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‘Wow, what is that?’ Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

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    nothis
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    Wait... not some conspiracy fringe site? That's actually pretty cool. I'm not a person who just "believes" things but I always found UFO sightings to be the most romantic of conspiracy theories....

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    Wait... not some conspiracy fringe site? That's actually pretty cool.

    I'm not a person who just "believes" things but I always found UFO sightings to be the most romantic of conspiracy theories. No governments trying to kill anyone or start a war. Just extraordinary technology and the idea that humans might not be alone in the universe. What's not to like about that?

    I know, I know, it's probably just some US drone program or a kite called by strange current or something. But how boring is that, in comparison?

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    1. Amarok
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      I keep waiting for a high quality recording of an object that is disobeying the laws of physics as we currently understand them. All we'd need is to see the object, see how it moves, and we could...

      I keep waiting for a high quality recording of an object that is disobeying the laws of physics as we currently understand them. All we'd need is to see the object, see how it moves, and we could make some stunning advances in physics. If the object moves in a way one of our laws contradicts, we know the law is wrong or at least that there's a clever hack to get around it, and it's time to think differently.

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  2. Abrown
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    There has been a string of declassified files that have been slowly released over the past few years that have focused on Pentagon/Military efforts to quash/downplay 'sightings' over the past 80...

    There has been a string of declassified files that have been slowly released over the past few years that have focused on Pentagon/Military efforts to quash/downplay 'sightings' over the past 80 years or so and I find it fascinating to go through them. I'm a big scifi fan and was UFO-obsessed as a kid, so it's especially thrilling to hear the official accounts from these professionals mirror what Scifi writers have dreamed about for so long.

    In an episode of Stargate SG1, the Pentagon allies with a Hollywood producer to recreate declassified mission reports into TV episodes as a form of plausible deniability -- It'd be pretty ironic if that were a meta-meta reference to what's really going on and why scifi authors depictions seem to mirror these reports so closely.

    For additional reading, NYT seems to cover these stories pretty well every time there's a new batch of files released -- you can find their past articles listed at the bottom of this article.

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  3. Defluo
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    I feel like a middle school kid watching Sightings and looking for UFOs in my backyard again. I really really want to believe, but as an adult I've trained myself to be disappointed by anything...

    I feel like a middle school kid watching Sightings and looking for UFOs in my backyard again. I really really want to believe, but as an adult I've trained myself to be disappointed by anything fantastical like this.

    Are there any explanations for these things besides extraterrestrials? I remember seeing another video previously of one that looked like a tic tac. Please tell me there is no down to earth explanation. Could they be secret military drones? Camera glitches? Heat reflections? Insects? Please let this be aliens.

    Also is anybody else impressed by the tracking system on that plane?