Pentagon Confirms Video of Pyramid Shaped UFO Is Real, Taken By US Navy Pilot (cnn.com) 143
alaskana98 writes: The Defense Department has confirmed that leaked photos and video of "unidentified aerial phenomena" taken in 2019 are indeed legitimate images of unexplained objects. Photos and videos of triangle-shaped objects blinking and moving through the clouds were taken by Navy personnel, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough said in a statement to CNN. She also confirmed that photos of three unidentified flying objects -- one "sphere" shaped, another "acorn" shaped and one characterized as a "metallic blimp" -- were also taken by Navy personnel. "As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP," Gough said.
She also said that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, created in August to investigate UFO sightings observed by the military, has "included these incidents in their ongoing examinations." The Navy photos and videos were published by Mystery Wire and on Extraordinary Beliefs' website last week but had been circulating online since last year. There have been "a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years" the Navy said in 2019. Last year, the Pentagon released three videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" -- clips that the US Navy had previously confirmed were real.
She also said that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, created in August to investigate UFO sightings observed by the military, has "included these incidents in their ongoing examinations." The Navy photos and videos were published by Mystery Wire and on Extraordinary Beliefs' website last week but had been circulating online since last year. There have been "a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years" the Navy said in 2019. Last year, the Pentagon released three videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" -- clips that the US Navy had previously confirmed were real.
Hint (Score:2, Insightful)
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Despite the description, it looks more like a triangle than a pyramid.
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Ignignokt knew all along.
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No more questions allowed!
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The most interesting thing about the image, the reflections were specifically aimed. Hello, here I am, what will you do this time. As long as the military show some maturity and send aircraft with no weapons and point no weapons at it but instead try to get a spy and reconnaissance plane as close to it as they can to gather as much data as they can, all well and good. Pointing weapons at it makes as all look primitive and stupid.
Clearly it was making sure it was seen and all about measuring the reaction, pr
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Clearly it was making sure it was seen and all about measuring the reaction, probably down to the thoughts of the people involved.
Clearly, you've solved the mystery.
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Re:Hint (Score:5, Funny)
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I'm just about finished with BSG. I have one or two more episodes on the current disc and then the final disc. Every Friday night I watch one episode so I'll be finished next month.
Great show. I'll probably watch it from the beginning not long after I finish it.
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And some have just watched Stargate once too often while stoned.
Or (Score:3)
Or Russia.
I'm pretty sure the military knows exactly what these things are and where they came from, but the tech involved in tracking this stuff is classified, so they aren't telling.
That would be the whole point. How good are US radars? Send a UAV with a minimal radar cross section over a military base and watch the response.
but can they buzz the tower? (Score:2)
but can they buzz the tower?
Hint: there is a reason the US is publishing this (Score:2)
Duh. Why, specifically, is the US confirming this? Because it is our shit. Read between the lines. We have escalating tensions with Russia in the Black Sea and with China in the South China Sea. We want both of them to know that we have technology they can not understand. It's not aircraft or spacecraft though. It is high powered energy devices that can be used as both weapons and decoys.
Russia wants us to know they have scary nuke terror weapons. We want them to know, we aren't scared because we have hard
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Damn, I'm from the U.S. Government and you caught us red handed. I don't know how you put those pieces together as we did our best to dissemble and obfuscate them. We're Lizard People and we figured we could get away with it, but no longer due to you. Thanks a lot!
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There are no lizard people. There are no aliens on Earth. There are, without doubt, functional directed energy weapons in the US arsenal.
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There are, without doubt, functional directed energy weapons in the US arsenal.
Yes, they are called cannons.
They direct kinetic energy at objects which then blow up.
Re: Hint (Score:2)
You know if there were any people on earth who would create an advanced civilization and then hide or erase it, it would be the Chinese. I've always thought there is a little too much QM like stuff in their ancient philosophy.
But what really creeps me out is the modern science community. Like with refutation of Roger Shawyers EMDrive, it was the hand wavy appeal to Newton rather than rigorous correction of him that raised my eyebrows, though I do not know the field, I know the scent of BS: I think there are
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it was the hand wavy appeal to Newton
All credibility lost, the second you said that.
"hand wavy appeals to Newton" are very rational, for a very good reason.
If you don't know what that reason is, you're not qualified to discuss the topic.
As a quick thought experiment, take 5 minutes, and come up with 5 ways to destroy the entire Universe if there is no conservation of momentum.
If you can't do that either, you're not qualified to decide what hand waving appeals to anything in physics smells like what.
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Hand-wavy appeals to Newton are a hallmark of "consensus" anti-scientists.
Yes, and attempts at scoffing at Newton's laws are the hallmark of morons and conspiracy theorists.
