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Posted by david-gpu 1 day ago

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos(www.war.gov)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufos-uap-aliens-pentagon-re...

https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release

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techteach00 1 day ago|
I want to believe this is legitimate but since when has the government treated it's citizens as informed adults? This is coming from someone who has seen multiple unidentified orange orbs in his life. Interesting I guess.
Stevvo 1 day ago||
The cynical take would be that releasing the X-Files is only meant to distract from the Epstein files and/or failed war in Iran.
techteach00 1 day ago||
Ya or maybe pandering to what the admin thinks is a small part of the GOP base that is interested in these things.

The UI is awful btw. I want searchable folders.

OutOfHere 1 day ago||
When and where have you seen the orange orbs? What were they doing? Have you managed to record any?
techteach00 1 day ago||
I can email if you want. I have video and clear photographs.
macartain 23 hours ago||
Use that internet thing to pop them on a 'website' and we can all take a look, no?
techteach00 23 hours ago||
I'm not even being dense. What's the best non sign up privacy focused photo hosting site? I'm not using Flickr lol
bigyabai 23 hours ago||
This one is a favorite among Mongolian basket weavers: https://catbox.moe/
techteach00 22 hours ago||
Okay here we go.

I think this was two winters ago. They floated, sometimes would briefly hold position. Third time in the past decade I encountered them.

I pulled to the side of the road. Nobody else pulled over or noticed. Encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes. I honestly don't remember.

https://files.catbox.moe/05tysy.jpg

https://files.catbox.moe/g46n6f.jpg

https://files.catbox.moe/xz7bux.jpg

krferriter 21 hours ago|||
What do you mean by "encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes"? Where did the lights go after the 5 minutes? From your description these could potentially be military grade illumination flares, which fall very slowly and can burn for several minutes.

From the photos alone it's also hard to rule out distant airplanes with their bright forward landing lights on. When planes are flying towards you they appear to move very slowly and at a distance they appear as single bright orange/yellow glowing spots. Take this example showing 3 airplanes a few miles away:

https://i.imgur.com/vVB6Cf0.png

They could also be drones or helicopters with bright spotlights on. Hard to say with this.

techteach00 12 hours ago||
"Where did the lights go after the 5 minutes".

They just fell out of my sightline. Whether trees or something else. It's fairly urban where I am, always stuff blocking the view. Not like the great plains, desert etc.

verteu 17 hours ago||||
Neat, thanks for sharing! I suppose drones are the most likely explanation?
techteach00 12 hours ago||
So this is central New Jersey. And yes they could be literally anything except helicopters or airplanes. I know what those are.

I feel thankful whenever I get to see them though. Just bizarre and different. Hope I get to see them again soon.

OutOfHere 12 hours ago||
If you have good zoom binoculars or a zoom monocular, and a bit of practice, you can zoom in if you can hold it very steady, such at a window sill or against the window itself.
OutOfHere 22 hours ago|||
We're seeing two sets of UAPs -- blue on the left and yellow on the right. Were there really two sets when you were looking? Or is one of them a photographic artifact?
techteach00 21 hours ago||
The blue is water on my window. I forgot to mention.
danbruc 1 day ago||
What fraction of the population of your average country has done some serious thinking about UFOs? What fraction of those thinks at least one of those unexplained events involved aliens?
mapontosevenths 23 hours ago|
Argumentum ad Populum.
danbruc 20 hours ago||
No, I was only wondering how many people believe that we were visited by aliens for somewhat reasonable reasons. I would guess quite a few people would say that they believe that at least one of the UFO sightings was an actual UFO but I would also guess that most people are only informed by headlines or History Channel documentaries and only relatively few people have dedicated some non-trivial amount of time to look into the topic like you would for other topics that interest you.
wincy 19 hours ago||
I mean, when I was younger I thought “maybe angels and demons and all that stuff was aliens”, but probably just lots of hallucinating mostly.
mentalgear 1 day ago||
Ah, another great Distraction from the Epstein Files and rampageous inflation due to an utterly unnecessary war the No-War FIFA peace-prize Orange-Man led the world into. Some say the Orange Man is the real proof Aliens exists - at least alien to what is considered human intelligence.

