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context: Aliens: "We are here to take over your planet. We have destroyed your governments and imprisoned your leaders"
  People: "Oh Thank God"
  Aliens: "And we wil....wait, what?" >
  
  I was honestly wondering how big of an upheaval there would be if actual aliens landed on the White House lawn. I think I would continue on like normal assuming nothing crazy was said, like, "you will all be destroyed". I don't think anything would shock me at this point. >
  
  Here's what people need to know. Physics don't just apply to us, it applies to aliens as well. IF anything can land on the white house lawn they have pretty much 0 interest in our resources/land/etc. They never land here with any intention of screwing us for one gigantic reason, anyone that can reach use like that has EXTREME levels of resources avialable to them that makes the earth useless.
  So if anything would arrive like that so willy nilly, they'd be here openly. They wouldn't really hide, they would be here for cultural observation and exchange purposes. That's assuming they have any interest in that at all. There's no reason for any other civilization to contact us right now besides curiosity and data collection. >
  
  The motivations of alien civs in most movies are completely whackadoodle. Remember signs where they wanted the water? lol, theres way more water in the outer solar system and halo than there is way deep in the gravitational well. carve it off of europa in blocks and be on your merry way. 
  Even landing on planets is pointless. The biology is likely incompatible, like, theres no guarantee the proteins of an alien will be the same proteins as an earth species, so there might be a lack of the fundamental biochemistry necessary to even absorb calories off something from another planet. 
  And finally, once you have the capacity for interstellar travel, specifically fusion energy, the question becomes "why bother?" You can build all the habitat you could ever need in oneil cylinders >
  
  The biological thing is even worse. The alien virus or being affected by ours... Dude those things exist based on how we work not the other way wround. An alien creature is non viable. Your pet and you already have viruses and bacteria causing diseases that can't interact with the other.... And you think aliens are going to be compatible despite zero contact? >
  
  A few years ago I made a comment about what a generational starship that set out on a 400 year mission to another star would have to do to reboot the biosphere of the planet to make it suitable for earth-strain life when they got there. I was called all sorts of horrible things. And i mean, i was advocating complete and total xenocide, but, you know, people were not exactly happy with the idea that they couldn't land and walk around without a gas mask and lick all the crab-trees or whatever >
  
  You probably could just land and start running around for lulz. You wouldn't have any food, you might not like the air, etc. You would absolutely have to essentially destroy the current ecosystem and replace it with something compatible for you. I'm with you, you'd HAVE to wipe out life essentially so you can infect it with ours. The building blocks might match, but the self assembly and self replication systems absolutely would not. >
  
  i feel like you've set the wheels in motion to do all this stuff 100 years before the people actually launch the starship. Deploy a solar shield that can drop radiation by just 1-2% for a few decades and set off a heavy global ice age, and as the oceans start to thaw, drop in a lot of earth algae and phytoplankton. i imagine aluminum flakes or something designed to navigate to and deploy at a lagrange point to distrupt the solar irradiance
  or- even better- manipulate the present inhabitants to kill off all their large fauna by pre-terraforming with mass CO2 emissions, and then whack em with the heavy ice age just as the ocean ecosystem begins to collapse. when it thaws out, the extraterrestrial algae rapidly consumes the excess carbon to build up biomass >
  
  You might like Kim Stanley Robinsons and his Mars series. >
  
  Well, they would be the first to see weird classified aircraft. Not everyone on base is in the know on experimental equipment. >
  
  This happened a lot with the JASSM, F-35, U-2, SR-71 and F-117. >
  
  You missed the B2 as well. That one somehow surpassed the f-117 in number of reports. The u2/sr-71 surprisingly are either obvious or not visible at the heights they are at. They're moving so slow in relation to the arc they travel(they're moving super fast, just really far away), they're easy to get a visual on with a telescope or theyr'e so hard to see without lights in the dark you don't notice them. >
  
  Fun anecdote is my mom's best friend was a geologist and they'd see and hear the B2 across the desert at night before it was even known to the public. So I totally believe there's stuff being flown right by and people don't even know about it and report it as UFOs. >
  
