No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific

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NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens
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No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific::NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific.

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Everyone wants X Files but it's just countries spying on each other and military experiments. Anything fantastical like the mummies are news spectacles meant to drum up publicity. There's no reason why aliens would match cartoony depictions made up in science fiction. If actual aliens are here it basically means travelling faster than light is possible.

It's likely even more boring than that. These grainy, blurry, IR images are artifacts, birds, balloons, the Moon, commercial aircraft, stars, satellites, and other common things that can look weird from certain angles/perspectives/lenses/sensors.

I'd be super happy to be proven wrong but people really want to believe there's more out there and it's visiting us but I'm going to need more solid proof than some noisy and blurry images and some silly-looking chimera mummies in a box.

Yeah the vast majority are just artifacts or weather phenomena, and the only material evidence is clearly man made tech. Also when people describe aliens they, big surprise, match depictions in science fiction.

Tic tac was recorded on video by the navy accelerating at ~200G. It was also witnessed by 8 highly trained aircrew, including top gun graduates.

200g *if * they are interpreting what they see correctly. A sensor artifact doesn't need to respect any flight characteristics.

Being experts in one field doesn't make them experts in whatever may be causing the tic tac.

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If actual aliens are here it basically means travelling faster than light is possible.

Not just possible, but dirt cheap, otherwise why would they be constantly dropping down into Earth to see what we're up to.

Really, the whole notion is a bit silly when you think about it rationally. If a society was advanced to the point of cheap FTL (which, I feel the need to point out, isn't just "advanced technology" but "technology that operates in complete defiance to our most fundamental understandings of physics"), why on earth would they be dipping into the actual atmosphere, doing landings, or flying by private aircraft? Surely a society with such breathtaking technology could drop a single spy satellite into orbit and get every piece of info they could possibly want about us, especially now that we're in the digital age.

I have no doubt that alien life of some sort is out there, very possibly it's even prolific (though that doesn't seem to be the case based on our admittedly limited observations of exoplanets), but there's no rational basis for thinking that an advanced alien society would have either the means, nor the motivation, to constantly pop down to earth to screw with pilots, farmers, etc.

I like to make up weird theories in my head about it not being aliens but alternate earth people. What if every time it is actually a first-time visitor not knowing what it's like here. They don't expect us to have anything capable of bringing their experimental craft down and we do, to their surprise. Hence they always have different looking craft, different looking bodies, etc.

otherwise why would they be constantly dropping down into Earth to see what we’re up to.

Not because of the species, but because of the rare and unique planet?

There’s no reason why aliens would match cartoony depictions made up in science fiction.

What, only homosapiens can troll others?

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