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Pentagon Has Finally Declassified Those Grainy UFO Videos From The US Navy:
After years of speculation, defence officials have now declassified and released three grainy videos from the Navy that have been circulating online for a while now, causing all sorts of speculation.
The mysterious footage was captured using infrared cameras in November 2004 and January 2015, and leaked to the public a few years ago.
[...] "DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos," the US Department of Defence said in a statement.
"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterised as 'unidentified'."
But that characterisation is not for a lack of trying. For five years, from 2008 through 2011, the Pentagon had a top-secret program investigating UFOs and the potential threats they could pose to aircraft and other aerial activities.
See the linked story for the videos.
Also on the Beeb, The Guardian, even The Daily Beast.
Forbes Amidst The Insanity Of 2020, UFO Footage Feels Forgettable
Now that the month is coming to an end, we're due another world-shaking event, and an alien invasion seems to fit the apocalyptic theme.
Thus, the Pentagon officially released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots of UFOs. To clarify, nobody is claiming the footage shows alien spacecraft, but merely clarifying that the footage is legitimate and the subject is unknown.
[...] But the strangest thing about the footage, is that in the context of 2020, it almost seems boring. You'd think the Pentagon officially releasing UFO footage would break the internet (all it used to take was a photo of Kim Kardashian's bottom), but nowadays, the internet has become jaded to all but the most Earth-shattering event.
[...] The footage has inspired a few memes here and there, sure, but otherwise, the unidentified flying object hardly seems to have made a dent in pop culture; a collective shrug seems to be the general response. Although, only the most hardcore alien obsessives and Area 51-invaders seem to believe that the footage shows an actual alien spacecraft.
The Pentagon's decision to officially declassify three 'UFO' videos that have been circulating for years has triggered feverish speculation about what the famously secretive department is trying to distract Americans from.
[...] However, not all of the speculation had to do with the type of 'little green men' that might be piloting the objects. Even as hashtags like #aliensarereal and #ufo2020 dominated social media, many commenters were skeptical as to why the Defense Department had selected this particular moment in history to officially 'release' the videos. With the world in the grips of both a pandemic and an unprecedented economic depression – and with anger rising at government responses to both – the timing raised more than a few eyebrows.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Lagg on Thursday April 30 2020, @03:01AM (6 children)
Yeah just go ahead and ruin that segment of entertaining hobby too you asshats. The fun of this whole thing went right down the drain when the OG UFO guy - one of like 3 who were actually involved - died. For some reason people think MUFON is worth its dumbass acronym.
Even the notion that UFOs are a cursory description until the object can be identified is just discarded in favor of the flying saucer mental images.
Flying saucers, which are the singularly most boring variant that appears in cases.
You know what's extra cute? You link to RT on this like its tabloid ass has a valid opinion. And it's all the more hilarious because this shit could easily be either a classified US project that failed cause it was a dumb idea, or a russian one that failed for the same reason.
But yeah, spread their distracting hashtag bullshit for them on a site that doesn't even mesh with twitter except the jackasses that use it for efficient rhetoric flinging.
... Oh. So that's why you guys entered a phase of having a hardon for RT a few years back. Is this the first instance in preparation for the upcoming election season? Yay. More brats stomping on the desiccated corpses of my casual interests. Don't even know why I bothered.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 30 2020, @04:06AM
You need more vodka, comrade.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday April 30 2020, @12:04PM (3 children)
what's RT?
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday April 30 2020, @12:14PM (2 children)
Russia Today (rt.com), rebranded as just RT in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Development_and_expansion [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday April 30 2020, @01:23PM
Thanks
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 30 2020, @04:18PM
To be fair, that whole thing where companies say "our acronym doesn't stand for anything anymore" is pretty commonplace now.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2020, @11:26AM
If I were to ignore all sources of news that aren't objectively neutral, I'd get no news at all. I decided to just ask questions to everything I read instead, works pretty great. A proof must follow a claim. Any assumptions must be scrubbed. Anything invoking emotions in me, must be heavily scrutinized for motives.
The point in reading different sources is to get all the angles. Why? Because the most important things for a complete understanding are often the information left out by either "side". If you just want to use the news as entertainment and a topic of conversation or flamewar, then that's of course not neccesary and I'll step back.