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#881 |
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They're not fake videos. They are genuine videos. But there's no proof that they show aliens.
Let's see if I can make explicit the cognitive leap that we're questioning: 1. Weird video 2. ??????????? <-- this is the bit we are having a problem with 3. Therefore, aliens. |
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#882 |
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You admit alien life exists but you can only apply human technology to their advanced race? Why they have technology you can not imagine same way you have technology in your pocket someone from 1400 would never be able to imagine
You have the same attitude as someone from the middle ages as well , time to enlighten yourself |
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#883 |
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Those UAPs outperform American jet fighters, do you really believe that's Russian or chinese when Russia still hasn't taken Ukraine! and china is still trying to scare Taiwan
With that technology explain why that is true? That leaves very little else coupled with that sound and the power going out, the alien theory fits completely 100% no other theory put forward does, it only explains a tiny amount but never explains both light and sound and power going out The evidence points to alien more than it points to magical flying transformers and brown outs that are never seen to take place in the video Next you will be telling me you can't convict a criminal of murder after a 60 second video shows them doing it because that knife could be anything... |
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#884 |
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Do you know how many posts I've relied to.. clearly I missed one and I've not said a word about it! Don't put words in my mouth, what about a 7 report? Did they disclaim aliens are not visiting? I'd love to see that
But it's been quite the opposite every news station is finally dropping the skeptical outlook and no longer ridiculing guests who come on the government is now taking them seriously the evidence is mounting and time is on my side regarding this subject |
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/7news.c...-c-2945676.amp
Gee... "A 7NEWS Spotlight investigation has lifted the lid on government coverups around UFOs stretching back decades." You'll be hard pushed to find any modern news company laughing at people who think aliens are visiting these days your days were gone 10 years ago, same for my video only time before it happens again with a better camera or with visible view of the sky... Now it's about getting the truth and finding out who has been lying and why for the last 100 years we have been seeing these things |
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#886 |
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You're still assuming that the Navy videos show something technological. The Triangle is a lens flare! Not even an object at all. An optical artefact. Gimbal is a regular commercial aircraft at a distance. GoFast is, in all likelihood, a balloon.
Stop assuming that all UAPs are technological and the truth will hit you in the face. |
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#887 |
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No, it will hit you in the face...
Your truth nothing happening would be a disappointment but it certainly wouldn't hit me in the face, I KNOW they are here, the tic tac and gimbal are definitely not the only occurrence there is with the navy A gimbal or acorn shape craft crashed in a forest and the army came into remove it, there clearly many alien species and all have their own motivation for coming here You'll see, find me any modern news report that refutes the possibly of us being visited, that triangle you say is lens flare, I don't know what that is, what I will say is, I hope the navy knows what lens flare is and that's why they released it Now not only are the people who see things were wrong, now the navy is wrong and the government is wrong in adding the claim it could be of not of this world, it got silently added .. In a few years you will be arguing the high res photos are not good enough and any alien beings are CGI, this nonsense never ends, yet every year more proof comes along favouring the believers... |
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Don't be so sure of yourself. It has been interesting to watch the evolution of UFO sightings, from the flash gordon saucers of the 50s and 60s to todays much less entertaining phenomena of lens flare and camera artifacts. Using the Bigfoot analogy again, after cell phone cameras became ubiquitous, Bigfoot proponents swore it would be a matter of months...which dragged to years...which dragged to decades before clear convincing foorage of the Squatch would appear. Never happened of course, because Bigfoot is imaginary. So re alien spacecraft visiting earth, as evidenced by the total lack of clear footage. Instead, we get increasingly vague and meaningless stuff like navy videos of planes and mundane lights in one's neighborhood which baffle the gullible...hence ALIENS!
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You don't know what a lens flare is? Congratulations, you're one of today's lucky 10,000.
Lens flare is where light is scattered on the inside of a camera lens, producing a visual artefact. Most lens flare is circular, because most cameras have a circular aperture. The particular model of camera that was used to capture the Triangle happens to have a triangular aperture. It's not just a correspondence, it is a perfect correspondence. There is no object. There is only light and reflections. |
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Exactly why we currently demand more than just "high res photos" because it is so easy to fake things with software, and many people are doing just that.
Seriously, you strike me as someone who watched "Alien autopsy" and was 100% convinced without the slightest doubt. Prove to me the invisible dragon that lives under my bed isn't real--show me any modern news report that refutes the possibility of that dragon living there right now, I challenge you. My challenge is as asinine as yours. |
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As a photographer who constantly has to explain to wooish tourists that their photos of orbs are actually lens flare or photos of out of focus bugs, I can assure you that no amount of common sense and basic knowledge will enlighten them. Might as well tell them god don't exist.
