Comment by NortySpock | Hacker News Reader

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More like "The Navy and Air Force realized that UFO reporting was being laughed at, which could result in pilots not reporting new Chinese or Russian aircraft (manned or drone) they saw on patrol but could not identify." Not reporting sightings that actually happened could lead to major blind spots for DoD planning.

So the DoD is trying to normalize UFO reporting in hopes of keeping tabs on Chinese and Russian aircraft.

Commander: "What do you mean, you've 'seen those fancy new stealth fighters' before?!? They're flying over our base!!!"

Fighter pilot: "Sorry sir, we thought it was a UFO and it wasn't in the briefings before, so we didn't report it because we'd look dumb."

Intel guy: "Uh, yeah, I've got intelligence photos of these from spy sats, but since none of you had ever seen one, you weren't need-to-know... yet. We've seen them on the tarmac, but we have no idea what they're loaded with."

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines...

Has anyone ever seen one of these things with their eyeballs? Or is it all... electronic sensors? US electronic warfare is top shelf sorcery.

The pilots seen them with their Mark I EyeBalls.

Joe Rogan interviewed David Fravor, a retired Navy pilot, alongside a documentary maker who was interested in UFOs. The conversation was cautious but not particularly skeptical.

It sounded like Mr. Fravor saw something in his airspace with his own two eyes. I don't know what it was (blimp, foreign aircraft, whatever), though I doubt it was extraterrestrial. (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence)

I couldn't spot anything obviously wrong with Mr. Fravor's story by itself.

On the other hand, if the DoD wanted to nudge their pilots to report things they see, and had a story like David Fravor's to put out there in order to encourage current pilots to report what they see, that would be a propaganda event to encourage, so to speak, at least by declassifying harmless footage and not squashing the story.

https://youtu.be/Eco2s3-0zsQ

I saw the Fravor interview with Joe Rogan. Lex Fridman interviewed him as well and that was pretty detailed. Its an interesting case as you had radar data(unsure if that was released) along with pilot eyewitnesses from both Fravor and the other fighter jet pilot that saw it. What Fravor said about the craft was if it was US based why have it be in an active area where fighter jets are training(this could lead to collisions etc).

If you take him at his word then whatever he saw was not something we know how to build. Not unless you have a blimp that can go from hovering over the ocean to matching a Super Hornet in a tight spiral, cut across the middle and accelerate so fast that it’s gone in a blink. He could be lying though.

Yeah, if you had a crazy new electronic warfare technique you'd probably spread as much FUD as you could. You'd also spread FUD if you had nothing, Star Wars style. It's definitely one of those two things.

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