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I'm so sick of the term UFO being applied to stuff like this. Even the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile but lo and behold the first conjecture in the

by soheil 6y ago

I'm so sick of the term UFO being applied to stuff like this. Even the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile but lo and behold the first conjecture in the article by the journalist is that it could be extraterrestrial and only at the end they say oh yeah it could also just be a military thing since you know there are a trillion military bases right under where it was flying over. I think we need a new term, maybe: Not an Extraterrestrial Flying Object NAEFO, never mind...

czbond 6y ago
I think the term now in use is UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
- Izkata 6y ago
  Downvoters - UAP is indeed a term used nowadays: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/ https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/23... > On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF.
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philliphaydon 6y ago
The pilot said: "it looked like", so it's technically Unidentified. It flew over the top of the plane. So it's Flying though the air. And it wasn't an animal of any sort so it must have been an Object. Sounds like a UFO. UFO != extraterrestrial
ta8645 6y ago
I agree. But your suggested acronym to fix it is a bit over the top. Perhaps: Uninteresting Friendly Object.
remir 6y ago
To be fair, the pilot said it looked like a cruse missile probably because that's the only reference point they could use. Let's hope the US military was testing stuff and that's what it was.
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- soheil 6y ago
  To be real fair most likely even a cruise missile would not look anything like a cruise missile if one zoomed past by when you're busy flying an airplane. Let's not want to believe [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe
blhack 6y ago
>the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile What percentage of commercial airline pilots do you think have ever seen a cruise missile?
- snypher 6y ago
  I'd guess at least half. Anyone who was alive during Desert Storm could describe one, they were all over TV at the time.
throwawayalien 6y ago
Why are you "sick" of it, what triggers such a response in you? There's a reason people like to put such a spin on articles like this, and it isn't only because they want more clicks. It's because it's related to one of the most important questions humankind has ever asked for many centuries. That, and there are a lot of these reports throughout the history about this. And in very recent times, Pentagon officially recognized such phenomena - phenomena that is very similar to what is described in the article. Is it, then, so unreasonable to use a similar tone in such an article? Why would you be "so sick" of it? Instead of allowing yourself to wonder at the sheer vastness of the universe and asking yourself similar questions, why would you choose to be so put off by it?

by soheil 6y ago

czbond 6y ago

I think the term now in use is UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

Izkata 6y ago
Downvoters - UAP is indeed a term used nowadays: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/ https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/23... > On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF.

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philliphaydon 6y ago

The pilot said: "it looked like", so it's technically Unidentified. It flew over the top of the plane. So it's Flying though the air. And it wasn't an animal of any sort so it must have been an Object. Sounds like a UFO. UFO != extraterrestrial

ta8645 6y ago

I agree. But your suggested acronym to fix it is a bit over the top. Perhaps: Uninteresting Friendly Object.

remir 6y ago

To be fair, the pilot said it looked like a cruse missile probably because that's the only reference point they could use. Let's hope the US military was testing stuff and that's what it was.

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soheil 6y ago
To be real fair most likely even a cruise missile would not look anything like a cruise missile if one zoomed past by when you're busy flying an airplane. Let's not want to believe [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe

blhack 6y ago

>the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile What percentage of commercial airline pilots do you think have ever seen a cruise missile?

snypher 6y ago
I'd guess at least half. Anyone who was alive during Desert Storm could describe one, they were all over TV at the time.

throwawayalien 6y ago

Why are you "sick" of it, what triggers such a response in you? There's a reason people like to put such a spin on articles like this, and it isn't only because they want more clicks. It's because it's related to one of the most important questions humankind has ever asked for many centuries. That, and there are a lot of these reports throughout the history about this. And in very recent times, Pentagon officially recognized such phenomena - phenomena that is very similar to what is described in the article. Is it, then, so unreasonable to use a similar tone in such an article? Why would you be "so sick" of it? Instead of allowing yourself to wonder at the sheer vastness of the universe and asking yourself similar questions, why would you choose to be so put off by it?