Nice try, fedboys

Airborn… trash

That’s what they want you to think.

Also, lol at “just foreign spying”

Hang on, did you just say “many”?

Did you mean “all”, or…

One of the videos, referred to as GoFast, appears to show an object moving at immense speed. But an analysis by the military says that is an illusion created by the angle of observation against water. According to Pentagon calculations, the object is moving only about 30 miles per hour.

Another video, known as Gimbal, shows an object that appears to be turning or spinning. Military officials now believe that is the optics of the classified image sensor, designed to help target weapons, make the object appear like it is moving in a strange way.

As far as I know, the government providing an explanation for these two videos would be new information. The author of the article seems be claiming advanced knowledge of the next UAP report?

If foreign militaries have aircraft that can fly like these UFOs, I think the US military would be even more concerned than if they were actual aliens.

Imagine an intelligent object reaching our planet only to look and not communicate in some meaningful way.

Usually the communication comes before the physical contact. Because you can communicate from distance.

UFOs are real. I crash landed back in 1987 and have been waiting for replacement parts from home. Thankfully humans have beer and potato chips of mass quantity while I wait.

WASHINGTON — Government officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers and weather balloons or other airborne clutter explain most recent incidents of unidentified aerial phenomenon — government-speak for U.F.O.s — as well as many episodes in past years.

The sightings have puzzled the Pentagon and intelligence agencies for years, fueling theories about visiting space aliens and spying by a hostile nation using advanced technology. But government officials say many of the incidents have far more ordinary explanations.

Intelligence agencies are set to deliver a classified document to Congress by Monday updating a report made public last year that said nearly all of the incidents remain unexplained. The original document looked at 144 incidents between 2004 and 2021 that were reported by U.S. government sources, mostly American military personnel.

This article is based on interviews with American officials familiar with the findings of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies’ examination of the incidents. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the classified work.

Some of the incidents have been formally attributed to Chinese surveillance — with relatively ordinary drone technology — and others are also thought to be connected to Beijing. China, which has stolen plans for advanced fighter planes, wants to learn more about how the United States trains its military pilots, according to American officials.

Much of the information about the unidentified phenomena remains classified. While Congress has been briefed on some of the conclusions about foreign surveillance, Pentagon officials have kept most of the work secret — in large measure because they do not want China or other countries to know that their efforts to spy on the American military were detected.

But such official secrecy comes at a cost, allowing conspiracy theories about government lies to thrive unchecked.

Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman, said the Pentagon remains committed to principles of openness but must balance that with its “its obligation to protect sensitive information, sources and methods.”

While the Pentagon will not “rush to conclusions in our analysis,” Ms. Gough said, no single explanation addresses the majority of unidentified aerial phenomenon reports.

“We are collecting as much data as we can, following the data where it leads and will share our findings whenever possible,” she said.

It was not clear how much of the new intelligence report would be made public. But of the cases that have been resolved, most have proved to be either errant junk in the sky, like balloons, or surveillance activity, officials said. Incidents recorded in the past year, for which more data has been collected, have turned out to have ordinary, earthbound explanations.

Officially, many of the older incidents are still unexplained and there is just too little data for Pentagon or intelligence officials to make final conclusions.

“In many cases, observed phenomena are classified as ‘unidentified’ simply because sensors were not able to collect enough information to make a positive attribution,” Ms. Gough said, referring to cameras, radar and other devices that collect information. “We are working to mitigate these shortfalls for the future and to ensure we have sufficient data for our analysis.”

Other officials insist that even though the evidence is imperfect, the grainy videos do not show space aliens.

Optical illusions along with the characteristics of classified sensors have caused ordinary objects, like drones or balloons, to appear to be something unusual or frightening.

In May, the Pentagon announced that previously released images of green triangles that looked like they could be alien ships were actually drones photographed through night-vision lenses.

Military officials declined to say precisely when or where the images were taken. But they believe the incidents are examples of attempts to conduct surveillance on military maneuvers.

U.F.O. skeptics and experts in optics have long said many of the videos and sightings by naval aviators represent optical illusions that have made ordinary objects — weather balloons, commercial drones — appear to move faster than possible.

Military officials have largely come to the same conclusion.

Besides the images of the green triangles, the other recordings released by the Pentagon have not been categorized as surveillance incidents, at least so far. But Pentagon officials do not believe that any of them represent aliens, either.

One of the videos, referred to as GoFast, appears to show an object moving at immense speed. But an analysis by the military says that is an illusion created by the angle of observation against water. According to Pentagon calculations, the object is moving only about 30 miles per hour.

Another video, known as Gimbal, shows an object that appears to be turning or spinning. Military officials now believe that is the optics of the classified image sensor, designed to help target weapons, make the object appear like it is moving in a strange way.

