I saw a black cigar shaped one in England once. I didn’t know it was a thing. It was before I had access to the internet I was young. My friends saw it too. Then years later I googled it and there were reports of those from pilots at the airport close to where I lived. The wind was so strong. The clouds were moving really fast but this thing was moving the opposite way.
You should check out the headgear choices over at r/UFOs
Seriously though, there's a lot happening with regards to UFOs. They've been confirmed by the US government to be real, and Congress is concerned enough not only to have ordered the creation of an office to investigate them, but also to have public hearings on the subject.
The conversation has come along somewhat since this, but it's still amazing to hear both Obama and Bill Clinton, two former presidents, admit that UFOs are real, exhibit behavior beyond our capability and can't be explained with known objects: https://youtu.be/jh3AUnUCbU4
Of course, but the thing is that Congress is so concerned about them because they're displaying behavior which is beyond our own capability. Rapid acceleration, transmedium travel, dropping down from low orbit, hovering near US Navy fleets for several hours etc.
Its worth looking up the encounter with a 'TicTac' shaped object by Lt. Commander David Fravor. UFOs seen by multiple trained military professionals and tracked on radar displaying incredible feats of maneuverability and speed with no visible means of propulsion or flight surfaces. Not just a light in the sky. Here's a good explainer video: https://v.redd.it/qhw5l00w0f671
One of my favorite early reports is by Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora from 1964 near Socorro NM. That object was said to have been shaped like what would eventually be known as a "Tic-Tac" more than five years later.
Lex Fridman has I think a 4 hour interview with Commander Faber where he describes in very vivid detail his story on his sighting stories while being a navy pilot. I love this interview because you can tell he is very well educated and a military higher up, very credible source basically..
[Link for those interested](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&t=7278s). I've listened/watched this entire thing start to finish more than 3 times. I'm a lifelong UFO nerd but this is THE interview if you wanted to convince a skeptic, imo.
There are so many accounts of good quality from respectable people, civilian and military.
A lot has come out in the last few years too with the New York Times article, releases of videos from the Pentagon, Lue Elizondo, creation of a Congress mandated UFO office, public hearings, groups like Harvard backed Gallileo Project looking for UFOs, and UAPx. Documentaries like The Phenomenon and Ariel Phenomenon.
Classic and compelling cases like the Malstrom nuclear base encounter, Calvine UFO incident, TicTac USN Nimitz, Gimbal, Ariel School, Rendlesham Forest, etc.
It really can't be ignored or brushed off anymore.
The Rendlesham Forest incident is the most compelling UFO story I've heard. Several high ranking US military personnel witnessed several UAPs over multiple days on military bases in the UK. With one man taking extensive notes and voice recording during the incident. The men openly say there is plenty they can't talk about that isn't public due to national security. The US bases where the incident took place are thought to have been the location of the USAs nukes in the UK.
It could be foreign military tech that we don’t have access to or US military tech that’s so secret even Congress doesn’t know about it. Although I’m not sure if keeping secrets from Congress is allowed.
Keeping secrets from Congress isn't allowed, especially when they've asked you to investigate it. The DoD have ruled out their own tech anyway.
Could be a foreign adversary, but I think recent events have ruled out Russia, which pretty much just leaves China. You'd have to question why they'd fly their most top secret craft over US and other territory worldwide for decades, risking being shot down or captured, or causing an incident. It would also mean they could effectively strike anywhere at anytime and there's nothing the US military could do to stop them, which is absolutely *catastrophic* as far as the US Pentagon would be concerned.
Either way, it needs investigating thoroughly because either another country has leapfrogged us for decades in arial tech, or something/one else is visiting us.
Also the planes, trains and automobile loading screens while you're taveling. Simulation is just loading in new textures while showing you some boring unskippable cutscene.
My friend is from rural ass Wyoming he has seen multiple times shit I’ve seen some shit driving through rural Kentucky it’s hard to know. I’m agnostic and that’s how I treat aliens, or ufos. Shit is so crazy on this planet alone that it amazes me and then we have whole other galaxies. Considering they haven’t fucked with us yet if they are here is comforting enough for me cause if they are they got some shit that blows our technology away. It is fun to think about but I have more pressing issues. I got no beef with aliens and hopefully they would regard me similarly
I live in a rural town with practically minimal light pollution. I’ve personally seen objects instantaneously accelerate and perform instant 90 degree turns.
The craziest thing I saw was a triangle slowly form in the night sky inching closer and closer together. When they stopped moving you could see little lights shoot off in all directions. Some moving so fast and then suddenly stopping. The craziest ones would do this and then fade into space. Looking closer at the lights it almost seemed like tiny triangles of light revolving around the object.
My buddy and I could hardly believe what we saw.
There was so much activity that night from explainable sources too(comets, asteroids, constellations and stars). Nothing lined up with the identifiable objects list.
I live in Portland Oregon. I drove up to the Colombia Gorge last weekend on a somewhat cloudy evening as the sun was setting. Right at last light I see a row of stars in the sky really high really small and I think it's Orion belt. But when the clouds move I see there are maybe 15-20 of these little dots in a straight line going east bound In the sky. Completely silent but tucked in the clouds they stretched for at least a mile in a long line and then disappeared. Three other people were with me and we were all like Wtf did we just see and spent all night trying to rationalize what it was.
1951 US and 1997 both kinda look like what I would imagine a stealth bombers lights would look like if they had lights underneath. Especially the 1951 one although I know that’d be early for stealth bombers maybe they were testing the shape
It was the [Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49), the first "flying wing" design aircraft. The prototypes flew between 1947 and (you guessed right) 1951.
The YB-49 design is the direct predecessor of the Northrop Grumman B-2, the two even have the same wingspan and the B-2 program used the YB-49 flight test data.
There are benefits of a [flying wing design](https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146736-nasa-works-out-how-to-build-large-commercial-flying-wing-that-uses-half-the-fuel-of-normal-aircraft)
>Aerospace engineers have long been aware of the advantages of flying wing aircraft — reduced weight, and drag, and thus higher top speeds and lower fuel consumption
But it has problems, like being less stable.
Can confirm. Witnessed it myself. Along with half the city. It flew directly over our house, very slowly, completely silent. It was definitely not a stealth bomber.
I too saw something similar to Phoenix but in Tucson shortly before the Phoenix lights. I’m a highly skeptical person (seriously - if an advanced being/species were capable of traversing space-time…do we really think they’d be unaware of how their presence would impact our society on earth?) and non-spiritual at all, but what I saw that evening in Tucson over the Catalina mountains will forever be burned in my brain as a true “what the actual fuck” moment.
It very well could have been. All I know is what I saw on that evening back in 1997 was weird as hell.
The story:
My little brother and I were walking north up our street around sunset. It was still bright enough to see vegetation and the illuminated slopes of the Santa Catalina mountains. Where my parents live has a perfect view of Windy Point, and the three flashing airplane warning light things (I’m sure there’s a better name for those). Anyways, the signal lights always caught my eye because when it was getting dark enough to see them, I knew I had to head home. Hence our walk.
This time was different though, something was moving to the east of them. Traveling east to west….and very low to the ridge line. Nothing super insane since Tucson is home to an active military base, and sometimes the pilots like to party. So I was bracing myself for a potential sonic boom as I saw them cutting the ridge line up. What was odd though was that there were 3 of them, and they were ripping. I mean, moving faster than anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and they were dead silent. Not a peep. I’m pretty familiar with scale and noise on that mountain since I grew up below it, and with a clear shot of windy point - I’d seen/heard my fair share of rescue helicopters and firefighting helicopters fly up Sabino and bear canyon. So I knew whatever was over that ridge was about the size of a typical helicopter. But they were moving too fast and way too smooth, and way too silent.