Build any perpetual motion machines, lately?
It's particularly odious to use Newton as he was one of the earliest Presidents of the Royal Society: nullius in verba - not even Newton.
Oh come on. That's just fucking lame.
You act as if there hasn't been hundreds of years of proofs and reasoning applied to those laws.
Newtons laws are close to self evident, because if they do not hold, the universe becomes absurd.
Absurd things in physics are very often viewed with a cocked head because, well, the universe isn't absurd.
The EMDrive is getting the
Not Aliens (Score:2)
Itâ(TM)s never aliens.
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Re:Not Aliens (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not saying it's not aliens. But it's not aliens.
Bokeh (Score:5, Insightful)
This honestly looks like an out of focus telephoto lens with a triangular shaped aperture.
This isn't a normal photography lens, so I can very easily imagine that is may not have the normal "circular" aperture on it. And even photography ones have "blades" that sometimes have a distinct hard surface shape like this, but with more than 3 blades.
You can make custom apertures for lenses too if you want to see what I'm talking about:
https://digital-photography-sc... [digital-ph...school.com]
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Re:Bokeh (Score:4, Funny)
That's actually a step up from them neither confirming nor denying a triangle. You know, just one polygon to another.
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These videos hit twitter a while ago. There are lots of lenses that only have a few blades. They're generally considered kind of shitty but some photographers will seek them out for artistic effects.
The best part is that the "aliens" were running standard anti-collision strobes. Very considerate of them.
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My thoughts as well... and the strobe pattern of the object seems pretty similar to that of an aircraft.
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This honestly looks like an out of focus telephoto lens with a triangular shaped aperture.
That would be a great theory if these things weren't incredibly high end surveillance equipment and that non-circular apertures cause some very non-ideal aberrations which are very easily and cheaply resolved by not using a triangular shaped aperture.
Also the pilot would have seen this kind of thing many millions of times... I mean it is a night vision camera so literally every street light would look like that. I would find it amazing if he decided this one specific triangle was a UFO if all he ever saw wa
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This is a monocular night vision scope that someone is holding a cellphone camera up to in an attempt to record the video. Neither the scope nor the phone seem perfectly focused, and it all being hand-held makes it wobbly and on top of everything he's zooming in with the phone that exaggerates the size of all the artifacts. The fact that it was a sailor who took the video doesn't mean it was "incredibly high end surveillance equipment". If the primary purpose for these scopes is looking for objects in the w
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Yep, this is a night vision scope that's having difficulty focusing on the aircraft. The fact that the orientation of the triangle(s) doesn't change as the aircraft moves and the scope turns to follow it makes it pretty clear that the shape is an optical artifact. And yes, it's an aircraft with a standard pattern of strobe lights.. It's moving in a straight line too so it's likely an airliner passing overhead.
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So a couple of points on this
1) actually yes, there are other "triangle" looking shapes of blurred objects in the video shared, adding to the idea it is indeed an out of focus lens with a triangle shaped aperture.
2) the other objects were recorded at other times, most likely with different equipment, probably not even at the same location.
as stated, different lenses have different apertures. as consumers, we're most accustomed to "circular" apertures because they produce pleasing results and are easy to man
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"Circular" apertures are actually harder to manufacture. A typical cheap lens, or a lens where aesthetics are less important, will usually have a fewer blades, producing a fewer-sided polygon, often a hexagon. The more blades, the better approximation of a circle you get. Some expensive lenses have 48, for example.
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You typically don't realize they're in use until you see a lens flare.
I wish it were aliens (Score:2)
But probably it's just weird flying craft concocted by the military to provide training data sets for their targeting AIs.
Fancy party balloons (Score:2)
I'm thinking these could've been fancy party balloons with LEDs and hobbist drones done up to look like ufos.
Nowadays, stuff like this can be put in the air cheaply.
(I didn't watch the video yet to see if any of this stuff was flying around and stopping at insane speeds)
it could be our own US defense contractors (Score:2)
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Boeing created the giant blimps (eg https://www.history.com/news/b... [history.com] + https://www.express.co.uk/news... [express.co.uk]) back in the late 90's, in violation of the non-stealth prolif treaties. I personally saw one near Joshua Tree (a couple miles off Wiley's Point off the 91 in California). The one I saw was multiple city blocks large (by star occlusion) and slow and dead silent, but there was military craft passing by both before and after and my group figured it was fine.
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Perspective is funny thing, if you don't know an objects size or vector the brain can make some amazingly bad interpretations and they get even worse when the viewer is moving at speed without visual reference.
In summary, people, even highly trained ones can totally misinterpret what they see.
Obvious What These Are (Score:2)
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F.A.B.
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Not sure which I'd prefer to be visited by -- aliens or creepy puppets.
