Pentagon Shoots Down UFO Rumors But Says 650 Cases Are Still Pending (theregister.com) 40
The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which was created last year to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs), said on Wednesday that they have not found any evidence of aliens in its analysis. The office within the Secretary of Defense is, however, tracking more than 650 potential cases of so-called "unidentified aerial phenomena" -- up from the 350 reports referenced in an unclassified intelligence report released earlier this year. Half of them are considered "especially interesting and anomalous." The Register reports: At hearings (one open and one closed) held by the Senate Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities this week, Sean Kirkpatrick said most sightings of UFOs are not as strange as they first appear. They are often balloons, unmanned aerial systems, or aircraft, and look odd due to natural phenomena. "I want to underscore that only a very small percentage of [unidentified anomalous phenomena] (UAP) reports display signatures that could reasonably be described as anomalous," he said during this opening testimony at the hearing.
AARO has failed to resolve some incidents, but it's not because something is inexplicable but due to a lack of data. "In our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics," Kirkpatrick confirmed. In other words: It's not aliens. Kirkpatrick said that if the Office does find sufficient scientific data supporting the idea of an object of extraterrestrial origin, it would share its findings with NASA and alert US government personnel. Amateur UFO spotters are fine, he said, but need to apply scientific method to their claims. Further reading: Pentagon Official Floats a Theory For Unexplained Sightings: Alien Motherships
AARO has failed to resolve some incidents, but it's not because something is inexplicable but due to a lack of data. "In our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics," Kirkpatrick confirmed. In other words: It's not aliens. Kirkpatrick said that if the Office does find sufficient scientific data supporting the idea of an object of extraterrestrial origin, it would share its findings with NASA and alert US government personnel. Amateur UFO spotters are fine, he said, but need to apply scientific method to their claims. Further reading: Pentagon Official Floats a Theory For Unexplained Sightings: Alien Motherships
Wow (Score:5, Informative)
Is it just me or are people getting stupider?
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot headlines are definitely getting more stupider. "Shoots down UFO..." Don't quit your day job, funny guy.
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Hmm I wonder why?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/foo... [foxnews.com]
I understand there's some old paranoia about reporting 'weird' stuff and that wrecking careers, but that's an internal issue the public doesn't need to know about because they aren't even part of the equation. Pilots should report whatever they see, no matter how mundane, and those things should be investigated without expectations or prejudice. Again, internal shit to be dealt with internally because wtf else is there? Either that or you may as well just go
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People have always been dumb. I mean .. WWII: 100 million people died because some Germans felt inconvenienced.
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actually neither, it is youtube and similar platforms that promote videos with outrageous claims, clickbait
an example of stupid claims about UFOs from 1 year ago
https://youtu.be/bSMfOPw8JA0 [youtu.be] 2.9M views.
https://youtu.be/VCH7BWGpl5s [youtu.be] thunderf00t busting some UFO claims 208K views (1 year old video)
https://youtu.be/yNP8by6V3RA [youtu.be] - clickbait on fusion, 982K views (5 months old video)
https://youtu.be/f0C9Zcp_FNE [youtu.be] thunderf00t busting it 79K views (released a day ago).
etc.
people are bombarded with nonsense and do
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Sure, you might be getting stupider. I don't think the rest of us are.
Re: Why is it only the US that has UFO issues? (Score:1)
Edit:
Russia doesnâ(TM)t have a declared problem with UFOs, etcâ¦
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Stalin had a much larger program than the US.
George Knapp smuggled out thousands of Soviet-classified files after CCCP collapsed and did a documentary in the 90's.
Some people say the reason US JDAM's can't hit anything in Ukraine is a consequence of that program.
Something is up because they never had guidance problems against other adversaries.
Re: Why is it only the US that has UFO issues? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Europe has tons of UFO activity, going back centuries longer than the US has been a country. Haven't you ever heard of crop circles? China, Iran, and Russia aren't reporting their UFO activity because they're all already secretly in contact with them.
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Crop circles are hardly flying objects, and their cause has been identified (Doug and Dave, take a bow).
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Why is it that, of all the countries in the world, only the US has issues with UFOs?
Obvious: Aliens only want to visit the best country!
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Why would you say that?
there are ufo reports from all over.
