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I would say the probability that the US has technology that was demonstrated in the pentagon UFO tapes would be more surprising to me than if these craft were a

I would say the probability that the US has technology that was demonstrated in the pentagon UFO tapes would be more surprising to me than if these craft were actually made by non-humans. If the US had possession of such technology in a black project we would see some of the technology "bleed" into other projects, notably the air force and drone technology. And right now nothing the US possesses has those capabilities. An alternate theory is that this is ruse by the US or another foreign govt. projecting images into the sky and moving them like a person using a laser pointer does across a wall. I don't know of any technology that can project an image into the sky like that, and then there is the radar signatures seen on some of these things.

krapp 4y ago
Technology wasn't demonstrated in the pentagon UFO tapes. People extrapolated hypothetical technological capabilities based on uncertain second or thirdhand evidence, sensational reporting and eyewitness testimony. Not all such evidence may be interpreted properly (certainly not by the internet commentariat that wants to believe) nor may all interpretations be valid. One "triangle UFO" video[0] has already been debunked as lens bokeh[1]. Occam's Razor suggests that the vast majority of these sightings are hoaxes or misinterpretations, and the rest are conventional, albeit state of the art, aircraft whose actual capabilites are beyond what people may assume possible (as people in the 1960s might have assumed had they seen an SR-71 Blackbird when most commercial aircraft were still using propellers) but still not physics-defying. [0]https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-confirms-ufo-video-real-taken-by-us-navy-cnn-2021-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-confirms-ufo-video-... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838782
ThalesX 4y ago
> I don't know of any technology that can project an image into the sky like that, and then there is the radar signatures seen on some of these things. Here’s a cool little read, from 2015. “Plasma Fairies: Femtosecond Laser Holograms Imagine a three-dimensional aerial hologram that you can feel.“ https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/femtosecond-hologram.cfm https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/femtosecond-ho... I am not an expert but can imagine this technology evolving to projected images in the sky or even hologram projectiles, which sounds sci-fi af.

krapp 4y ago

Technology wasn't demonstrated in the pentagon UFO tapes. People extrapolated hypothetical technological capabilities based on uncertain second or thirdhand evidence, sensational reporting and eyewitness testimony. Not all such evidence may be interpreted properly (certainly not by the internet commentariat that wants to believe) nor may all interpretations be valid. One "triangle UFO" video[0] has already been debunked as lens bokeh[1]. Occam's Razor suggests that the vast majority of these sightings are hoaxes or misinterpretations, and the rest are conventional, albeit state of the art, aircraft whose actual capabilites are beyond what people may assume possible (as people in the 1960s might have assumed had they seen an SR-71 Blackbird when most commercial aircraft were still using propellers) but still not physics-defying. [0]https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-confirms-ufo-video-real-taken-by-us-navy-cnn-2021-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-confirms-ufo-video-... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838782

ThalesX 4y ago

> I don't know of any technology that can project an image into the sky like that, and then there is the radar signatures seen on some of these things. Here’s a cool little read, from 2015. “Plasma Fairies: Femtosecond Laser Holograms Imagine a three-dimensional aerial hologram that you can feel.“ https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/femtosecond-hologram.cfm https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/femtosecond-ho... I am not an expert but can imagine this technology evolving to projected images in the sky or even hologram projectiles, which sounds sci-fi af.