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UFOs?

Random8145

Registered User
Contributor
I live in a rural area where there's a lot of open farmland. I have always been very tempted to make some type of UFO-shaped, flying saucer drone (complete with lights) and fly it at night. Probably would be illegal though.
 

Random8145

Registered User
Contributor
The country does seem to have caught UFO hysteria again, doesn't it? I'd have thought we were decades beyond this, but I admit it seems right in line with our reckless national abandonment of intellect and expertise.

OTOH, It's probably just flouride in the water, or mind control from all the vaccines. What do I win?

:rolleyes:
Has General Public ever really been intellectual though?
 

ChuckMK23

FERS and TSP contributor!
pilot
Former Super Hornet VFA dude Ryan Graves weighs in. Very very interesting and clearly has inside info. He also alludes to the IRST capabilities of the Rhino and how these unidentified “drones” defy the capabilities of the jet… LT Graves clearly has multiple DoD and federal agency contacts. He believes the current situation off east coast involves offshore platforms and is of a scale in hundreds.

what do you think?

 
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Uncle Fester

Robot Pimp
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
This reminds me of the Spy Balloon fiasco, especially the part when NORAD said that they typically didn't detect many HA balloons because their MTI filters weren't set that low. When they opened them up, they discovered there were actually a whole lot of them flying around and had been for a while. Mostly harmless, science projects or home-brew hobby things, a few nefarious, but only became news because somebody noticed them. I strongly suspect that, once the freakout stops and people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about get a chance to speak, this will prove to be a case of more/improved drone detection systems seeing what was already there. Mostly Cletus and the DJI he bought off Amazon, some are taxpayers who just didn't bother actually reading the rules and getting their Part 107, a (probably very) few genuine foreign intel activities. Of course, that's not nearly as sexy as all these dumbshit conspiracy theories, so we'll collectively move on to the next thing pretty quick.
 

sevenhelmet

Low calorie attack from the Heartland
pilot
This reminds me of the Spy Balloon fiasco, especially the part when NORAD said that they typically didn't detect many HA balloons because their MTI filters weren't set that low. When they opened them up, they discovered there were actually a whole lot of them flying around and had been for a while. Mostly harmless, science projects or home-brew hobby things, a few nefarious, but only became news because somebody noticed them. I strongly suspect that, once the freakout stops and people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about get a chance to speak, this will prove to be a case of more/improved drone detection systems seeing what was already there. Mostly Cletus and the DJI he bought off Amazon, some are taxpayers who just didn't bother actually reading the rules and getting their Part 107, a (probably very) few genuine foreign intel activities. Of course, that's not nearly as sexy as all these dumbshit conspiracy theories, so we'll collectively move on to the next thing pretty quick.

I think all of this makes a pretty good smokescreen, and the media is happy- it's click-city for them.
 

Mos

Well-Known Member
None
Brett, I’ve adapted this into a haiku (which you almost did on your own):

This guy doesn’t know
S*** about f***—come on, Chuck
Why blow Rogan bros?
There's something musical about having two "uck" words in that second line.
 

MIDNJAC

is clara ship
pilot
What's a more lucrative gig when retiring from military aviation, the airlines or becoming a UFO influencer?

Fairly certain he didn't get anywhere near retiring. He was somewhere around my YG or maybe a little junior to me, believe he did a JO tour and that was it for him in grey jets. Nothing against the guy, didn't know him, but I think he is probably overselling his expertise a wee bit. It is a strange career change though.
 
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