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Why do you keep doing this?
No one here has disputed the existence of these (mostly unfaked) videos, any more than they have disputed the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. We are only disputing that such videos are evidence of, let alone proof of, alien spacecraft visiting this planet. |
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Exactly this argument is useless you will never be happy until they land in your back yard
Alien autopsy was fake, I'll show you everything that isn't real and leave you with what is real and genuinely unexplainable.. again you would not be happy until one landed I even mentioned lens flare in a previous statement I made as I see it all all the time being passed off as alien I will only provide you with evidence I believe to be true and there is not that much of it out there Most .can be explained away I do that all the time. I'm no normal believer i will debunk ghost paranormal and most alien bs online I've only become this way because of evidence I've seen I know can't be faked you will find me arguing with crop circle believers and ancient alien crap if there's no evidence I don't care about it! I only care where it is unexplainable |
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#897 |
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Hi cjdelphi, can you tell me what's on top of the pole in this picture?
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) |
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Guess what... I have a phone which replaces my words automatically until you add it
![]() The large Hadron collider has already been superseded by a larger collider, I wonder why... to discover new fundamental building blocks in that one day we can manipulate the world around us on a quantum level leading to who knows what... If you are getting excited over spelling mistakes it means you ran out of ways to ridicule me so this is your only way it also means you can't prove me wrong either... |
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"Nimitz*Carrier Group off the coast of California, and estimate lower bounds on the accelerations exhibited by the craft during the observed maneuvers. Estimated accelerations range from almost**to 1000s of gs with no observed air disturbance, no sonic booms, and no evidence of excessive heat commensurate with even the minimal estimated energies. In accordance with observ......"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514271/ The more you research the more you discover it can't be human behind it |
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And yet you failed to understand what I was getting at when I asked about deuterium and tritium.
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Any light coming from a remote source, bulbs lamps, it would all light up the tree not just the path outside my bedroom window like it does...
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I explained it, you say I'm wrong, you can't offer an alternative that fits but you still expect me to believe I'm wrong
Not going to happen until you explain how and it better take the power out and make a search beam light and whatever explanation you have better make sound like you hear in the video, if you can't not even remotely, get off my screen |
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https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-in...hree-times-big
It has, it just hasn't been built yet lol Regarding the triangle I don't know as I said not seen any evidence nobody tracked it like the nimitz encounter it could be lens flare or it could be aliens going about their business I haven't done any research to rule out either but until I do that I have an open mind and yes I will keep your note that it's the same shape as the aperture it could very well be.. No idea |
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Nope. You’re starting with the presumption that it was an alien spaceship, and asking people to disprove that presumption. This makes your argument invalid. As does the very obvious non-sequitur at its centre. |
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You sound like a broken record never adding anything new not investigating what has been presented or even attempting to explain it as a reasonable explanation behind it
There isn't one it's unexplainable and that sound you hear is not an electrical interference issue Find me an article claiming you are correct they can't be here because.... I'd love to hear it, if you can't offer one, change the record |
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Of course, you are right, but what is funny is when an ignorant response to your comment only magnifies the extent to how out of touch the responder is. The proposed successor to the LHC is still in the relatively early planning stages. The LHC itself took around 30 years to evolve from concept to completion. Claiming a conceptual idea has "superseded" a working instrument only shows how little that person understands regarding the application of science and engineering. Heck, even the EuroCirCol project only prepped a report (finished in 2019), with more planning to be done. From January, 2021 - https://cerncourier.com/a/horizon-ev...cc-innovators/
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You keep bringing up familiar UFO stories as if we never heard of them. Those navy tictac gimbal etc videos have been very well explained, including in a video which was posted in this thread a few days ago. You may decline to watch it but here's the thing: we've watched it.
So every time you lay another tired old busted UFO story out there as a gotcha it doesn't make you look like someone who's done their research. It makes you look like another gullible mug who hasn't seen through it yet. |
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People with far more relevant expertise than I possess have analysed these videos and found none that can only be explained by alien technology, as you would know if your "research" was not so severely limited by your bias.
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The only one I can see in this thread doing that is yourself e.g. "...My theory based on other peoples reports is that they are silent unless close up within a few meters, it's an ion propulsion system people claim they hang around fresh water sources collecting hydrogen..."
A million years more advanced and they are still using ion drives.... |
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No. I apply the laws of physics to their advanced race.
You on the other hand declare they use fusion reactors and ion drives. Do they use iPod Shuffles too? In due course you'll sound as quaint as having Flash Gordon stoke the atomic furnaces, or Cole Porter have lovers compare each other to miracle stuff such as cellophane. |
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