The USA is absolutely definitely not the only country with a lot of ufo reports.
That's like saying "why is the USA the only country with a sun rise and sun set? There are no reports from North Korea about their sun rises, but USA gets them every single day! It's an American delusional conspiracy!"
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https://team.carto.com/u/salei... [carto.com]
Of course published summaries could be biased by ease of access to the languages and media of other countries.
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Tons of reports all over the world including plenty of non-western countries. If you look elsewhere you'll see online a number of stories from Russia as well but I wouldn't expect anything from tightly controlled totalitarian non western regimes in general such as China.
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The US was up to funny stuff in the 50s and spread UFO rumours to cover it up. It worked better than they could have imagined.
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UFO and bigfoot sightings really did decrease just as smart phone adoption increased. Everyone carries a device in their pocket capable of recording HD video instantly. You'd think with this technology the sightings would have increased.
smartphones (Score:2)
UFO and bigfoot sightings really did decrease just as smart phone adoption increased. Everyone carries a device in their pocket capable of recording HD video instantly. You'd think with this technology the sightings would have increased.
I have in my pocket a device with which I can access all of the world's knowledge and communicate with anyone on the planet. I use it to argue with strangers and share pictures of cats. Oh, and UFOs!
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Not sure what you mean by "issues", but Mexico--or Mexicans--have historically had a fascination with OVNIs (Objetos Voladores No Identificados). I'll let you figure out what that means.
Bread and UFO's (Score:2)
Funny how the government went from complete denial to skeptical examiner. Sure, it might be the right way to do things .... but the way they did a 180, almost makes me feel like the UFO's are the circus in Bread and Circuses. Yeah, its more than a little jaded, but I wonder if they are putting out entertaining stories as a way of giving some hope of their being more "out there" and to distract us from the government's other projects which might not be so well intentioned.
Re:Bread and UFO's (Score:5, Insightful)
You seem to think "the government" is a single entity that works with one mind. It isn't and never has been.
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Skeptical examiner is good. Fear mongering cheerleader is not good.
This is mostly pushed by right wing fucksticks, which is kind of funny since you would think it should clash with their manifest snowflake mentality.
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Yeah, seems odd. But I read somewhere that the .gov's recent interest was triggered by a hard push by Harry Reid.
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... a hard push by Harry Reid.
A left-wing fuckstick (for the benefit of sibling comment).
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... a hard push by Harry Reid.
A left-wing fuckstick (for the benefit of sibling comment).
And he never denied his membership to NAMBLA. A fuckstick indeed.
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"Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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"Have you stopped beating your wife?"
Isn't the question: "Have you stopped anally probing strangers?"
Re: Bread and UFO's (Score:2)
It is a real issue. It is not about ETs. All it takes is one glimpse behind the curtain, one. Then your whole worldview switches, and you stop believing consensus reality actually tells us everything. The essential thought experiment is to ask what breakthrough technological capabilities would make a small group so powerful that they would not share the said capabilities, and actively suppress their sharing? UFO tech fall into this group, as do other things. It does not mean it exists, but it means that thi
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Breakthrough technological capabilities like Velcro, Microwave ovens.
As Seen in Men in Black.
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Ever hear of Project Bluebook? Government funded investigation from way back.
Yes, it's called "Operation Tinfoil Dunce Cap." (Score:3)
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I just see that part as "we will put a *scientist* from some sensational tv show in charge and everybody will buy it." type of crap. Misdirect the American people away from other things they wish to keep secret, i.e. the possibility that the anomalous ones are a new reconnaissance stealth drone in testing, or that the govt. already know
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Would they tell you if they did? (Score:3)
This just sounds like a waste of time and money.
If they do find any proof of aliens it would probably be marked as classified.
And if they actually tell the truth, the conspiracy nuts probably won't believe it.
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I have a theory that the ET's do most their work around drunken toothless ramblers to discredit and embarrass all witnesses. It's how I'd run a UFO shop that needs to exit stealth mode every now and then.
Bummer (Score:3)
That sentence started out promising ... "Pentagon shoots down UFO..." .. then it got lame.
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I know. It was probably silly to think that the Pentagon could shoot down anything these days without finding out its pronouns first.
unexpected response (Score:2)
Sortly after making his statement, Kirkpatrick was disintegrated by a pale green beam from the sky.