Pentagon releases UFO footage

[mrk]

Unless I missed it, despite the fact he was looking at it with this bare eyes, and had maneuvered his jet to intercept between 2-3 o'clock he never once mentioned what it looked like. They seem to concentrate on the radar images.

I think he did say something about two things hanging off the back, but never said what the object looked like.

He did actually describe it in that interview and specifically said it was essentially a white tic-tac and later went on about how large it was based on his extensive jet fighter pilot experience. His interview is the first time I have seen/read or heard about an encounter spoken by someone who was there and attempted to deal with it first hand and been 100% confident that what he was saying was not only legit, but I could trust his judgement. It took a 4 hours interview to decide that because those hours building up to the talk of tic-tac revolved around us learning who David was, how he got his credentials, the people he knows and still speaks to in power on a daily basis and how he articulates everything.

Like he says, let's forget about little green men and focus on the technology factor. I found is fascinating comparing the likes of Elon Musk vs the US Government where private money can with a click of the fingers can fund an entire business model whereas through government there is all this political red tape and time wasting with regards to new technologies.

 

[Ruki]

Fermi Paradox - there 'might' have been intelligent life but at a completely different time to us and at a vast distance away from us.
I still want to believe though.

Thanks for the reference, I will check it out tonight. Last night I saw a video of Neil deGrasse Tyson with arguments for and against the Simulation Hypothesis, not related to UFOs or extraterrestrial life but interesting as well.

 

[glenimp617]

He did actually describe it in that interview and specifically said it was essentially a white tic-tac and later went on about how large it was based on his extensive jet fighter pilot experience.

ah fair enough

very strange. Can't imagine a flying tictac

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Thanks for the reference, I will check it out tonight

and makes total sense, Star Trek got around it by writing an episode where all the main Aliens eg Cardassians, Vulcans, Ferengi, Klingon, Humans etc were all related from one species 4 billion years earlier.

 

[LCG-xyz]

Fermi Paradox - there 'might' have been intelligent life but at a completely different time to us and at a vast distance away from us.
I still want to believe though.

I was thinking about this, based on our understanding currently we know about quantum entanglement, two particles separated by any distance can change instantaneously.

So an advanced civilisation builds machines containing one half of the entangled pairs and sends them out into the universe searching for life, the entanglement would allow them to interact instantaneously to control the craft and interact with it's surroundings.

That said we could all be a holographic projection and there could be easy ways around traveling great distances that we're simply, currently, unaware of.

It's not outside the realms of possibility for there to be technology from other intelligences on our doorstep.

 

[glenimp617]

I wonder how similar they are to us. Do you think they keep pets, go on holidays, eat takeways etc etc

Maybe there's an alien sat on an internet forum moaning about graphics card being out of stock

No doubt a few years after first contact, McDonalds would be wanting to open a branch on their world It honestly wouldn't surprise me.

What I did find interesting watching all those interviews on youtube, is one of the first things the US government thought when monitoring UFOs where if they were a hostile threat. Pretty much sums us up.

If they were a threat, we wouldn't even know about it.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

If they were a threat, we wouldn't even know about it.

Isn't that the other way around?
If they were a threat we'd certainly know about it but since they don't exist (here and now) the point is mute.

 

[glenimp617]

Isn't that the other way around?
If they were a threat we'd certainly know about it but since they don't exist (here and now) the point is mute.

Nah, if they wanted us gone we wouldn't have a clue

 

[HoneyBadger]

Nah, if they wanted us gone we wouldn't have a clue

Agree. If they have the knowledge and tech to traverse the universe and reach us, they probably have the means to wipe us out before we know we’re under attack.

 

[mrk]

I still don't buy the alien beings notion. I believe if they are from out there somewhere then they are AI controlled probes and nothing more. They may well have been created by beings at one point, but to get here in all the time it has taken, those beings are long gone almost certainly or if they still exist, then the physical aspect of travelling those distances relative to the effects it has such as radiation, time dilation etc are far too severe for any "living" being to survive that length of time and those harsh conditions. It makes total logical sense to send out AI technology to probe the planets all over the galaxy instead and however those probes got here will return back "home" with the data collected or if they are solo AI then will just continue to information gather as they explore the universe forever.