Blue Book. (Score:3)
She also said that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, created in August to investigate UFO sightings observed by the military, has "included these incidents in their ongoing examinations."
Project Blue Book. [imdb.com]
makes sense... (Score:2)
Extraterrestrials are wisely timing their official appearance to coincide with scheduled USD crash.
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Where do you get the USD Crash? Checking Inflation over the past 25 years and greater https://tradingeconomics.com/u... [tradingeconomics.com] we see that inflation is still very low historically and while it is rising, it isn't shooting out of control.
I know the likes of Fox News is mad that a Democrat President is elected, so they are going to find what ever silly data points (even if previous Republican Presidents had those data trends as well) to point out how bad those Democrats are at running the country.
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If you don't think inflation is running out of control, you aren't paying attention.
Head over to ShadowStats [shadowstats.com] if you want a better number. (Which is over 10%) They also have pages to explain why they
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Nah, they're waiting for LSD to be legalized, then they can hide in plain sight and everyone will have seen at least one but no one will believe them.
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Flying Pyramid-shaped Object? (Score:5, Funny)
These things are always grainy out of focus dots. (Score:2)
Blurry vs in-focus (Score:5, Insightful)
No UFOs have been recorded in-focus and in high-definition because in every single case, once the object is visible in detail, it is easily identified as something well-known. Despite dramatic advances in imaging and recording over the decades, those darned extraterrestrials somehow know just how far away to stay to keep us from recording them clearly.
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No, it's because their zero-inertia reactionless drives create a field that bends electromagnetic waves. Duh.
Re:Blurry vs in-focus (Score:5, Funny)
I believe it has something to do with using the deflector dish to generate a reverse polarity tachyon beam.
Darn Alien camouflage! (Score:2)
These out of phase interdimensional aliens need to figure out how to broadcast radio signals or make sound... better yet work on their focus.
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They are based on Police Body Camera Technology. They turn off or become unusable right when when the police decide to break the rules.
Re:Blurry vs in-focus (Score:4, Interesting)
One of the classic characteristics of pseudoscience is that the more you improve your measurement apparatus, the smaller the effect becomes that you are trying to measure.
There must be some equivalent in the world of photography. The world is awash in cameras nowadays, but the "proof" still consists of indistinct blurry objects in the distance.
Plasma animals (Score:2)
Perhaps they just really are fuzzy blobs. Plasma balls are fuzzy blobs and are known to exist (temporarily). Perhaps aliens learned to tame plasma, or they are some kind of plasma animal that we've yet to isolate.
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The world is awash in cameras nowadays, but the "proof" still consists of indistinct blurry objects in the distance.
I take blurry pictures of everyday things on a semi-regular basis as it is. If something exciting happens briefly, there's no way in hell that the phone camera will focus in time.
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If you're only capable of looking for smoke signals, then you have no way to detect radio waves.
Perhaps someday the alien equivalent of a Jane Goodall might make contact with us, if only to expand their research on human behavior.
Meanwhile we'll be doing good if our society made up of competing tribal factions manages to not implode over the next hundred years, on this very rock that is the only one we're capable of surviving on.
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Meanwhile we'll be doing good if our society made up of competing tribal factions manages to not implode over the next hundred years, on this very rock that is the only one we're capable of surviving on.
I do not disagree with your point. Not one bit.
However, the majority of human occupied landmass on this rock is uninhabitable to humans without the use of technology.
As the savannahs of Africa aren't the only place on this rock we're capable of surviving on, this rock is not the only one we're capable of surviving on.
Sure the difference between the savannah and the antarctic is a squirt of piss compared to the difference between the antarctic and the moon, but we can "survive" in space, right now. It's
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We don't have the technology to put a self sufficient human population on the moon, or any other planet yet. A fledgling Mars colony would be doomed without Earth support, unless Elon Musk pulls off a miracle.
I don't think we'll ever be able to "figure out our shit here". At least not until a plague or a comet or the yellowstone caldera pushes the reset button and we're lucky enough to get a retry. Hopefully there will be enough of the historical record intact that the survivors will try to rebuild civiliza
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We don't have the technology to put a self sufficient human population on the moon, or any other planet yet.
Sorry, that's your opinion, and I don't consider it to be a very good one, at least for the moon.
We have financial, and political difficulties that make it essentially impossible at this moment in time, however self sufficiency on the moon isn't that hard of a goal to achieve, technologically speaking.
A fledgling Mars colony would be doomed without Earth support, unless Elon Musk pulls off a miracle.
Unless the entire venture was planned to have zero support, and all modes of self sufficiency were properly redundant and worked, yes.
However, where's the problem there?
No colonization efforts started out s
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Sorry, that's your opinion, and I don't consider it to be a very good one, at least for the moon.
