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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Shiny-Tie-126 on 2024-11-25 19:22:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/CyberJest on 2024-11-25 18:49:39+00:00.

Nothing new or revelatory here. Just a simple story.

So recently I was visited by a [let's say] close friend who has worked out of White Sands for decades. I say "out of" because they've worked on projects globally for multiple branches of the Armed Services and their discipline/specialty often involves inter-communication between multiple branches of government at the same time. Lots of great stories....

At some point I joked that I wasn't going to even bother asking about aliens. The comment was ignored, as if I didn't say anything. Then one of the other people there piped up, all excited, and wanted to know everything my friend knew about UFOs and aliens. Again, the comment was ignored. No reaction at all.

This happened 3 or 4 more times, but the reaction was the same every time -- my friend just kept talking about the previous topic as if they never heard a word. It got weird fast.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Successful-Pumpkin27 on 2024-11-25 18:37:48+00:00.

I'm wondering why there is no coverage of the 2024 SOL Symposium in here so far. It was a banger last year. Did I just miss information on it or were our UFO journos accepting a non disclosure agreement this time (pun intended)? Seriously, I only saw one post with some slides from Karl Nell. I was desperately looking for this event ;)

Cheers

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/phr99 on 2024-11-25 18:37:45+00:00.

Original Title: Happening right now: multiple reports of more drones above USAF bases in UK. Washington Times: "Unexplained drone activity at least 18 times between may 2023 and june 2024 near nuclear infrastructure, weapons, and launch sites. Theres speculation they may be ET, but AARO says there is no evidence"

Edit: Livestream of the UAPs

Edit: new article on TWZ

Mysterious Drones Are Back Near U.S. Air Bases In The United Kingdom. We also now know the drone incursions last week happened over multiple bases, not just RAF Lakenheath. This is a rapidly developing story, we will update you as soon as we get more information.

From X:

USAF audio recorded by livestreamer: "Weve got multiple reports of UAV taking off from fields in the north and south" - @wow36932525

Lights reportedly "skimming the tops of trees". As soon as the youtuber got his camera out "they had gone". @ChrisUKSharp

Also, note that if activities continued throughout Saturday and Sunday (note by phr99: according to USAF they did), then it means the drones could perhaps fly through very treacherous weather conditions, including high winds. @ChrisUKSharp

NEW: Multiple reports of more drones above the USAF bases in East England. Military jets are currently in the skies circling the area. @ChrisUKSharp

One person on a Facebook group discussing this right now states: "I’m listening to comms and they are talking about more drones." Others suggest this could be normal activity. We'll get no confirmation until USAF comments. @ChrisUKSharp

Stratotanker up. That means fighter jets are up too with their transponders off. @OMalleyFife

From Washington Times:

Recent reports reveal a concerning pattern of mysterious drone activity near sensitive military installations, with the latest incidents occurring last week at three U.S.-operated bases in England: RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Feltwell. The U.S. Air Forces Europe confirmed these sightings but provided limited details about the nature of the drones or potential operators, citing operational security concerns.

These incidents follow a broader trend of unexplained drone activity around U.S. military facilities. A recent Pentagon report disclosed at least 18 drone sightings near nuclear infrastructure, weapons, and launch sites between May 2023 and June 2024. A similar incident involving a drone swarm was reported at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia earlier this year.

The sightings have also sparked speculation in some quarters that the objects might be extraterrestrial in nature, though the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, said there is no evidence of that. “It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology,” the AARO report reads in part.

I wonder what they mean with "speculation in some quarters". Are they talking about reddit / X, or about the UAP hearing?

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Own_Bus8002 on 2024-11-25 18:31:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Xander111117 on 2024-11-25 17:23:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/AdamHoleBayBay on 2024-11-25 16:56:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/zukenukem on 2024-11-25 13:48:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Fit-Baker9029 on 2024-11-25 11:10:03+00:00.

According to Bloomberg journalist Jason Leopold, denied FOIA requests are not necessarily the end of the line. "Under a section of an executive order signed by former President Barack Obama, the public can request a declassification review of a specific classified document they know exists and request its release" (see ). Not being in this business myself, I had never heard of this procedure. Just wanted to throw it out there in case it's not so widely known. For Leopold, it worked.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/TommyShelbyPFB on 2024-11-25 12:23:03+00:00.