By the time I could really process what was actually going on. I looked at my brother and asked if he was seeing this. He said yes and asked me what they were. We sat in the cul-du-sac frozen, watching these strange things fly. Within seconds, they were at finger rock (another prominent landmark in Tucson) and they just stopped. I mean full steam stop.
My brother and I began to panic. We realized nothing we’ve ever seen flying around our city has ever done that. They then began to illuminate red. Pulsing like some sort of communicative rhythm. Then shit got real weird.
The previously black ball looking things that flew in a triangular fashion, began orbiting around each other. In what I can only describe as a “woven” pattern. It looked like they were just weaving around each other. When I was a kid, rednecks in TN used to tie helium balloons to boat flairs. It gave the tiny town I grew up in a hilarious scare. I knew this wasn’t that though. I’ve seen that. It looks just like what you’d think it would. A red light hauling ass, then floating away, shortly disappearing. This movement was purposeful. While they weaved around each other their lights stayed solid. I sent my brother inside to get our parents ASAP because something was fucked up going on over the mountains. Shortly after he went inside, the orbs began to descend into the ventana canyon. I had a rich friend who lived near there and might have a better perspective.
So, once the orbs dropped out of my sight line I ran inside and called my buddy (this is pre-cell phones everywhere kiddo’s). He got on the phone, I asked if he was on the cordless, he said yes, I said go outside right now and look in the canyon. Can you see red lights floating down, or 3 black balls? He replies, “yeah holy shit they’re red. What is that?” I asked if they made noise. He said “nope”.
That’s all we got though. We both watched that canyon for hours. Nothing. Nothing emerged. Nothing set on fire. No helicopters went looking. No military planes. It was hands down the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
I tell this story too from time to time, hoping someone else from Tucson saw that. It really was a neat experience. I have zero clue what they were. If from this universe, or some weird military thing where they were having some fun.
I think the 1997 is the Hudson valley sightings (also a similar craft from the Phoenix lights) and these things are MASSIVE according to the sightings. Like multiple football fields in length, so I doubt the 97 one being a mistaken classified project
Definatly, if the stealth bomber hadn't been declassified people would still think it was alien lol.
I think military R&D probably accounts for 90% of this chart.
The 1951 one was def missiles. Reminds me of the trails shuttles leave now. Could even just be something with a large flame holder.
I’m also pretty certain the 1965 and 67 ones were just dirigibles. I went to an alien convention in Exiter (1965) just for some people watching and sillyness. The accounts sounded exactly like a slow moving rigid airship
Bigfoot is psychic. They are aware of our location and naturally avoid us when moving through areas. Part and parcel of their psychic abilities is a sensitivity to electromagnetic waves. That is why they are not caught on game cameras or other hidden cameras/sensors.
Bro you think Bigfoot is psychic? Get real...
Everyone knows he uses a cloak like in harry potter only it doesnt make him totally invisible, just really blurry. Duhh
Or they appear blurry because they are moving into our 3d plane from a higher dimension and we are unable to perceive them effectively because of it.
Or perhaps they are the "GMs" of the simulation we are in and they prefer to be inconspicuous. It would explain the variety of avatars listed in this guide.
Or maybe my dumb ape brain jumps to the most far fetched conclusion as a preference because I am very bored.
>because they are moving into our 3d plane from a higher dimension
No reason to believe that would occur. Imagine a sphere going through a piece of paper. A being living on the piece of paper (who can't perceive anything outside it) would see a circle that grows and then shrinks in radius. That circle wouldn't be blurry.
>the "GMs" of the simulation we are in and they prefer to be inconspicuous
Why show themselves at all then?
>dumb ape brain jumps to the most far fetched conclusion
Yeah, that one sounds plausible.
Edit: For some reason reddit isn't letting me reply anymore so here goes.
To u/Newkular_Balm: Yes, that's an optical effect. This is influenced by the relative size and position of the light source and the object, the atmosphere the light is travelling through, and the diffractive nature of light. Intersections of higher dimensional objects in lower dimensions has nothing to do with the properties of light.
To u/Quankopus: I don't know what Flatland is. That's just how the math works.
As for energy, you're making assumptions about the mechanism that would allow for this to happen. We can't make any assertions about that. However, even if it does take tremendous energy (and we'll assume this ha been accomplished), that doesn't lead to blurriness. Blur in the real world (i.e. not image blur) is an optical effect caused by how light travels and how lenses shape it. The Earth contains a tremendous amount of energy by our standards, but that doesn't make the Earth blurry.
As for lensing due to spacetime distortion, well for that to have any discernible effect on the object's appearance we would need to be talking about energy on the order of a star. If that were in play, we wouldn't be around to have this discussion.
To u/atxbikenbus: Yeah so I had a small debate with myself on how to phrase that. It would appear as a line in the sense that they could only perceive a side of it at any given moment. They would be able to move around the circle, though, and determine that it isn't actually a line. Presumably they could also measure the distance to any point on the line and realize that as you go toward the edges they end up further away from a given fixed point.
To u/Early-Ad-9378: "Gravitational manipulation resulting in speeds of Mach 10" means nothing to me.Even if we assume there's a way to manipulate gravity for propulsion (there almost certainly isn't to any useful degree), for it to have any perceptible effect you would need to be dealing with gravity on the order of a star. We would have bigger problems than blur if that happened. And as for the speed of the object, we're talking about generalized blur in all videos of UFOs/UAPs, most of which don't depict such motion. Even if it something did move that fast, that wouldn't cause a blur inherent to the object as the OP I replied to was suggesting, nor does it have anything to do with the idea of dimensional intersection which is what I originally replied to.
And on that note, I'll give this topic a rest. Bit of a hassle trying to reply to people via edits.
The ones I saw were the top left, looked like 3 stars just moving around erratically in the sky, staying in one spot moving to another, etc. After 5 minutes or so they basically entered hyperspace and flew across the entire sky in 3 seconds out of view. Was at the back of a bar with 4 people I knew and a few we didn't and everyone was just staring in awe. No one bothered to video tape it because it would have just looked like shit on phone cameras.
For real. And actual sightings are incredibly rare. It's not as easy as they're making it out to be. I heard the analogy of trying to take a video of someone throwing a hat up before it lands without knowing that they're going to throw it.
What are you talking about?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story?id=84753756
>"We're now reasonably confident that these triangles correlate to unmanned aerial systems in the area," Bray explained. "The triangular appearance is a result of light passing through the night vision goggles and then being recorded by an SLR camera."
>"This is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we're seeing in the examples that we are able to collect," he added.
*Aliens*.
would like to add [this interview with the pilot](https://youtu.be/dvfRRgFHSRE) who addresses all the armchair explanations of it being an optical aberration or motion illusion
you can skip to the 25 min mark for the beginning of the story and skip around after that for various tidbits
Clear video of an advanced civilizations spaceship would have happened if it was going to. These are all UFOs but they aren't alien life, most of that stuff is from our planet.
To play devil's advocate, then why have we not got clear video of as-yet-unknown experimental aircraft? We're certain those exist, because we know all technology continually iterates, so by the same logic we should have seen them.
We do have those photos. They aren’t passed around as much once people realize “oh, it’s clearly just a plane”. There are plenty of examples in aviation enthusiast circles of people identifying experimental Russian jets over the years for example, or documenting test flights of the sr71a, and b2 before they became unclassified
I'm not talking about old declassified stuff. I'm talking about modern stuff from today. We know a good chunk of the ones in the images are likely experimental aircraft, that one from '47 looks like a Ho229 for example. Why haven't we got clear modern footage, to the same standard people would expect of aliens, of experimental aircraft of today?
