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Leaked Government UFO Photo: What Is Hovering Cube-Shaped Object?
- pseingatl 6y ago1. It's not a cube. Read the article. It's "bell-shaped." 2. Were it indeed a cube, identification would be easy: The Borg.
- thu2111 6y agoRead the article? The article manages to describe it in the first paragraph like this: The object in the photo has been described by U.S. officials as silver and “cube-shaped,” according to a report from The Debrief, which first shared the image. which is ridiculous because it's clearly not. Are they talking about a totally different photo I wonder? Later in the article the guy who took the photo is quoted as saying: It’s likely that a backseat weapons system operator on an F/A-18F Super Hornet took the photo of the object, which McMillan calls “inverted” and “bell-shaped,” and describes it having “ridges or other protrusions along its lateral edges, extending toward its base.” So there's something seriously wrong with this article.
- webmaven 6y agoIt looks more like a radar corner to me, rather than a cube.
- JPLeRouzic 6y agoFirst time I encounter this name. Please, what is the use of a radar corner in high altitude in mid Atlantic, is it used in weather stations?
- yetihehe 6y agoRadar corners can be lightweight and are used to make objects highly visible to radars. Like weather ballons, which can drift anywhere and be a hazard for planes.
- pram 6y agoObvious weather balloon
- weare138 6y agoYou should read the article and the source article from The Debrief before casting opinionated derisions. I'm pretty sure the multiple military officials that reviewed the evidence and the trained fighter pilots that saw it would have no problem identifying a weather balloon.
- ivanb 6y agobatman balloon
- bagels 6y agoYeah, my first thought was a mylar balloon too: https://image.made-in-china.com/43f34j00IHgGJdWhCMca/Dto0224-Triangle-Superman-Classic-Helium-Mylar-Cartoon-Balloonstriangle-Batman-Foil-Balloons.webp https://image.made-in-china.com/43f34j00IHgGJdWhCMca/Dto0224...
- danboarder 6y agoI agree, this looks like a large mylar party balloon, like this 33-inch Batman balloon available in the same shape: https://www.partycity.com/batman-balloon---cape-33in-262471.html https://www.partycity.com/batman-balloon---cape-33in-262471....
- pankajdoharey 6y agoPerhaps it is Marsh gas or Peculiar Cloud Formation.
- lovetocode 6y agoWhat a great observation by everyone in this thread. You can even make out his fist on the left side of the balloon.
- etrautmann 6y agoThat is dead on, amazing
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- rambojazz 6y agoIn the era of 8K cameras, UFO pictures are always fuzzy and blurred. What a strange coincidence.
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- qz2 6y agoTo be fair I’ve got a fairly nice DSLR but without a $3000 chunk of glass in front of it, everything looks like a blurry mess at any distance which a UFO may be involved. I don’t own a $3000 chunk of glass. UFOs are certainly real but they probably aren’t extraterrestrial if you consider Occam’s razor.
- callinOutLiars 6y agoThere have been a lot of reports of UFOs at supersonic speeds with the ability to stop on a dime. One explanation is aliens and one is a conspiracy that the US government has had access to a warp drive for decades. I don’t think Occam’s razor applies in this circumstance since both seem very fanciful.
- qz2 6y agoOccam's razor works fine if you add another hypothesis that the accounts aren't entirely accurate.
- davidg109 6y agoActually, sounds more like Occam’s Razor is being misapplied here. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/occams-razor/495332/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/occams-r...
- rangibaby 6y agoEven expensive lenses can’t fix the atmosphere itself on a humid day
- moltar 6y agoJust a flare. Move along.
- davidhyde 6y ago> The leaked photo dates back to 2018, when it materialized in an intelligence report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) It is much easier to argue how an artefact could be injected into a digital image than to explain how the digital phenomenon itself could exist yet speculation about these things almost always centres around physical phenomenon and lighting effects. It is commonly assumed that the image taken by the image sensor is what people are seeing when there is no reason to believe this outright.
- loraa 6y agoHello kitty balloonam
- upofadown 6y ago>“Pilots who encountered the object described that, unlike a balloon under similar conditions, the object was completely motionless and seemingly unaffected by ambient air currents,” he writes. An interesting statement. The observers were in a fast aircraft. How long did they circle the object before they noticed it was not drifting with the wind?
- monk_e_boy 6y agoI assume the pilot knows their speed, the wind speed and direction and using radar the objects speed and direction.
- nix23 6y agoSome really good vid's about "UFO's"...busting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA and https://www.youtube.com/user/mickword https://www.youtube.com/user/mickword
- jl2718 6y agoSomehow that article turned into a political advertisement for a defense spending bill. Like: “We can’t keep looking at this picture of a balloon unless you give us a few hundred billion dollars. Think of the children!”
- Jemm 6y agoWhat we get out of cameras is not a true rendition of the view, but rather a much processed image not to be trusted.
- jvanderbot 6y agoLooks an awful lot like an F-14, banked away from camera, moving left to right, with a little fisheye lens effect. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/F-14A_VF-1_from_below_with_AIM-7_and_AIM-9_1982.jpg/640px-F-14A_VF-1_from_below_with_AIM-7_and_AIM-9_1982.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/F-...
- robodale 6y agoClearly swamp gas or ball lightning. Move along, people.