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UFOs fascinate me. Originally I thought they were pure crack pottery but a friend got me interested with the following argument: Whatever is responsible for th
by tyleo 6y ago
UFOs fascinate me. Originally I thought they were pure crack pottery but a friend got me interested with the following argument:
Whatever is responsible for these government videos has to be interesting:
* Unknown natural phenomenon
* Conspiracy with real tech from a government and a coverup
* Conspiracy with fabricated videos from the US government, press releases, and a coverup
* Aliens
- Gys 6y agoOr they are real and nobody including 'the governement' (pls be aware the US is just a small part of the world) has a rational explanation (for now). The U in UFO is for 'Unidentified'. It does not mean 'Alien'.
- tyleo 6y agoI edited my post to clarify
- bottled_poe 6y agoOr more precisely, “The A in UFO is for Aliens”.
- yellowapple 6y agoIt just dawned on me that this is the case for the expanded form of that initialism, too.
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- nom 6y agoAlso: * birds * (weather) balloons * camera artifacts * other privately owned airborne objects Not everything is a conspiracy.
- tyleo 6y agoHave you listened to any accounts, especially from the military folks who recorded some of the content? Birds, balloons, known airborne objects don’t travel at the speeds of military vehicles which were following. I’d consider camera artifacts to be a phenomenon. It would still be interesting that a previously unknown artifact presents in certain conditions that mainly occur on military equipment.
- adrianN 6y agoUFOs are probably a mixture of different phenomena. A couple of reports are quite difficult to explain. Unexplained weather phenomena doesn't sound like such a far-fetched theory to me.
- eplanit 6y agoOr "swamp gas", per MIB.
- michaelcampbell 6y agoKnowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens". What money or power is there in doing so, and does anyone really think that many governments would agree on such a thing? Covering up state-secret tech, sure; there's obvious reasons for that. It is interesting that the shape/manner/physical characteristics of UFOs seem to gel with whatever the current time's zeitgeist is for the time they've been reported. Aliens must have a human fashion sense.
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- tyleo 6y agoI don’t know that a government would cover it up if it were aliens. I think the other possibilities are more likely.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIf you're studying alien tech for the purposes of weaponizing it, you wouldn't want someone else to know about it let alone study it, thus covering it up makes sense. A good coverup where no information leaks would be best, the second best is to cover it up with a false explanation of "not aliens" and "nothing interesting here" as to dissuade anyone else of investigating/studying the phenomenon.
- drdec 6y agoAgain, I don't think this is likely, but here's an angle to argue for the cover up. The US used to be a much more religious country that it is today. The existence of aliens has a lot of implications for religion. It could be that when the cover up started, the people in power didn't want to deal with those implications and especially didn't want a lot of disaffected formerly religious people (don't forget that part of religion is control over the populace). So they covered it up. Once the cover up starts it has momentum and I can see it continuing past the time the original reason is relevant.
- dbrueck 6y ago