As an alien I would now spend all my time targeting wannabe influencers. Wait until they are alone, get naked and let them take high-quality pictures and videos of my green ass while I dance and play yankee doodle on my harmonica
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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I've seen one myself, back in 2015. Flew right over me without a sound. Someone else on the ground saw it too and flashed an extremely bright beam at it and it responded back by flashing multi colored lights back. I took a picture of it and the only thing that showed up is a small blurry dot. But it was at night.
Yep that sounds like a flying object that no one identified.
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Actual, legit Fortean lore regarding this is that the phenomena knows when it's being observed and photographed, and can manipulate time and space such that it doesn't show up on digital photos.
How convenient. Reminds me of Carl Sagan's "The Dragon in my Garage" essay.
For anyone who hasn't read it (I highly recommend reading the entire book that it's from: "The Demon-Haunted World") here's a link (it's only two pages): http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf
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I feel like basic camouflage wouldn't be difficult for a UFO. With more advanced camouflage, there's no way we would know.
Lets put it this way: in the 60s, a photo was not a simple or common thing. Only a few people had a camera at hand, and films could only take 20 to 30 pictures, so they were used sparingly. Still, many UFO pictures date from back then.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera on person, and you can do thousands of pictures in a row. There are millions of recording video surveillance cameras everywhere. So if UFOs exist, there should be myriads of pictures and recordings, many of which in top notch quality, where you could read the labels on the little green mens console buttons.
So far, they remain to be seen.
The problem now is authentication. The evidence needs to come from someone with authority
Does it really? You would think that in the times of social media and omnipresent cameras, aliens and UFOs should be omnipresent, if they existed.
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There is a very reasonable explanation for this: If we are a topic of research for them, they could have simply stopped studying us in the same way
Take our own science for example. We pull out of studies when the funding dries up. Maybe the aliens’ government grant ran out. Or, perhaps they have a policy of avoiding interference with the subjects. They could have changed methodology in response to the threat of high resolution recording equipment
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Take a picture of a plane with your cellphone. Not to say that there are aliens in any way, but the devices we have can barely capture a decent picture in a grocery store security system. After 20/30 meters pretty much nothing is clear without specialized equipment.
Yeah there is a reason why plane spotters use 400+mm lenses
I'm not sure there was ever the possibility of a really convincing UFO video. I'd be skeptical of something extremely realistic even if we were still in the days before convincing traditional effects. It's just too high a bar - it's much easier to believe that a video was staged, even to an unbelievable level, than it is to believe that it depicts actual beings from another planet. I think that's why the UFO community hangs their hat so much on Disclosure these days. They must realize that only confirmation from a trusted authority could be real confirmation.
They must realize that only confirmation from a trusted authority could be real confirmation.
This is a neat observation because it's ironic on it's face. UFO people actively work to discredit institutions and authority. But you're right, they are desperate for confirmation from the Pentagon, the Vatican, even something on official DMV letterhead would be a blockbuster event in UFO/conspiracy spaces.
You clearly underestimate the stupidity and lack of logic employed by conspiracy theorists.
Well, I mean convincing to the public at large. Yeah I know I guy, otherwise perfectly smart, that is convinced that aliens are real based on the cheesiest, most obviously faked videos from back in the 80s or whatever.
I mean, people thought the pandemic we had going for years and the vaccines that controlled it were hoaxes. That the moon landings never happened and that Earth is flat. You are assuming the bar to close that window is way higher than it actually is.
FWIW, sensible people would be more than capable of identifying that situation correctly. Mostly because one has to assume that an alien visit would be more diplomatic engagement and less playing peek-a-boo with an interstellar vehicle for no discernible reason.
Aliens have been pranking us for millions of years
The good news: if we heard tomorrow that astronomers had discovered an exoplanet with life, it would now sound plausible.
The new benchmark is the pentagon releasing the videos, with radar, and infrared, as well as testimonies to congress from people who are skeptical themselves.
Seriously though, what the actual fuck are those UAP videos... It's fucking wild.
Lens flares, but in IR they look different.
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So i looked into the lens flare thing and I'm not so convinced.
Here's the kicker:
The thing jammed radar.
Multiple pilots VISUALLY saw it.
It was confirmed to have descended 80,000 feet in less than a second, by both radar and a shipborne Aegis system, which prompted the pilots to take to the skies and check it out.
The videos we see aren't the most important pieces of evidence, it's supporting evidence.
Lens flare cannot explain the radar and aegis verification, and subsequent jamming, the visual confirmation, or the physics breaking performance characteristics.
The thing went from hovering stationary, to beyond the speed of sound without creating a sonic boom.
Anything made of meat would be liquefied by the inertia.
There was no visual propulsion, or heat signatures from it.
So, I reiterate, what the fuck is it?
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Why aren't you wearing your flair?