UAP Update: NASA presented a long, rather boring, presentation about their ongoing UAP (UFO) investigation. The DOD has done an about face (pun intended) on the subject of UFOs. Since...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

NASA presented a long, rather boring, presentation about their ongoing UAP (UFO) investigation.

The DOD has done an about face (pun intended) on the subject of UFOs. Since there is the possibility of a threat to national security, military personnel are encouraged to report "strange things."
UAP now means Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon. They changed the name because they want it to include objects in the upper atmosphere, in orbit around the earth, and in space. If there is something unusual up there, we should be able to identify and explain it.
There are 45,000 commercial airliner flights every day. There are thousands of drones and weather balloons in the sky at any given time.
The most common unidentified object, seen all around the world, is a silver orb. It hovers, moves slowly, and moves quickly before disappearing.
Most UFO radar contacts last for a very short time, so it's difficult to draw conclusions.
Natural occurrences we don't understand are probably responsible for many unexplained sightings.
The sixteen scientists on the NASA panel emphasized the fact that they are not hiding anything, nor is NASA. One said that scientists are naturally curious and somewhat rebellious, and they want to discover and spread the truth.
"The Conspiracy of Silence" - The idea of conspiracies keeping quiet about major events has come up many times, but they are just that - conspiracy theories. If you've ever work with a small group of people, you know how difficult it is to get everyone to agree on anything. Imagine getting hundreds of people all around the world to keep quiet about a "conspiracy."

I didn't watch the lengthy presentation, but I did read/watch summaries. There is a link to one below.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/ufos-and-aerial-phenomena/nasa-ufo-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-panel-hearing-rcna87034

RiJoRi Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC

The phrase, "military personnel are encouraged to report 'strange things." made me chuckle. How does the military define "strange"? A DI who's not hollering?

--Rich

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I hope the aliens can save us. Apparently, we can't do it alone.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

RiJoRi wrote:

The phrase, "military personnel are encouraged to report 'strange things." made me chuckle. How does the military define "strange"? A DI who's not hollering?

--Rich

They leave that up to the individual. 😂

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

kpmac wrote:

I hope the aliens can save us. Apparently, we can't do it alone.

Save us? They're going to travel a million light years to do us a favor? In most of the movies I've seen, they will come to destroy us.

How many times have Europeans come to a new land and helped the natives?

tramsey Loc: Texas

I really think that there are aliens keeping track of us. I don't know of any one that has seen one except at Roswell when a ufo crashed. I think they are too smart, they see what we have done to each other and the planet and want no part of us until we grow up and know how to behave ourselves

Canisdirus

tramsey wrote:

I really think that there are aliens keeping track of us. I don't know of any one that has seen one except at Roswell when a ufo crashed. I think they are too smart, they see what we have done to each other and the planet and want no part of us until we grow up and know how to behave ourselves

I think if the aliens are here...they are absolutely NOT interested in us.

It's been 60 some odd years...some say thousands of years...

Take the hint...if they are here...it's not for us.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Last year, or the year before there was a video of some military jets tracking one or more of these UAPs for quite a while. It was all over the news on every network. I saw something briefly that explained that what the jets were tracking were caused by microwaves. I don’t understand how the jet’s radar systems could capture microwave UAPs but it offers a plausible explanation.
Personally, I believe that the universe is so large that we we would be near impossible for there NOT to be aliens on some other planets. Some may have intelligent life and even could possibly have spacecraft. However, distances between stars and solar systems are so vast with so many light years between us and them that I don’t see how there could be any here on or near Earth.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

jerryc41 wrote:

Save us? They're going to travel a million light years to do us a favor? In most of the movies I've seen, they will come to destroy us.

How many times have Europeans come to a new land and helped the natives?

Exactly!

Stan

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Indi wrote:

Last year, or the year before there was a video of... (show quote)

When objects move in ways that are contradictory to the laws of physics, maybe they aren't objects.

jhgribble Loc: Michigan

If their technology is far far beyond ours and they live by different laws of physics, it may be safe to say there being here is like going to the zoo to see the animals. If they wanted to they could wipe us out, they don't, they find us amusing!

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

jerryc41 wrote:

Save us? They're going to travel a million light years to do us a favor? In most of the movies I've seen, they will come to destroy us.

How many times have Europeans come to a new land and helped the natives?

A long series (30 episodes) is excellent in exploring this issue. Chinese with English subtitles, based on the novels of China's best sci-fi writer, Liu Cixin. I couldn't make it through the novel with all the Chinese names, but the movie is excellent. Don't want to give too much away, but Nano Wires play a big part at the end!

https://www.viki.com/tv/39255c-three-body?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7PCjBhDwARIsANo7Cgk5L1dI8to_ZnCHBk29XpTKSz64_B8T-oFGpdMOlccYYGqFqOfInyEaAmGGEALw_wcB

Rumor has it the Netflix will adapt it sometime in 2023. Good chance that they'll ruin it, too. lol!

Marshall

GEngel-usmc Loc: Spencerport NY - I miss Lakeland, FL

jerryc41 wrote:

When objects move in ways that are contradictory to the laws of physics, maybe they aren't objects.

When objects move in ways that are contradictory to the laws of physics, (as we currently understand them) maybe they aren't objects.

Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington

jerryc41 wrote:

Save us? They're going to travel a million light years to do us a favor? In most of the movies I've seen, they will come to destroy us.

How many times have Europeans come to a new land and helped the natives?

Maybe they are alien anthropologists studying us and have a prime directive not to interfere with our development. If they really wanted to destroy us they could and would have done that a long, long, long time ago. It would not be that difficult given their advanced technological status. After all, we have become very efficient in killing each other with less advanced methods than they must possess. The downside to this theory is that if they are alien scientists then there is no reason that they would intervene to save us from ourselves. They would observe us to the end.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

tramsey wrote:

I really think that there are aliens keeping track of us. I don't know of any one that has seen one except at Roswell when a ufo crashed. I think they are too smart, they see what we have done to each other and the planet and want no part of us until we grow up and know how to behave ourselves

To me the evidence from the ancient civilizations like the Mayans and Incas show space men of some sort. Also the Buddhist. Back then they communicated with us because we treated them like God's. Now that we have so called advanced and will dissect them they just as you say observe. We very well could be a science experiment. God by the definition of alien is one. So once they started us and saw how wicked we were they came back and gave us a list of ten rules to live by. Then back to observing us. Since we are very obviously a warrior race I don't have much hope for us. For some reason all we want to do is control, steal, murder, and screw. My dad said something that still sticks with me. He ask me how did I know we are not an ant farm on someone's dresser. I have pondered that for 50 years and still don't have an answer.