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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      1. No Drama Obama on the UFOs: "We can't explain how they move, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so I think that people still take seriously, trying to investigate and figure out what that is." Reasonable! But should we be freaking out?pic.twitter.com/RG8QjBbaV7

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      2. As people rightly insist the "u" in UFO just means "unidentified." Doesn't necessarily, or even at any serious degree probably, mean space aliens. Just means there is weird shit flying around all over the world which we can't explain. Which is interesting/worrying.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

      3. Depending on you rigorously you want to define UFOs, they've been a thing since 1940s, or 1890s, or really the beginning of recorded history. Humans often see things they can't explain! And in vast majority of cases that's just optical illusion and/or delusion.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2021

          4. The story is not UFOs (which have been around for a long time) but new respectability of UFOs: Pentagon used to be hush-hush, now they're all X-Files. NY Times, New Yorker, 60 Minutes covering. Thoughts on why this is so:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/ufos-and-the-pentagon-budget?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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        1. Rick Gundlach‏ @Hoofin 19 May 2021
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          If they are taking motion pictures that are true, then if they can't identify what it is flying out there, it is truly an unidentified flying object. No way around that.

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        1. Milt Ruthven‏ @MiltonRuthven 19 May 2021
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          My guess for post-WWII sightings: classified tech that some in govt/military kept in dark about, in earlier decades it was prototype aircraft, more recently things like thishttps://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a32452418/3d-plasma-object-ufos/ …

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        1. anchor bb bruja  🇬🇩‏ @hithisisrae 19 May 2021
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          maybe humans need to grapple with the fact that not everything is/should be explainable... would solve a lot of global issues of we did.

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        1. Lupo Marrs‏ @Archonoclast 19 May 2021
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          Regarding UFOs, we should definitely not make assumptions based on science fiction books or movies. We are bugs on a dirty rock hurtling through space. Just accept the things we can't explain.

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        1. Clive Gulch 2.0‏ @2Gulch 19 May 2021
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          My hope is that UFO’s are actually the product of a Captain Nemo / Batman style human genus who defiantly operates outside of the nation state system.

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        1. Madhav Subrahmanyam‏ @MadSubrahmanyam 19 May 2021
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          lets not get distracted though. The Pentagon is explicitly talking about physical craft that defy the laws of physics as we understand and display awareness of our presence and intentions.

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        1. Rocinante‏ @ramonferrandis 19 May 2021
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          This is especially true now. How many of these things are being seen through modern sensors, vs. the naked eye? These sensors, while amazing, are far from perfect and are subject to numerous artifacts.

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        1. Qasim Raza‏ @QasimQueso 19 May 2021
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          Why are you anti-alien?

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