  I know someone who got arrested for calling it a b2. They were making assembly lines for random objects and it was very obvious to the few people who worked on the various lines and tooling that the parts went together and was called a b2 lol >
  
  Nobody cares aliens, we're going through some stuff >
  
  Also Starlink. I've seen countless posts asking about dotted lines of light moving across the sky wondering what they were. >
  
  Do you think the navy is filing range fouler reports over satellites? >
  
  Gaslighting experimental aircraft as UFOs has been the playbook since Roswell. The air force drove a guy into the loony house one time. >
  
  
  The air force drove a guy into the loony house one time.
  
  They did a modest amount of trolling >
  
  Oh no, please don't wipe out our world governments.  Giving all of humanity a second chance to get it less wrong. >
  
  That's because they are real and the military has been seeing them for decades but was just recently cleared to report them without the fear of losing their job. Calm down nerds, I didn't say they were aliens, I don't think we have any clue what the hell they are. Personally I hope it is something way out there, like brain-bustingly bizarre. >
  
  Discovery and TLC (etc) channels rejoice! >
  
  It's History Channel, ya goofball. I am a proud aficionado. 👽 >
  
  Ancient Aliens season 20: Not so ancient aliens! >
  
  
  Nearly half of the new sightings were deemed "unremarkable" and attributed to human origins, according to the report.
  However, over a hundred of the encounters remain unexplained.
  
  Probably a mix of unremarkable but hard to ID junk in the air and classified projects that the soldiers didn't have clearance for. >
  
  Love this too - “None of the reports have been linked to any extra-terrestrial activity.” Err… do we have any such activity to link them to?? >
  
  Does this correlate with the huge increase in the use of drones? There should be lots more flying things in the sky pretty much all the time as use of drones has  grown so much. >
  
  I think it's because before they were not allowed or not incentivated to report, maybe the opposite, now they are, also yes the advancement in drones tech is surely playing a role, plus they have more chance to witness secret stuff because of their job >
  
  The aliens know we are in our final season >
  
  I'm beginning to think there will be no forced mating at all! >
  
  I'm still trying to figure out why I saw a small light in the sky make a 90° turn without losing speed about 8 years back >
  
  you were staring straight up and didnt realize you had turned around >
  
  I was facing downhill waiting for someone and was looking straight up. I kept my body facing downhill the whole time. >
  
  that's just what the aliens want you to think happened. >
  
  I have been seeking a more rational explanation but lol >
  
  see, they want you to think they can make 90 degree turns, so they used their mind control via government birds to convince you that you were always facing downhill.
  aliens always fly in straight lines. >
  
  Holy shit I should join the military >
  
  Glad to see the process is working. >
  
  The cover image was already shown to be the triangular aperture of a night vision camera.  It was a plane. >
  
  Aliens just doing it for TikTok. >
  
  Slap me on the butt and call me a dachshund. I can be the best pet you aliens ever had. >
  
  What if it's cool shit we do even no about yet?   It's not like the military dosent have secret projects. >
  
  The gardener just realizing there is a pest that may permanently damage his garden and checking to identify high pest/damage risk areas. >
  
  Are those aliens f*ckble? >
  
  Now that the US is trying to take them more seriously I’d imagine that encourages people to report them more frequently, when before they might have felt silly doing so due to the stigma. >
  
  Idk why you're getting downvoted. The government specifically opened a program for official reporting of UAPs only within the last few years which would likely account for the spike in reports. >
  
  Oh hey, more videos of bokeh.  Cool. >
  
  Can aliens just come and take over already? >
  
  "None of the reports have been attributed to extraterrestrial activity" is the key takeaway from this article. Are folks seeing odd stuff, possibly classified aircraft from another country? Sure. Aliens? Give me a break. >
  
  war is ramping up so depts are playing with their toys in case they need it/sell for big bucks >
  
  My Dad was on the Enterprise and they always had a fighter ready to take off.  He said they would constantly see Venus in the morning and would have to launch the fighter.  It was always listed as a UFO. >
  
