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Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings?
dryriver writes: UFOs sightings have been reported in the tens of thousands over the last decades. In the past, some have seen flying cigar-shaped craft (blimps?), some flying triangles, some more rounded-looking flying saucers. Often the apparent spacecraft does something improbable like standing completely still in the sky and then shooting off to somewhere at an incredible speed. Some sightings are just lights or light formations flying around or dancing around in the night sky -- which could be military aircraft like helicopters and F16s training at night. There seem to be people who genuinely see stuff that is hard to explain, people who fake UFO sightings, photos and videos for profit to keep the "UFO industry" of websites, radio shows and magazines afloat, and yet others that think a regular airplane flying at night with its lights on is a UFO. What is your view on all this? Are we being visited from outer space? Is it prototype aircraft that look like UFOs to the untrained eye? Was some 190 IQ inventor-prankster having fun with quadcopter drones with colored lights four decades before quadcopters became a thing (hey, tons of people have created fake crop-circles in the past)? Where do all these supposed UFO sightings and reports come from? Did events like the famous "Battle Of Los Angeles" actually happen? And do you find any UFO reports credible at all?
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It's our media in general.
Water, oxygen etc must be easy for space traveling civilizations to come by, but can be safely assumed that music, art etc is quite unique on every planet.
Which means the visitors are probably just pointing their advanced downloading devices to our planet and copying up EVERYTHING to some database that gets shared/sold later on.
And there's not a damn thing esa/riaa/mpaa can do to stop the space pirates.
Our "powerful encryptions and digital locks" probably falls in mere seconds on their advanced computers and cracking techniques.
See subject: I read thru a few posts here & I know what I saw was no 'weather balloon' etc. as some here are saying + I am SURE you feel the same what with your description of what would have busted an airframe design of our aircraft.
I also see a lot of folks saying "Well how come all these cellphone & digital cameras aren't catching more" - Heck, go up on YouTube, see how MUCH OF THIS DOES GET CAUGHT (even on legit news channels from TV in cities - I am NOT joking about it)...
* One thing you said I note strongly - People do NOT LOOK UP generally (you do apparently). How do I know this? By performing an 'experiment' on a girlfriend long ago in my 20's when she wanted a key to my apartment. What did I do for this 'test'? I taped it onto the ceiling & played "hot & cold" w/ her (you know "you're getting 'warmer'" as the person is closer etc.) & when she was DEAD-UP RIGHT UNDER IT? I said "You're BLAZING HOT!" & she was pissed saying I was lying (I told her to LOOK UP, & she felt like a fool - lol!).
APK
P.S.=> Perhaps folks should LOOK TO THE SKIES more often - in our cases? They don't KNOW what they're missing, right?? apk
It's because they're all looking down at their phones to read about the latest recycled meme on facebook. The glare of the screens backlight blinds them from the reptilian saucers hovering above, so they never even see them.
Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
If you identify a UFO as a UFO, is it still a UFO?
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I don't believe in aliens, but I'm pretty sure if you spend much time near an airport watching planes at night you are very likely to be "abducted and probed".