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For my part, as no one special in particular, I've seen information and intelligence tools available to line unit leadership which were well ahead of their time

For my part, as no one special in particular, I've seen information and intelligence tools available to line unit leadership which were well ahead of their time. As well, I have seen technology at work in the field during missions which I did not recognize at the time (and at least one thing I still cannot explain but which certainly must have been some kind of weapon or recon platform). I also have family that works tangentially with skunkworks engineers who is quick to say exactly this, that the bleeding edge the defense contractors are working on is easily a decade or two ahead of the curve.

kilpikaarna 7y ago
Always interested in ufo stories. Care to share any details?
- fapjacks 7y ago
  Sure. To sort of preface this here by ruining my credibility, I was once previously witness to an "actual" UFO, before I was in the military (in the company of several others including a police officer, however still unexplained). Anyway, the thing I was talking about was much less "that kind" of UFO than something with components I may be able to explain but which I did not then and still do not today completely recognize. What I and others in my (infantry) unit saw were vehicles with a kind of very low frequency pulsejet propulsion system in the night sky above a certain large Iraqi city, flying in from the south (ish) and making a big U-turn before flying from whence they came (ish). You'll have to trust me when I tell you these were yellowish flashes from some kind of fuel detonations and not flight lights, given the flashes would appear bright, expand quickly, and then fade out over 1-3 seconds while maintaining a static or near-static position in the sky. However unlike any pulsejet system I've ever heard of, these flashes would occur only about once every 5-10 seconds, albeit at very regular intervals. They were also completely silent. There were no other flight lights of any kind, and they only ever flew at night. Through nightvision, we could very briefly see the fuselage streaking forward after each explosion, but otherwise not visible. I suspect they were painted black, as were many other kinds of aircraft we were accustomed to seeing (including of course some otherwise completely normal-looking civilian-ish aircraft whose operators would rather everyone simply forgot existed). The object through thermal optics were almost exactly the same, with the explosions visible (as hot), and what must have been the fuselage briefly visible streaking away from the explosion (also hot, though nowhere near as hot as the explosions). I never saw these things drop or fire munitions. But also neither were they ever seen to have been fired at, which I mention only because that's what we first thought it may have been, however incredibly unlikely, until we noted the interval regularity and these sightings became a not-uncommon occurrence in the night sky. However I did once witness some "normal" jet aircraft (flashing white flight lights) vaguely shadow one of these objects through it's U-turn and continue on at a slower speed after it. Just to be clear: I can't be certain if the flashes were actually propelling the fuselage forward, so I don't mean to imply the "streaking" was any kind of discernible acceleration, but rather just was the only other visible component of this thing at any time.
patentatt 7y ago
I have heard first-hand accounts of people who saw the SR-71 in operation during Vietnam. Blew their minds, considering it still looks ‘futuristic.’

kilpikaarna 7y ago

Always interested in ufo stories. Care to share any details?

fapjacks 7y ago
Sure. To sort of preface this here by ruining my credibility, I was once previously witness to an "actual" UFO, before I was in the military (in the company of several others including a police officer, however still unexplained). Anyway, the thing I was talking about was much less "that kind" of UFO than something with components I may be able to explain but which I did not then and still do not today completely recognize. What I and others in my (infantry) unit saw were vehicles with a kind of very low frequency pulsejet propulsion system in the night sky above a certain large Iraqi city, flying in from the south (ish) and making a big U-turn before flying from whence they came (ish). You'll have to trust me when I tell you these were yellowish flashes from some kind of fuel detonations and not flight lights, given the flashes would appear bright, expand quickly, and then fade out over 1-3 seconds while maintaining a static or near-static position in the sky. However unlike any pulsejet system I've ever heard of, these flashes would occur only about once every 5-10 seconds, albeit at very regular intervals. They were also completely silent. There were no other flight lights of any kind, and they only ever flew at night. Through nightvision, we could very briefly see the fuselage streaking forward after each explosion, but otherwise not visible. I suspect they were painted black, as were many other kinds of aircraft we were accustomed to seeing (including of course some otherwise completely normal-looking civilian-ish aircraft whose operators would rather everyone simply forgot existed). The object through thermal optics were almost exactly the same, with the explosions visible (as hot), and what must have been the fuselage briefly visible streaking away from the explosion (also hot, though nowhere near as hot as the explosions). I never saw these things drop or fire munitions. But also neither were they ever seen to have been fired at, which I mention only because that's what we first thought it may have been, however incredibly unlikely, until we noted the interval regularity and these sightings became a not-uncommon occurrence in the night sky. However I did once witness some "normal" jet aircraft (flashing white flight lights) vaguely shadow one of these objects through it's U-turn and continue on at a slower speed after it. Just to be clear: I can't be certain if the flashes were actually propelling the fuselage forward, so I don't mean to imply the "streaking" was any kind of discernible acceleration, but rather just was the only other visible component of this thing at any time.

patentatt 7y ago

I have heard first-hand accounts of people who saw the SR-71 in operation during Vietnam. Blew their minds, considering it still looks ‘futuristic.’