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The whole point of an UFO is that it is unidentified. I don’t get how people instantly think that the aircraft is alien…

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Bingo. The people who are involved with this in Congress specifically have stated that they think the government is not in full control of US airspace. The investigation is to find out if that is true.

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Because the dude said the ships were piloted by non-humans, and that the pentagon took the non-human biological remains to experiment on. Like he didn’t outright say the word “aliens” but he 100% meant aliens.

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The thing I think a lot of people miss is that, if I’m not mistaken, due to his position he has to report on what he was told. It doesn’t matter if it sounds insane or he doesn’t have proof; his job is to tell Congress what he was told during his investigations. If he was told that it’s aliens, then that’s what he has to tell Congress.

I want to believe it’s aliens. I think that’d be pretty cool. However, my speculation is that he was given false information by the military to try to make him sound nuts and get Congress off their backs. Either that or he wasn’t given the full picture. Just because something is non-human doesn’t mean it’s alien in origin. It could be unmanned drones that had mice, monkeys or dogs in them to test g-forces (not sure why you couldn’t use a dummy in this day and age, but that’s beside the point). It could be the result of some kind of experiment to use biological matter instead of silicon and wiring. It could be aliens. There still isn’t enough information for a definitive conclusion except that the US has had unidentified objects flying through controlled aerospace unimpeded.

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There’s also the guy who was squad commander and his tic tac incident. 4 sets of eyes saw it. Two carriers, the Nimitz and another one tracked them with radar. There’s a recording. I dunno, the guy seemed alright to me, honest. The tech in 2004, no heat emission, no wings, is out of this world.

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2 points

Great comment!

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5 points

What if they were super smart, pilot trained monkeys?

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13 points

Its Raccoons, 100% raccoons

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14 points

Usually it’s just a spy plane. Sometimes from the same country. Or a weather balloon, falling satellite, or just instrument errors. It’s never been aliens. And if aliens can get all the way here, they aren’t doing some shifty shit like being detected by friggin RADAR! Can you imagine how embarrassing that’d be?

“Hey Quizlock, we heard you did some recon of Earth and the humans caught you on their radio frequency detection and ranging devices! How’d you manage that? Blast visual data at them and not absorb anomalous spectra? What an amateur! Now get back to reconfiguring the new quasar drives!”

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4 points

Are you a VXJunkie?

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2 points

Always chasin’ that Yalgeth’s Limit

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14 points

The dude under oath talked about non-human remains. In this case I think that’s why. (Not that I think it’s true or anything, I’ll need more than hearsay in order to believe).

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The congress person asking why the whistleblowers didnt use the term extraterrestrial was so cringe. This was after the part where they explained they keep an open mind for other theories like interdimensional phenomenon. Really shows how uneducated some people that hold higher degrees really are.

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4 points

Bingo. The people are involved with this in Congress specifically have stated that they think the government is not in full control of US airspace. The investigation is to find out if that is true.

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2 points

They tried with renaming it UAP, but the believers just adopted that.

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1 point

If I throw a paper airplane and you don’t know it’s a paper airplane

By definition it is a ufo

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55 points

I only care about aliens if they’re going to use their tech to fix our climate. Otherwise they can fuck off.

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I mean, any contact will shift the me vs them mentality, hopefully, from country vs country to world vs world.

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True. I wasn’t debating that, just saying if they’re going to sit back and watch us boil alive, they’re useless and not worth considering. We’ve got existential problems.

e: I see what you’re saying – maybe if we learnt we’re not the centre of the universe we’d come together. I guess I’m a cynic and I don’t think that would happen. We’d more likely enter new holy wars, with the major religions disrupting society again. Meanwhile, we’d still boil alive.

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5 points

Probably lol

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7 points

Screw that, if they have the tech to reach us I am with them. I for one welcome our new alien overlords. I can be the Dr. Breen to their Combine.

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4 points

If they allow it? Fuck yeah I’m trying to get on a spaceship with em. But there’s a chance they just don’t want us with them

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3 points

I hope they are reading this …

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46 points

Climate, real estate, price gouging, enshittification, health care, voter suppression… There’s an awful lot to distract us from.

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18 points

Don’t forget the big labour union wins for UPS and the Teamsters, no war but the class war baby.

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Sadly the teamsters didn’t win that one. Supposedly they’re discovering that their union leaders sold them out and may be about to go on strike again.

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Most wars are arguably class wars. The invasion of Ukraine is Russian government (bourgeoisie class) versus Ukrainian people (working class), for example.

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Isn’t there a lot of bad stuff happening with Hunter Biden atm as well? A distraction as ephemeral as “look over there, aliens!” Would be very well suited to cover that up.

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The accusations against Hunter Biden are themselves a Republican-manufactured distraction.

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Or maybe they’re embezzling funds or burning government budget on random bullshit. Occam’s Razor makes these seem much more likely than some elaborate conspiracy lol.

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7 points

A Stargate seems like the obvious answer and I’m all for it.

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NASA statement this week opened my mind up to non-human intelligence on Earth. I started looking into when dinosaurs were really taken seriously, and it wasn’t until 1800. Think about how many humans ignored that evidence. Maybe some intelligence evolved on Earth and had brains that found natural physics and chemistry more teachable than our learning in school classrooms, found ways to open dimensions and just left Earth for some place better, but still comes back to check us lower species, ha.

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I like the interpretation that the UFO news is the equivalent of casual Friday for Congress. Everyone gets to wear silly hats and play pretend for a few hours, it breaks up the boring monotony of giving endless checks to the Pentagon.

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Except obviously the pentagon needs some cash to deal with the aliens.

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9 points

I prefer to maintain an open mind. So while i dont trust government not to use “aliens!” as propaganda. I do actively listen when officials are speaking under oath.

The way I understood what they said. if the military is unable to cooperate and providing more information Then they will move to try strip the military of funds going to those unaccounted projects. (Congress did mention about 60% of military budget going unaccounted)

After all the legal risks for the whistleblowers are huge and if they don’t uphold those when they cant maintain the lie then there basically saying making insane claims under oath is ok.

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3 points

Space Force, baby! The newest and most well respected branch of the military!

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Well sure, but the Pentagon can get as much money as it wants whenever it wants. There’s no need to make up shit about aliums.

This is just for fun.

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it breaks up the boring monotony of giving endless checks to the Pentagon.

Does it? Or is it just the foreplay for more endless checks for the pentagon to weaponize space

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Please, as if the Pentagon couldn’t get endless checks to weaponize space without making up shit about ayylmaos

They can ask for any amount of money for any reason and they’d get it, it’s just “because Chyna!” gets boring after the hundredth funding discussion. It still works, but that’s not fun anymore. This UFO shit is just to spice things up.

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