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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Chess0728 on 2024-12-14 21:15:11+00:00.
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Alright. I keep seeing people talk about how the drones are searching for WMDs and/or dirty bombs, or that it's a drill for the same purposes.
I have a M.S. in inorganic chemistry. I don't have experience working with radioactive materials, but I'm at least somewhat field-adjacent. I welcome anyone with more experience and knowledge to chime in.
Radiation is not something we can simply detect based on presence/absence alone. You get a stronger signal when you're closer to it. Different types of radiation come from different radionuclides, and each type of radiation travels a different distance and has different energy associated with it.
Nuclear weapons are shielded, meaning they are designed to not give off much/any radiation. This is because you don't want to get a massive dose of radiation just for standing near it. Furthermore, if you are going to hide a WMD in the city, it's going to be in a building or underground, and not somewhere up in the sky for a month.
Since radiation is detected more strongly when the detector is close to the source, it would make far more sense for trucks to be driving around with radiation detectors in the back. Like how in The Dark Knight Rises, they used radiation detectors to track which truck had the bomb inside, but in reverse.
You would not track ground-level radiation from up in the sky. It just doesn't make sense.
People keep bringing up this paper, which discusses the use of a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector affixed to an unmanned helicopter to track radiation. If you read the paper, you learn three important things:
- The very first sentence of the abstract defines this technology as intended for "[a]fter a nuclear or radiation event." It seems they intend it to be used for a partial-leak at a nuclear plant.
- These HPGe detectors, which Google suggests are most effective when only centimeters away, have a maximum simulated (not even tested!) range of 100 m. And the sensors rapidly lose their ability to detect radiation as the distance increases.
- HPGe detectors are not cheap, and require liquid-nitrogen coolant or equivalent. The government might have infinite money to spend on drone technology, but they aren't going to be flying these things around without telling the military about it, because to lose even one would be a tremendous financial loss.
Now, having said all that, let me clarify that I do believe there are drones flying over NJ, and now other parts of the world as well. I'd estimate 90% of the videos we see are just planes, helicopters, or fakes. But 9% of them genuinely seem to be man-made drones. And 1% of the videos are still unexplainable. This 1% includes the glowing orbs that reportedly rise out of the ocean, the giant triangular "motherships" hovering over the clouds, and the massive crescent/boomerang ships that almost seem see-through.
I personally believe that the man-made drones are looking for the 1% of unexplainable sightings. And that 1% has the government so freaked out that they are flying these drones extrajudicially, because they can't reveal that they are looking for something like this without risking whistleblowers.
Now, assuming they are U.S. Government drones, here's why they would tell us "we don't know what they are, but they aren't a threat". It all has to do with that 1%, whether it's foreign tech we've never seen, or genuinely NHI:
- If the gov't says they are a threat, people panic. That's bad.
- If the gov't says they aren't a threat, and they're correct, they look like they're in-the-know and in control.
- If the gov't say they aren't a threat, and they're wrong, well the world suddenly has bigger things to worry about than blaming the U.S. Government.
It's worth mentioning that point #2 above also explains why so many people claim to have the truth. They make a plausible statement, and if it's right, they gain credibility. If they're wrong, who cares?
Something is happening right now. And I don't think the government knows what it is. I don't think anyone knows what it is. But please don't accept a theory as fact just because it's plausible.