House Panel To Hold Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings (nytimes.com) 65
A House subcommittee is scheduled to hold next week the first open congressional hearing on unidentified aerial vehicles in more than half a century, with testimony from two top defense intelligence officials. From a report: The hearing comes after the release last June of a report requested by Congress on "unidentified aerial phenomena." The nine-page "Preliminary Assessment" from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence focused on 144 incidents dating back to 2004 and was able to explain only one. The report declined to draw inferences, saying that the available reporting was "largely inconclusive" and noting that limited and inconsistent data created a challenge in evaluating the phenomena. But it said most of the phenomena reported "do represent physical objects." The assessment concluded that the objects were not secret U.S. technology and that "we currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary."
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Funny how people make fun of states' rights issues, there were therefore supposed to be two houses in congress with the states represented by the senate, each with equal representation. The 17th Amendment changed that. [cornell.edu]
I think it's past time that that particular amendment is repealed.
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The only people who want to give states MORE power are the ones endorsing those heinous and cruel acts, such as yourself.
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What states are bad actors? I could have believed that when George Wallace was blocking the admission of black students but that was almost 60 years ago.
Believing that the Federal gov't is the center of the universe is also wrong. That's how things like the escalation of the Vietnam war happened or going to war in Iraq. Why? The states don't have a voice and why at the Federal level we have a constitution and laws and three branches, each balancing things out at the Federal level. The Senate was to be the
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See all of the trump-loving state legislatures enacting laws to make it easier for them to cheat in elections
See all of the handmaids tale wannabe-states creating laws to set back the rights of women by 700 years
You already knew all of this, but you support the cruelty - and you know that it's cruelty, because you avo
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The people of those states vote and they've spoken or were you waiting for the other candidate who has questionable hotel practices? [jacksonville.com] Don't be mad because it doesn't fit your narrative, and don't accuse me of being some hypocrite when you yourself disagree with other people's views and votes. States have rights under the constitution and it's time we got rid of popular vote senators and IMO the two party rules that keep them in power, that means state by state if we have to.
No party has a lock on being chick
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I don't care how many rednecks you can convince to agree with you. A big group in favor of lynchings is no more legitimate than a single person in favor of lynchings.
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"You people" is a racial pejorative. It's interesting to watch a liberal meltdown. Lynching = murder or are you talking about your soul mate Jussie? You remember him? He got two Nigerian actors to stage a fake lynching just at the time his mentor Kamala Harris was trying to push through a "Anti Lynching Law." The police even had the cancelled check.
George Wallace was before my time but it's historical. Likewise, the president at the time LBJ, a democrat, lied to the American public and congress [usni.org] over an inci
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You don't care about this nation. I fought to defend this country from fascists like you, I know what patriotism looks like. You wouldn't know it if it was standing in front of you.
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I fought to defend this country from fascists like you,
Do tell us grandpa how you stormed the beach at Normandy. Regale us with your tales of sacrifice and comrades in arms lost.
You just have nothing left but name calling, no reason, no logic.
I love it when the pendulum swings, oh and your boy Desantis is up in every poll against every Democrat opponent possible in Florida by double digits; imagine that. The people in Florida actually like the guy. In Texas, nobody is truly satisfied with the governor but the perennial modern day Pat Paulson, Beto O'tard will k
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What states are bad actors?
While I don't agree with kunwon1's assertion that all proponents of states rights are evil, he is right that there are US states that could be reasonably labeled as "bad actors." The #1 example that came to mind is exactly the same as yours. But I think Texas suing to overturn an election in another state is an example of a state being a bad actor. Also Texas passing vigilante laws. Florida voting on what is essentially a Bill of Attainder targeting Disney indicates that they are bad actors. Also Texas
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Good points but gerrymandering leads to a lot of headaches. New York is still going through it and I wish there were something, like a law or a SCOTUS ruling that actually allowed geography and population to define how districts are drawn. Until then we have this every ten year fiasco, like locusts coming out of the ground with court battles and inflamed arguments and posturing.
The governor, who I dislike, of my state does a lot of dumb things. They all do but the candidate running against him is the generi
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Sure, sure. Except that in the real world, we've discovered that states are bad actors, willing to commit all sorts of heinous and cruel acts that wouldn't fly at the federal level
Yes, but the flip side here is that when power is located at the state level, at least those bad actors can only hurt themselves. I think the US is in real danger of a majority taking over at the federal level and gutting access to birth control, abortion rights, and federal education standards (just to start with). If that happens, you may suddenly be crying for states rights too.
The reality is that people want things at the Federal level when they agree with them, and people want things at the State lev
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Then I don't think you've been paying attention, those are not issues that have majority support. Hence the big problem here. I have absolutely no problem with doing what the majority wants. It's mostly the republicans that have a problem with that
Correct, not in THIS post. But past history matters.
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So, if the majority wants to literally crucify someone, you have no problem with that? You are perhaps, unaware that the Constitution limits what the majority gets, no matter what they want....
