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To: RoosterRedux

I dont think the ‘UFO’ stuff we have seen reported is daily. Its occasional.

Most of what has been shown is not actual camera video, but rather through a vision system like a IRDS, FLIR, or radar system. IRDS and FLIR are subject to atmospherics phenomena, moisture leaking into the tubes, sensor aging, etc.

All electronic vision systems have a design life as well. NOD’s are good for about 10,000 hours and then they wear out. If you operate those systems regularly (say 20 hours a week), you only get a few years and they they start ghosting or doing other annoying stuff.

Finally, radars can be spoofed. When you see unbelievable footage of an F-18 tracking something that starts turning right angles at mach 2, then someone is likely testing an electronic jammer/spoofer, and its working. What the pilot sees on his radar is a false track.

God can do anything he wants, but he created a universe that follows natural laws, IMO just like he wants us to follow his laws for us. Its ok for us to question the universe he has created, and we grow closer to understanding his wonder by doing so.


53 posted on 05/03/2022 7:34:45 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

Focusing on “nuts and bolts” UFOs (many of which these days are indeed high tech or false data) is missing the really important stuff.

The important stuff is their impact on human beings.

Carl Jung wrote a wonderful book on this topic many years ago (long before modern tech muddied the waters):

https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Modern-Things-Skies/dp/0691018227

Jacque Vallee wrote a masterpiece on the pre tech UFOs:

https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Parallel-Worlds/dp/0809237962

John Mack wrote the best book on the “alien abduction” issue:

https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Cosmos-John-Mack/dp/1907661816

This may take you out of your comfort zone—but by getting out of that zone you will discover amazing and wonderful stuff.

Terence McKenna described the UFOs that impact human beings as subverting materialistic science. He gave the analogy of the birth of Christianity during the days of the Roman Empire.

In the old Roman Empire every “respectable” intellectual believed in the Roman Gods. When they heard whispers of the servants of someone who rose from the dead they mocked such stories as primitive superstition. The Roman Empire was the greatest Empire in the history of the world and “truth” about the outside world had been discovered by its brilliant intellectuals.

We know how that story ended.

Human paradigms don’t just get nudged aside—they are overthrown by revolutions in belief systems.

Congress or the US military investigating UFOs would be like the Roman legislature and military in 50 A.D. investigating the truth of Christianity.

The whole idea is laughable on its face.


57 posted on 05/03/2022 7:54:13 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Magnum44
I don't have a specific link but pilots and sailors are reporting daily and growing activity of whatever this is.

Furthermore, the USS Princeton (who was the subject of the tictac event reported by Cmdr David Fravor) and other ships in the carrier group had state of the art equipment at the time. On top of that, Fravor and many others (including Kevin Day, a TOPGUN air intercept controller/radar operator aboard the Princeton) have said over and over again that this was NOT an equipment malfunction or pilot observation error.

In all due respect, they were there and you weren't.

64 posted on 05/03/2022 10:14:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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