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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by gerdesj on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:59PM (#22352486)
I (skim) read quite a lot of the article. I had a laugh (obvs). I then skim read the comments here. Oh fuck, I am really feeling out of place. I thought HN is where we talk bollocks about important stuff, or important things about bollocks or occasionally we debate important things about important things.

I'm pretty sure I did not sign up to talk bollocks about bollocks (unless orchids are involved.) This is bollocks. How do I cancel my subscription?

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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by tgflynn on Monday February 17, 2020 @09:09PM (#22352839)
I might have agreed with you, until the US Navy admitted it's encountering aircraft it can't identify, which in some cases have been described as defying our understanding of physics and aerodynamics.

Being able to identify aircraft is a necessary pre-requisite for air defense because without that capability you might shoot down an airliner or ignore an incoming missile.

So either $700 billion a year isn't enough to buy an effective air defense capability or something else is going on.

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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by sk0g on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:33PM (#22352668)
Yeah most of this thread reads like what I imagine a conspiracy theory forum would read like. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but nothing 'alien-y' can't be explained by one of: inexplicable/ as-of-yet unrecognised phenomena - geographic/ atmospheric, military research programs, and good old fashioned fakery.
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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by blotter_paper on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:29PM (#22357893)
You're clearly unfamiliar with conspiracy forums; nobody has even brought up the Nephilim yet!
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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by gerdesj on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:22PM (#22352605)
Think I hit a nerve.
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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by andrewflnr on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:13PM (#22353389)
You're getting downvoted because you're wasting space with your melodrama. If you want to "cancel your subscription", just don't come to the site anymore. Or just avoid threads you know you won't like. Definitely stop whining.
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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program by not_skeptic on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:35PM (#22352677)
I thought the same until I looked into the matter. About 5% isn't crap. If you doubt, just ask what you will believe and I bet you can find your case in this subject. The other 95% is legitimate mis-identifications with a sprinkling of actual hoaxes to keep the skeptics fed well.
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