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Forget China’s spy balloon; military UFO incidents are far more intriguing
The Hill ^ | MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF

Posted on 02/10/2023 6:01:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Far more intriguing – and deserving of the intense media scrutiny afforded China’s ill-fated balloon – are U.S. military encounters with mysterious flying objects exhibiting seemingly extraordinary technology.

Take, for example, the 2004 “Tic Tac” incident, which continues to perplex the U.S. government. Over the course of several days, a Navy warship’s state-of-the-art radar tracked mysterious targets descending from high altitudes at extreme velocities. Controllers ultimately directed two fighter jets to intercept one of the perplexing radar contacts.

Just above an area of roiling whitewater amid an otherwise calm sea, four naval aviators observed a strange object with no wings, control surfaces or means of propulsion maneuvering in jaw-dropping ways. The mysterious craft then darted off at extraordinary speeds shortly after a Top Gun-trained squadron commander chased it. The apparent physics- and aerodynamics-defying performance left the stunned aircrew believing that the object “was not from this world.”

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This begs an obvious question: How does an object with no wings or apparent means of propulsion fly at tens of thousands of feet, let alone accelerate instantaneously to hypersonic velocities?

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If, for the sake of argument, an adversarial foreign power developed and deployed technology rendering its surveillance platforms invisible in early 2014, the media’s lack of interest or investigative reporting amounts to a staggering journalistic failing.

Why, for example, have reporters not hammered successive Pentagon press secretaries with questions about the seemingly invisible objects encountered frequently by highly trained aircrews? Could this journalistic reticence be rooted in a lack of knowledge of the incidents? Perhaps the stigma and “giggle factor” long associated with UFOs are to blame. (Of course, if an adversarial power like China possessed “cloaking” technology, it would have no need to sail a giant, lumbering balloon over the United States.)

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; gaslighting; marikvonrennenkampff; thehill; treason; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 02/10/2023 6:01:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: All

This too

Video Suspected Chinese “environment monitoring satellite” beams green laser from space over Hawaii
https://rumble.com/v28vzwq-suspected-chinese-environment-monitoring-satellite-beams-green-laser-from-s.html


2 posted on 02/10/2023 6:03:05 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: RoosterRedux

Let’s see. The murderous Chicoms are intent on destroying civilization, but, “Look! Shiny red UFO dot!”
We know full well wherein The Hill’s sympathies lie. And ‘lie’ is the operative word.


3 posted on 02/10/2023 6:29:38 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Montana_Sam

The Hill has gotten worse by orders of magnitude.


4 posted on 02/10/2023 6:39:13 AM PST by skeeter
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To: RoosterRedux

Tic tac probably a real weather balloon.


5 posted on 02/10/2023 7:12:51 AM PST by erlayman
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To: RoosterRedux

Now we have identified the problem: Our military cannot see a balloon the size of the Empire State Bldg., so how are they going to see a UFO?


6 posted on 02/10/2023 7:15:55 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: RoosterRedux

Well, UFO sightings may be far more intriguing, but they’re not threatening. If they’re here, they’re here to observe our “anthill”.


7 posted on 02/10/2023 7:39:08 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: RoosterRedux

No clear and close photos no UFO’s.


8 posted on 02/10/2023 8:49:35 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: RoosterRedux

Why, with the years of cell-phone photography, have we not seen a clear image of these UFOs. What we do see is blurry, specks in the sky that could be Chinese spy vehicles using advanced, super secret, aeronautics technology. Our government wants us to believe the fairy tale space ships from other worlds BS. The top secret reality is kept top secret.


9 posted on 02/10/2023 9:01:34 AM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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10 posted on 02/10/2023 9:10:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: janetjanet998

That’s scary. Bumble’n Slow Biden sh-ts in his seat and does nothing.


11 posted on 02/10/2023 9:31:38 AM PST by dragonblustar (WEF = World Economic Fascists. )
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To: skeeter

Yep. And since they dropped the Disqus commenting, I seldom go there. The commenting was a lot of fun - tweaking the mods and snowflakes.


12 posted on 02/10/2023 9:39:27 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Vaduz
What were those stupid pilots thinking of. Why use all that stupid radar and state of the art sensors when they could have whipped out their phones.
Over the course of several days, a Navy warship’s state-of-the-art radar [AN/SPY-1, an advanced, automatic detect and track, multi-function phased-array radar] tracked mysterious targets descending from high altitudes at extreme velocities.

Can you believe these Navy nincompoops didn't take photos and send them to Free Republic.

I, for one, am flabbergasted!

13 posted on 02/10/2023 10:06:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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And which branch of the U.S. military do we hear the LEAST from when there is a space-based situation? (Well, some say the Tic Tacs are alien ships …)

Why, the U.S. Space Force, of course!

Not once have I heard a peep from Space Force, about anything. I don’t even know what their uniforms look like. If there is a prize for the WORST public relations crew in the military, Space Force would win it annually.

The other branches boast thousands of stories, heroic and otherwise. Space Force, not so much.


14 posted on 02/10/2023 10:09:22 AM PST by DNME (… all experience hath shewn ….)
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To: RoosterRedux

Agree


15 posted on 02/10/2023 10:14:15 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: DNME
Actually, the USAF is guiltier. They have 75+/- years of information but won't release it.

And, as the story goes, if you saw something, they paid you a visit and threatened you with dire consequences if you told anyone.

I'm not saying what kind of intel they are withholding (because I don't know), but they obviously don't want to share.

16 posted on 02/10/2023 10:17:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Vaduz

There are lots of clear and close photos of UFOs.

Unfortunately they are classified and you do not have the clearance to see them.


17 posted on 02/10/2023 10:19:36 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: libertylover
If they’re here, they’re here to observe our “anthill”.

Speaking of...when humans build a road they don't worry about any anthills that might be in the path.


18 posted on 02/10/2023 11:06:10 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: cgbg

If there are lots of clear and close photos of UFOs why don’t the show them they have been hyping their existence foe a year.

Sounds like nothing but a scam for money for another one of their dark programs.

NO SALE


19 posted on 02/10/2023 1:45:57 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Vaduz

There is a long history of UFOs and .gov reaction to them.

Here is one of my favorite incidents—the year I was born:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C.,_UFO_incident


20 posted on 02/10/2023 2:52:38 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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