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Extraordinary explanations for UFOs look increasingly plausible

Groundbreaking journalism has shattered the UFO taboo. But from what is publicly known about a series of unexplained military encounters with objects that appear to defy the laws of physics, tantalizing reporting by The New York Times, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, The New Yorker and 60 Minutes might only scratch the surface of an extraordinary story.

Indeed, by eliminating unlikely explanations for these mysterious phenomena, two mind-boggling explanations are increasingly plausible. Either theory – a remarkable technological leap by a foreign government or “non-human technology” at work – would have profound global implications.  

To be sure, a community of skeptics and debunkers makes convincing arguments that some recent incidents breathlessly promoted by UFO enthusiasts have prosaic explanations. But after years of study by government analysts with access to an array of sensitive data, several other encounters cannot be easily chalked up to mundane factors.

John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director (and, importantly, a fierce Ratcliffe critic), went even further, openly speculating that the objects might “constitute a different form of life.”

Make no mistake: Former high-ranking intelligence officials do not make such extraordinary statements without some analytic backing. That Brennan and Ratcliffe reside on entirely opposite ends of the political spectrum is all the more remarkable.

Obama, Ratcliffe and Brennan’s statements strongly suggest that intelligence analysts – drawing upon specialized technical expertise and a broad array of supporting sensor data – have concluded that these incidents cannot be explained by mundane, everyday factors.

Brennan’s remarkable speculation about “different form[s] of life,” in particular, is a fairly robust indicator that experts have all but ruled out balloons, birds, distant airliners or technical glitches as explanations for these phenomena. Indeed, former CIA directors do not typically theorize publicly about extraterrestrials — and certainly not without some analytic underpinning that rules out prosaic explanations.

Other commenters insist that these objects are highly classified U.S. aircraft. But if these were ultra-secret military experiments, an ex-president and former top intelligence officials would not have spoken so candidly about the objects’ apparent technical capabilities. Moreover, Brennan’s speculation about “different form[s] of life” makes for a particularly odd way of publicly deflecting from experimental U.S. aircraft when a standard “no comment” would have sufficed.

But by far the best debunkers of the "super-secret-U.S.-aircraft" theory are the very naval aviators who encountered the objects.

Similarly, Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), whose positions atop the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence afford them access to high-level intelligence briefings, would not have voiced strong national security concerns if the objects were secret U.S. aircraft or if more mundane factors could explain these phenomena.

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I still think it is bullshit.  

Which has higher probability?

Grainy faked video with some fake testimony to distract the public from issues we should be paying closer attention to.

Aliens visit from another planet but instead of observing undetected from space, they fly their weird shaped ships in crazy nonsensical patterns just to get a reaction from us.

Of course there is option 3 which is the simulation is just fucking with us.

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I still think they are ours.

I also think they were not developed through traditional defense/aviation companies and I am more willing to believe that there is a component of our government that operates outside the bounds of even intel committee people.

What is more plausible? A black project not developed by one of the regular defense contractors outside the purview of of the political side of the intel world or little green men visiting us?
And I also believe it is "non human technology". They are not piloted by humans, they are UAVs/drones.

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As long as their women are hot and don't bitch at you through telepathy I'm down.

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As long as their women are hot and don't bitch at you through telepathy I'm down.

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They will just kill you after sex to feed to their larvae

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pics, video, charts of radar/sonar returns? or are you taking the funding hungry govts word for it?  big ole LOL.  

So the most advanced radars and tech don't have glitches/bugs?  How that Zimwalt and F35 doin'?  A guy posted in one of the many UFO threads here about how he worked on sensor systems and 100% of unknown anomalies generated over the years were traced down to other flying aircraft emissions.  His post was largely ignored.  Those green men still coming?

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and I've still seen zero hard proof other than anecdotal stories backing up those claims *cough-like bigfoot-cough*.  remember when extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence?  of all the "evidence" i've seen so far, it can easily be explained by know FLIR tricks, cruise missiles, drones, mylar balloons, and triangle shaped camera lenses.  

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Here you go.  Freshly released.  Showing them on radar.  Somebody embed for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh4QngYJG4I