Original Title: Popular Mechanics - Alien Technology Is Driving a ‘Multidecade, Secretive Arms Race,’ Former Pentagon Official Claims. The U.S. “is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries,” he said during a recent Congressional hearing. (Paywall Free in Submission Statement)

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Couch_surf04 on 2024-11-25 08:47:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/kcimc on 2024-11-25 09:15:33+00:00.

This is a close reading of the imagery that was posted today in this video and in this followup video. In these videos, the YouTube creator Nathan receives emails from an anonymous source with "Leaked UFO Footage". This footage was ostensibly captured by classified ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) platforms. There are two emails that contain two different sets of images. I spent some time looking closely at the most interesting screen captures in this thread which I will indicate with numbers below. Here are some things I noticed, in no particular order:

1. Some images are clearly near-infrared (in the thread, images number #1, #2, #3 and #5). Others are clearly thermal imagery (the hazy boomerang, the ceiling fan). Most of the other images, including the silhouette images, look like thermal to me.
2. Some of the IR images show an apparently glossy (shiny) surface. Images #1 and #5. Others a more matte surface, like the asterisk #3
3. The apparent light source varies across the infrared images, while the thermal images have no apparent light source as expected.
4. Some images have no redactions, others have a single redaction (#4 spinning X), or 4 to 10 redactions. Many redactions are very thin along the edges of the image, which point to the analog copying process described in the email. Some redactions are blurs instead of black bars.
5. The images are not perfectly aligned in the original PDF, indicating they were probably scanned from a print out.
6. The edges of some of the images in the original PDF are not blurred, indicating a UI limitation of the blurring redaction tool.
7. The reticles have many different shapes and patterns. #1 and #2 have colored reticles while everything else is black and white. Some reticles are crosshairs of various sizes, sometimes with central boxes or circles, often with four lines at a distance from the cross, sometimes with a tracking box. To me, the black square is the only one that looks similar to reticles I've seen before. Here are two compilations showing US military drone footage: 1 2, and here are some other individual videos 1 2 3 I didn't see any clear matches to other reticles.
8. Some of the redacted text is semi-visible. For example #8 the hazy boomerang seems to say TEIRS or similar along the top. Or the text 0AZ on the left of #11.
9. Some of the clouds are legible as hazy high-altitude cirrus clouds. These clouds are not necessarily in front of our behind the craft.
10. Some images have more detailed sensor noise, while others seem to be more low-resolution or more compressed.
11. Some images, like the chandelier and the 1967 flying cross, appear to have aliasing artifacts and have been intentionally downsampled. This downsampling might actually be the result of Nathan converting a PDF to a PNG for his additional blurring redaction step inside Photoshop—I'm guessing this because the text was rasterized at a similar resolution to the images. This indicates that Nathan may have higher resolution images embedded in the original PDF file compared to what was shown on the video.
12. Some images like #10 (two plus signs) seem to have vignetting on the sides. Other images in the videos have similar vignetting and this may indicate they were captured on the same sensor platform.
13. Lots of slight asymmetries in the imagery, but also lots of alignment. The chandelier is almost perfectly aligned with the sensor. The cube is also almost perfectly aligned. The chandelier also appears to have an asymmetry, with the two main arms (top left and bottom right) pointing a different direction than the three other main arms? The very strange #11 which has the fuzzy saucer shape, or squashed iron cross shape, with the circle in the middle of the reticle—it is aligned with the camera sensor, and almost perfectly symmetric on both axes.
14. Most of the images have a 16:9 aspect ratio, but at least one (the white orb) is 3:2. This may indicate that image is from an older platform, since 16:9 is a slightly newer aspect ratio.
15. The second set of imagery has 4x3 images in a grid, with titles in Calibri. The font indicates that it was made on Windows. The landscape orientation and aspect ratio indicates to me that it was organized as a PowerPoint slide. There is a subtle drop shadow on each image.
16. There is apparent motion blur in some of the cross images that indicate spinning or other movement.
17. At least two images (hazy boomerang #8 and spinning X #4) are not strictly black-and-white but are slightly saturated.

I have a background working with digital media and computer vision for over 15 years, including experience with infrared and thermal cameras (in the very unclassified context of new user interfaces). But I hope the above observations could be mostly made by anyone.

