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One telling thing about UFO sightings is the government's change in attitude compared to the last half of the last century. It used to be that the government w
by tzs 2y ago
One telling thing about UFO sightings is the government's change in attitude compared to the last half of the last century.
It used to be that the government was trying to discourage reports. They would explain away everything that did get reported--usually reasonably because most sighting were just ordinary things that were misidentified but there were some that they never publicly had good explanations for.
They encouraged treating people who said they saw UFOs as kooks, and were successful enough that when pilots saw something they could not explain they would usually not report it because that could affect their career.
Lately that has flipped. Now they want reports.
The explanation that best fits the facts is that in the past what the people who weren't just misidentifying some normal thing were seeing were secret government projects that had accidentally been flown where they should not have been.
The government didn't want people to talk about those sightings because if too many people did talk about them it might be possible to piece together details about the program.
Now there are some sightings that don't fit with misidentification of normal things and that the government can't match up with any of their secret projects and they want to know what the heck is going on. They almost certainly don't think it could be extraterrestrials--foreign spies is what they are probably worried about.
They need more data, and so now they want people who see things to report it.
- bonestamp2 2y agoMy belief is that their shift in attitude is because the cat is out of the bag... we know there is unusual stuff in the sky, so their best defense now is to pretend they don't know what they are, and asking for reports makes it more believable that it's not theirs. I don't doubt people are skeptical about my opinion, and I don't blame them. But, keep in mind that many of the sightings are from Navy pilots, during planned Navy training missions. Oh, and the Navy has patents on some technologies that would explain some of these UAP sightings (if the technology in the patents works). Here are the patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe shift also coincides with the advent of nation states dramatically ramping up use of small, sometimes stealthy drones.
- iambateman 2y agoAlso high-performance quadcopters are much cheaper to make and if someone is flying one around that shouldn’t be, it’s worth knowing about. The chances that a UFO is actually a nefarious drone have gone up a lot over the past 20 years.
- beefnugs 2y agoThe difference is now that mass surveillance is complete, they want the crazies to craze, so they can be barred from positions of importance.