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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by vorpalhex on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:50PM (#19750691)
I don't know about "defying the laws of physics" (since if it could truly defy the laws of the physics that would be whack) but plenty of stealth bombers were reported as "mysterious UFOs" before they were officially revealed in any capacity - and I'm sure there is no shortage of experimental craft that never made the cut.

Hell, even if someone saw a B-2 today they'd probably think it's alien.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by PhaedrusV on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:21PM (#19752148)
When my mom watched "Independence Day" she started booing the B-2's because she thought they were aliens...
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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by sctb on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:42AM (#19765448)
Please don't comment like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by dsfyu404ed on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:39PM (#19753864)
>Hell, even if someone saw a B-2 today they'd probably think it's alien.

They'd probably think they're living in the matrix and several pixels of sky are glitching.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by Izkata on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:02PM (#19750831)
> I don't know about "defying the laws of physics" (since if it could truly defy the laws of the physics that would be whack)

It refers to objects that start and stop moving instantaneously, or make turns at hard right angles, as if they have no inertia.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by gdy on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:42PM (#19752324)
Very high acceleration and deceleration don't defy laws of physics.
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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by dx87 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:00PM (#19752896)
They didn't say very high acceleration, they said instantaneous changes in speed, like the object has no mass.
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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:12PM (#19754533)
But the context is visual observation, where there's no way to tell the difference between the two.
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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by abakker on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:10PM (#19752036)
ball lightning?
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