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Next is that UFOs are real
by mrleinad 3y ago
Next is that UFOs are real
- DoreenMichele 3y agoUnidentified Flying Objects are absolutely real, though the newer cool kid term is UAP. (From the internet: UAP stands for "unidentified anomalous phenomena.") It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.
- 1over137 3y ago>It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate. Which is what "UFO" means to 99% of people.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI hate seeing it used that way on HN though because it actively undermines meaty discussion of objective data and promotes the treatment of articles about objective data as click-bait, like it's the "hot sheets" of Men in Black -- like HN is a place to take seriously the wildest conspiracy theories with no real basis.
- themoonisachees 3y agoBut it's not what it means to the united states government when it announced it had seen UFOs, which is the point of discussion
- Narretz 3y agoI thought UAP stands for "unidentified aerial/aerospace phenomenon". Anyway it's better than UFO because it primes you for the fact that many "UFOs" are not flying at all. Many are stars, lights of all kinds, or artifacts of the the recording equipment.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI thought so too. I googled it and came up with the above quote but didn't provide the link. Happy to be corrected if someone has a good source they can cite. It is a better term overall and also lacks the baggage of being used colloquially to mean "aliens."
- coldpie 3y ago> It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate. No, it isn't. There's some people out there stuck down in a conspiracy hole, but there is no real debate.
- morkalork 3y agoUSAF has had LK-99 for 20 years and the UFOs are just sightings of them testing levitation engines.
- cristoperb 3y agoLK-99, as its name suggests, was discovered 24 years ago.