Think about it for a moment, to exit out solar system at the speed of light from the Sun would take 140 hours. Now to put interstellar space into perspective, to reach our closest galaxy (Alpha Centauri) would take 15 years onboard a spaceship but the relative time passed back on Earth would be 2.5 million years and that's at nearly the speed of light as an object of mass cannot go FTL

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I still don't buy the alien beings notion. I believe if they are from out there somewhere then they are AI controlled probes and nothing more. They may well have been created by beings at one point, but to get here in all the time it has taken, those beings are long gone almost certainly or if they still exist, then the physical aspect of travelling those distances relative to the effects it has such as radiation, time dilation etc are far too severe for any "living" being to survive that length of time and those harsh conditions. It makes total logical sense to send out AI technology to probe the planets all over the galaxy instead and however those probes got here will return back "home" with the data collected or if they are solo AI then will just continue to information gather as they explore the universe forever.

Think about it for a moment, to exit out solar system at the speed of light from the Sun would take 140 hours. Now to put interstellar space into perspective, to reach our closest galaxy (Alpha Centauri) would take 15 years onboard a spaceship but the relative time passed back on Earth would be 2.5 million years and that's at nearly the speed of light as an object of mass cannot go FTL

Stop spoiling it with calculations - what about magic and stuff we can just make up?

 

[glenimp617]

Stop spoiling it with calculations - what about magic and stuff we can just make up?

You mean the force?

It's not magic it's alien telekinesis, it's why their heads are so big.

50 years ago humans would think bluetooth and wireless was magic.

In the grand scheme of things, humans might not be that intelligent.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Think about it for a moment, to exit out solar system at the speed of light from the Sun would take 140 hours. Now to put interstellar space into perspective, to reach our closest galaxy (Alpha Centauri) would take 15 years onboard a spaceship but the relative time passed back on Earth would be 2.5 million years and that's at nearly the speed of light as an object of mass cannot go FTL

Our closest galaxy is Andromeda. Alpha Centauri is part of a triple star system that is closest to Earth.

 

[mrk]

Whoops I actually meant Andromeda as had written out my reply referencing Alpha Centauri but to give max perspective figured Andromeda was a better example and simply forgot to update the name in brackets during the edit

 

[MookJong]

Obama chimes in on situation.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Whoops I actually meant Andromeda as had written out my reply referencing Alpha Centauri but to give max perspective figured Andromeda was a better example and simply forgot to update the name in brackets during the edit

 

[Joxeon]

I still don't buy the alien beings notion. I believe if they are from out there somewhere then they are AI controlled probes and nothing more. They may well have been created by beings at one point, but to get here in all the time it has taken, those beings are long gone almost certainly or if they still exist, then the physical aspect of travelling those distances relative to the effects it has such as radiation, time dilation etc are far too severe for any "living" being to survive that length of time and those harsh conditions. It makes total logical sense to send out AI technology to probe the planets all over the galaxy instead and however those probes got here will return back "home" with the data collected or if they are solo AI then will just continue to information gather as they explore the universe forever.

Think about it for a moment, to exit out solar system at the speed of light from the Sun would take 140 hours. Now to put interstellar space into perspective, to reach our closest galaxy (Alpha Centauri) would take 15 years onboard a spaceship but the relative time passed back on Earth would be 2.5 million years and that's at nearly the speed of light as an object of mass cannot go FTL

Applying our current understanding of space travel to what aliens many thousands of years in advance of us is flawed as they might have simple solutions to the problems which seem impossible to us. Even 200 years ago the thought of man going into space and walking on the moon would have seemed impossible.

 

[Richdog]

Obama chimes in on situation.

If a former president who served two terms says "there are things I can't tell you on air about aliens", then you know that he doesn't mean that he can't tell you that aliens don't exist. When a former president who served two terms tells you that "there are things designated UAF's that we can't explain", you know he means that it is not a natural phenomenon nor any known human technology.

I am convinced that within my lifetime, as sensory and aeronautical technology advances in leaps and bounds, there will be confirmation of extraterrestrial life visiting or having visited Earth.

 

[glenimp617]

You'd have thought with the amount of satellites pointing towards the earth, we'd have captured a decent high res shot of something by now

 

[MookJong]

Obama was clearly making a joke about the alien thing, he wasn't joking about the unknow objects and their capability though.