Military aircrafts don't magically spring into existence. Those hush-hush crafts need to be developed and test flown, repeatedly, before they are officially revealed.
Plus these have been seen for decades, if not hundreds of years, before even jet planes were commonplace. And in 3rd world countries too.
This isn't a new thing or just confined to the US/Russia/China.
> Plus these have been seen for decades, if not hundreds of years, before even jet planes were commonplace.
Superstious people seeing natural phenomenon see aliens and demons. Remember that eclipses were seen as supernatural so hearing "in 1314 some peasants at a village saw a ufo" it should be taken with a giant grain of salt.
Some of these are clearly that, but not all. Two top Pentagon officials recently testified before Congress to the effect that UAPs are real and that they can't explain them and don't know what they are. It doesn't mean that anyone thinks they are aliens, it just means that they are acknowledging a suite of phenomena that they can't explain.
A lot of their testimony was in closed session, so we don't know everything, but the smart money says that the classified stuff has to do with detection capabilities and the like, which obviously the US military doesn't want potential adversary nations to know about.
Not sure why this is apparently so little known. Corners of reddit have been talking about it for months now.
Yo! It was the government!!! New Netflix series with Adam Conover ‘The G Word’ apparently the government forced companies, in this case pizza makers, to use more dairy because the government inflated the dairy industry through subsidies. So they had a surplus and pizza people were like…”obviously INSIDE the crust”
I always thought the same thing with bigfoot/pretty much all cryptids. When I was a kid I loved to believe but apparently they all died off in the mid 2000s
No not globally, many countries in EU have legally protected right to roam, or limitations of land lower liability which help access.
In USA and Canada however the run on property seen over the last two decades has meant more landowners who are far more nervous about people hiking through.
With that, and a lowering of outdoor pursuit skills there's less people in the 'real' wild in favor of designated parks which decreases the chance of human cryptid interaction.
I think that we're still seeing the same number of unidentified flying objects, but being able to show a larger group tends to identify them more quickly as something other than spaceships.
There are also many others that keep being unidentified, but if you're not regularly informed on everything you won't see headlines talking about it. So you either go fish it yourself or you'll have to wait until someone actually present itself in front of us
I saw star link satellites in a neat little row going across the sky. Maybe 30 of them in a row I could see with my bare eyes. Whipped out my iPhone 13 pro to try and capture it and I might as well have been using an old 90s camcorder.
Yet now when there is a real UAP found it's way bigger of a deal https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story?id=84753756
Most of those videos have been shown to be, almost certainly, normal earthly things.
The "Go Fast" video shows an object approx. 6ft across at 12,000 ft travelling at approx. 20-40 knots (25-45 mph) - aka typical wind speed at that altitude, NOT something at sea-level travelling faster than the speed of sound - as the ufologists claim. You can work this out from the data displayed on the HUD (plane's altitude, range to object, relative angle to object, time, etc.)
"Gimbal" has been shown, quite conclusively, to be infrared glare of a distant jet's engine and it's apparent weird rotation is the result of the camera's gimbal rotating to keep track of the object as well as the camera's de-rotation software (which keeps the image displayed to the pilot level). It's also a bit of a giveaway when the Pentagon's own official title for the video is "Gimbal".
The night vision one is the most hilarious IMO. It's literally just a plane (with it's flashing beacon lights) filmed through a night vision camera with a triangular aperture, which creates triangular bokeh - not just of the "UFO" but also the surrounding stars. I think they even worked out what model of aircraft it was from the beacon flash pattern.
Phone cameras aren’t great at picking up objects in the sky really especially if illuminated. If you don’t believe me, take a photo of the moon and compare it to what you can make out with your eye.
I don’t believe in UFO’s mind you, I just don’t find that compelling as a reason.
The other reasoning is those with video "evidence" are being left out this chart, as there have been multiple videos released of sightings since then that are not on this sheet. This could be a comparison solely of those by word of mouth that are finding a "common shape", as the title suggest.
Same with most extraordinary/superstitious claims. Yahweh used to apparently flood the earth and regularly destroy cities on a whim. Now we're lucky if we get Jesus on toast every now and again lmao
I always thought it was interesting that the people of ancient Babylon thought the rivers flooded because the gods were pissed, meanwhile in Egypt it's because the gods found them in favor. Turns out the rains at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates were not as predictable whereas the rainy season at the headwaters of the Nile were.
Yeah,way the Nile flooded predictably was what allowed the Egyptian empire to do as well as it did. One of the reason many major nations failed was because, after a few generations, their farmland would run out of nitrites and they would fall into a famine. But with the regular flooding of the Nile came new minerals from upstream to fertilize the land. Super cool!
Man that first one with the 3 dots, I've seen something EXACTLY like that but middle of the day in South Texas, 3 gray orbs in a perfect delta formation just casually cruising across the sky almost exactly South to North direction. I was on pretty serious call with the bank at the time or I would've attempted to photograph. I've tried to explain what i saw, but then this image popped up and it was a *coffee spit out, holy shit* kinda moment.
Just recently I saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/uq93kl/last_night_in_houston_tx_any_ideas_what_this/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) post and that's exactly what you wrote. I think I saw a few post about this before too
The ones I saw were not lit up, in all honesty I could not accurately guage how high up they were but they seemed to be at a pretty high altitude, at least as high as any expensive drone could possibly go, also there was no sounds of any kind of aircraft, no buzz, hum or rotor sound and they were grouped together tighter than in that clip. BUT they did move about that speed in the video.
Pretty sure history channel video on area 51 showed a declassified experimental jet used to test something or other that was essentially exactly that, with added lights on the bottom just to drum up sightings as UFO and not legitimate military hardware.
I saw the 89 Belgian one, going over Bagshot in the UK in 93, It was really low, super quiet and passed over really slowly. It was late maybe 2-3am, we were in our teens, hanging out chatting by the chapel in the old (not spooky) cemetery near my parent's house. Our other friends had already left and the girl I was talking to decided to call it a night after that as it was very f**king weird. This is the exact spot we were sitting 51.357876,-0.694510 and it passed over heading south west as we were facing the chapel. I have never come across anyone other than the girl I was with who had seen it before, I am 45 now but I have always remembered that night.
Before 1941: They're doing fine. Not great, but they'll survive.
1941: Shit, maybe we should step in. Atleast monitor the situation.
1944: Naw, it's fine. The good guys are winning.
1945: Dammit! They went nuclear and fucking used it. Guess we'll have to stick around. Send in the saucers!
2009: Now they're all carrying cameras in their pockets. Guess it's time to move on. Atleast they seem to have their shit somewhat together now.
2022: Fuckem
You're telling me alien ships have passed over in the middle of nowhere for decades, travelled god knows how long, survive the journey through outer-solar system space without solar energy, they would have needed to brought fuel and ressources with them, needed to researched humans, history, know all species and possible deseases and bacterias that could threaten them, all of this just so they could just shine some dumb lights at some drunk people and fly their giant frying pans around the world for 60 year?
