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Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has publicly stated that they're 99% sure that the 5-10% of the crafts they are not able to identify are not technologies from foreign governments. He's also mentioned that the Pentagon is aware that Russian and Chinese governments are also in the same position and have been working to figure it out.

These craft pull 500-800Gs and have been measured to be going 13000-20000mph+, so it's highly unlikely that they're made by humans, unless we've figured out a way to not turn into goo at that force, and use materials that could withstand that force as well.

Whatever these things are, they're not weather phenomena, nor illusions, especially when they've been visually identified by countless navy and air force pilots, and picked up/measured by military radar, satellite systems, and other instruments. Pretty sure the military would have easily ruled out weather phenomena/illusions given their budget and capabilities.



From Wikipedia:

“In the 2021 New Yorker article, reporter Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes that after talking with Elizondo, it was difficult to tell what AATIP had accomplished, and when pressed, Elizondo "invokes his security oath like a catchphrase". When in 2019 Elizondo was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, Elizondo stated that the government had fragments of a UFO, "then quickly invoked his security oath".[4] Colavito writes that Elizondo "still speaks of demon cabals, otherworldly beings, and UFOs operating beyond human perception — just not on 60 Minutes", and characterizes Elizondo's claims as "bad science and dangerous as government policy, the kind of magical thinking that leads to lunacy and disaster".[30]”


it's kind of dodgy if you can point to one flawed human and say, "see i found some dirt" and use that to convince yourself that everything you can somehow tenuously connect to that human must be false. radical simplification of reality. i understand the motivation, but i don't think it pass muster.

"breathe a sigh of relief, people, the US government today, can announce, that after decades of so-called unexplained sightings, radar data, navy witnesses, civilian encounters worldwide numbering in the millions, we have finally been able to come to a conclusive and final answer that will explain once and for all the previously mysterious phenomena known as UFOs. Here it is, folks: Luis Elizondo has been proven to be a crank. Now all of us can rest in the surety that UFOs must therefore be false, and no further study needs to be done about any of it. Thank you."

it's like a "omg i can't take this truth" fantasy to think this kind of stuff. Just be a little bit open, if it scares you, just ignore it...but pretending it's not real....closes yourself off to reality.


which wikipedia article?


My comment is not trying to characterize any UFO in particular.

I'm just stating that the whole concept of UFO is exciting, regarding of interpretation.

I'm open minded about any theory, in any case, it's a lot of fun.




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