasn’t done. He went on to wax a bit poetic on the vastness of the universe and man’s place in it, asking where we came from and where our journey is taking us.
“But it’s something,” Nelson added. “And so this is a mission that we’re constantly looking [at]. Who is out there? Who are we? How did we get here? How did we become as we are? How did we develop? How did we civilize? And are those same conditions out there in a universe that has billions of other suns in billions of other galaxies?”

“It’s so large I can’t conceive it,” the NASA chief said.

When Sabato followed up on these points, he asked what Nelson thought the possibilities were. The NASA chief once again suggested (without saying it directly) that the universe is “so big” and there might even be other universes, the possibilities are endless. He said, “who am I to say that planet Earth is the only location of a life form that is civilized and organized like ours?”

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1 posted on 10/26/2021 2:59:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Perhaps it is disinformation, perhaps not...but, whatever is going on, the government is preparing us for something re: UFO/UAP’s.


2 posted on 10/26/2021 3:01:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Infinity boggles the mind.


3 posted on 10/26/2021 3:58:22 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: RoosterRedux

ET is a joke. Bill Nelson is more of a joke....


4 posted on 10/26/2021 4:00:16 AM PDT by blackberry1
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To: RoosterRedux

I have watched the so-called “videos” of UFOs that Tucker and other shows play on TV. These are not videos of UFOs. They are images on radar screens. In some the background looks like clouds, water, or ground. These are not clouds or water or ground, they are background from the radar image.

I’ve been up several times at moderate altitudes in a private airplane on a clear bright day. Looking down at the ground, there appears to be a bright spot on the ground moving quite rapidly right on the place where our shadow would be. Since the sun is 97 million miles away, the solar rays are pretty much parallel. That makes our shadow on the ground no bigger than our airplane, so it can’t even be seen. but the bright sun reflects on shiny grass leaves, tree leaves, water droplets, and other random ground objects around the shadow, and we see the bright spot moving along with our shadow. It looks quite fast, since it’s moving along with the speed of our airplane.

A radar pointed at the ground could also “see” these reflections. When the airplane rolls, the spot makes an abrupt change in direction perpendicular to our travel. The radar image would also show this “impossible” abrupt change.

A reflected radar signal from an airplane is a myriad of possible trash. Anything still, or moving, reflects something. Other airplanes, cars trucks, boats, earth, towers, buildings all reflect something in the signal. Complex processing algorithms create the images seen on the screen. The shape on the screen is not an image of these objects, it is created by the software. It’s quite amazing that they find useful data from this jumble.

But THEY ARE NOT PERFECT. The image seen on the radar screen is not a video. It’s created with software. I believe we are not seeing UFOs, we are seeing radar images that simply ‘look’ like UFOs. They may be unidentified, but it’s highly unlikely that they are flying objects.


5 posted on 10/26/2021 4:04:56 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: norwaypinesavage
The videos released by the Pentagon were not radar images, they were taken from infrared cameras onboard aircraft and at least one ship. And you’re forgetting that the pilots on the Nimitz and Roosevelt, as well as other crew members on various support ships, saw these objects visually, with their own eyes.

As for the radar being fooled by reflections, even commercial air traffic control radar data is processed to remove artifacts caused by reflections, ground vehicles, etc. before it is displayed. I have no doubt that the SPY-1 AEGIS radar system onboard some of these ships that did track these objects is vastly more sophisticated than simple commercial radar.

6 posted on 10/26/2021 4:25:54 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

I don’t believe that radar would lock onto a shadow. There are also eye witness accounts of physical sightings of unidentifiable aircraft.


7 posted on 10/26/2021 4:28:28 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: norwaypinesavage

The Navy pilot footage was take in the infra red spectrum with a ATFLIR pod, not radar. Further, they saw them as they passed between the jets, not a reflection.


8 posted on 10/26/2021 4:29:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RoosterRedux

The advent of the ubiquitous video camera has put the question of ghosts, Bigfoot, and UFOs to rest: They’re all nonsense.


9 posted on 10/26/2021 4:32:58 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack
You want proof?


10 posted on 10/26/2021 4:38:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Why would he do that? Without being asked?

There has been talk about the government claiming a pending “alien invasion” to further control the people. I know it sounds crazy…but comments dropped like this make me wonder.


11 posted on 10/26/2021 4:39:48 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: RoosterRedux

If I ever see a single scintilla of proof of ETs, then I will open my mind to their existence. Until then, I will reserve “faith” for God. I don’t extend my “faith” to ETs. Prove it or don’t. Until then, I refuse to believe UFOs are anything but earth based experimental craft, weather phenomena, glare on camera lenses.

I get it. Radar does not lock on glare on camera lenses, but I still have not seen one single iota of proof. Until then, I will go on beliving earth has never been visited by ETs.


12 posted on 10/26/2021 4:39:49 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: TalBlack
The advent of the ubiquitous video camera has put the question of ghosts, Bigfoot, and UFOs to rest: They’re all nonsense.

You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Your quote above doesn’t even make any sense

13 posted on 10/26/2021 4:40:38 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: noiseman
Who you gonna believe? A Freeper who has been up in an airplane a few times...or a top gun pilot and Aegis-equipped destroyer.

The Freeper of course.

14 posted on 10/26/2021 4:42:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Vermont Lt
Why would he do that? Without being asked?

That's what stood out about the interview. Nelson added this stuff without it even having been brought up.

15 posted on 10/26/2021 4:46:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Do you think angels and demons exist? Are they from another dimension?


16 posted on 10/26/2021 4:48:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: atc23

The entire planet is walking around with a movie studio not even just on their person but more likely right there in their hand. People “see” these phenomena all the time and yet no better picture proof today then before the camera phone.


17 posted on 10/26/2021 5:17:40 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Is it too much to expect, these days, EXACTLY that clear a pic?


18 posted on 10/26/2021 5:20:04 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack
The problem is that the clearest photos are taken with cameras on satellites and the technology is classified. Release of the photo would tell our enemies a lot about the image technology and the location/trajectory of the satellite.

That said, I don't know what the hell is going on, but it appears the DOD and NASA are trying to prepare us for something big (whether real or contrived).

19 posted on 10/26/2021 5:50:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: norwaypinesavage

It is strange that those highly trained and skilled pilots are confounded by what is so easily discerned by you as you ponder sitting in your recliner.

But what about all those UFOs that have been seen by observers using only their eyes?


20 posted on 10/26/2021 6:04:55 AM PDT by odawg
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