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caskey t1_j4f1mci wrote

Unidentified doesn't mean aliens. Just something that wasn't identifiable.

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4f2nyu wrote

Exactly. But at this point the whole "Unidentified flying object" connotation being synonymous with aliens doesn't help the issue at all. Technically even an airplane is a "UFO" until it is identified as such. Everything is unidentified until it is later identified. It doesn't mean anything, really, and just feeds the conspiracy theorists.

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SiriusC t1_j4fdt3p wrote

>"Unidentified flying object" connotation being synonymous with aliens

"Unidentified flying object" isn't synonymous with aliens. "UFO" is. And this happens in language all the time.

>Technically even an airplane is a "UFO" until it is identified as such. Everything is unidentified until it is later identified.

No offense but this is the kind of logic a child would use. Do a bit of research on the etymology of "UFO".

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4fj4lt wrote

Yeah bro UFO is literally an acronym for unidentified flying object. 🤦 Do a bit of research on the etymology...?

Idk man i'm kind speechless. I know the dunning-kruger effect is a thing but do you have to be so aggressively wrong? That acronym is like... common knowledge. And things being unidentified objects until they are identified objects is like... Like, thats how things in general work. Have you never dealt with the basic fundamental logic of things? Lots of things are the kind of logic a child would use. Like basic object permanence, which presumably you lack also in addition to being unable to distinguish between identified and unidentified objects. Just because children have these skills and you don't doesn't mean that they aren't an essential part of being a functioning... well, hell, not adult, but a person in general.

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Dan_the_can_of_memes t1_j4fh4h7 wrote

My guy maybe you should? A simple google search will tell you the word UFO stems from the acronym Unidentified Flying Object

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SB_90s t1_j4fo3yk wrote

Given all of the current and impending geopolitical tension (Russia v Ukraine, China v Taiwan, N Korea v everyone, etc etc), I wouldn't be surprised if the US has been ramping up testing of their top secret aircraft tech over the last couple of years.

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4g8d4c wrote

I mean technically thats actually what Area 51 was. They were just testing R&D for drones and shit out there long before the public even knew what a drone was. I actually had a special forces friend who said he believed in aliens because he was actually stationed out there and heard some DOE guys talking secretly about what i now know from the way they described it was probably the gimbal footage.

But you know what they say, if your tool is a hammer every problem becomes a nail, and if your tool is meth every bird becomes a CIA drone designed to steal your secrets.

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ChaseShiny t1_j4gehxn wrote

The CIA drones can't steal my secrets when I'm literally giving them away taps forehead

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jumpsteadeh t1_j4f2zut wrote

"unidentified" really says more about the viewer than the flying object.

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SiriusC t1_j4fevbg wrote

No, it doesn't. Not in the context of "UFO".

The term was created by the United States Air Force as a catch-all for intelligently controlled craft. The "Unidentified" portion of it applies to the technology, behavior, & origin. "Object" is understood to be a craft or machine, for lack of a better term.

It's not for a viewer who can't quite tell if something is a bird or a balloon.

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BirdsbirdsBURDS t1_j4fe40d wrote

We can safely now say there are no alien spaceships that the world is privy of. If so, trump would have thrown that bone to the dogs long ago.

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Xaero_Hour t1_j4gk56z wrote

I don't know. I know if he knew about them that would have been the case, but then I think about Independence Day's hand-wavy "two words Mr. President: 'plausible deniability'" scene and how many reports of senior leadership in the White House deliberately ignoring some of his orders and I think there could still be a case made for it.

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TheGreenJedi t1_j4ifw7c wrote

Camera phones becoming more and more prevalent

But UFO sightings reported going down more and more and more over the past 20 years really tell the truth of it deep down.

I think another key component is this is the militaries soft pushback preparing for the future.

NASA is going to find foreign cells and bacteria at some point. It's going to happen somewhere.

And rather than some enormous philosophical, THERE IS NO GOD!! Moment for christians. The Air Force and others are just making it an expected outcome.

