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New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO
- 6stringmerc 4y agoHate to be the voice of reality here but that’s not a UFO, that’s a Colombian narco sub. That’s why the planes are over the Caribbean for smuggler aircraft and go fast boats. Stupid DEA…
- ASM_god 4y ago
- BigElephant 4y agoTIL about the mil top level domain
- sithadmin 4y agoI'm not seeing it. Surely you don't mean a silhouette of an aircraft with twin booms to the horizontal and rear stabilizers, or a delta wing silhouette is a 'UFO'? Edit: Apparently I am totally oblivious. Please have no regrets for downvoting this comment.
- biztos 4y agoFunny, I also didn't see it at first and then felt stupid after reading the comments. I was trying to figure out whether the thing that looks like a dude in a bat-wing suit might be from one of the declassified UFO sightings...
- SllX 4y agoBottom left of the insignia.
- sithadmin 4y agoWow. I stared at it for a bit and was completely blind to it.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoI thought you were making a "UFOs are not real" joke.
- SllX 4y agoThey didn’t just incorporate a UFO: they also incorporated a SEP field to hide it from view.
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- fnordpiglet 4y agoIt’s off the coast of Ecuador as usual.
- themodelplumber 4y agoThe positioning is always weirdly intentional with these designs, too. Something's definitely being indicated by the location of the UFO in the design.
- lasc4r 4y agoI think the real meaning in hidden in plain sight. The US is finally going to invade Canada once and for all.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agoeh
- ChristianGeek 4y agoI thought it did and failed miserably.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoAs a Canadian I’d rather not find out what happens if they try again… We don’t have much going for us at the moment.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoI just love the idea of a bunch of wound up low IQ US-first nationalist grunts going up to Canada, actually being welcomed with courtesy somewhat, occasionally finding common ground in sports and outdoors activities, and eventually the grunts either settle and stay or turn around and go home because why mess up those nice folks lives? Either that or whatever latent racial issues might be in Canada would touch off and turn the place into nothing like we’ve seen up there before.
- crazygringo 4y agoNo, it's the literal flying saucer to the lower left. It's even got a row of dark "lights" around the edge.
- calibas 4y agoThat? Looks like swamp gas to me.
- chrisstanchak 4y agoJust a weather balloon
- cronix 4y agoSwamp gas...
- eyelidlessness 4y agoAw shit did Mulder and Scully accidentally end up shrooming again?
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- raverbashing 4y agoNow please look at this red light for just a moment...
- state_less 4y agoProbably just a flying space guitar. https://youtu.be/zOILAZHf2pE https://youtu.be/zOILAZHf2pE
- reactspa 4y agoNot seeing it? You must be an alien then ;-)
- sithadmin 4y agoWouldn't surprise me.
- h0l0cube 4y agoIf you’ve watched They Live, you know this is the opposite
- MichaelCollins 4y agoPerhaps the UFO employs a Somebody Else's Problem field to cloak itself.
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- arthurcolle 4y agoHere you go @sithadmin: https://imgur.com/a/75awHl6 https://imgur.com/a/75awHl6
- evolve2k 4y agoPart of what’s happening here is a foundational visual design concept known as leading lines. Our eyes follow lines to their natural conclusion. A boy pointing in a photo, you’ll first follow their arm and hand to where they are pointing. What’s happening is you as the viewer are following those lines as the first thing you see and then trying to visually parse the various craft that the lines point to. Hence why for many of us the ufo takes further effort to find, as it is has deliberately been placed outside of the dominant focus area.
- yencabulator 4y agoThis seems quite appropriate, actually...
- maxbond 4y agoUpvoted for admitting your mistake without issue. Thanks stranger, HN needs that energy.
- bilsbie 4y agoWe need more of that these days.
- Stamp01 4y agoLooks like swamp gas during a solar flare to me.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoWeather balloon!
- quickthrower2 4y agoI had the same thought. Then thought meh! Then not caring anymore I spotted the flying saucer!
- epaga 4y agoFWIW I completely missed it as well for about a minute. Perception is a weird thing. My guess is we were both drawn to thinking why one of those three planes in the center is a UFO that we didn’t look at the rest.
- gpderetta 4y agoFWIW you are in good company. I stared at that picture for a long time and I just couldn't see the UFO until the sibling comment pointed it out!
- 2342dfasdf 4y agonothing to see here gentlmen, please continue...
- realkiddredd 4y agoWait. That logo seal doesn’t even have the circular text aligned properly. It looks like someone is still trying to master “type on a path” in Illustrator. C’mon, man!
- alpark3 4y agoWhich part? All looks circular to me.
- superchroma 4y agoLook at "intelligence" on the right of the seal. It veers to the right side of the band it's in as the curve is not tight enough to match the circle. Really amateur stuff.
- gdown 4y agoLooks like there are two pictures. One has the unaligned text and the other doesn't.
