Aliens at last?

GopherT

Joined Nov 23, 2012
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Yeah... I guess the word "monumental" is a modest one when it comes from the media ...

Pretty impressive discovery, though...
Imaging how many things had to go right for this thing to work as designed!
From inception, conceptual design, funding, detailed design, construction, launch, functional testing, data collection, data analysis, results (and all the steps I missed). Congratulations to the NASA team.
 

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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Imaging how many things had to go right for this thing to work as designed!
From inception, conceptual design, funding, detailed design, construction, launch, functional testing, data collection, data analysis, results (and all the steps I missed). Congratulations to the NASA team.

If it weren't for your well-known taste for sarcasm... I'd almost say you were being sincere! ... :rolleyes:
 

killivolt

Joined Jan 10, 2010
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Yeah... I guess the word "monumental" is a modest one when it comes from the media ...

Pretty impressive discovery, though...
I wonder? How far away are these suppose planets? Is it light years away or near enough for us to suggest they exist in their current state, this planet was a hot planet, and at what state do they exist, I'm just saying, just because it's hot but at what distance? it could mean there is more to this find than what lay at it's surface, could it have cooled, and we are just looking at it's past state?

kv

Edit: Maybe thats how other planetary systems might see earth? Hot and dead.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.

Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.

For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.
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The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Yes, I've (and just about everyone else who has spend a long time looking at possible targets) seen these things before on radar and film. We all believed it was just some strange natural Foo_fighter
The first sightings occurred in November 1944, when pilots flying over Western Europe by night reported seeing fast-moving round glowing objects following their aircraft. The objects were variously described as fiery, and glowing red, white, or orange. Some pilots described them as resembling Christmas-tree lights and reported that they seemed to toy with the aircraft, making wild turns before simply vanishing. Pilots and aircrew reported that the objects flew formation with their aircraft and behaved as if they were under intelligent control, but never displayed hostile behavior. However, they could not be outmaneuvered or shot down. The phenomenon was so widespread that the lights earned a name – in the European Theater of Operations they were often called "Kraut fireballs", but for the most part called "foo-fighters". The military took the sightings seriously, suspecting that the mysterious sightings might be secret German weapons, but further investigation revealed that German and Japanese pilots had reported similar sightings.[9]
 

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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Yes, I've (and just about everyone else who has spend a long time looking at possible targets) seen these things before on radar and film. We all believed it was just some strange natural Foo_fighter
Interesting... so, most likely they're some sort of yet unexplained atmospheric phenomena? ... possibly related to "ball lightning" ?

I read an article a few years ago that ball lightning was finally reproduced in a lab... I wonder why the wikipedia article lists it as unexplained.
 

RichardO

Joined May 4, 2013
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I once saw a "fleet" of UFO's. :eek:

My friend Jim had given me a ride home after a late night meeting. He parked his car on the street and killed the engine. We talked for a while and as we talked, one of us noticed some odd flashing in the sky.

We sat there a few minutes trying to figure out what we were seeing. We had no idea. Finally, Jim started the car and drove a few car-lengths forward. It was then apparent what we were seeing. It was a bunch of Miller moths. :D

The moths were circling a street light. Initially, the light, itself, was blocked by a tree but the moths would reflect the light so we could see it. Pulling the car forward revealed the street light. The moths changed from being UFO's to being FO's.

If Jim had not thought to move the car, I would be telling this story much differently.
 

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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Whatever it was, I think it ought to be taken seriously:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514

The planes flew lower to investigate the object, which started to mirror their movements before disappearing, Fravor said. "As we start to cut across, it rapidly accelerates, climbs past our altitude and disappears," Fravor recalled.

"When it started to near us, as we started to descend towards it coming up, it was flying in the elongated way, so it's [like] a Tic Tac, with the roundish end going in the forward direction
 
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