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Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program on Monday February 17, 2020 @09:43PM (#22353010)
Yeah, so I am curious here, why do you believe anything humans are capable of building can do what these objects are reported as doing? I ask this in all seriousness because I don't think you, me, or anyone else alive can answer how they do basically any of the stuff reported. This makes it hard for me to believe that not only has someone actually answered all of those questions, but actually mastered the science and fielded the requisite tech to do these things. I've seen this argument advanced before that this is super secret squirrel shit the boys out in NM are cooking on, but there's always this really big gap in what we can do and what these things do. What's your guess on how the boys filled that gap?
Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program 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.
Re:An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:31PM (#22352653)
To my knowledge this is some sort of urban legend thing. I looked into this world about a year ago and it seems there are a number of weird things that have basically nothing backing them up that won't die. There is endless talk among UFO enthusiasts about this ranch, this bob lazar guy, etc. These are things that really have no leg to stand on, yet get the same type of traction in UFO circles as well documented sightings like the Nimitz incident, Minot AFB, etc. I was really blown away by the real stuff, I don't get how people are seriously skeptics about these cases, but there seems to be some inability with this audience in differentiating between those cases and whatever they heard on reddit about skinwalker ranch.