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Do you believe advanced radar to be infallible?

Do you think the military could be developing radar fooling technology to trick the other side?

It could be some vast disinformation conspiracy, but I take the evidence at face value, Occam's razer and all that. I doubt they would try and fool our enemies by claiming aliens. It's not just radar, it's the consistency between eyewitness reports, video, and radar. I'm only talking about the recent military sightings that are being declassified.

What if it's not about making the enemy believe in aliens, but making the enemy believe there is technology available that is "other worldly" advanced. Basically a psyop.

Any adversary modern enough to be worth the effort knows what the laws of physics are, and they have a working intelligence apparatus that likely gives them an idea of what our cutting edge technology should be capable of.

No such adversary would likely believe the claim that the US has suddenly developed physics-defying technology thousands of years ahead of what should even be feasible, which they just recently decided to leak like a sieve about. And the only thing the US does with this technology is troll their own military.

If it is a psyop, it's a stupid and obvious one.

Or just imperfect technology and wanting to believe in the impossible for the dopamine drip.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wjzg/the-skeptics-guide-to...

> I doubt they would try and fool our enemies by claiming aliens

Why do you doubt that? Also, who exactly is claiming aliens, apart from people hearing "we really couldn't explain it so far" and thinking "they mean aliens!!!"?

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