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robearIII t1_j4il0o7 wrote

they wouldnt have told that fucking moron anything they didnt positively have to

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FlyingOmoplatta t1_j4iovhv wrote

Lol is that why pentagon dumped tons of UFO news last year talking about sightings above military bases?

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Hopglock t1_j4j7n1y wrote

“How can I make this post about my hate for Trump”

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Chard069 t1_j4fojwf wrote

If the Space Brothers were humanity's friends, they would likely have been up-front about it by now. Alas, since UFO sightings seem correlated with military bases, any lights in the sky are likely we humans. We has met the aliens, and them is us.

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Black_Sun_Rising t1_j4faue0 wrote

Man they'll do anything to try to improve their recruitment numbers

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John0ftheD3ad t1_j4g3tsm wrote

Yes and Lockheed Martin could fly a drone over their heads and all 500 soldiers would say "i saw a UFO" because that's what it means. It's just unidentified.

Also they changed the term to UAP unidentified aerial phenomena, so they're using the UFO term again? Or is this selective language so they can say they never said anything? lol

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Quasadd t1_j4f0ivv wrote

That's a Quality Street

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Spazmanaut t1_j4f92mo wrote

Enemy surveillance drones

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dug99 t1_j4fhsxb wrote

I love how every fucking news story on this is using the thoroughly debunked "Gimble UFO" footage.

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4fi2k1 wrote

i know right.

its literally called "gimbal" and they didn't think to ask whether maybe the gimbal itself had something to do with it

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Gurisumonki t1_j4gxzvx wrote

Skunkworks engineers are the ultimate trolls.

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BazilBroketail t1_j4f6u4n wrote

Bunch of guys saw, "unremarkable" lights and reported it?...

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[deleted] t1_j4fccqx wrote

The government is upfront that a chunk of the cases are no big deal, regular stuff that can be explained away. But there are other cases that "appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis."

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unituned t1_j4j6b6a wrote

Can't wait for the day governments show case their latest holoprojection technology of UFOs flying around. What a world wide phenomenon it'll be.

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TIMELORD317 t1_j4jf4l7 wrote

Yawn lmk when official disclosure happens

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Good_Nyborg t1_j4fnap1 wrote

>Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4gbftq wrote

Are you sure it wasn't Uranus? I've heard it looks something like a full moon.

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cookiemonster247 t1_j4gan38 wrote

The thumbnail appears to be part of a head ups system or some shit that pilots mistook for another flying object but it was nothing. This floated around for months before proved that.

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CaptainMacMillan t1_j4h7c9n wrote

The Earth is surrounded by a shell of satellites and telescopes, radios, receivers of almost every frequency spectrum. Our airspace is constantly monitored by militaries and civil outfits all across the world.

Yet some people still think a UFO could float directly overhead with absolutely no detection.

Maybe I have a lack of imagination for alien technology, but even aliens have to follow the laws of physics.

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Quasanc t1_j4f0vwr wrote

Never anywhere else in the world.

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SiriusC t1_j4fexkv wrote

Do your research. It happens all over the world all of the time.

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4f2tu5 wrote

Because their militaries either understand their own camera technology or are too afraid of looking like a dumbass 😂

Really the only thing they're 'destigmatizing' is the US government looking like idiots with their official reporting.

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SiriusC t1_j4ff9t2 wrote

Several countries have disclosed official documents of their history with the phenomenon. And they go well beyond what's observed with a camera.

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LasciviousApemantus OP t1_j4fibee wrote

No xD they don't. There is literally not a single high quality recording of a UAP because the "phenomenon" of UAPs is unanimously and unequivocally the result of camera sensor, parallax or focal compression artefacting. If it wasn't blown out, distorted or poorly tracked, it wouldn't even BE a UAP, it would just be a fucking bird or weather balloon or whatever the fuck it actually was that they mistook for some kind of supernatural bullshit.

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Msfracture t1_j4f3o0x wrote

hahaaaa.. cee gee I

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