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60 MINUTES this Sunday...[UFO Report]

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redline248 said:

Is it the exact same stuff being seen now as in the 40s?

Yep. Discs and even the white or silver tic-tacs have been reported consistently since WWII. Exact same maneuverability. Reports of silent black triangles eventually came later, which I think have a better chance of potentially being ours.
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Fogburn95 said:

I really want to believe these things are aliens from another solar system. How cool would it be to learn that 1) we're not alone and 2) technology actually exists that makes interstellar travel possible. If true, then maybe one day they'll quit playing "peek-a-boo" with us and engage us and teach us this technology.

However

I also really want to see a high def picture or video of one of these before I go there. If they've been regularly violating restricted US airspace, and that pilot said it was happening daily for years, then surely the Air Force and Navy started outfitting jets and drones with high def cameras and sent some on patrols to get a clear picture. I think getting a good picture of one of these things would be important to the military.

So if they have these grainy videos and gun sight videos, then they must also have a high def picture or video as well. Why won't they release it? Frustrating.

From the sound of it, higher quality pics/video are coming/will be released. Probably not with the June report, but rumored as part of eventual strategic leaks. It sounds like a certain contingent is trying to drip this stuff out bit by bit, let people get acclimated, etc. But who knows. Admittedly, if we don't start seeing more definitive stuff in the next year or two, a lot of momentum is going to be lost, people are going to increasingly call BS, etc.
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China would never be involved in misinformation or propaganda
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One thing I can't really savvy in order to be on board with all this...

The UFO/UAP truth movement is predicated on the notion that the government has been lying and hiding things from the American public (and the world) for 70+ years. Why then do we choose to believe the government now when they say they verify that these things exist, but that don't know what they are because they aren't ours?

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The (mostly) lack of verified leaks/evidence in that timeframe is hard to get behind, too.
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MW03 said:

One thing I can't really savvy in order to be on board with all this...

The UFO/UAP truth movement is predicated on the notion that the government has been lying and hiding things from the American public (and the world) for 70+ years. Why then do we choose to believe the government now when they say they verify that these things exist, but that don't know what they are because they aren't ours?


A reasonable objection. But one has to consider that the message has been pretty consistent since 1947: some of the reports remain unexplained by military researchers, they're not our technology, and the military has been studying them off and on for decades. It's probably not accurate to call it "lying". Silence isn't technically "lying".
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Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
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G Martin 87 said:

Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
As someone skeptical of these being extraterrestrial, the idea of the Nazis surviving somewhere on this planet with enough resources to continue developing military technology to even keep up with current known technologies and not be found out seems a bit more far fetched to me.
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Fogburn95 said:

I really want to believe these things are aliens from another solar system. How cool would it be to learn that 1) we're not alone and 2) technology actually exists that makes interstellar travel possible. If true, then maybe one day they'll quit playing "peek-a-boo" with us and engage us and teach us this technology.

However

I also really want to see a high def picture or video of one of these before I go there. If they've been regularly violating restricted US airspace, and that pilot said it was happening daily for years, then surely the Air Force and Navy started outfitting jets and drones with high def cameras and sent some on patrols to get a clear picture. I think getting a good picture of one of these things would be important to the military.

So if they have these grainy videos and gun sight videos, then they must also have a high def picture or video as well. Why won't they release it? Frustrating.
I think UFOs are blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. UFOs are blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's large out-of-focus UFOs roaming the countryside. Look out, it's fuzzy! Let's get out of here!
/Mitch Hedberg

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Interesting break down from Wired.
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Fenrir said:

G Martin 87 said:

Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
As someone skeptical of these being extraterrestrial, the idea of the Nazis surviving somewhere on this planet with enough resources to continue developing military technology to even keep up with current known technologies and not be found out seems a bit more far fetched to me.
More far fetched than demons? Or aliens from light years away? Or time travel? We know that after WWII former Nazi scientists and engineers were scooped up and employed (enslaved?) by the Allies, including the Soviet Union. That's a fact, and even 76 years later still a potentially embarrassing one.

Not saying it's Nazis.

But maybe it's Nazis.
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G Martin 87 said:

Fenrir said:

G Martin 87 said:

Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
As someone skeptical of these being extraterrestrial, the idea of the Nazis surviving somewhere on this planet with enough resources to continue developing military technology to even keep up with current known technologies and not be found out seems a bit more far fetched to me.
More far fetched than demons? Or aliens from light years away? Or time travel? We know that after WWII former Nazi scientists and engineers were scooped up and employed (enslaved?) by the Allies, including the Soviet Union. That's a fact, and even 76 years later still a potentially embarrassing one.

Not saying it's Nazis.

But maybe it's Nazis.
I view the likelihood of some sort of alternate universe/dimensional being or aliens as more likely than some Hellsing-esque secret Nazi army surviving in some country and creating highly advanced technology under the noses of everyone for decades...because that is 0%.
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Same. There's zero chance any part of humanity developed this tech in the '40s.
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Look, I watched a lot of GI Joe as a kid, and an evil army with secret bases and unlimited resources can't be ruled out.
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TCTTS said:

Same. There's zero chance any part of humanity developed this tech in the '40s.
Authenticity may be questionable (the B-17C was not in service in the European theatre in 1944, IIRC) but this is claimed to be from the NYT:




Sounds familiar, doesn't it? What if we (or the Soviets/Russians) captured some of the research and continued to develop it in secret? Aliens and demons still seem more likely? Use of research and further collaboration with former Nazis would be extremely embarrassing to any government. That's a good reason to keep it on the down low.
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TCTTS said:

Same. There's zero chance any part of humanity developed this tech in the '40s.
But... they could have developed the tech in the 40s with the help of the aliens.
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As crazy as it sounds, that's actually a more plausible explanation.
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well, time to go visit my Watchlist and prune this thread out.
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Great post. We appreciate the announcement.
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This all goes back to Plato's Republic and the Allegory of the Cave. Plato was talking about a thought experiment about the nature of reality, but the whole concept of trans-dimensional intelligence takes his story quite literally.
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I kinda stole that from Tom Delonge. He mentioned he thinks Roswell is most likely the result of Germans launching test flights out of Argentina using technology they acquired from aliens.
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Well I did watch an episode of Ancient Aliens last night about Antarctica. The Nazis launched a big expedition there right before WWII. The theory is they found advanced alien civilization living in big caves under the ice and set up a base alongside them. So maybe there's something to the Nazis/Argentina angle.
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Admiral Byrd and Antarctica is a big topic.

And how odd that in the white hot Cold War of the 50s the major powers said "hey, on this continent let's all be nice. Nothing going on, really."
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Because it's a gd hellscape. They didn't need to off each other in Antarctica to be at war.
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Or, we can believe the Admiral when he very strongly indicated things got .... strange.
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I'm not sure what he is referencing when he is talking about that, but the arctic ans Antarctic have all kinds of weird phenomenon and creatures and sounds etc etc that aren't experienced anywhere else. I've read several books on arctic and Antarctic exploration and the things the people encountered and went through were intense, to say the least. Id never want to experience arctic/antarctic life outside of the nice cruise I plan to take to antarctica.
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And as I said before, people see things in new environments that they can't readily explain, and the mind takes you to the craziest of places. This is why we have wild tales of sea monsters and the like.
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Difference is today we can capture videos, pictures, radar of these crazy things. Others can evaluate this evidence and tell us if we're crazy or not. Most of the sightings are explained away by other things, but there are some that are not. There could be 999,999 sightings that turn out to be something else but all it takes is 1 that turns out to be irrefutable proof and then aliens are 100% real, not 1/1,000,000 real.
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When they state as fact that the object dropped from 80K feet almost instantly, that is completely misleading. Nobody can see 80K feet in the sky; sensors indicated that this happened, humans interpreted it, saw the blob on the screen, were super hyped up, group think has them telling, and likely believing, that they are sure they witnessed this with their own eyes.

A mixture of sensor failures/glitches, unreliable human witness statements, and just plain false accounts (whether intentional or not) is about 1 billion times more likely than an alien civilization traveling across time and space to play peek a boo out in the ocean.
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Fenrir said:

G Martin 87 said:

Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
As someone skeptical of these being extraterrestrial, the idea of the Nazis surviving somewhere on this planet with enough resources to continue developing military technology to even keep up with current known technologies and not be found out seems a bit more far fetched to me.
Have you not seen Winter Soldier?!?
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G Martin 87 said:

Fenrir said:

G Martin 87 said:

Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
As someone skeptical of these being extraterrestrial, the idea of the Nazis surviving somewhere on this planet with enough resources to continue developing military technology to even keep up with current known technologies and not be found out seems a bit more far fetched to me.
More far fetched than demons? Or aliens from light years away? Or time travel? We know that after WWII former Nazi scientists and engineers were scooped up and employed (enslaved?) by the Allies, including the Soviet Union. That's a fact, and even 76 years later still a potentially embarrassing one.

Not saying it's Nazis.

But maybe it's Nazis.
If it is I presume they would be operating out of South America. Many of them retreated to Argentina. How much do we really even know about SA? It's in our back yard and outside of a 2 day excursion to Panama (not even in SA) to oust Noriega we and the rest of the world completely ignore that part of the planet.
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YouBet said:

G Martin 87 said:

Fenrir said:

G Martin 87 said:

Another possibility, as long as we're discussing aliens, other dimensions, time travel, and demons as potential explanations for the truly unexplainable reports, is Nazis. Seriously. At the end of WWII, what were the most technologically advanced governments on Earth? The US, the Brits, and . the Third Reich. If sightings of discs began a couple of years after the defeat of the Nazis, then why couldn't the operators be escaped Nazis? Seems no more outlandish than anything else, right?
As someone skeptical of these being extraterrestrial, the idea of the Nazis surviving somewhere on this planet with enough resources to continue developing military technology to even keep up with current known technologies and not be found out seems a bit more far fetched to me.
More far fetched than demons? Or aliens from light years away? Or time travel? We know that after WWII former Nazi scientists and engineers were scooped up and employed (enslaved?) by the Allies, including the Soviet Union. That's a fact, and even 76 years later still a potentially embarrassing one.

Not saying it's Nazis.

But maybe it's Nazis.
If it is I presume they would be operating out of South America. Many of them retreated to Argentina. How much do we really even know about SA? It's in our back yard and outside of a 2 day excursion to Panama (not even in SA) to oust Noriega we and the rest of the world completely ignore that part of the planet.
South America hasn't even had a lot of Bond villain bases, for that matter. But to be a little serious, I'm really just suggesting that maybe we (or the Soviets) continued developing aircraft tech that we captured from the Nazis and kept the saucer stuff secret. Something beyond Operation Lusty, in other words. Believing in secret Nazi bases is unnecessary and a bridge too far.
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Ha, who knows how accurate this is (even though I trust Lue more than just about anyone), but sh*t like this is wild just to think about

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...and crash in New Mexico
 
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