'What Are UFOs' Examines Our Fascination with the Unknown

Time Mag/MSN ^ | Jeffrey Kluger

[RoosterRedux]

Nobody expected anything special when the squadron of Navy F/A-18 fighter jets headed out for routine aerial maneuvers off of the coast of Virginia Beach one day in 2013. The F/A-18s, a Naval workhorse, owned the local air space that day—but only until they didn’t.

All at once, the jets’ radar picked up a cluster of half a dozen objects flying along with them, moving erratically—and entirely acrobatically. At some moments they ripped along side-to-side at speeds exceeding 350 knots—or 402 mph. Then, suddenly, they would stand utterly still in winds that themselves were moving at 150 knots (172 mph)—gusts that had the jets struggling to maintain position. Then the objects would accelerate again. They had no visible exhaust, no discernible means of propulsion, and indeed looked nothing like any aircraft in the nation’s civilian or military arsenal.

Measuring five to 15 ft. across, they were a “dark gray or black cube inside a clear sphere,” former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves, who was aloft that day, tells TIME. “We almost hit one of the objects; they came within 50 ft. of the lead aircraft, and that's really when we knew we were dealing with something a bit abnormal here. There's no aircraft in our inventory I'm aware of that has the ability to operate at very low speeds, or no speeds, and then accelerate and operate like a fighter.”

That wasn’t the last time the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)—the genteel, modern-day term for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO)—harrassed the Navy. “We saw them in Virginia Beach between 2013 and 2015,” says Graves. “Later, when we executed training operations aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., they were either already down there or they had followed us down, because we had over a dozen incidents...

[Getready]

There are huge amounts of people looking for UFO’s or uap’s...I have a very close friend who is a MUFON spotter......govt. can’t keep secrets that long(in general) when there are many thousands of active observers....the knowledge about extraterrestrial beings is too big of an item to suppress...but we need real demonstrable, examinable physical evidence...
Freegards

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Who is Jesus?

U Father Omniscient.

[higgmeister]

Those videos, known popularly as “the Gimbal,” after the objects’ pinwheeling motion, are just part of the eyewitness visuals featured in the new PBS NOVA documentary “What Are UFOs?” premiering on PBS stations on Jan. 22.

Well, I am glad they answered their question.   “What Are UFOs?”   Something to boost TV ratings.

[jmacusa]

What happened to all the done sightings?

Is that all over now?

[iontheball]

And the government is determined to keep it that way.
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Did you see Trump the other day at one of his news conferences where he leans over towards Susie Wiles and says something to the effect Susie would you look into that drone matter? What a weird way to behave when his son is on board with the ET issue and would be the perfect guy to task.

[iontheball]

“We don’t know what they are but we know they are friendly.”
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The first part is a bold face lie and the second part is true. How else do you explain that we are still here if the ETs were a threat?

[cgbg]

A visit to your local farm may prove instructive.

The farm animals are very much alive.

The farmer’s kids plays with them.

That must mean the animals have nothing to worry about...

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Or..visit the local zoo.

The animals are very much alive—as long as they don’t try to attack the zoo employees.

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Lol.

[JohnnyP]

Earthlings...Your Puny Weapons Cannot Harm Us!!

[Vaduz]

I like to tell the UFO believers we are the ET’s the ship had a problem and we never able to return thus the reason for the program of Mork from Ork and the movie ET.

[RoosterRedux]

Define UFO believers.

[higgmeister]

Here's what the pilots of the USS Roosevelt described:

You should specifically note that this is what they described after the moment, but zooming past at 405 mph, this was obviously nothing like what they would have had the ability to see.

What did the video look like?   What was detected on radar and infrared?

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I was living in rural Georgia in 1974, where everyone was about to be laid off at the small plant that I worked.   I was the receiving clerk and instead of waiting for the pink slip, I enlisted in the USAF.   I was still working while waiting for my Delayed Enlistment/Guaranteed Job report date, the word went around that I was going into the Air Force.

I'll never forget, one of the receiving clerks, L. B. Templeton (RIP), earnestly asked me to let him know if I found out about UFO's.

[Vaduz]

Those who believe in them don’t get to close to them not safe.

[higgmeister]

Did you see Trump the other day at one of his news conferences where he leans over towards Susie Wiles and says something to the effect Susie would you look into that drone matter? What a weird way to behave when his son is on board with the ET issue and would be the perfect guy to task.

Susie Wiles is President Trump's Chief of Starr and his son is not in our government at all.

[MacNaughton]

Earthlings...Your Puny Weapons Cannot Harm Us!

[RoosterRedux]

What do you mean, “Believe in them”?

[Vaduz]

What don’t you understand believing they are real fist issue they have and who knows what else the believe in.

Spooky people

[RoosterRedux]

When you say “believers in UFOs,” could you clarify what you mean? Are you referring to people who think UFOs are extraterrestrial, or are you referring to something else?

[Vaduz]

No such thing as a extraterrestrial craft only the crazy ones believe they are such a thing.

[RoosterRedux]

I don't know anyone who believes that. IMHO, there's just not enough evidence to form a solid opinion.

Most folks on these UFO threads are just speculating.

[cgbg]

https://thejournalofcosmology.com/Puthoff.pdf