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I think one thing it does is knocks out a lot of the de-facto 'debunker' style arguments that it's a balloon/swamp gas/weather phenomena etc when the government

I think one thing it does is knocks out a lot of the de-facto 'debunker' style arguments that it's a balloon/swamp gas/weather phenomena etc when the government concludes that it's a physical object with an unknown point of origin that they've critically analysed and concluded that they don't have an answer for.

mindcrime 5y ago
To some extent I guess. But arguably even dating back to the Project Blue Book[1] days, the USG has always conceded that some small portion of "UFO" events were actually inexplicable. Sure, they maintained that most UFO incidents had prosaic explanations, but I don't think they ever argued that it was "all". Compared to the conclusions from PBB: The Air Force supplies the following summary of its investigations: 1. No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security; 2. There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and 3. There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles. It seems like the biggest change in the messaging may be around (2). And I guess that's something... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book