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Pentagon Says Reaper Drone Spotted 'Metallic Orb' UFO in Middle East

17 points by graderjs 3y ago

ZeroGravitas 3y ago
Feels like half the news is only barely qualifying as news if you are strongly prone to misread "UFO" as "Aliens!" and "AI" as "Terminators!". Reaper drone spotted Aliens! Reaper drone spots something, we don't know what. We put a Terminator! in charge of a fighter jet. We used some code as a fancy autopilot in a plane. etc. This doesn't reflect well on society or the media.
- graderjs 3y ago
  Yeah, or like the SpaceX test flight was actually a success and they secretly happy about it haha
ivanmarsh 3y ago
Reaper drone spots detonated missile fuel tank falling to ground... video is immediately misinterpreted by UFO "enthusiasts" as a flying metallic orb.
- graderjs 3y ago
  That’s a cool interpretation. Very creative. But I think you might be misinterpreting because apparently the Pentagon has dozens of similar videos and they all look like spheres and they’re all kind of navigating around that area. Also, if it’s a missile fuel tank wouldn’t have some thermal coming off it? but apparently there’s no thermal on most of these.
infradig 3y ago
Mylar balloon.
- CommitSyn 3y ago
  Instant assumption based on former pattern recognition.
  - infradig 3y ago
    No assumption, just stating what it looks like and most probably is. Drone is high and moving while focused on fixed point on ground, balloon drifts thru field of view in opposite direction and so looks faster than it really is. The geometry is visually deceptive though really quite simple.
    - sandspar 3y ago
      Wouldn't the people at the Pentagon already have thought of this?
      - graderjs 3y ago
        Right! And haven’t the aliens at pentagon city thought of this too?
    - graderjs 3y ago
      How to explain the lack perspective change of ground features? Without it drone movement seems small, so hard to explain the giant speed in your balloon theory.
    - imtringued 3y ago
      People don't understand that the vast majority of UFO behaviour is actually just the camera being unstable and jerking around a bit or a parallax effect caused by a moving and rotating camera pointing at a static object. The famous "GIMBAL" UFO video on YouTube is just the backside of a jet and you are seeing the engine exhaust including glare. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-ufo-a-new-analysis.12333/ https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-ufo-a-new-analysis.1...
      - 3y ago
lolc 3y ago
> One of the slides that Kirkpatrick used in his testimony showed the geographic areas where UAP sightings happen the most, which coincided with locations around the world where there are known to be U.S. military installations. Had a good chuckle at that one. I assume it was the journalist who added the ominous "coincides with military installations". You don't get sightings where you have no presence! Actually that makes me want to play a round of UFO Enemy Unknown! Great game.

17 points by graderjs 3y ago

Feels like half the news is only barely qualifying as news if you are strongly prone to misread "UFO" as "Aliens!" and "AI" as "Terminators!". Reaper drone spotted Aliens! Reaper drone spots something, we don't know what. We put a Terminator! in charge of a fighter jet. We used some code as a fancy autopilot in a plane. etc. This doesn't reflect well on society or the media.

graderjs 3y ago
Yeah, or like the SpaceX test flight was actually a success and they secretly happy about it haha

ivanmarsh 3y ago

Reaper drone spots detonated missile fuel tank falling to ground... video is immediately misinterpreted by UFO "enthusiasts" as a flying metallic orb.

graderjs 3y ago
That’s a cool interpretation. Very creative. But I think you might be misinterpreting because apparently the Pentagon has dozens of similar videos and they all look like spheres and they’re all kind of navigating around that area. Also, if it’s a missile fuel tank wouldn’t have some thermal coming off it? but apparently there’s no thermal on most of these.

infradig 3y ago

Mylar balloon.

CommitSyn 3y ago
Instant assumption based on former pattern recognition.
- infradig 3y ago
  No assumption, just stating what it looks like and most probably is. Drone is high and moving while focused on fixed point on ground, balloon drifts thru field of view in opposite direction and so looks faster than it really is. The geometry is visually deceptive though really quite simple.
  - sandspar 3y ago
    Wouldn't the people at the Pentagon already have thought of this?
    - graderjs 3y ago
      Right! And haven’t the aliens at pentagon city thought of this too?
  - graderjs 3y ago
    How to explain the lack perspective change of ground features? Without it drone movement seems small, so hard to explain the giant speed in your balloon theory.
  - imtringued 3y ago
    People don't understand that the vast majority of UFO behaviour is actually just the camera being unstable and jerking around a bit or a parallax effect caused by a moving and rotating camera pointing at a static object. The famous "GIMBAL" UFO video on YouTube is just the backside of a jet and you are seeing the engine exhaust including glare. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-ufo-a-new-analysis.12333/ https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-ufo-a-new-analysis.1...
    - 3y ago

lolc 3y ago

> One of the slides that Kirkpatrick used in his testimony showed the geographic areas where UAP sightings happen the most, which coincided with locations around the world where there are known to be U.S. military installations. Had a good chuckle at that one. I assume it was the journalist who added the ominous "coincides with military installations". You don't get sightings where you have no presence! Actually that makes me want to play a round of UFO Enemy Unknown! Great game.