Pentagon Says Reaper Drone Spotted 'Metallic Orb' UFO in Middle East

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxvdy/pentagon-says-reaper-drone-spotted-metallic-orb-ufo-in-middle-east

by graderjs • 3 years ago

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infradig2• 3 years ago

Mylar balloon.

CommitSyn• 3 years ago

Instant assumption based on former pattern recognition.

infradig2• 3 years ago

No assumption, just stating what it looks like and most probably is.

Drone is high and moving while focused on fixed point on ground, balloon drifts thru field of view in opposite direction and so looks faster than it really is. The geometry is visually deceptive though really quite simple.

lolc• 3 years ago

One of the slides that Kirkpatrick used in his testimony showed the geographic areas where UAP sightings happen the most, which coincided with locations around the world where there are known to be U.S. military installations.

Had a good chuckle at that one. I assume it was the journalist who added the ominous "coincides with military installations". You don't get sightings where you have no presence!

Actually that makes me want to play a round of UFO Enemy Unknown! Great game.

ZeroGravitas• 3 years ago

Feels like half the news is only barely qualifying as news if you are strongly prone to misread "UFO" as "Aliens!" and "AI" as "Terminators!".

Reaper drone spotted Aliens!

Reaper drone spots something, we don't know what.

We put a Terminator! in charge of a fighter jet.

We used some code as a fancy autopilot in a plane.

etc.

This doesn't reflect well on society or the media.

graderjs6• 3 years ago

Yeah, or like the SpaceX test flight was actually a success and they secretly happy about it haha

ivanmarsh• 3 years ago

Reaper drone spots detonated missile fuel tank falling to ground... video is immediately misinterpreted by UFO "enthusiasts" as a flying metallic orb.

graderjs6• 3 years ago

That’s a cool interpretation. Very creative. But I think you might be misinterpreting because apparently the Pentagon has dozens of similar videos and they all look like spheres and they’re all kind of navigating around that area. Also, if it’s a missile fuel tank wouldn’t have some thermal coming off it? but apparently there’s no thermal on most of these.

Pentagon Says Reaper Drone Spotted 'Metallic Orb' UFO in Middle East

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