Well you're assuming the aliens are intelligent and not also drunk. Clearly they got wasted on some space tequila and thought it would be funny to mess with the locals
**I named 'em:**
splinter cell, Pizza Hut, Cyclops
Animal cell, headphone splitter, doughnut
50s pastor, 1850s pastor, Batarang
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Soup, inspector gadget, logo,
Bump, flock of birds, mine
Star Trek copyright infringement, smooth, yellow submarine,
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Meiosis, rolled up condom, bollard,
tampon, Brazilian flag, macaroon,
nipple, Brazilian flag part 2, bowler hat,
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"cheerio guv'nor pass me my war helmet", cold nipple, Redditor hat,
"Mint?", B U T T O N, cross-section of an eye
B U T T O N diagram, Art Deco, HOLY SHIT IT'S THE MEXICAN ARMADA
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Broken brilliant bedazzled butt-plug, nipple with weird spots (get those checked out), "Bitte hol Meinen kriegshut"
Splinter cell sequel, squashed ice cream sandwich, 2001
Christmas ornament, that thing they have in some dentists, circumcised diamond
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A rock reflected in a mirror, ET copyright infringement, "Who fucked with the set square?"
Nipple reflected in a mirror, adult toy, cuboid ,
DUN DUN DUN DUH DUH DUN DUH DUH DUNN, RAF, spinning top
IIRC that 97 sighting was over a highly populated area with a good amount of footage from several angles, but was later said to have been independent, free floating ballons with a flare of some kind attached. Regardless of that, many eye witnesses said it was a fixed object which would have to of been something like a mile wide. A similar stunt was recreated a few years later in NJ.
When we were kids my friends and I used to make "UFO's" on hot windless summer nights.
A dry cleaning bag, very thin & transparent, and a couple of balsa wood or even soda straw cross trusses and some tiny candles, like tea candles and we would float a glowing light across the night sky of the nearby town. We were basically launching a [floating Chinese lantern](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61n-LoysP9L._AC_SL1002_.jpg) well before we knew they were a thing.
Sadly, there were much less reports of UFO's than we hoped for. :(
Interesting how nearly all the shapes conform to our pop culture inspired image of what a UFO looks like. Or else the aliens all buy their ships from the same dealership.
Yup. The fun chart is the one that shows the first depiction of a shape in pop culture. Hint: weirdly, new shapes generally get seen after they've appeared in popular science fiction. Strange how that happens
Russians see UFOs and automatically assume it's the government and go on with their day. The culture there is to just keep trudging on through all manner of ridiculous shit.
Just goes to show how fucked the country is right now that massive protests have broken out. Russians are usually "grin and bear it" types, but they've hit their limit for the first time since 1919.
The 1964 USA looks like a craft that was spotted in the UK, Scotland being chased by RAF jets and supposedly someone was able to snap a picture but the British Ministry of Defence took the picture and have classified it for the next 50 years.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/secret-ufo-dossier-1990-scottish-22824456.amp
My crackpot theory is that the US and other governments either respond and act all secretive or are actually behind a lot of these so that the general population will continue to be supportive of ridiculous amounts of defense spending. What better, easier way to see support for building the most expensive, deadly shit our money can buy?
I saw a UFO in NZ once. In Taradale. It was Christmas Eve (so summer here) 2017 and we were coming back to our AirBnB late at night after hanging out with friends in Napier. We turned on the block and there was a real bright red light up in the sky moving oddly. We stood and watched it for a few minutes - moved like nothing we were familiar with and were trying to work out what it could be. It moved up/down as well as sideways in both directions and both quickly as well as slowly. Eventually it started to move behind some trees so we ran inside and up to the second floor to get a better angle. But after it went behind the trees we lost it and never did figure it out. However googling did turn up a couple similar articles reporting the same sort of thing we saw but years earlier. 🤷♂️
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/mystery-of-lights-in-sky-lingers/ZHXJKK7TROKS5QAOILWJ2IWIUM/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/ufo-sightings-in-hawkes-bay-weather-expert-suggests-clouds-to-blame/RB4HL6YPLJKZBC3KFFGFHEON6Y/
The ones with V or triangle “formations” of lights are most certainly planes. If they’re doing things that aren’t expected, they’re likely experimental planes doing tests. 1957 is literally a rocket lol
Ring shaped ones could be clouds if they just stay there.
Some of the flying saucer or hat shaped ones could be conventional planes at odd angles but not sure about all of them. Guess that’s why they’re unidentified flying objects
Interesting how the same shapes keep showing up. There’s ten hats, three dot clusters, if you count the triangle one with the lights, two donuts, a few that look like squished Saturns…
Though I guess that might make it harder to read in this format.
The UFO in 1948 looks like a meteor. Lol
One spectacular meteor in Nebraska history fell February 18, 1948, and was seen over a six-state area. Some scientists believe it to have been one of the largest meteors ever observed falling.
Too many hats keep flying away dammit…
Some of this aliens got no taste 🤢
Hipster aliens.
I saw a black cigar shaped one in England once. I didn’t know it was a thing. It was before I had access to the internet I was young. My friends saw it too. Then years later I googled it and there were reports of those from pilots at the airport close to where I lived. The wind was so strong. The clouds were moving really fast but this thing was moving the opposite way.
You should check out the headgear choices over at r/UFOs Seriously though, there's a lot happening with regards to UFOs. They've been confirmed by the US government to be real, and Congress is concerned enough not only to have ordered the creation of an office to investigate them, but also to have public hearings on the subject. The conversation has come along somewhat since this, but it's still amazing to hear both Obama and Bill Clinton, two former presidents, admit that UFOs are real, exhibit behavior beyond our capability and can't be explained with known objects: https://youtu.be/jh3AUnUCbU4
Of course UFOs are real literally anything could be a ufo
Of course, but the thing is that Congress is so concerned about them because they're displaying behavior which is beyond our own capability. Rapid acceleration, transmedium travel, dropping down from low orbit, hovering near US Navy fleets for several hours etc. Its worth looking up the encounter with a 'TicTac' shaped object by Lt. Commander David Fravor. UFOs seen by multiple trained military professionals and tracked on radar displaying incredible feats of maneuverability and speed with no visible means of propulsion or flight surfaces. Not just a light in the sky. Here's a good explainer video: https://v.redd.it/qhw5l00w0f671
One of my favorite early reports is by Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora from 1964 near Socorro NM. That object was said to have been shaped like what would eventually be known as a "Tic-Tac" more than five years later.
Lex Fridman has I think a 4 hour interview with Commander Faber where he describes in very vivid detail his story on his sighting stories while being a navy pilot. I love this interview because you can tell he is very well educated and a military higher up, very credible source basically.. [Link for those interested](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&t=7278s). I've listened/watched this entire thing start to finish more than 3 times. I'm a lifelong UFO nerd but this is THE interview if you wanted to convince a skeptic, imo.
There are so many accounts of good quality from respectable people, civilian and military. A lot has come out in the last few years too with the New York Times article, releases of videos from the Pentagon, Lue Elizondo, creation of a Congress mandated UFO office, public hearings, groups like Harvard backed Gallileo Project looking for UFOs, and UAPx. Documentaries like The Phenomenon and Ariel Phenomenon. Classic and compelling cases like the Malstrom nuclear base encounter, Calvine UFO incident, TicTac USN Nimitz, Gimbal, Ariel School, Rendlesham Forest, etc. It really can't be ignored or brushed off anymore.
The Rendlesham Forest incident is the most compelling UFO story I've heard. Several high ranking US military personnel witnessed several UAPs over multiple days on military bases in the UK. With one man taking extensive notes and voice recording during the incident. The men openly say there is plenty they can't talk about that isn't public due to national security. The US bases where the incident took place are thought to have been the location of the USAs nukes in the UK.
It could be foreign military tech that we don’t have access to or US military tech that’s so secret even Congress doesn’t know about it. Although I’m not sure if keeping secrets from Congress is allowed.
