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  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I'm really kinda doubtful? I feel like the phenomenon of UFOs really took off after the Air Force was formed, and the military is deeply involved with Hollywood. It seems like a way to just keep fundraising.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      For sure not ruling out that the bulk of UAP sightings over the years have been black project aircraft from skunk works. But I mean on the other hand, people have been sighting things for a very long time. My mom saw one when she was a kid and it still spooked her as a adult when she told me the story. I think there's just a lot of grifters in the UFO "community" looking to peddle bullshit.

    • femicrat [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      He said he reported to Congress on the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.”

      This is what tears it for me. This is exactly what Bob Lazar said: they keep these craft top secret because if they can reverse engineer and build them, they will gain "asymmetric national defense advantages" i.e. unstoppable weapons. You can just fly one into the Kremlin and blow up Putin and nobody can stop you. It's more about materials science than anything else. Not just returning these craft to service - it's about being able to build new ones.

      “Individuals on these UAP programs approached me in my official capacity and disclosed their concerns regarding a multitude of wrongdoings, such as illegal contracting against the Federal Acquisition Regulations and other criminality and the suppression of information across a qualified industrial base and academia,” he stated.

      Typical deep state behavior. Laws apply to everyone but themselves. Makes the whole thing more credible.

      “His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,”

      See?

      A lot of people are going to have a really hard time dealing with these new disclosures. It's going to mean UFO people, who are right down there with bicyclers and vegans in the groups that the fancy people really enjoy dumping on, were right and that the fancy people were wrong. They're going to have their demeaning words dug up and thrown in their faces. It's going to be a bitter pill to swallow and it's going to stick in their throats. We should see some entertaining emotional meltdowns in the pages of the New York Times and The Atlantic, though.

      • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        He said he reported to Congress on the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.”

        Regardless of whether or not anything comes from this disclosure, that would make an awesome book or movie. You don't even need to have any aliens present, just ancient craft dig sites and whatnot.