- sltkr 4y agoLink those two images please? (And why would you make a comment like that without actually linking which images you're talking about?) edit: I think this is the one that is aligned: https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/portals/91/web_banner_newseal.png https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/portals/91/web_banner_... And this is the one this isn't: https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/portals/91/Seal22_png.png https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/portals/91/Seal22_png.... In the second image, the first and last letters of the text "office of the director of intelligence" are farther away from the center than the letters in the middle, suggesting they haven't been placed on a circular path correctly. These images are also different in how they render the UFO, and how they render the landscape underneath (the first one has the land in blue and the ocean in white, while the second one has the colors reversed).
- throwaway743 4y ago
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoThey're making fun of all of you.
- newZWhoDis 4y ago
- therein 4y agoYup, just take a look at the Space Force Delta 18 insignia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Delta_18#/media/File:Space_Delta_18_emblem.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Delta_18#/media/File:Spa...
- ivanhoe 4y agoWeird, NASIC also has Egypt inspired insignia, what's the deal with that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Intelligence_Center#/media/File:National_Air_and_Space_Intelligence_Center_(seal).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Intelli...
- mberning 4y agoStargate?
- 6stringmerc 4y agoPyramids!
- whythre 4y agoIndeed.
- djur 4y agoThe newer insignia is a reference to the NASIC one. "The majestic sphinx – an ancient symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and the challenges that NSIC analysts will solve – is invoked out of pride in an organization that traces its roots back to the earliest days of aerospace intelligence." Riddle of the space sphinx, I guess. https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jun/22/2003021948/-1/-1/1/DELTA%2018%20FACTSHEET%20-%20220621.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jun/22/2003021948/-1/-1/1/DEL...
- galaxyLogic 4y agoMarvelous marketing. Now they are even more cool than they were before. They are now guys who are investigating UFOs wink wink
- sammalloy 4y agoI could swear there was a discussion here or on Reddit about a year ago that talked about military insignias and how some of them were intended to be lighthearted and poke fun. Does anyone remember that thread?
- etrautmann 4y agoThere was the NRO badge discussion, can’t find the main thread but see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646853
- janee 4y agoI think it's this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202600 The nuclear command badges are also pretty good https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21214730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21214730
- acdanger 4y agoThe artist Trevor Paglen did a project where he collected these. There’s a book: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2018/may/22/trevor-paglen-subverts-classified-military-insignia/ https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2018/may/22/trev... Edit: fixed typo
- maxbond 4y agoThis talk of theirs is worth watching, they mention the military patches: https://youtu.be/lvEMSRKniWk https://youtu.be/lvEMSRKniWk
- brabarossa 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29631682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29631682 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches
- throwaway743 4y ago
- IAmGraydon 4y agoNot only does the campy looking UFO make the entire thing look like a bit of a joke, but the misaligned text really finishes off the unprofessional appearance.
- f1shy 4y agoI missed it the first time. But really bad! Awful!
- mberning 4y agoI am more interested in the aurora/hypersonic delta shaped machine.
- ta988 4y agoYep that's surely the most exciting part of it.
- grumblepeet 4y agoYes, same, came here to say nice to see Aurora out in front.
- yyy888sss 4y agoIt could of course be the AvroCar [1]. Although in this case they are referring to 'UFOs', there have been multiple experimental aircraft that look exactly like flying saucers. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
- NHQ 4y agoI know how to build those.
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoThe design looks a lot like the Navy “tic-tac UFO” patent that was discussed a lot in 2016. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-got-ufo-patent-granted-by-warning-of-similar-chinese-tech-advances https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...
- themodelplumber 4y agoWhere's the patent drawing? I see a cartoony desk lamp UFO in the logo/seal, and then in the article there are a bunch of angular drawings followed by a 3D render of what looks more like a yam with somebody's challenge coin stuck in the middle.
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoIt’s like a triangle. You can see it in the actual patent. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
- fsckboy 4y agotitle? it has a "flying saucer", not a UFO
- jdiennbn 4y agoWord count
- js8 4y agoWell, their task is to turn UFOs into IFOs, isn't it?
- aryehof 4y agoIs there some innate cultural need to always have these circular insignias?
- djur 4y agoIt's a good shape for coasters. And patches, buttons, T-shirts, of course.
- rosywoozlechan 4y agoIt's kind of a standardization given that uniforms, other clothing, accessories, wall mounted devices, etc all expect the same relative dimensions for these things. Attaching a circle to a sewn in velcro patch that expects a rectangle looks not great.
- classified 4y agoUFO pilots will be pleased they finally get due recognition.
- MarkMarine 4y agoI think people are missing who makes this stuff. 20-25 year olds who use heavy doses of humor and sarcasm to joke with fellow 20-25 year olds in the same situation as them. No one thinks what hacker news will think about this. Same for the O’s that OK something like this. I’ve got a collection of patches I couldn’t even wear on the flightline because if the CO saw them it would be NJP for me.
- bitexploder 4y agoI thought it was a perfectly amusing patch myself. I think the innuendo is pretty clear. If it was really sensitive or classified it would not be on a patch. I am sure this will rile up a conspiracy theorist or two though.