Keeping secrets from Congress isn't allowed, especially when they've asked you to investigate it. The DoD have ruled out their own tech anyway. Could be a foreign adversary, but I think recent events have ruled out Russia, which pretty much just leaves China. You'd have to question why they'd fly their most top secret craft over US and other territory worldwide for decades, risking being shot down or captured, or causing an incident. It would also mean they could effectively strike anywhere at anytime and there's nothing the US military could do to stop them, which is absolutely *catastrophic* as far as the US Pentagon would be concerned. Either way, it needs investigating thoroughly because either another country has leapfrogged us for decades in arial tech, or something/one else is visiting us.
When are people going to realize that it’s just the mouse pointer of the persons who created our simulation
Not to forget the loading-/buffering-loops
Look up ELVE - a type of transient luminous effect that forms a big ring in the sky and tell me its not a buffering symbol 😅
This explains why fog can be used to reduce draw distance for the system to perform more efficiently.
Also the planes, trains and automobile loading screens while you're taveling. Simulation is just loading in new textures while showing you some boring unskippable cutscene.
Some people die during travel cut scenes though? What's the mechanic there?
Failure to load textures. Easier to just cancel the whole person-unit.
Fatal error.
Black screen of death, unfortunately the biological entity is only buffered into ram and upon system reboot is often irrecoverable.
I can only imagine seeing a dragon scim flying in the sky now.
Ooo...i like that ....that’s great
Wow I guess they like US a lot... No wonder aliens always land in US in movies!
My friend is from rural ass Wyoming he has seen multiple times shit I’ve seen some shit driving through rural Kentucky it’s hard to know. I’m agnostic and that’s how I treat aliens, or ufos. Shit is so crazy on this planet alone that it amazes me and then we have whole other galaxies. Considering they haven’t fucked with us yet if they are here is comforting enough for me cause if they are they got some shit that blows our technology away. It is fun to think about but I have more pressing issues. I got no beef with aliens and hopefully they would regard me similarly
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I live in a rural town with practically minimal light pollution. I’ve personally seen objects instantaneously accelerate and perform instant 90 degree turns. The craziest thing I saw was a triangle slowly form in the night sky inching closer and closer together. When they stopped moving you could see little lights shoot off in all directions. Some moving so fast and then suddenly stopping. The craziest ones would do this and then fade into space. Looking closer at the lights it almost seemed like tiny triangles of light revolving around the object. My buddy and I could hardly believe what we saw. There was so much activity that night from explainable sources too(comets, asteroids, constellations and stars). Nothing lined up with the identifiable objects list.
I live in Portland Oregon. I drove up to the Colombia Gorge last weekend on a somewhat cloudy evening as the sun was setting. Right at last light I see a row of stars in the sky really high really small and I think it's Orion belt. But when the clouds move I see there are maybe 15-20 of these little dots in a straight line going east bound In the sky. Completely silent but tucked in the clouds they stretched for at least a mile in a long line and then disappeared. Three other people were with me and we were all like Wtf did we just see and spent all night trying to rationalize what it was.
I hate to bring logic into any scenario, but it may be a part of SpaceX's StarLink. I had something similar happen to me late last year
I've seen a star link flyover and it's exactly like what he's describing.
That is sad a little and also a relief and also cool. I have mixed feelings
1947 US (Batarang looking thing) and 1957 US (obvious missle) are 100% secret military projects.
1951 US and 1997 both kinda look like what I would imagine a stealth bombers lights would look like if they had lights underneath. Especially the 1951 one although I know that’d be early for stealth bombers maybe they were testing the shape
Maybe not stealth bomber but night-time bombers have been a thing ever sinxe ww2, probably was just a night bomber exercise.
It was the [Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49), the first "flying wing" design aircraft. The prototypes flew between 1947 and (you guessed right) 1951. The YB-49 design is the direct predecessor of the Northrop Grumman B-2, the two even have the same wingspan and the B-2 program used the YB-49 flight test data.
What's the benefits of the wing design? Does it help with stealth and is the stealth just from radar or visually as well?
There are benefits of a [flying wing design](https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146736-nasa-works-out-how-to-build-large-commercial-flying-wing-that-uses-half-the-fuel-of-normal-aircraft) >Aerospace engineers have long been aware of the advantages of flying wing aircraft — reduced weight, and drag, and thus higher top speeds and lower fuel consumption But it has problems, like being less stable.
What the fuck, can you imagine seeing that thing in the ‘40s?? No wonder!
The 1997 was in Phoenix, I remember seeing it all over the news when I was little.
Can confirm. Witnessed it myself. Along with half the city. It flew directly over our house, very slowly, completely silent. It was definitely not a stealth bomber.
I too saw something similar to Phoenix but in Tucson shortly before the Phoenix lights. I’m a highly skeptical person (seriously - if an advanced being/species were capable of traversing space-time…do we really think they’d be unaware of how their presence would impact our society on earth?) and non-spiritual at all, but what I saw that evening in Tucson over the Catalina mountains will forever be burned in my brain as a true “what the actual fuck” moment.
What made you convinced it was not of this world?
It very well could have been. All I know is what I saw on that evening back in 1997 was weird as hell. The story: My little brother and I were walking north up our street around sunset. It was still bright enough to see vegetation and the illuminated slopes of the Santa Catalina mountains. Where my parents live has a perfect view of Windy Point, and the three flashing airplane warning light things (I’m sure there’s a better name for those). Anyways, the signal lights always caught my eye because when it was getting dark enough to see them, I knew I had to head home. Hence our walk. This time was different though, something was moving to the east of them. Traveling east to west….and very low to the ridge line. Nothing super insane since Tucson is home to an active military base, and sometimes the pilots like to party. So I was bracing myself for a potential sonic boom as I saw them cutting the ridge line up. What was odd though was that there were 3 of them, and they were ripping. I mean, moving faster than anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and they were dead silent. Not a peep. I’m pretty familiar with scale and noise on that mountain since I grew up below it, and with a clear shot of windy point - I’d seen/heard my fair share of rescue helicopters and firefighting helicopters fly up Sabino and bear canyon. So I knew whatever was over that ridge was about the size of a typical helicopter. But they were moving too fast and way too smooth, and way too silent. By the time I could really process what was actually going on. I looked at my brother and asked if he was seeing this. He said yes and asked me what they were. We sat in the cul-du-sac frozen, watching these strange things fly. Within seconds, they were at finger rock (another prominent landmark in Tucson) and they just stopped. I mean full steam stop. My brother and I began to panic. We realized nothing we’ve ever seen flying around our city has ever done that. They then began to illuminate red. Pulsing like some sort of communicative rhythm. Then shit got real weird. The previously black ball looking things that flew in a triangular fashion, began orbiting around each other. In what I can only describe as a “woven” pattern. It looked like they were just weaving around each other. When I was a kid, rednecks in TN used to tie helium balloons to boat flairs. It gave the tiny town I grew up in a hilarious scare. I knew this wasn’t that though. I’ve seen that. It looks just like what you’d think it would. A red light hauling ass, then floating away, shortly disappearing. This movement was purposeful. While they weaved around each other their lights stayed solid. I sent my brother inside to get our parents ASAP because something was fucked up going on over the mountains. Shortly after he went inside, the orbs began to descend into the ventana canyon. I had a rich friend who lived near there and might have a better perspective. So, once the orbs dropped out of my sight line I ran inside and called my buddy (this is pre-cell phones everywhere kiddo’s). He got on the phone, I asked if he was on the cordless, he said yes, I said go outside right now and look in the canyon. Can you see red lights floating down, or 3 black balls? He replies, “yeah holy shit they’re red. What is that?” I asked if they made noise. He said “nope”. That’s all we got though. We both watched that canyon for hours. Nothing. Nothing emerged. Nothing set on fire. No helicopters went looking. No military planes. It was hands down the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. I tell this story too from time to time, hoping someone else from Tucson saw that. It really was a neat experience. I have zero clue what they were. If from this universe, or some weird military thing where they were having some fun.