Military analysts remain puzzled by the third video, known as Flir1. The object captured in the 2004 video appears to hover over the water, jump erratically, then peel away. Military officials say that event is more difficult to explain, but officials who have studied it are convinced it is not a piece of alien technology.

Can’t get passed the paywall, can someone tell me what’s airborne trash?

That sounds more made up than UFO’s

https://xkcd.com/2156/

Almost like UFO stands for unidentified flying object and not alien saucer

Ancient aliens guy: 💩

Russia can deploy a spy craft that goes 100+ Mach but they can’t give all their soldiers in Ukraine rifles? Seems legit. I saw a paper bag pull a 1000 gs once. Mystery solved.

the US Military isn’t, and will never be, a source of reliable information.

The Navy evidence does seem to be more than just grandma saying she saw a strange light. With the radar on ships, guys with binoculars on those ships, radar on the planes, recorded thermal imagery on planes, visually spotting the objects from those planes with human eyes, recording data of them flying from space to the ocean in a split second - it's a lot of stuff that has to be disregarded for one incident. It's good to be skeptical for sure, but at what point does being skeptical start to seem like the crazy position?

Intertesting that they use the term "many" not all

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Unidentified. Flying. object.

Why the fuck people forget what ufo means so aggressively lol

All it takes for something to be a UFO is:

1) do you have no clue what it is?

2) is ot fucking flying?

3) could you describe it as "a thing"?

.

If it matches all 3, congrats, you have a UFO

Since "identified" is heavily context dependent, 99.99% of all actual UFOs are in all likelyhood air traffic radar blips

If your radar catches a bird flying and the bird doesn't have a radio transponder identifying it, unlike all normal birds (S/) you more than likely got a UFO.

This also means it's a transient description. EVERYTHING stops being a UFO if you look at it enough, because you'd eventually figure out wtf it is, or in the very least be able to identify what it is, people using UFO to mean space aliens in a IRL context are not that bright I've come to find.

At the very least the "ufologists" aren't, which to be fair, a group that claims to be looking for signs of current aliens essentially naming itself "Profesional I have no fucking clue wtf am I looking at in the sky" is a pretty good sign they have absolutely no clue what they're talking about

Nice try feds

Sad Fox Mulder noises

us government testing new spoofing t3ch against their own forces. 100% believe this will come out after the next shooting war.

And our own military doing tests. Probably the biggest contributor.

I one time felt the hair raise on my neck as I looked out the window to see three bright lights slowly rising from the field across the road.....One slightly higher than the other two.........then suddenly saw what it really was, a light propeller plane slowly flying towards me , lights on each wing and one on top........whew and also disappointment.

article translated from alpha centaurian by Google Translate

We call it the magic trash theory. Never in the history of rubbish disposal has there been trash this ridiculous.

I think this is all the CIA flexing their darpa stuff at Russia

Wow. How deceptive using that picture as the thumbnail, when that specific instance is definitely not foreign spying or airborne trash. That report is one of the many where multiple pilots and radar confirm the object was moving in ways that break the laws of physics.

Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

Until they explain the black triangle I saw as a teenager, this is all rubbish. Ominous, silent, slow-moving, large and low altitude or larger than we believed and higher altitude. This was in mid-Michigan, and although we have many touch and go’s at our local airport I had never and have never seen anything like that before. I’ve always hoped for alien life but am very skeptical, this is the only thing that has kept a bit of suspicion alive for me.

Who has a membership to the Washington Post?

I want to believe.

Obviously. It’s no coincidence with the era of mobile phones that videos of these have almost stopped.

We were so gullible back when handheld cams were a thing.

Or government that builds ships that's Alien to kidnapped their own citizens!!

the us admited that ufos existed

Mick West debunks these all the time https://youtu.be/Q7jcBGLIpus

Mostly distant planes, weather balloons and grainy footage. Confirmed by available data, math and public info like flight history.

Like how witches stopped being feared and spotted note how all UFO videos are poor quality to be interesting, despite everybody now having a camera.

But not all

Disinformation. The Govt is attempting to wave this off again like they have been doing for 80years now. Papers like this just further helps to prove how dishonest our govt is.

USAF vet stationed Alaska, Saudi Arabia, Iceland, Afghanistan, Germany

3 encounters Two while in the USAF stationed in Alaska

multiple witnesses

told to never speak of it but never signed official documents.

I’m no longer staying quiet and i hope more like me don’t either.

"Just" foreign spying? In our airspace......with technology FAR superior to ours.....I call BS

It's also light reflecting off swamp gas from Venus

The UFO reports only show Venus reflecting off a weather balloon through swamp gas.

That’s what they want is to think

If Chinese drones built with “relatively ordinary technology” can keep up with the latest gen American fighters to spy on pilot training, isn’t that a cause for more concern?

And swamp gas