Why ufos are fake

One prominent analyst, Mick West, who runs the website Metabunk. He gives a detailed analysis of the three recent U.

Navy videos showing how the odd-looking craft could be produced by glare, focusing glitches, and other effects. The UAPs may be normal aircraft, no exotic technology required. The military might be reluctant to admit that pilots, radar operators and others have been getting excited, leaking UFO reports and videos based on misunderstandings, though.

Interestingly, the new report posts a big let-out clause up-front "Assumption: Various forms of sensors that register UAP generally operate correctly and capture enough real data to allow initial assessments, but some UAP may be attributable to sensor anomalies.

The military may be concealing The confusion caused by these objects might even be deliberate. Pilkington says that the military may test new spoofing or decoy techniques on unsuspecting pilots.

And given that the U. Navy is working on a laser system to make glowing balls of plasma dance across the sky to decoy missiles, that looks like a real possibility. The guidelines suggest the Navy felt a need for more coherent information-gathering on UFOs, with the implication that they are a possible national security issue.

While UFOs have always been teasing rather than menacing, that does not mean they do not pose a danger. That unquantified threat might be a convenient way of leveraging spending for a whole range of projects that might not otherwise get support. While fighting off an interplanetary invasion might seem wildly optimistic — think dugout canoes and spears versus nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and multiply the disparity by a thousand — someone in the Pentagon might see value in promoting the idea of defense spending as a hedge against a possible alien threat.

They certainly have plenty of sources of information to put into the report. While UFO investigators may not have made much progress in recent years, military intelligence-gathering certainly has. This image shows an unidentified object that rotated as it flew along clouds, according to the fighter pilots tracking it.

Photo by Department of Defense via AP. So concludes a forthcoming US government report , whose broad findings leaked earlier this month, on unidentified aerial phenomena UAP , the current, less X-Files— sounding term for UFOs. He researches the possibility of life elsewhere, along with many in his field.

I never flew for the Air Force—I was a nuclear and space guy. That never materialized later into a foreign nation having a capability like that. Thomas Bania: Do any of us believe these are actual flying saucers from outer space? Yet they then say these things have enormous speeds and do maneuvers that are impossible to replicate by our technology. All of those claims require that we know the distance to the target.

China has developed some good technology much faster than we thought they were going to. To go back: if we think a foreign power has developed a technology, we would have then seen that technology later on in use or in testing.

Bania: I agree with Professor Weinstein that until these recent reports, there has never been any evidence to invoke foreign technology [as UFOs]; 90 percent of UFO reports have always had prosaic, natural explanations.

The point is, how do you interpret what these experts are responding to—the enormous speeds and maneuvers? I am questioning that interpretation of the data; without knowing the distance, there would be no evidence for enormous accelerations and avionic capabilities in terms of maneuverability.

No new technology is required here [to explain recent sightings]. We know how to build things, drones, complex electronics. So do our adversaries. We want to surprise the adversary on the battlefield.

Weinstein: It could be truly a UFO. I never want to say something could never be. It could be a phenomenon caused by nature—just a weather phenomenon. It would be either Russia or China. If these were extraterrestrials, and they had the technology to traverse the stars and get to Earth, they would play these games? To what end? Land on the goddamn White House lawn and say hello. Perhaps the only native of Trenton, N. Boston University moderates comments to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation.

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Yup, more fake news and manipulation to skew actual statements. I would also like to state that I believe recent facts have shifted conspiracy accusers to being the conspiracists themselves. The actual pilots these vehicles are of world. The thing about this phenomenon as it relates to the public at this point; everyone is equal ground in terms of rendering a theory. I mean honestly do you really send military equipment and money to a country to help out and fix their government?

When has the government ever admitted fault? I do believe some people have seen real ufo but also I believe recently the sightings of ufo are man made replicas of the American government.

I agree with you entirely. They were abducted by a huge spaceship from another planet while traveling in the city of Matias Barbosa, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. That is how science works, Science needs evidence…Something to rationally examine in order to proceed beyond hypothesis. The tictacts were observed doing the impossible with electronics, not the human eye. Some disinformation is likely. One question for thought — Why would the fleet send up unarmed fighters to examine a real threat?

They would not. The Chinese or Russians would already gathered sufficient data. Why would either consistently compel our military intelligence to suspect either one of them, apart from the fact that the Tic Tacs have been observed for 70 years. My thinking on the subject of UAPs is that there have been so many very detailed oral reports by average citizens and appropriately educated and informed citizens and the universe has such an over-abundance of space, stars, and planets for there to be a possibility that not even one has everything it needs to produce living, intelligent beings—fully scientifically oriented beings that could be light years distant from our planet but capable of space navigation to reach us.

To me, it is just as reasonable and statistically feasible this off world civilization has reached the stage of development, unlike us, that knows the valuable value of life and its possibilities that they have serious appreciation for the value that all intelligent life forms can add to the cosmological knowledge and creativity of the universe as well as the other life forms that have developed before us and those that come after.

Most of the development of technology and useful devices we have seen in, say, the last two-hundred years speaks heavily of where that technology will have developed to within the next 1, years or so. Can you try to imagine that growth in 5,, years?

My honest orojection is that it will prove to be incredible. I agree, people here are very misleading. What right it evidence do they have to assume any ET arrive from a very distant planet. This object was close enough to be identified just like he described.