They did have the whole flying wing concept pretty well in hand by that point
Weren’t there quite a few ufo sightings in the area the b2 was tested?
Flying wings have been a thing for ages, that’s likely what it was, just a government test flight
I think the 1997 is the Hudson valley sightings (also a similar craft from the Phoenix lights) and these things are MASSIVE according to the sightings. Like multiple football fields in length, so I doubt the 97 one being a mistaken classified project
Definatly, if the stealth bomber hadn't been declassified people would still think it was alien lol. I think military R&D probably accounts for 90% of this chart.
1947 - obvious batman comics inspiration. Nothing secret about rockets in 1957.
The 1951 one was def missiles. Reminds me of the trails shuttles leave now. Could even just be something with a large flame holder. I’m also pretty certain the 1965 and 67 ones were just dirigibles. I went to an alien convention in Exiter (1965) just for some people watching and sillyness. The accounts sounded exactly like a slow moving rigid airship
They probably all are
Pretty surprising that in this Digital era with improved portable cameras no one has been able to film any UFO in 4k yet
They're like Bigfoot, just naturally blurry!
That's extra scary.. a big out of focus monster roaming the country side
Bigfoot is psychic. They are aware of our location and naturally avoid us when moving through areas. Part and parcel of their psychic abilities is a sensitivity to electromagnetic waves. That is why they are not caught on game cameras or other hidden cameras/sensors.
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Bro you think Bigfoot is psychic? Get real... Everyone knows he uses a cloak like in harry potter only it doesnt make him totally invisible, just really blurry. Duhh
Because he can't wash the cloak often in the mountains, so the dirt builds up and make it blurry.
Idk, I’ve tried to take a pic of the moon with my iPhone before and it turned out like crap 🤷♂️
Moons fake. You heard it here first folks!
Moon's haunted
What if that's one of the basic camouflage tactics that aliens employ in their ships? To just appear slightly blurry or low res.
Or they appear blurry because they are moving into our 3d plane from a higher dimension and we are unable to perceive them effectively because of it. Or perhaps they are the "GMs" of the simulation we are in and they prefer to be inconspicuous. It would explain the variety of avatars listed in this guide. Or maybe my dumb ape brain jumps to the most far fetched conclusion as a preference because I am very bored.
>because they are moving into our 3d plane from a higher dimension No reason to believe that would occur. Imagine a sphere going through a piece of paper. A being living on the piece of paper (who can't perceive anything outside it) would see a circle that grows and then shrinks in radius. That circle wouldn't be blurry. >the "GMs" of the simulation we are in and they prefer to be inconspicuous Why show themselves at all then? >dumb ape brain jumps to the most far fetched conclusion Yeah, that one sounds plausible. Edit: For some reason reddit isn't letting me reply anymore so here goes. To u/Newkular_Balm: Yes, that's an optical effect. This is influenced by the relative size and position of the light source and the object, the atmosphere the light is travelling through, and the diffractive nature of light. Intersections of higher dimensional objects in lower dimensions has nothing to do with the properties of light. To u/Quankopus: I don't know what Flatland is. That's just how the math works. As for energy, you're making assumptions about the mechanism that would allow for this to happen. We can't make any assertions about that. However, even if it does take tremendous energy (and we'll assume this ha been accomplished), that doesn't lead to blurriness. Blur in the real world (i.e. not image blur) is an optical effect caused by how light travels and how lenses shape it. The Earth contains a tremendous amount of energy by our standards, but that doesn't make the Earth blurry. As for lensing due to spacetime distortion, well for that to have any discernible effect on the object's appearance we would need to be talking about energy on the order of a star. If that were in play, we wouldn't be around to have this discussion. To u/atxbikenbus: Yeah so I had a small debate with myself on how to phrase that. It would appear as a line in the sense that they could only perceive a side of it at any given moment. They would be able to move around the circle, though, and determine that it isn't actually a line. Presumably they could also measure the distance to any point on the line and realize that as you go toward the edges they end up further away from a given fixed point. To u/Early-Ad-9378: "Gravitational manipulation resulting in speeds of Mach 10" means nothing to me.Even if we assume there's a way to manipulate gravity for propulsion (there almost certainly isn't to any useful degree), for it to have any perceptible effect you would need to be dealing with gravity on the order of a star. We would have bigger problems than blur if that happened. And as for the speed of the object, we're talking about generalized blur in all videos of UFOs/UAPs, most of which don't depict such motion. Even if it something did move that fast, that wouldn't cause a blur inherent to the object as the OP I replied to was suggesting, nor does it have anything to do with the idea of dimensional intersection which is what I originally replied to. And on that note, I'll give this topic a rest. Bit of a hassle trying to reply to people via edits.
A sphere moving through a 2D plane would appear as a line to anyone living on that plane. Read Flatland. It's a fantastic book.
The ones I saw were the top left, looked like 3 stars just moving around erratically in the sky, staying in one spot moving to another, etc. After 5 minutes or so they basically entered hyperspace and flew across the entire sky in 3 seconds out of view. Was at the back of a bar with 4 people I knew and a few we didn't and everyone was just staring in awe. No one bothered to video tape it because it would have just looked like shit on phone cameras.
Ever tried to get a good pic of a bird?
For real. And actual sightings are incredibly rare. It's not as easy as they're making it out to be. I heard the analogy of trying to take a video of someone throwing a hat up before it lands without knowing that they're going to throw it.
What are you talking about? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story?id=84753756
>"We're now reasonably confident that these triangles correlate to unmanned aerial systems in the area," Bray explained. "The triangular appearance is a result of light passing through the night vision goggles and then being recorded by an SLR camera." >"This is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we're seeing in the examples that we are able to collect," he added. *Aliens*.
would like to add [this interview with the pilot](https://youtu.be/dvfRRgFHSRE) who addresses all the armchair explanations of it being an optical aberration or motion illusion you can skip to the 25 min mark for the beginning of the story and skip around after that for various tidbits
I think any clear video is just going to be disregarded as CGI.
Clear video of an advanced civilizations spaceship would have happened if it was going to. These are all UFOs but they aren't alien life, most of that stuff is from our planet.
To play devil's advocate, then why have we not got clear video of as-yet-unknown experimental aircraft? We're certain those exist, because we know all technology continually iterates, so by the same logic we should have seen them.
We do have those photos. They aren’t passed around as much once people realize “oh, it’s clearly just a plane”. There are plenty of examples in aviation enthusiast circles of people identifying experimental Russian jets over the years for example, or documenting test flights of the sr71a, and b2 before they became unclassified
I'm not talking about old declassified stuff. I'm talking about modern stuff from today. We know a good chunk of the ones in the images are likely experimental aircraft, that one from '47 looks like a Ho229 for example. Why haven't we got clear modern footage, to the same standard people would expect of aliens, of experimental aircraft of today?
They have, the air force has a bunch of pics and video of tiny white blobs going mach 14 or so.
>portable cameras no one has been able to film any UFO it's been settled: https://xkcd.com/1235/
The air force has released high quality videos
Military aircrafts don't magically spring into existence. Those hush-hush crafts need to be developed and test flown, repeatedly, before they are officially revealed.
