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As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Congress must reveal the truth to the American people
The Hill ^ | 2/5/2023 | Ryan Graves

Posted on 02/07/2023 3:07:13 AM PST by RoosterRedux

As a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot who witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) on a regular basis, let me be clear. The U.S. government, former presidents, members of Congress of both political parties and directors of national intelligence are trying to tell the American public the same uncomfortable truth I shared: Objects demonstrating extreme capabilities routinely fly over our military facilities and training ranges. We don’t know what they are, and we are unable to mitigate their presence.

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Mysteriously, no UAP reports have been confirmed to be foreign so far. However, just this past week, a Chinese surveillance balloon shut down air traffic across the United States. How are we supposed to make sense of hundreds of reports of UAP that violate restricted airspace uncontested and interfere with both civilian and military pilots?

Here is the hard truth. We don’t know. UAP are a national security problem, and we urgently need more data.

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Last May, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee held the first UAP hearing in over 50 years. Intelligence officials testified that there were more than 400 reports of UAP, often tracked simultaneously by trained observers and multiple sensor systems, demonstrating technology that our military does not understand. Congress was briefed that incidents exist where there is sufficient data from pilots and sensors, but the case defies conventional explanation. The hearing marked a pivotal step forward to bring the topic of UAP out of the shadows and give it the urgent attention it deserves as a matter of national security.

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To: GingisK

Yup... I do. Just talked to him and he said that planets are like snowflakes... No two are the same, and that there is no other planet out there with humanoid like creatures. It took him several billion years to create earth as it currently exist... And he’s decided that that was a mistake in itself, so why would he do it twice?


41 posted on 02/07/2023 4:46:26 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: maddog55

Very well said! Excellent summary of the situation.


42 posted on 02/07/2023 4:47:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
At a science fiction convention in the 80s, one of the panels described why the military (and civilian) sensing systems could "miss" seeing certain phenomenon: filters could squelch contacts that don't fit any known profile, to reduce the workload on the operators.

This was used as a plot device in a story written in the 90s. (No, I don't remember which story.)

This is another form of "coming under the radar".

One possible explanation: there was a balloon event detected visually at a monitoring station, and electronic system filters were adjusted to report such slow-moving objects following the jet stream.

43 posted on 02/07/2023 4:47:27 AM PST by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: Jonty30

What fighter pilots are doing 3.5mach?


44 posted on 02/07/2023 4:48:13 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: sit-rep

From 1971 US Navy periscope pics...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43ep79


45 posted on 02/07/2023 4:49:02 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: jerod

I can go with that. ;-D


46 posted on 02/07/2023 4:52:11 AM PST by GingisK
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To: dereknunley

>>I believe a civilization living beneath the surface is more plausible than extraterrestrial

Or on the ocean floor. Possibly a giant squid civilization that is much older and more advanced than ours.


47 posted on 02/07/2023 4:54:00 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: RoosterRedux; Fred Nerks

Shambhala and UFOs

YMMV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emRA70qS5Cg


48 posted on 02/07/2023 4:56:08 AM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: jerod
Ask Him what He says about men's hearts failing them for fear of what's coming on the Earth (Luke 21:26).

As an aside, no one is suggesting anymore that these things are coming from other planets.

Other dimensions. Some in the Pentagon are calling them demons.

I am keeping an open mind. The general consensus of those in the scientific community and even academia (mostly physicists) are saying that they have no idea what we are dealing with because it defies definition. It seems to be related to consciousness itself and seems to be beyond comprehension.

49 posted on 02/07/2023 4:57:10 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

This. It is the pure arrogance of some people “in the know”, the “I can handle it but the regular Joe out there is too simple-minded to grasp it” attitude that infuriates me. “Panic in the streets!!” - Pfooey.


50 posted on 02/07/2023 5:00:03 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: maddog55

Then show me a good picture at 900mph then.


51 posted on 02/07/2023 5:04:32 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: RoosterRedux

government: oooh, look at the aliens, be scared.

Bread and Circuses. Next up will be the dog and pony show with ‘the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one’.

It’s never gonna stop.


52 posted on 02/07/2023 5:06:56 AM PST by newmomster
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To: newmomster
The problem with the "bread and circuses" narrative as it applies to this situation is that the government isn't pushing it. It is being pushed by former military men and women and now the scientific community.

The government is fighting tooth and nail to destroy the narrative or to at least hush it up.

53 posted on 02/07/2023 5:11:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Jonty30
https://boingboing.net/2020/12/09/leaked-us-military-photo-of-a-ufo.html
54 posted on 02/07/2023 5:11:59 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Jonty30

Really?? So I guess all the photos of fighter jets with the vapor cloud explosion around them when they hit super Sonic are all photoshopped!! /S...


55 posted on 02/07/2023 5:19:16 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: RoosterRedux

I prefer to dwell in the realm of reality... We have a creator and he didn’t create ghost and aliens to entertain us... Hollywood did.


56 posted on 02/07/2023 5:21:47 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: maddog55

Ok!! We got a few pics from 1971!! Great!!


57 posted on 02/07/2023 5:24:43 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: maddog55
That object in the image in Post 54 looks like something that broke off a higher flying aircraft, where either the mission was classified or the component was which is why the pilots could find no confirming reports on it.

It could be something related to Scaled Composites 'Proteus', Hermeus 'Quarterhorse' or Leidos 'Project Mayhem'.

58 posted on 02/07/2023 5:25:34 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Sarcazmo

Unless the Gov’t tells/pays you to come forward...

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I see a lot of former military and intelligence people give interviews on a lot of these tabloid cable UFO shows, and they talk about how they signed this and that, took oaths, and were sworn to secrecy after certain events, yet here they are, and I don’t trust them at all. Aside from the fact that these shows are basically tabloid trash for TV (I still watch when I’m bored, heh) and present their content as questions and conjecture not as concise documentaries, I can’t figure out how all these witnesses can defy their obligations without consequence, unless of course they are actually meant to be dispensing this (dis)information.


59 posted on 02/07/2023 5:29:04 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: RoosterRedux
Well I just voiced my 2 cents here... I didn't mean for everyone to get their panties in a twist!!

But, I'm still not convinced... Our recon aircraft and a few satellites can read the date on a dime laying on the ground and how fast are they going ??

60 posted on 02/07/2023 5:29:11 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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