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So, positing the video is authentic, which seems likely, here's what we know: - This object, estimated to be 40 feet in largest dimension, exhibited flight per

So, positing the video is authentic, which seems likely, here's what we know: - This object, estimated to be 40 feet in largest dimension, exhibited flight performance beyond an F-18 - These objects exhibit long flight endurance, indicating a high density power source - The object was solid, as it was detected by the Aegis radar - According to the pilot involved, the object did not obey the laws of physics as we know them - The object flew without visible airfoils - no wings or rotor - and at low speeds including a hover - The object allegedly hovered as low as fifty feet above the water, although I don't think this was caught on video - The object departed the scene in a way the F-18 couldn't match - The object changed orientation without apparent regard for direction of flight - The video clearly shows some kind of nimbus, exhaust, or field around the object If this is a classified project of some government, they've likely discovered new physics. Personally I doubt that's the case, and these are the product of extraterrestrials. (BTW, to the grandparent - there's a lot that's not understood by current physics. Dark energy, and dark matter, for starters. A new baryon may have been discovered recently. Quantum gravity. Much more I'm sure...)

hirundo 7y ago
Before we diagnose unicorns, why couldn't it have been a drone with cowling around its propellers/impellers, forced to be 40 foot long in order to carry an advanced miniaturized submarine fission reactor. That could give it range and enough acceleration to make it seem to defy physics.
- Recurecur 7y ago
  For one thing it was detected (according to the unclassified releases) as high as 80,000 feet AGL. There's no design of any type right now that can fly at 80,000 feet AND hover at low altitude, all without airfoils. That is also without accounting for the extremely high-G turns with no airfoils. If it had been some kind of nuclear ramjet (which wouldn't work at low speeds) there would have been a visible plume of hot gas. There wasn't.
narag 7y ago
All of it sounds outrageous, but my point was that it's actually just at one discovery distance from what we can do. We know how to create a magnetic field using electricity. But magnetism only affects certain materials, the ones that can align electrons in some specific way. If the same thing was possible with all kind of matter, maybe finding the way to align its electrons, maybe not, the rest of effects you mention could be just collateral.

hirundo 7y ago

Before we diagnose unicorns, why couldn't it have been a drone with cowling around its propellers/impellers, forced to be 40 foot long in order to carry an advanced miniaturized submarine fission reactor. That could give it range and enough acceleration to make it seem to defy physics.

Recurecur 7y ago
For one thing it was detected (according to the unclassified releases) as high as 80,000 feet AGL. There's no design of any type right now that can fly at 80,000 feet AND hover at low altitude, all without airfoils. That is also without accounting for the extremely high-G turns with no airfoils. If it had been some kind of nuclear ramjet (which wouldn't work at low speeds) there would have been a visible plume of hot gas. There wasn't.

narag 7y ago

All of it sounds outrageous, but my point was that it's actually just at one discovery distance from what we can do. We know how to create a magnetic field using electricity. But magnetism only affects certain materials, the ones that can align electrons in some specific way. If the same thing was possible with all kind of matter, maybe finding the way to align its electrons, maybe not, the rest of effects you mention could be just collateral.