I find it almost embarrassing that another scientist is so apparently bias to the obvious truth without more clear evidence. Leaping to the conclusion that something unidentified is of alien origin just because we cannot currently explain it, to me, is ludicrous.

You are literally jumping to the least likely conclusion drawn from the evidence at hand. Block our optical and ranging weapontry upon will. To travel at hypersonic speeds offworld, transworld, multi-phasic, and on and on. Can we really be sure that out of Billions of years of Chemistry on astronomical scales, That the Most intelligent lifeforms are Beings who are afraid of being looked at as unintelligent.

The front half is a carbon based composite. You can see an artstic representation of it in the original Planet of the Apes, when the basic shape was concieved. If you know the Massachusetts coastline you can see the resemblence to where it crashed off the coast of Mass.

They colors are our local Hockey team. This image was a Russian test that was done with the USA watching. Not much can fly between stars because there are 2 gravity fields. Aliens can send sperm and eggs to mix up when they get here.

Jellyfish might make it but thats about it. NO, you cant regulate the pressure for the years it would take a frozen person to make the journey to the nearest star. This seems all so primitive. The present worldview whistles happily towards species extinction.

It places wholly fictitious magic numbers called money above truth, justice or life itself. You frame questions about intelligences which primarily exist beyond spacetime, with a worldview hardly advanced over that of George Custer. Donald Hoffman, conscious realism, and the implications this has about looking for aliens from within our four dimensional species specific interface.

Obvious this debate is a joke. There is so much more info pertaining to the UFO and the alien story here. The Grays are here piloting the ships. Bob Lazar talked about decades ago. Element Antimater and the ability to creat and amplify gravity. Ascending and descending thousands of feet in seconds? The people that have had encounters with the Grays throuout history have all stated. Their stories never deviate details.

Always the same. Large black eyes. Short with big heads. And are capable of complete control over us and our governments have covered it up because they are helpless. They are not from this planet. They have been visiting here for thousands of years.

They have their agenda. Mark, I absolutely agree with your comments. December 11, — at dusk. I shall never forget it. Hey Mark, well said. There is a slight possibility that the creation of these machines have been discovered by a terrestrial nation -s ; however, considering the number of different shapes, sizes, and movements, not probable. As long as it has been since just the Roswell Incident, it could be within the realm of possibility that some nation of the earth might—might—have retro-created a workable flying device but I point out the word, slight.

After all the above being said, I believe there is more chance of my jumping from the ledge of a story building while flapping my arms frantically and landing safely several miles away onto the roof of another tall building. I believe that we will be approached we meaning the entire globe and a new age of information and invention will transpire.

Time will tell eventually. This article is flat out wrong. It is likely to not rule out non-human intelligence. How right u r, Dan, well said. Read my comments about my fellow scientists having such a groundless bias! If you believe in God then you also believe that he does nothing without a purpose so why would he create all of that if this was the only planet that he was going to put life on?

Just food for thought. But we have NO idea, how other Intelligence life forms might Think or logic! If its Russia or China….. If its another earth based nation, it would be safe to say we are already under attack. My favorite line is they would have landed on White House lawn and said hello. I was an infant at the time. Kenny…best reply by far. Our govt tells us nothing to little about anything.. In the 60s it was a discussion as my grandfather worked for Grumman Aerospace.

I myself lived in a rural L. NY suburb, where circle of grass were in our property…like an indentation of a circular object that had landed. Many sighting of unexplained objects in the sky were reported. People are afraid of the unknown. The only way to explain is to discredit belief of other life forms than earthlings. We know so little about the vast space and only have ventured out minimally, mars, the moon and yet, there are galaxies we still have yet to discover.

I personally am Not a sci-fi fan and being in the medical profession, tend to believe in science and fact, yet, even my field, we are learning more each year. One day, we will admit that for a very long time, we have suspected we are not the only life in the universe, one small 0lanet in a vast space we barely have traveled.

I personally have seen a UFO long ago mid 80s it was a triangular one and the flying behaviour was something out of this world… if some people keep thinking is a foreign country technology well..

Please stop talking on something you have not seen!!! UFO does not equal alien, but also does not rule it out. Poorly written article. One retired pilot, Ryan Graves, said his fighter jet squadron began seeing UFOs hovering over restricted airspace off the coast of Virginia in He said the objects had no visible exhaust plumes and were travelling at speeds that appeared to defy the limits of known technology.

Mr Graves said pilots training off the Atlantic Coast had similar sightings "every day for at least a couple years". Last month Luis Elizondo, a former US counter-intelligence agent, told ABC News that some of the objects that have been sighted "can outperform anything that we have in our inventory. In April last year, the Department of Defense released three declassified videos of what it said showed "unexplained aerial phenomena".

The department said it wanted to "clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage", which had already been leaked in and , "was real". The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images. Image source, Getty Images. That said, Scoles feels an unbiased analysis of available data could shed light on the true frequency of UAP observations—and perhaps on the characteristics and possibly identities of these sightings.

The task force report could quantify and analyze a wide swath of data, Scoles hopes, with the requisite background knowledge of sensor capabilities, current domestic and foreign military capabilities, and so on.

If so, that would be a welcome change from previous high-profile studies, she concludes. Where does this leave us? The truth, of course, is somewhere out there, whether or not it appears in the pages of the UAP Task Force report. But for now, the odds seem to be against the U.

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