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Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by ajross on Sunday May 05, 2024 @05:37PM (#40268689)
Does seem pretty impressive that the aliens manage to make themselves visible only to military operations subject to routine secrecy requirements and not to the civilian aviation equipment that spends 1-2 orders of magnitude more time in the air.
Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by simmerup on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:00PM (#40268893)
Civilian pilots see UFOs, it’s just that no one cares. But when a military officer reports seeing something and it’s repeated on radar, it’s a bit harder to ignore.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/06/26...

> Davenport says he regularly receives reports of UAP sightings from FAA headquarters in Virginia, estimating that he received six to eight reports between November 2020 and May 2021.

Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by marshray on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:14PM (#40269015)
45,000 flights a day and fewer than two reports of unknown sightings a month.

Commercial airline pilots truly are some of the most reliable among humans.

Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by simmerup on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:18PM (#40269054)
Well it’s not like the skies are saturated with UFOs.

And it’s also not like there’s much to gain for pilots to file reports like this and single themselves out.

But there’s enough smoke to make me wonder where the fire is

Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by diego_moita on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:00PM (#40268891)
Long ago I heard the same argument in a Brazilian television show presenting a debate between "UFO specialists" and astronomers.

One astronomer posed that same question: "Dude, our job consists of staring at the sky for nights and nights with very powerful equipment and we never saw those things that you keep finding with naked eyes. How do you do that?".

The "ufologist" just did a "deer in the headlights" look.

Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by jskdndbwkd on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:25PM (#40269115)
UFOs come from earth, not space
Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by orwin on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:36PM (#40269233)
This is the most likely possibility. Amateur astronomers (as well as professionals) never saw an inkling of UFOs in space. So either UFOs are cloaked in space and decloaks in the atmosphere, or they come from earth.

If i push a bayesian reasoning far enough, i'll say i think weird theories involving lizard people, Atlantis or hollow earth (or illuminaties or... etc) are sightly more plausible than those involving extraterrestrial beings. Most plausible is that none of them is correct, but still.

Re:The Hill: The Pentagon is lying about UFOs by zlefgram on Sunday May 05, 2024 @05:57PM (#40268870)
https://nuforc.org/ (recommended by the FAA)

https://nuforc.org/?s=pilot

https://nuforc.org/post240313/

>The NUFORC Data Bank has been updated with 298 new reports, received over the last month. We have highlighted below 28 of the most interesting ones, principally those submitted by airline pilots and other cockpit crew members