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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-05-28 06:40 pm

[ SECRET POST #4526 ]


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UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Been a lot of talk about UFOs around the Internet thanks to articles like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html

What are your thoughts? Are UFOs real and are they best explained by aliens? What do you think about all this military stuff?

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
are there sightings of flying things that the observers have been unable to identify due to conditions or lack of expertise? sure

are they aliens? no

ftr articles like that are nothing more than glorified clickbait, I was even unimpressed when I first saw it on IFLS a month ago and it was titled to get people all hype while the actual text of the article and the thing it reports upon is boring as shit. that is, the military is making it easier for pilots who spot lights, drones, atmospheric phenomenon, etc which they aren't sure about or would like investigated for potential dangers to planes - and let's be real drones and poor weather are a much larger danger to planes and pilots than aliens - to report them to a body that will handle the investigation. that's it. it's boring. it's not about aliens or flying saucers.

but the long and the short of it is, science. if there are other life forms on other planets they're too far away to travel here, and if somehow they could, they sure as fuck wouldn't be so secretive about it that the only people who ever see them are Joe Sixpack on his farm in Montana and not, you know, millions of people in a large city. It's always something perfectly terrestrial that people just don't know how to identify because they don't understand weather, astronomy, atmospheric conditions, or technology. if trained military pilots can still be fooled into thinking a particularly bright Venus in the evening sky is a bogey, what chance do average laymen have?

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent post.

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
A+

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Aliens exist out there in the universe, but UFOs are never aliens.

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
UFOs are real in that they are things no one can properly explain or identify. doesn't mean it's aliens but it also doesn't mean it's just a flying bug or the moon. for the cases described in that article i'd say the objects are military devices that are being kept secret because they don't want the technology to be stolen by adversaries to the u.s. like russia or china. that or the objects actually are being operated by adversaries of the u.s. in which case it'd be pretty stupid to ignore.

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Part of me would like to think we’re being observed by the interstellar version of the U.N. out of concern about all the fascist and would-be fascist nutjobs currently in power, but although I think there are probably intelligent aliens somewhere in the (really unimaginably huge) universe, I dunno why they’d come here just to play hide and seek.

Re: UFOs

(Anonymous) 2019-05-29 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Fucks sake. 'Aliens!!!' isn't even the most interesting conclusion to be drawn from these sightings in particular.

The objects sighted in these particular incidents in the article appear not to obey the limits of our current technological limits.

If the objects sighted truly aren't known to the US then that means another country (most likely China) has developed that tech. The implications for potential future warfare are worrying to say the least.