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There are plenty of explanations for these videos that don't involve alien species traveling multiple light years to troll American air force pilots, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGzJ9dx3n4o.

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Even one that the Navy itself patented.. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

I dove into this guy Pais at one point and came out thinking he’s kind of a marginalized crackpot with pie in the sky theories. Another explanation would be that his patent applications are part of a psyop project.

Sure, why not, what are we looking at though, some kind of microwave propulsion for spacecraft? Was a prototype ever built?

The patent Summary, "The present invention is directed to a craft using an inertial mass reduction device. The craft includes an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The outer resonant cavity wall and the inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the outer resonant cavity wall to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall. It is a feature of the present invention to provide a craft, using an inertial mass reduction device, that can travel at extreme speeds."

I read that too, that's why I asked. Here is an article about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/02/08/what-is-b... — this thing is supposed to enable faster than light travel, which needless to say is impossible according to our best understanding of the laws of physics. I suppose that is part as well of the great PSYOP for suppressing the truth.

Actual FTL is impossible according to known physics, but effective FTL is not. Move the space around an object via warp bubble and you can have your cake and eat it too, in theory.

"In theory" is doing a lot of work there -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive -- you need to apply a type of matter that we're not even sure actually exists, even if the type of matter exists you would need to find a way to harness it, and even if that's possible, we're not sure if this works in an as of yet hypothetical unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

The author, Salvatore Pais, has been on a few podcasts saying so

Honestly the "it's aliens" explanation is so unlikely that I'd put "Wakanda is real" above it in my probability tables.

You can update your priors by looking into more cases. A pattern emerges.

See UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean.

That book by Leslie Keane is honest journalism, a fair treatment, I liked it.

I just want to say thanks for your inputs in this thread.

Hey thanks, yours as well!

This topic is a lot deeper than many realize, luckily the shift in perception is occurring and we're starting to take this seriously.

Cryptoterrestrial is another hypothesis floated by some in the intelligence community

youtubers can hand waive off a few grainy videos. You can’t waive off corroborating classified data from radar, sonar, satellites, and military pilot testimony.

I'm not sure why I even tried...

I wish the fleet of classified data could be freely available for analysis. I agree the videos alone are not proof. All we have are the testimonies from pilots and other intelligence officers to go on.

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