- formerly_proven 4y ago> after the launch a new satellite appeared just where Molczan predicted….it seemed that NROL-11's patch had inadvertently revealed classified details about its payload's whereabouts
- willis936 4y agoThere's classified and then there's classified. Lots of stuff that's secret are not as world-changing as confirming the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial visitors.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoHey don’t tease us this is really cool you got a photo gallery online yet? I’m hoping to get a Wild Weasel one eventually. YGBSM for life.
- noir_lord 4y agoWhat's funny is the arma unit I play with makes funny patches as well, like our Logistics team got nicknamed Gremlin's because they where stealing everything not nailed down which ended up been this patch - https://imgur.com/a/jhGCxas https://imgur.com/a/jhGCxas Art imitating Life.
- Animats 4y agoIt's not a joke. That's one of the things they do.[1] The classified reports are probably more useful. Some of these events were detected by various military sensor systems. DNI can request and analyze the raw sensor data. The various Navy reports say nothing about what the ship's sensors recorded. DoD now has something called the "All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office". Here's the bio of the person running it.[2] He's a physicist with both an academic career and lots of management level jobs in the intelligence community. Useful comments in the ODNI assessment include: "Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation." 144 reports originated from USG sources. Of these, 80 reports involved observation with multiple sensors. Most reports described UAP as objects that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity. So this is being taken more seriously. It's also being done at a level in the intelligence community that can get access to the raw sensor data if needed. The head of the new office spent years with CIA and NRO, incidentally. Other than that, not much is being said. Partly because saying more would give away info on exactly how good various sensors are. [1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelima... [2] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jul/20/2003039076/-1/-1/1/DR-SEAN-M-KIRKPATRICK-BIOGRAPHY.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jul/20/2003039076/-1/-1/1/DR-...
- SyneRyder 4y agoReminds me of this week's Vice Motherboard story of astronomers investigating a second interstellar meteor reaching Earth. What I hadn't expected is that they were given access to classified US military data, from sensors designed for missile detection: Hadrien Devillepoix, research associate at Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, told Motherboard over email that the raw data Loeb and Siraj are pulling from is classified and having even high-level bolide (meteor) data from that database is a “blessing” that’s been helpful in some applications but found to be limited in others. "Does this mean that those sensors are bad at the job they were designed for? No,” he said. “The satellite sensors behind the CNEOS catalog were presumably designed for detecting rocket and missile launches. Since the average meteor comes in at 10 times the speed of a ballistic missile, it is not surprising that in some cases the speed of these fast meteors can be poorly estimated.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vd4w/alien-hunting-astronomer-says-there-may-be-a-second-interstellar-object-on-earth-in-new-study https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vd4w/alien-hunting-astrono...
- dbacar 4y agoIt is UFO, unidentified flying object, not a tag for alien spacecraft. I don't know what is the big deal here. Nowadays lots of aircraft like 'copters , balloons are in the air, most bought by amateurs. They even operate them in swarm.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoI think somebody added a 4-5’ tall inflatable dummy to a large drone and flew it around LA for a while. Pilots reported it as a person with a jet pack. https://youtu.be/jv-DW_xLMrk https://youtu.be/jv-DW_xLMrk Frankly Zapata is the first with his fly board but certainly opened a door - with EV power getting potent I’m excited about new options. Also I’m going to laugh when people finally start realizing all the current VTOL concepts are noisy as shit.
- taylorius 4y agoAlso, what's that triangular aircraft speeding ahead of the others? Hypersonic SR-71 replacement?
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoDidn’t even notice that because of the UFO.
- westhom 4y agoNext-next generation undisclosed craft?
- SkyMarshal 4y agoOddly their fighter silhouette looks more like the Su-57 than the F-22. Especially with the exhaust nozzles separated by a protruding extension.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoMaybe they are indicating detection not support?
- SkyMarshal 4y agoMust be.
- dosman33 4y agoLight grey: Tupolev Tu-95 (bomber - Russia) Red: Sukhoi Su-57 (fighter aircraft - Russia) Dark grey: Bayraktar TB2 (Drone - Turkey) Blue: Avangard (hypersonic glide vehicle - Russia)
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoAll they're missing is a silhouette of a Sasquatch playing an Atari 2600.
- frozencell 4y agoThey'll do anything to distract us from joining boomer-serious competitors.
- ourmandave 4y agoEverywhere this appears in print, they should have a shifting hologram where, depending on the angle, the UFO disappears or becomes a weather balloon. Or if you scroll it on a website. There's gotta be a JS plug-in for that.
- lloydatkinson 4y agoWell if what they say about UAPs is true, you could do the same thing the 4D version of minecraft does where it visualises what 4D objects would look like for us in our 3D reality. The animation would morph and sometimes vanish depending on what angle you’re looking at it from!
- WallyFunk 4y agoThe US is never subtle with insignia. The NSA has an eagle clutching a key[0]. Then there was the Information Awareness Office[1] which had the All Seeing Eye. How blatant do they have to get? [0] https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Insignia/ https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Insignia/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
- dTal 4y agoThat's not a UFO, that's an alien flying saucer. I'd recognize one anywhere.