> STATEMENT: "The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency." -United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

If they truly want to 'serve the people' it would be time to release the full Epstein files - or at least stop starting wars and/or supporting warmongers while profiting of the resulting world-wide miseries with their insider trading.

proee 1 day ago||
why not release them all at once?
cdot2 1 day ago||
They all have to be manually cleared for release
goda90 1 day ago||
Can't have people asking why another certain set of files weren't all released at once, too.
cubefox 19 hours ago||
A bit unfortunate that the terminology was changed from UFO to UAP. I liked UFO, most people knew what it meant, unlike UAP.
mcswell 13 hours ago|
There may actually have been a legitimate reason for that. First, not all these "things" are said to be flying, some are supposed to have gone underwater (although "Aerial" sort of wrecks that idea). Second (and IMO more important), "Object" (in UFO) begs the question of whether these are objects. Many of them are not--they're artifacts in imaging or radar systems, or optical illusions--perhaps intentional illusions. ("Things" that appear to be moving really fast, then take a sudden turn, are easily imitated by lines of drones carrying radar and/or visual transponders.)
fudged71 1 day ago||
This reminds me of how long it's been since they promised to release all the Epstein files
skinfaxi 1 day ago|
The difference in quality of releases is pretty shocking.
krapp 1 day ago||
That's how you can tell there's something in the Epstein files worth hiding and nothing in this worth revealing.
Mobius01 21 hours ago||
Am I supposed to take The Department of Defense seriously when the presentation of these alleged real findings looks like a website best described as marketing for the Call of Duty crowd?
catlifeonmars 13 hours ago||
“War.gov”. Yeah ok.
blastro 1 day ago|
So "no" to Epstein, but "yes" to "aliens". That tracks.
SV_BubbleTime 1 day ago|
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MSFT_Edging 1 day ago|||
Once you understand that legitimacy of rule by the wealthy is the primary corner stone of the United States, you'll understand that even the wealthy who didn't participate in the Epstein coalition don't want to open that can of worms.

It's why the Democrats keep only pushing social issues, they are captured and cannot make any radical change without losing the support of their wealthy donors.

Another way to look at it, consider that every coup that occurred in South America was done extra-legally to protect American corporate/monetary interests.

mejari 22 hours ago||||
Because he legally was not allowed to as they were still in active use in legal proceedings.
SV_BubbleTime 20 hours ago||
Which legal proceedings and what date did they end? I looked into this and found no facts to support it.
mejari 16 hours ago||
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8e2kvzen7o
SV_BubbleTime 13 hours ago||
Those were released and have nothing implicating Trump. In fact, can you point to anything that has implicated Trump in wrong doing?
mejari 11 hours ago||
Sorry, did you forget the comment chain you were commenting on? This wasn't about files that were currently unreleased, it was discussing why Biden didn't release them during his presidency.

As far as Trump goes, yes, he's implicated all over the files. A simple search on any search engine will find plenty of examples for you.

xp84 22 hours ago||||
Personally I think anyone who believes there’s a stack of “files” sitting somewhere which culminate in a spreadsheet of “Famous politician / # of underage girls we can prove he assaulted” is fantasizing and thinking the world is just like an exciting John Grisham novel.

Anyone who’s guilty of that either has sufficient corrupt clout to have eliminated the evidence of their crimes (thus no “files” threaten them), or, are already known about.

And come on, with the guy at the top of the government being very likely one of them and very openly and obviously corrupt, it is more of a stretch for me to believe that “Epstein permanent deletion service” isn’t an item on his main bribe menu.

vscode-rest 23 hours ago||||
Sponsors
SV_BubbleTime 20 hours ago||
It’s a wild web of alliances if Biden and the DNC had evidence of Trump impropriety with Epstein which would be the absolute defined end of Trump, and refused to play even that small bit in the event that it implicated a Sponsor too.
vscode-rest 19 hours ago||
That would not end Trump in any way. Just as it has not ended any politicians at all.

Consider: if Kamala ended up on the files, would any liberals vote for Trump?

But, for a random wealthy donor it’d be rather inconvenient to be in the files and they’ll pay for not being included in the releases.

And: a sponsor? Think: most sponsors, and the establishment politicians.

cindyllm 1 day ago|||
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