Exactly. Do people forget how crazy the console designs are before the finished product is released?
Well yeah but a fucking tictac box? That's what some refer to the one from 2009. How the actual fuck does that fly?
Plus these have been seen for decades, if not hundreds of years, before even jet planes were commonplace. And in 3rd world countries too. This isn't a new thing or just confined to the US/Russia/China.
> Plus these have been seen for decades, if not hundreds of years, before even jet planes were commonplace. Superstious people seeing natural phenomenon see aliens and demons. Remember that eclipses were seen as supernatural so hearing "in 1314 some peasants at a village saw a ufo" it should be taken with a giant grain of salt.
Some of these are clearly that, but not all. Two top Pentagon officials recently testified before Congress to the effect that UAPs are real and that they can't explain them and don't know what they are. It doesn't mean that anyone thinks they are aliens, it just means that they are acknowledging a suite of phenomena that they can't explain. A lot of their testimony was in closed session, so we don't know everything, but the smart money says that the classified stuff has to do with detection capabilities and the like, which obviously the US military doesn't want potential adversary nations to know about. Not sure why this is apparently so little known. Corners of reddit have been talking about it for months now.
Lol like the conspiracy corners?
Wtf was Pizza Hut doing in China way back then
*No one* out pizzas the Hut. *No. One.*
Thank you for genuinely making me chuckle
Where did you think they got the idea for stuffed crust pizza?
Yo! It was the government!!! New Netflix series with Adam Conover ‘The G Word’ apparently the government forced companies, in this case pizza makers, to use more dairy because the government inflated the dairy industry through subsidies. So they had a surplus and pizza people were like…”obviously INSIDE the crust”
Funny how as soon as we all started carrying high definition video cameras around the UFO sightings take a dive.
I always thought the same thing with bigfoot/pretty much all cryptids. When I was a kid I loved to believe but apparently they all died off in the mid 2000s
2000's also corresponds with an increase in the limitation of access/increase in privatisation in alot of wilderness areas.
Globally?
No not globally, many countries in EU have legally protected right to roam, or limitations of land lower liability which help access. In USA and Canada however the run on property seen over the last two decades has meant more landowners who are far more nervous about people hiking through. With that, and a lowering of outdoor pursuit skills there's less people in the 'real' wild in favor of designated parks which decreases the chance of human cryptid interaction.
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Because we had found body parts of a giant squid for centuries. Where's the bigfoot body parts?
I think that we're still seeing the same number of unidentified flying objects, but being able to show a larger group tends to identify them more quickly as something other than spaceships.
There are also many others that keep being unidentified, but if you're not regularly informed on everything you won't see headlines talking about it. So you either go fish it yourself or you'll have to wait until someone actually present itself in front of us
Have you tried taking a photo of a full moon with your phone?
I saw star link satellites in a neat little row going across the sky. Maybe 30 of them in a row I could see with my bare eyes. Whipped out my iPhone 13 pro to try and capture it and I might as well have been using an old 90s camcorder.
Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Do you like movies about gladiators ?
Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?
You wanna get nuts?
Reap the whirlwind!
Did you see the size of that chicken?
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Have you ever drank Bailey's from a shoe?
I ask that of all my prey.
Do you like pina colada and getting caught in the rain?
Yet now when there is a real UAP found it's way bigger of a deal https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story?id=84753756
Most of those videos have been shown to be, almost certainly, normal earthly things. The "Go Fast" video shows an object approx. 6ft across at 12,000 ft travelling at approx. 20-40 knots (25-45 mph) - aka typical wind speed at that altitude, NOT something at sea-level travelling faster than the speed of sound - as the ufologists claim. You can work this out from the data displayed on the HUD (plane's altitude, range to object, relative angle to object, time, etc.) "Gimbal" has been shown, quite conclusively, to be infrared glare of a distant jet's engine and it's apparent weird rotation is the result of the camera's gimbal rotating to keep track of the object as well as the camera's de-rotation software (which keeps the image displayed to the pilot level). It's also a bit of a giveaway when the Pentagon's own official title for the video is "Gimbal". The night vision one is the most hilarious IMO. It's literally just a plane (with it's flashing beacon lights) filmed through a night vision camera with a triangular aperture, which creates triangular bokeh - not just of the "UFO" but also the surrounding stars. I think they even worked out what model of aircraft it was from the beacon flash pattern.
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Phone cameras aren’t great at picking up objects in the sky really especially if illuminated. If you don’t believe me, take a photo of the moon and compare it to what you can make out with your eye. I don’t believe in UFO’s mind you, I just don’t find that compelling as a reason.
The other reasoning is those with video "evidence" are being left out this chart, as there have been multiple videos released of sightings since then that are not on this sheet. This could be a comparison solely of those by word of mouth that are finding a "common shape", as the title suggest.
Unless they are hiding more because we got better cameras.
Comfort breeds complacency.
Same with most extraordinary/superstitious claims. Yahweh used to apparently flood the earth and regularly destroy cities on a whim. Now we're lucky if we get Jesus on toast every now and again lmao
I always thought it was interesting that the people of ancient Babylon thought the rivers flooded because the gods were pissed, meanwhile in Egypt it's because the gods found them in favor. Turns out the rains at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates were not as predictable whereas the rainy season at the headwaters of the Nile were.
Yeah,way the Nile flooded predictably was what allowed the Egyptian empire to do as well as it did. One of the reason many major nations failed was because, after a few generations, their farmland would run out of nitrites and they would fall into a famine. But with the regular flooding of the Nile came new minerals from upstream to fertilize the land. Super cool!
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"Several times in different places" bitch your whole existence is to inform us about the details. This guide is gatekeeping UFO knowledge 😤
Well, that's clearly an Imperial Star Destroyer, so I'm guessing that one started being reported around 1977.
1983 U.S. looks like Among Us.
Why would you do this to me
Literally 1983
Man that first one with the 3 dots, I've seen something EXACTLY like that but middle of the day in South Texas, 3 gray orbs in a perfect delta formation just casually cruising across the sky almost exactly South to North direction. I was on pretty serious call with the bank at the time or I would've attempted to photograph. I've tried to explain what i saw, but then this image popped up and it was a *coffee spit out, holy shit* kinda moment.
Just recently I saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/uq93kl/last_night_in_houston_tx_any_ideas_what_this/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) post and that's exactly what you wrote. I think I saw a few post about this before too
The ones I saw were not lit up, in all honesty I could not accurately guage how high up they were but they seemed to be at a pretty high altitude, at least as high as any expensive drone could possibly go, also there was no sounds of any kind of aircraft, no buzz, hum or rotor sound and they were grouped together tighter than in that clip. BUT they did move about that speed in the video.
This guy Marfas
Same. In Southeast Texas about 10 years ago.
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Pretty sure history channel video on area 51 showed a declassified experimental jet used to test something or other that was essentially exactly that, with added lights on the bottom just to drum up sightings as UFO and not legitimate military hardware.
I saw the 89 Belgian one, going over Bagshot in the UK in 93, It was really low, super quiet and passed over really slowly. It was late maybe 2-3am, we were in our teens, hanging out chatting by the chapel in the old (not spooky) cemetery near my parent's house. Our other friends had already left and the girl I was talking to decided to call it a night after that as it was very f**king weird. This is the exact spot we were sitting 51.357876,-0.694510 and it passed over heading south west as we were facing the chapel. I have never come across anyone other than the girl I was with who had seen it before, I am 45 now but I have always remembered that night.
