[HN Gopher] UFOs: What we learned from NASA's public meeting
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UFOs: What we learned from NASA's public meeting
Author : beefman
Score : 11 points
Date : 2023-05-31 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| thedangler wrote:
| I'm taking a different approach to disclosing UFOs If they did
| come out and say " yeah we've known for a while" you have to
| realize that the world economy would crash.
|
| Eventually there would be Instant transportation for everyone and
| Free energy for everyone
|
| That is why disclosure will never happen until the powers that be
| all die off or something unimaginable happens.
|
| My two cents.
| Spk-17 wrote:
| The number of people you know who have already had close
| encounters is incredible, it cannot be that they are all crazy,
| something has to be true and it is true that they are covering
| it up for that reason. It makes us believe that this is not
| possible and that there is nothing more than what they sell us,
| but surely there is much more than we imagine. But going back
| to what we know, I'm sure we all have a familiar person who
| claims to have seen something strange.
| Zetice wrote:
| Why can't it be that all self reported close encounters are
| "crazy"?
| skissane wrote:
| > The number of people you know who have already had close
| encounters is incredible, it cannot be that they are all
| crazy, something has to be true
|
| How many people in this world claim to have had close
| encounters with supernatural entities-deities, spirits,
| angels, demons, ghosts, etc? It cannot be that they are all
| crazy, something has to be true
|
| If you aren't convinced by that argument, you shouldn't be
| convinced by your own, because its logic is the same
| throwawaymanbot wrote:
| [dead]
| Loquebantur wrote:
| So there are sizable objects in Earth's atmosphere that do not
| belong to any known actor and display superior technological
| capability.
|
| DoD, NASA & Co react with pointedly blase attitude, pretending
| there was nothing remarkable about that.
|
| Does HN buy into that?
| Zetice wrote:
| > "We have 50 to 100-ish new reports each month," said Sean
| Kirkpatrick, director of Nasa's All-domain Anomaly Resolution
| Office (AARO).
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| > But he said the number of those sightings which are "possibly
| really anomalous" are 2% to 5% of the total database.
|
| So... 1-2 per month that are even in the "possible" category, and
| given the anecdotes around lunch microwaves and "turns out it was
| a commercial aircraft" this is not going to be the all-revealing
| report some folks are looking for.
| Loquebantur wrote:
| Kirkpatrick's slide notes of those UAP's typical
| characteristics: _round_ , 1-4 meters diameter,
| white/silver/translucent, at 10K-30K feet altitude, _up to Mach
| 2_ , _no thermal exhaust_
|
| That is quite revealing in my book. Those are no conventionally
| powered "drones".
| Zetice wrote:
| That's reported, not verified. It would say "tentacled oblong
| rectangle" if that's what got submitted.
| hashstring wrote:
| I dislike that the article is filled with the false positive (FP)
| anecdotes. It's important to state that there are many false
| positives, there must be. However, the focus should be on
| minimizing these FPs while maximizing true signal, and
| investigating these in depth. Everything that is potentially true
| signal, is what I want to read about, not something something
| microwaves during lunchtime.
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