Well I admire your optimism that the challenges that exist in setting up a permanent, self sufficient colony on the lunar surface doesn't make for that difficult of a goal. But it still remains a goal.
In theory we can set up resource collection, processing, refining and manufacturing. In theory. Necessity always proves to be the mother of invention. Until people are actually trying to get pregnant and have children on the moon in enough numbers to be self sustaining, there will still remain the question of
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In theory we can set up resource collection, processing, refining and manufacturing. In theory. Necessity always proves to be the mother of invention. Until people are actually trying to get pregnant and have children on the moon in enough numbers to be self sustaining, there will still remain the question of feasibility of extraterrestrial human civilization.
I agree entirely.
The human element is the bigger show stopper in my eyes, not technology.
Because really, who wants to raise a family on the fucking moon?
Pyramid shaped? (Score:2)
And it's headed for a pyramid in Egypt, right?
Ok, get the Stargate out of the warehouse, guys....
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I dunno, I think we just need to have our multipass ready.
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teh alienz are most certainly not here. We'd have seen them by now.
If they are here for observation purposes, I would assume that teh alienz would be aware of the rate of our technological advancement, as well as the extent that our collective conscious is actually aware of them.
It is possible that someone received a very strongly worded letter about avoiding cultural contamination.
These reports are so stupid (Score:3)
They always have a blurry photo, or choppy\shaky video. Also, its a "real" UFO, UFO != aliens.
Might have believed it was an alien if (Score:2)
I might have believed it was an alien if that photo was from the 1980s... the resolution is lacking in today's standards
Why you should be afraid. (Score:2)
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What are we good for, other than food or slave labor?
Entertainment?
I'd like to think that there is an interstellar betting pool, on whether or not the ugly bipedal post-industrial barbarians on this planet actually manage to pass through the final level of the great filter without destroying ourselves.
There may also be some alien equivalent of Youtube where someone presents samples of our internet to the shock or dismay of their audience...
Target Drones (Score:2)
Unidentified My Ass (Score:2)
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Why can't it just be a Tetrahedron? Is Oblivion not a good enough scifi story? https://oblivion-film.fandom.c... [fandom.com]
I for one welcome our new overlords (Score:2)
Can't be worse than the old overlords!
My biggest fear is that these are indeed an advanced alien space-faring people and they took one look at the hot mess that is our species and flew away, unable to help.
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What makes you think they wouldn't stay, just to have a good laugh? [youtu.be]
Pyramid Shaped Craft? (Score:3)
Not a problem, as long as they're Tok'ra.
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They need money again? (Score:2)
There are no aliens (Score:2)
There are no space aliens and we are alone in the universe. If there turn out to be aliens, then they will be us.
Re:Video is real (Score:5, Informative)
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Mylar balloons are such a menace. A few years ago I was in down town Santa Cruz, CA and there was a blackout. Think about that--a whole block of businesses were without power for several hours, and you know what caused it? A mylar balloon shorted the lines.
Thousands of dollars lost due to something that costs what, less than $10?
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"Intents and purposes"
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... it's not aliens though. Stand down mouth-breathers.
When trying to convince the masses, try and remember you're speaking to flat-earthers, scientologists, and those who believe politicians.
Re:Video is real (Score:5, Funny)
> try and remember you're speaking to flat-earthers, scientologists, and those who believe politicians.
I like how you ordered it from least crazy to most crazy.
Re:Video is real (Score:4, Insightful)
Also it seems to be ordered by those least likely to take your money to those most likely.
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i.e. a large percentage of slashdot readers.
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And in classic shitty CNN style, they play the "pyramid ufo" clip for about 2 seconds and then switch to other "ufo" footage we've seen a million times before.
If people want to believe then it's all too easy to trick them into believing.
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NewsMax headline: Unidentified Socialist Objects confirmed!
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It is also on Fox. There was a video of some idiot going on about how this is higher tech then anything we have! Then in the background there is a human skull on his desk. Yup, definitely a credible source.
LOL. Well, I don't know if this is true or not. Maybe aliens have visited, maybe they are all around us. Jeff Bezos sure could be an alien.
But I'm sick to death of how every supposed "UFO" photo is blurry and dark, and alien sightings seem to only happen to some drunk in the middle of nowhere.
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Aliens have shinier heads than Bezos. And their women!! Bald, shiny headed green alien women!! You haven't lived until you've dated one of them. They have this trick with their tails...well, I'll let your imagination fill in the rest.
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Pyramid-shaped?? Seriously?
That is clearly a plane from below!
I've seen that wing shape many times on planes!
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What's an alien spaceship(?) doing flashing lights like a drone??
Trying to blend in and not get noticed...