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UFOs are the story of the century — wake up, America! (thehill.com)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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The author argues that the recent Congressional hearing on UFOs featured credible testimony from military witnesses that UFOs exist and the government has covered up information about them for decades. The author, a retired Navy admiral, vouches for the integrity of the witnesses. He believes society should demand that the government disclose what it knows about UFOs. This could lead to scientific advances that transform our understanding of physics and the universe. Studying UFOs could also improve international security and cooperation. The author contends that failing to study UFOs would be arrogant given how little we understand about the universe.

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[–] 2ndtryagain@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Skunkworks doesn't want you to know what they are cooking up; all this UFO business is funny to me. We have all kinds of research projects that never see the light of day and a few that won't till major hostilities break out.

What pisses me off is people needing to believe our technologies must come from aliens. Most things in both civilian and mil-tech have progressed the way everything in the past did. From playing with static electricity to the development of the first lightbulbs, from the telegraph led to wireless telegraph which then led to radio and TV. We don't need aliens to explain our tech, we need people to understand the scientific method.

[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

SR-71 wasn’t acknowledged for many years, then was decommissioned decades ago with no named replacement.

And, today, I can sit down with a soldering gun and $800 worth of consumer-grade hardware and in a few hours make a quad camera drone that will do 85+ mph, with a flight envelope that would boggle the mind of an F-16 pilot in 1995.

Of course, this alien horse shit is being spun up to distract from the multiple flight platforms we are running and/or testing, based on bleeding-edge human technologies.