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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Osita Nwanevu

    I suppose this is the most plausible explanation of the UFO stuff. One super-secret wing of the military is experimenting with stuff and another wing, not being in on it, is investigating it and thinking it is aliens. Maybe -- although for decades?https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1286526619922948098 …

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    Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu
    Look, we've had a lot of fun with this, but I think it's time to acknowledge that the concept of extraterrestrial UFOs has historically provided useful cover for the development of intelligence and surveillance aircraft. A self-psy op, if you will. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1286476214622982144 …
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      2. Sarah Scoles‏Verified account @ScolesSarah 24 Jul 2020
        Replying to @trekonomics @HeerJeet

        If they mentioned it, they'd have to address holes in their original story, which...I'm not an alien, so I won't hold my breath.

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      2. Hieronymus Blech‏ @Bruisey 23 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        That would fail to explain aerial maneuvers that would, according to known physics, kill anyone piloting a craft, well before unmanned craft were developed

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      3. freeone3000‏ @freeone3000 24 Jul 2020
        Replying to @Bruisey @HeerJeet

        There's underlying assumptions to that one - the most common story there was a plane flying forward, then immediately flying upwards? This is a few years before VTOLs became common.

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      2. Ken Feinstein‏ @FeinsteinKen 23 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        People have a notion of what a “UFO” is, developed over time based on the weird things people can see and not explain. These have no connection with ET, but these phenomena will always appear. So it is easy to collect them and analyze them —whatever the varied innocuous causes.

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      3. Ken Feinstein‏ @FeinsteinKen 23 Jul 2020
        Replying to @FeinsteinKen @HeerJeet

        In other words, if people and machines are observing the sky or the water or whatever, occasionally they will see things they cannot explain. This creates the idea of a “UFO”. Of course you can find UFOs if you collect reports. It has nothing to do with ET and never did.

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      1. Chris LItes‏ @NakedSasquatch 23 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Possibly. Or simply that they created the agency as cover. But at this point, why? is there any nation that doubts we have some really advanced shit they don't know about? We'd have to given the money we spend.

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      1. Ken M. Haggerty‏ @kenmhaggerty 23 Jul 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        As someone who works with the military... have people also considered that these people are just stupid, bored, and inclined towards conspiracy theories? (I definitely agree with your diagnosis—just suspicious that it's some well-coordinated effort. That would be a shock!)

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      2. Laurence Raphael Brothers‏ @lbrothers 23 Jul 2020
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        Craft with the alleged acceleration capabilities of these UFOs are so far beyond current fighter aircraft that if they existed they would have been used in war long ago. Moreover, the skunkworks weren't that secret, and there's too many people who would have to be in the know.

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      3. Laurence Raphael Brothers‏ @lbrothers 23 Jul 2020
        Replying to @lbrothers @HeerJeet

        + For this latest crop of videos and reports, I'm far more inclined to believe in some number of pranks from military pilots (civilians never see them, oddly enough) combined with the odd atmospheric electrical anomaly -- "ball lightning", etc.

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