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Interesting about-face by the government, I think they realized that they got too patently ridiculous with their UFO claims, which started as a disinformation campaign because a PA officer (who is working at Starbucks now) accidentally released classified video. People that know something about optics were able to quickly figure out that the objects in the FLIR videos weren't going hypersonic or even jet fighter speeds. It also takes advantage of the fact that most people have never seen F-18s and other conventional aircraft in IR. The videos were showing nothing special but that didn't stop the government from making grandiose claims.

All the video really accomplished was showcasing the poor radio-discipline that Navy pilots were showing during deployment, I'm sure that's been corrected.

1 posted on 11/06/2022 10:01:09 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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“...Pentagon officials reveal...”

Well, now we know what it’s not


2 posted on 11/06/2022 10:03:00 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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It was just swamp gas *ZAP*

3 posted on 11/06/2022 10:04:02 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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this can only mean one thing

the aliens are already living among us

and running the DoD


4 posted on 11/06/2022 10:04:22 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Not buying it. Those pilots filmed a giant tic-tac submerged coming out of the ocean. Then it shot up to 80 thousand ft in seconds. The UFOs or UAPs are real. There’s no way the chinks have that kind of technology.


5 posted on 11/06/2022 10:06:58 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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So Travis Walton was abducted by Chinese little green men flying a drone on 11-5-1975 in Arizona.


7 posted on 11/06/2022 10:08:09 AM PST by Redcitizen
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and the riots were MOSTLY peaceful too...

what about that NOT mostly part???


8 posted on 11/06/2022 10:09:32 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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9 posted on 11/06/2022 10:12:05 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Chinese weather balloons.


10 posted on 11/06/2022 10:12:32 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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Weather balloons?

Really?


11 posted on 11/06/2022 10:15:13 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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So, if they’re enemy aircraft it must be ok to use them for target practice with shotguns, right?


12 posted on 11/06/2022 10:19:47 AM PST by Disambiguator
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US Intelligence agencies... I trust them to lie to Americans and spy on Americans. DoD is now compromised too.


16 posted on 11/06/2022 10:26:38 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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The videos were showing nothing special but that didn't stop the government from making grandiose claims.

It doesn't stop the incessant conspiracy theorist from going ape over the information either. There are people that make a living in all aspects of the internet, over other people's gullibility. The UFO conspiracists are among them. To them it is borders on religion.

When we venture into technologies like IR optics and synthetic aperture, or for that matter any radars, there are glitches that show false or distorted echo. What would worry me more is the revelation that Chinese drones are freely conducting surveillance over our territory. I certainly hope something is being done about that.

22 posted on 11/06/2022 10:38:15 AM PST by pfflier
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I know aviation and weather professionally and have yet to see a credible, visual UFO claim from the last half century that could possibly be explained by “clutter” like a weather balloon.

The word clutter does on rare occasion reasonably get used by air route traffic control types in reference to what sometimes appears on their monochromatic radar scopes, which almost never depict such things more than two-dimensionally.


25 posted on 11/06/2022 10:45:16 AM PST by rx
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“Did Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army of China call Gen. Milley to give him a heads-up on all these spy drones? After all, Milley called Zuocheng, to let him know he’s give him a heads-up if the U.S. planned on attacking China.


29 posted on 11/06/2022 10:57:52 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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So the DOD is saying that we let foreign drones get real close to nuclear sites, missile sites, sub bases, super carriers…. I think I would go with aliens before I would say the Chinese are running rampant and close to national security assets. But hey, whatever they think makes people feel safer.


31 posted on 11/06/2022 11:09:56 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and 'airborne clutter,' Pentagon officials reveal

When is the Communist Chinese military arriving in the U.S.? Do we have to take our shoes off? Will the Communist Chinese leaders allow their senile Sleepy Joe puppet Manchurian Candidate to permanently remain in the Oval Office or what? And what role will George Soros have in all of that? What about The Bills? Bill Clinton & Bill Gates? What about Hillary?

32 posted on 11/06/2022 11:10:36 AM PST by gw-ington (My Preferred Pronouns: senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
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If the Chinese actually had UFO tech you would be speaking Chinese today.


35 posted on 11/06/2022 11:28:11 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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“It also takes advantage of the fact that most people have never seen F-18s and other conventional aircraft in IR.”

“Most people” are not in the equation and they certainly do not watch radar screens. These were highly trained military professionals who work with F-18s daily.

If they are Chinese, does that really comfort you?

What about all the UFOs spotted before drone technology? And I never dreamed they would bring up the weather balloon joke again. Are weather balloons still in use. Satellites and radar are the latest weather technology.


36 posted on 11/06/2022 11:33:48 AM PST by odawg
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The ones that maneuver at 5k mph and make right angle turns? Yeah, they’re honk drones, sure they are!


37 posted on 11/06/2022 11:36:50 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Never seen one, though I witnessed an F jet doing some amazing things at the JRB (old Carswell) in Ft.Worth on the tarmac between the base and Lockheed.

Won’t talk about the beings in the mountains of Wyoming. Ever.


39 posted on 11/06/2022 11:44:02 AM PST by waterhill (Resistrain)
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