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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by remir on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:15PM (#19829439)
There have been reports of UFO sightings for 50+ years. This is not a new phenomenon. There were reports of UFOs during WW2 (so called Foo Fighters).

If this existed during WW2 it means it started development way before that. The implications that such level of technological advancement was available at that time, and is still under active funding and development today doesn't add up.

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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by kenneth on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:32PM (#19830068)
UFOs aren't all the same. Each sighting could be something different. A UFO just means "unidentified" — what might be flying unidentified today is very different from 50 years ago, given the technological advancement since.
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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by rl3 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:35PM (#19830084)
>If this existed during WW2 it means it started development way before that. The implications that such level of technological advancement was available at that time, and is still under active funding and development today doesn't add up.

I tend to agree it doesn't fit, but one way of looking at it is, even if highly improbable: the fundamental physics breakthroughs were made back then, and ever since the craft have been updated with modern avionics and electronics suites.

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