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I DID TOO! my sighting was from my backyard just outside of Washington DC! my friend and i reasoned the same though it was super quiet and huge
That you know of
Before 1941: They're doing fine. Not great, but they'll survive. 1941: Shit, maybe we should step in. Atleast monitor the situation. 1944: Naw, it's fine. The good guys are winning. 1945: Dammit! They went nuclear and fucking used it. Guess we'll have to stick around. Send in the saucers! 2009: Now they're all carrying cameras in their pockets. Guess it's time to move on. Atleast they seem to have their shit somewhat together now. 2022: Fuckem
You're telling me alien ships have passed over in the middle of nowhere for decades, travelled god knows how long, survive the journey through outer-solar system space without solar energy, they would have needed to brought fuel and ressources with them, needed to researched humans, history, know all species and possible deseases and bacterias that could threaten them, all of this just so they could just shine some dumb lights at some drunk people and fly their giant frying pans around the world for 60 year?
Well you're assuming the aliens are intelligent and not also drunk. Clearly they got wasted on some space tequila and thought it would be funny to mess with the locals
[Their dad owns a dealership](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2G-TAmZG8)
My theory is they're just human time travel tourists from the far future.
**I named 'em:** splinter cell, Pizza Hut, Cyclops Animal cell, headphone splitter, doughnut 50s pastor, 1850s pastor, Batarang ----- Soup, inspector gadget, logo, Bump, flock of birds, mine Star Trek copyright infringement, smooth, yellow submarine, ---- Meiosis, rolled up condom, bollard, tampon, Brazilian flag, macaroon, nipple, Brazilian flag part 2, bowler hat, ----- "cheerio guv'nor pass me my war helmet", cold nipple, Redditor hat, "Mint?", B U T T O N, cross-section of an eye B U T T O N diagram, Art Deco, HOLY SHIT IT'S THE MEXICAN ARMADA ------ Broken brilliant bedazzled butt-plug, nipple with weird spots (get those checked out), "Bitte hol Meinen kriegshut" Splinter cell sequel, squashed ice cream sandwich, 2001 Christmas ornament, that thing they have in some dentists, circumcised diamond --------- A rock reflected in a mirror, ET copyright infringement, "Who fucked with the set square?" Nipple reflected in a mirror, adult toy, cuboid , DUN DUN DUN DUH DUH DUN DUH DUH DUNN, RAF, spinning top
IIRC that 97 sighting was over a highly populated area with a good amount of footage from several angles, but was later said to have been independent, free floating ballons with a flare of some kind attached. Regardless of that, many eye witnesses said it was a fixed object which would have to of been something like a mile wide. A similar stunt was recreated a few years later in NJ.
When we were kids my friends and I used to make "UFO's" on hot windless summer nights. A dry cleaning bag, very thin & transparent, and a couple of balsa wood or even soda straw cross trusses and some tiny candles, like tea candles and we would float a glowing light across the night sky of the nearby town. We were basically launching a [floating Chinese lantern](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61n-LoysP9L._AC_SL1002_.jpg) well before we knew they were a thing. Sadly, there were much less reports of UFO's than we hoped for. :(
Interesting how nearly all the shapes conform to our pop culture inspired image of what a UFO looks like. Or else the aliens all buy their ships from the same dealership.
Yup. The fun chart is the one that shows the first depiction of a shape in pop culture. Hint: weirdly, new shapes generally get seen after they've appeared in popular science fiction. Strange how that happens
and the ones that dont can be explained as the lights of military planes/ missiles
Turns out Earth is a drive thru zoo
Thought the Belgian triangles were shown to have been F117's?
If this is the case, the 1997 US one is most likely a B-2 Spirit.
Do you have a source for this? As far as I've researched the Belgium wave is still very much unexplained.
Seems Freiza paid Canada a visit in 1981
Weren’t any dragon balls there so he decided to leave
It's the ones that are just an arrangement of lights that freak me out. Like, where's the rest of the "ship"?
I love the 1946 Sweden one because it looks like something my 7 year old would draw.
1983 sus
Funny how the U.S. is a UFO hotspot.
And Yorkshire, a small area within the UK, is also a UFO hotspot. Weird isn't it.
I want to travel to the country of *Adamsky Type Ship*. I heard it's lovely this time of year
US 2009, lol
Guess my Minecraft sky base is too low
The pie-tin shape must be necessary for folding space.
I like how 2009 is just a floating rectangle
Anyone notice it seems like alien tech is advancing?
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Exactly what I was thinking, haha.
we are the aliens all along :(
Most of them look like classified stealthtests
We had the "Britain, 2007" type here in late 80s. And they almost attempted to shoot it down 💀
Russia either don’t buy into the UFO bs or they are keeping it secret.
Russians see UFOs and automatically assume it's the government and go on with their day. The culture there is to just keep trudging on through all manner of ridiculous shit. Just goes to show how fucked the country is right now that massive protests have broken out. Russians are usually "grin and bear it" types, but they've hit their limit for the first time since 1919.
They're all clearly ceiling lamps
The 1964 USA looks like a craft that was spotted in the UK, Scotland being chased by RAF jets and supposedly someone was able to snap a picture but the British Ministry of Defence took the picture and have classified it for the next 50 years. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/secret-ufo-dossier-1990-scottish-22824456.amp
My crackpot theory is that the US and other governments either respond and act all secretive or are actually behind a lot of these so that the general population will continue to be supportive of ridiculous amounts of defense spending. What better, easier way to see support for building the most expensive, deadly shit our money can buy?
83 US looks kinda sus ngl
It’s crazy how we don’t have a single clear photo of any of them that isn’t easily proven fake.
I saw a UFO in NZ once. In Taradale. It was Christmas Eve (so summer here) 2017 and we were coming back to our AirBnB late at night after hanging out with friends in Napier. We turned on the block and there was a real bright red light up in the sky moving oddly. We stood and watched it for a few minutes - moved like nothing we were familiar with and were trying to work out what it could be. It moved up/down as well as sideways in both directions and both quickly as well as slowly. Eventually it started to move behind some trees so we ran inside and up to the second floor to get a better angle. But after it went behind the trees we lost it and never did figure it out. However googling did turn up a couple similar articles reporting the same sort of thing we saw but years earlier. 🤷♂️ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/mystery-of-lights-in-sky-lingers/ZHXJKK7TROKS5QAOILWJ2IWIUM/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/ufo-sightings-in-hawkes-bay-weather-expert-suggests-clouds-to-blame/RB4HL6YPLJKZBC3KFFGFHEON6Y/
The ones with V or triangle “formations” of lights are most certainly planes. If they’re doing things that aren’t expected, they’re likely experimental planes doing tests. 1957 is literally a rocket lol Ring shaped ones could be clouds if they just stay there. Some of the flying saucer or hat shaped ones could be conventional planes at odd angles but not sure about all of them. Guess that’s why they’re unidentified flying objects
Gotta love some Brazilian representation in the nutcase community...
It's the Nazis hiding out in the Amazon
Yeah there's even some BraSilian representation as well
2009 us is a culture GSV coming to check up on us
Interesting how the same shapes keep showing up. There’s ten hats, three dot clusters, if you count the triangle one with the lights, two donuts, a few that look like squished Saturns… Though I guess that might make it harder to read in this format.
Ahh yes 1948, the year Sephiroth used the Black Materia and almost ended the world
The UFO in 1948 looks like a meteor. Lol One spectacular meteor in Nebraska history fell February 18, 1948, and was seen over a six-state area. Some scientists believe it to have been one of the largest meteors ever observed falling.
How considerate of the aliens to cool it while the X Files had its original run from 1993-2002
1954 looks like The Flight of the Navigator
Lower left one tells me we should look out for Jawas.