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Now now, lets keep the extremist, hyperbolic messages to those who are on the Right end of the political spectrum.
Crazy talk like that is only going to feed into Right Wing Propaganda to show out crazy the left is.
You can do better.
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Seriously, let's finally accept that the US is a failed state, evacuate all the people who have 2 or more working brain cells back to Europe and let the corpse fester and rot. When it's done, we can still return and repopulate.
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Europe exported all their criminals to Australia and all their religious nutjobs to America.
Australia probably got a better deal :D
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Aliens, I've met them and they're assholes. (Score:1)
They're infinitely cruel, infinitely deceitful, and unbelievably more technically advanced than us. We have strength in numbers and a general advantage in work ethics, but they've already infiltrated many of our institutions, posing as humans. It's time for everyone to start really paying attention. We don't stand a chance if we just ignore their experimentation and ongoing surveillance of us.
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Some of them are even elected officials in disguise. https://www.rollingstone.com/w... [rollingstone.com]
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Meh. You call that a disguise?
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Completely scary and able to control everything, but at the same time grossly incompetent.
Sounds like every political talk about the Other party to me.
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No, to be clear they can't actually "control everything" and that's a big factor in what's wrong with the world today; They're trying to control everything but they're fucking it up.
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I think I saw the same documentary you did: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... [imdb.com]
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No, it was this documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... [imdb.com]. The Thermians told me so.
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Elvis is an alien, I saw it in MiB.
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A pod of dolphins?
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then what in the fuck are they?
Unexplained.
Individuals, governments, and militaries around the world have documented them, including getting readings from radar and cameras.
The conclusions are generally the same: They're unknown. They're not hostile, except for a few ancient accounts that rained hellfire down on cities. They're not secret technology from any other nation that we can identify. They haven't posed any flight-safety issues, as they're shown to out-maneuver even fighter jets trying to track them. Basically innocuous, but wo
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Wishful thinking.
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My guess (Score:2)
My guess is that it's some electromagnetic phenomenon we don't understand yet. It reminds me just a bit of rogue waves. When the scientific community finally realized they were real (because they measured them) they went to the Schrodinger equation to figure out how waves could be so much higher than what was expected by coincidental superposition. Sure enough, one of the solutions to the wave equation resulted in exactly the kind of profile seen in rogue waves. They fit well with the lore told by the l
Distractions (Score:1)
Frankly, it's a distraction. Inflation is biting everybody, gas prices are insane, the world is on edge because of Russia v. Ukraine, and the shelves are getting emptied of some of life's necessities for fun and profit.
But hey, let's start investigating UFOs [wikipedia.org], again!
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Maybe they're secretly preparing for war with Russia by opening up the trove of information to comb through and find what might be previously unknown Russian tech.
Or, you know, people can work on more than one thing. Gas prices are not going to be greatly affected by US policy right now. Shelves being empty could be due to intentional underproducing to keep the prices high, but it's not like invoking the Defense Production Act is reasonable at this point either.
And any remaining supply chain issues are on
What a waste of time (Score:2, Insightful)
Just show me one ,just ONE conclusive video of a UFO. Remember those pyramid shaped "ufos" that were supposed to be following a US fleet off california?
Yeah, not so much UFOs as planes taking off from (IIRC) LAX (you could even see the flashing of the navigation lights) with the video camera zooming in so much that bokeh took effect.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/21/... [nypost.com]
Same with every other ufo video most certainly. UFOs are in the same superstition category as ghosts and bigfoot but there will always be the gu
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First reference I found. I'm sure a genius like you could find others. There's even an entire youtube video going through it.
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These would be the same military types who in the past have chased venus and gone into a flat spin and another pilot who chased a balloon, stalled and crashed. No offence, but they don't hire the flyboys for their brains.
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There seem to be lots of zany people in the world.
I think there's one idea we can completely rule out: that these are secret Russian craft.
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I think the idea of this is that they will, the Military has done extensive investigation into these and cannot explain them - hence the whole unexplained / unidentified. And they have tried, if they can get away with calling it a weather phenomena or balloon they will, the actual number of sightings is significantly higher than what is reported as a lot of these are passed off as something they are not.
I think you are mixing up UFO's with Aliens UFO does not mean Alien it just means unidentified.
I am not saying they are aliens (Score:2)
But they are aliens!
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Russians (Score:2)
So we can spend more money in weaponry and militech.
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Full public disclosure? What does that even mean when people are willing to believe QANon? There will always be some group disagreeing the disclosure, and it will be an obnoxiously LOUD group.
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Are you saying these are old AOL CDs?
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There's nothing special about weird shit. (Score:2)
Imagine them... (Score:2)
Seriosuly (Score:2)
this is an excuse for government officials to not do real work. But then again I don't want them screwing more stuff up so go ahead.
Intelligent Life Out There (Score:1)
There may be intelligent life out there in the universe, but the most certain fact of all is that there is none in the US senate chambers.
Nyet (Score:2)
One thing we know for sure: they're not from Russia.