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Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Yahoo News:The report from an alleged UFO sighting by the Chilean military over two years ago has just been declassified, leaving experts completely stumped. The Chilean government agency which investigates UFOs, the CEFAA, reports that a naval helicopter was carrying out a routine daylight coastal patrol in November 2014 when the camera operator noticed an unidentified flying object ahead...flying horizontally and at a steady speed similar to that of the helicopter. The mysterious object could be seen with the naked eye but couldn't be detected with the helicopter's radar, ground radar stations or air traffic controllers. Authorities ruled out that it was an aircraft as no craft had been authorized to fly in the area.
In 2014 the CIA admitted their tests of a high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance aircraft between 1954 and 1972 coincided with a spike in UFO reports. Could this be another new military aircraft that's getting its first tests?
In 2014 the CIA admitted their tests of a high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance aircraft between 1954 and 1972 coincided with a spike in UFO reports. Could this be another new military aircraft that's getting its first tests?
Unidentified
Flying
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Is it identified? No.
Is it flying? Yes.
Is it an object? Possibly.
A great way to test somebody's intelligence is to ask them what they think about the terms "UFO" and "conspiracy theory".
Less-intelligent people will usually start talking about "aliens", "ETs", "kooks" and "tinfoil hats", and that's where their understanding ends.
Smart people will realize that such words also have very reasonable meanings.
Like in the case of "UFO", as you have pointed out, it just means it's some object flying in the air that cannot currently be identified. Nothing is implied about its origin, its occupants (if there even are any), its purpose, and so on.
In the case of "conspiracy theory", it just means a theory about a group of people conspiring together to commit some act. Even the official 9/11 story is a conspiracy theory, for example; it's a theory that involves a number of people from the Middle East and other nearby countries conspiring to attack targets in America.
It's a real shame that the mainstream media and commentators have tried to corrupt the meanings of such terms, and that so many foolish people have fallen for it. They were perfectly good terms to use within rational, evidence-based discussions. But now too many people of a lesser intellect fly off the handle whenever they hear or read them, rendering them almost useless.
Really? Because there's an airport right there with standard flight route. Feel free to look it up on Planefinder. More info here: https://www.metabunk.org/explanation-for-chilean-navy-ufo-video-aerodynamic-contrail.t8306/
Slashdot, we really need to have an intervention with all this fake news conspiracy crap. I'm only one person, I don't have time to debunk all this nonsense you keep posting. This used to have some vague relation to tech, rather than every random clickbait article you could find in the firehose.
What's the next story going to be? That Russian lizard people hacked the Bilderbergs to steal their chemtrail recipes for the alien galactic overlord, Xenu to use in Darl's $699 Linux auditing sessions?
There's not necessarily anything there. It could be a conspicuously shaped gap, forming in the cloud formation.
That must be why the Chileans are calling it an "unidentified aerial phenomenon", not a UFO.
The use of the word UFO is implicitly biased.
Flying implies a "machine" or possibly "creature" (*)
Object implies "built".
UAP should be used instead.
(*) accurate since in fact the first OVNI ever reported was a bird. ...
The pilot told about a v-shaped thing that was moving "a bit like a saucer bouncing on water".
It would have been nothing but a journalist reported it badly (of course) only keeping the movement of the object instead of its shape
This lead to a history of hysterical reports of flying saucers, when instead we should have got a history of hysterical reports of flying v-shaped "bouncing" objects.
Irrelevant news and morons using moderation to mod down what they disagree on. 2018 resolution: so long.
You seem to be assuming that the story is accurate, despite the fact that it offers few details and no primary sources
I'm not nearly so credulous as to simply believe that journalists would let facts stand in the way of good clickbait. This goes double when someone posts verifiable, factual information that contradicts it.
Who am I supposed to believe here, a journalist writing UFO clickbait, or people who posted information that can be verified and corroborated from other sources?