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2023-02-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The UFO Craze is A Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-08 06:51|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 Alien expert: They don't come in peace

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-08 09:45|| 2023-02-08 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 They were unidentified until we identified them.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-08 10:57|| 2023-02-08 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 This article is so wrong I'm actually speechless. I'll comment more later.

Posted by Secret Master 2023-02-08 11:12|| 2023-02-08 11:12|| Front Page Top

The Biden administration, which had been aware of the balloon all along

Really?

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2023-02-08 11:38|| 2023-02-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't make the news, I just report it.

This article is so wrong I'm actually speechless.

Which may not be a bad thing.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-08 14:13|| 2023-02-08 14:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The prevailing theory is that UFOs are just us, but from the future. The question then is not why here, but why now?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-02-08 16:39|| 2023-02-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Everyone thinks a time traveler should go back in time and kill Hitler.

What they don't know is that there were 6 other German leaders who came to power in the 1930s who led Germany to victory, and they were all killed by time travelers. Hitler was the first to lead Germany to a loss and so was allowed to pass, as horrific as it was, it paled in comparison to the German wins.

/Herb McCoy circle

*trying to remember the name of that animated movie where a culture develops time travel, and colonizes the past. Story is told from the perspective of the inhabitants of the past; simple folk being attacked by beings from the future.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-08 16:57|| 2023-02-08 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 In many time travel sci-fi stories, going back to kill Hitler is referred to as "the rookie mistake."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-08 17:00|| 2023-02-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 And that's the paradox of time travel history changes. Short of precipitating the eschaton, you have unlimited opportunities to go back again until you get it right.

So the huge problem of it does not really exist.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-08 17:03|| 2023-02-08 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Or, as Commander Data said, "If it did happen, it will happen."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-08 17:04|| 2023-02-08 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Which may not be a bad thing.

Geeze Skid: what did I ever to do you?

(... though now I will of course confirm your worst expectations.)

I hate articles like this not just because Greenfield doesn't know what he's talking about, but also because he doesn't even care that he doesn't know what he's talking about. And he's not even reporting the facts. It's like that Atlantic reporter from a few years back who said "Isn't it funny that UFO reports stop at the American boarder?" When even a few minutes of research would have shown her that Mexico's UFO enthusiast subculture rivals that of the US and includes thousands of sightings, including by their air force. Same thing for Canada.

Out of 366 recent reports, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office's (AARO) initial analysis found that 195 objects had shown "unremarkable characteristics." The bulk of those reports — 163 — were attributed to balloons "or balloon-like entities." Another 26 were found to be various types of drones. (Those 189 objects ARE mostly Chinese and Russian stuff.) And six reports were attributed to "clutter" — a category that includes plastic bags, weather phenomena and birds.

That leaves 171 reports that AARO has found to be, well, weird. Or at least not easily explained. And unless the Chinese or Russians were running radar and holographic spoofing operations in the 1950's, Greenfield's flippant, politically motivated explanations aren't very good ones. Or very helpful.

My guess is that we aren't looking at time travelers, extraterrestrials, or 75 years of communist drones and balloons; though definitely some of it can be explained by the latter. We're looking at some kind of "breakaway" civilization that's sharing the same planet with us. And probably it's an American, post WW2 black budget research program that grew out of project paperclip, went rogue somehow, and is not really controlled by the feds at this point. It's operating very advanced tech, doing whatever it's doing, and only being cooperative with the military when it feels like it.

Which would certainly a secret worth hiding.

Posted by Secret Master 2023-02-08 19:28|| 2023-02-08 19:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Everyone thinks a time traveler should go back in time and kill Hitler.

International Association of Time Travelers (IATT) Members’ Forum: READ BULLETIN 1147, PEOPLE!

tl;dr: no Hitler-> no Third Reich-> no World War II-> no rocketry programs-> no electronics-> no computers-> no time travel.

Posted by SteveS 2023-02-08 22:22|| 2023-02-08 22:22|| Front Page Top

#13 And so there we have it.
The ball bounces before it was thrown.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-08 23:14|| 2023-02-08 23:14|| Front Page Top

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