I have some experience making computer generated visuals as well, and in my opinion none of these images are individually difficult to reproduce. But there is significant variety, which indicates to me that if these are hoax images, they would have been made very carefully. Here is how you could have most easily hoaxed this:

1. Acquire both a thermal and infrared (or color) camera.
2. Take images of everyday being tossed into the sky, during day and night.
3. Treat most as black and white, but a couple with a slight color tone.
4. Add overlay text, then blur some text and black out other text.
5. Add dozens of different reticles in different styles.
6. Export the images mostly as 16:9 but at least one as 3:2.
7. Print all the images out then scan them to create the first PDF. For the second set, organize the images in PowerPoint and export and send a PDF(?)

If these were made as CGI, I would be surprised if they were all made the same way since they have different noise artifacts, vignetting, materials, treatment of blurring, etc. I would expect more of an analog process working with hardware limitations.

In my opinion, this has the variety I would expect to see from a collection of images captured on different platforms over the years.

Edit: Yes, we all know about AI. I've been writing about how to recognize AI-generated images since 2018. I don't think that's what this is, but I would love to see attempts at making similar images with AI.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/TheWorldWarrior123 on 2024-11-25 06:13:41+00:00.

Genuine question, why wouldn't a NHI have full access to our Internet and read everything that is going on? Even if it's AI or Biological lifeforms the logical thing to do, especially if your main thing is covert surveillance among earth, would be to surveillance the internet. Why wouldn't they be on our Internet viewing reddit posts? 😂 It wouldnt be that hard to steal electronic equipment and connect yourself onto the internet especially for the technological capabilities they have. Maybe they even do a little bit of trollin in the comments 😂

In all seriousness though for any foreign surveillance would be intelligence data on the internet it would literally put you 10 steps ahead. Simply look in the internet and see what has been leaked on you, what's real, what's false, and what is to be expected. Essentially allowing another extra checkmate step on information and covertness.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Ghost_z7r on 2024-11-25 06:24:43+00:00.

Original Title: Jeremy Corbell apparently gatekept "Immaculate Constellation" docs for months, added a manifesto page with his name on it to the docs, submitted the altered docs to Congress at the UAP hearing, then lashed out at Nancy Mace and Michael Shellenberger when he learned his addition wouldn't be included.

Is Jeremy Corbell going too far in his effort to attach his name to everything UAP related? I get wanting to receive credit but at a certain point your ego shouldn't conflict with the effort of disclosure.

What do you all think?

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/RickyDucati000 on 2024-11-25 01:09:31+00:00.

I would not want any injures or damages but it’s one way we could bypass all the government horseshit instantly. It would be incredible to have hundreds of eye witnesses and videos uploaded for the world to view and if there were biologics present, the government wouldn’t be able to lie to everyone that it’s experimental etc. in my opinion we are due for one of these instances and I hope you are ready to record. Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Ketonian_Empir3 on 2024-11-24 21:48:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Mindless-Sleep-8938 on 2024-11-25 01:14:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/esosecretgnosis on 2024-11-25 00:05:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/sentimental_cactus on 2024-11-24 22:57:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/87LucasOliveira on 2024-11-24 22:47:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/chironelon12 on 2024-11-24 22:23:45+00:00.

Please sign to push forward disclosure and request others to sign. We need at least 500 votes

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/TommyShelbyPFB on 2024-11-24 21:09:03+00:00.

Original Title: Outside of the goofy debunking there was a really important moment between Sen. Gillibrand and AARO director Jon Kosloski where they both acknowledged the existence of individuals with possible firsthand knowledge of UAP programs and their reluctance to engage with AARO.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Rude-Appointment8962 on 2024-11-24 17:28:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/itwillbepukka on 2024-11-24 09:30:56+00:00.

I keep hearing concerns over ontological shock.

We're led to believe in fairies, Easter bunnies and father Christmas, then those beliefs are shattered. So I've already dealt with ontological shock when I was 10, I think the ones who would really go into ontological shock would be those who had already forgotten that we lie to kids all the time. To the government the uninformed masses are kids and they treat us as such.

Anyway as much chaos as they believe the world would go into I think it would only be temporary and we would have to get over it