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Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and the Pentagon Acts Like They're UFOs

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53 pointsvisviva9 comments

"In fact, I believe that those in power who snicker about credible reports of strange objects in the sky and stymie research into them, including access to classified data, have become a threat to national security themselves."

This seems to have become a deep-seated aspect of American culture. It extends into startup land as well. We on HN seem to be deeply skeptical of new applications of technology--like Dropbox and Coinbase--despite being highly receptive to developments lower in the abstraction hierarchy.

I have assumed for awhile that they were either drones from an adversary or, in some cases, from our own CIA.

An extraterrestrial origin is going to require more proof. Easier for me to believe it is China or Russia.

The fix is to increase military spending (for all cases) :)

It is my honest opinion that these drones are US military tech and are a flex against Russia and China

Given the capability of both the US navy and air force to track and follow such craft, I think that the lack of material evidence would suggest these are friendlies.

Adversary with drones makes a lot of sense in general and is probably happening.

Not quite seeing why the UFOs is connected to that? There is a fair big gap between even sophisticated drones and reports of stuff going supersonic without a bang for example.

I think the author is claiming those reports are likely false or misleading. From the article:

> Also, many of the strange high-performance characteristics ships and planes sometimes detect by radar at beyond visual range during these incidents can and likely are the result of electronic warfare. In fact, things like rapid accelerations in speed and sudden drops in altitude on radar represent very basic tenets of electronic warfare tactics. In the case of the east coast events, for instance, as far as we have been told, the high-performance capabilities of these objects were never visually observed, but they were seen on radar. The visual encounters describe balloon-like objects doing balloon-like things—not moving fast at all—while other objects feature performance more similar to drones than anything else.

I'm ready to accept that these phenomena might really not be of Earth origin.

I'm ready to accept that these phenomena might really be of Earth origin.

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