  Likely US skunkworks type projects.  Seeing what their pilots detect. Basically using them as test subjects unwittingly. >
  
  Friends, we have been on your planet forever. We thank you for the vig every month from the evangelical pastors. It goes a long way toward preventing another mass extinction. We had nothing to do with the others. That’s just the rock you guys live on. We’re here to help, but hopefully sooner than later, you’re going to have to figure this out, because we’ve got other things to do and places to be. We just can’t still be doing this after the next Big Bang. >
  
  You're not an alien, you're just Canadian. >
  
  Excuse me, but, isn't this proof you're all full of shit? >
  
  
  Still factions in the government trying to suppress this info.
  
  Couldn't possibly be because it's classified, nooo it must be a conspiracy! >
  
  I don't know why people act like the US military industrial complex would lie to Americans...
  /s >
  
  Yeah, man. They lie, so obviously that means they have alien technology. All liars have that shit. >
  
  Nope. Can't be that another country has superior spy tech. Gotta be aliens. 🙄🙄 >
  
  Superior to the US? There's a reason we spend over a trillion a year on our military. >
  
  People have no idea lol. The runner up is China and we spend over double what they do plus we just have better assets. Better tech, better trained soldiers, better everything. We know where their subs are at any given moment while the same cant be said for them, we listen in on all of Putin’s calls and have made it clear we know where he is at all times. But sure those two militaries made something that far eclipses our abilities to detect aircraft 🙄. Meanwhile our successor to the SR-71 is trying to reach Mach 10, which was the inspiration for the opening scene in the recent Top Gun movie >
  
  Okay so when the government says that they can’t intercept these crafts and that some of them can fly in and out of water what is that? 
  The government is dragging its feet on this issue, this report was supposed to be public last year in October, that’s hardly a well oiled psyop machine with the intent for more funding. 
  Like great, it’s unlikely it’s aliens and it’s unlikely it’s china, I find it a little unlikely the government has been using navy pilots to create a hoax that has gone nowhere in 7 years. >
  
  Youre right its unlikely it’s aliens and it’s unlikely it’s china. You say it would be a badly funded psy op Im not sure it isnt just people lying.
  The navy pilots who tell these stories describe the aircraft in such a way that defies our understanding of physics. If they really are telling the truth then it’s more likely to me that aliens have visited us than the Chinese practically inventing teleportation technology or massive acceleration/deceleration without the craft being pancaked. But really I just think it’s people lying about what they saw. Maybe it’s to get other states to pursue dead ends in RnD I dont know >
  
  So if the government was telling 500 navy pilots to lie and the only thing they get in return is a ruined career and public scrutiny wouldn’t someone become a whistleblower? Or just not send in the fake report? Also if this is all about them sending in fake reports to fool the public why are their reports censored? 
  At least with aliens and china there’s a coherent understanding of why they’d be here. >
  
  Tbh every single cause I can think of is unlikely, but lets not pretend pilots like David Fravor arent profiting a little bit from the publicity. For me the hierarchy of believability is this;
  1.) The US and the pilots are flat out lying to secure more funding
  2.) The US has super secret advanced RnD projects and are encouraging the pilots to lie to steer other countries wrong with faulty intelligence
  3.) the pilots aren’t lying and the US really has technology advanced enough to deceive the pilot’s understanding of what happened
  4.) the pilots aren’t lying and aliens really did visit us
  5.) the pilot’s aren’t lying and the aircraft comes from another country.
  Truth is I genuinely dont know and wouldnt stake money on any of these outcomes. I just dont believe any other country can create better aircraft than we can. Our 5th gen fighters are technological marvels and can beat even Russia’s 5th gen. >
  
  Disclosure coming soon. >
  
  I've been waiting since the '70s. It's never going to happen. >
  
  What if i told you that some of the aliens, are US. And this planet is a colony. >
  
  I'd say you're writing fan fiction for reality. >
  
  They just want to get on The Joe Rogan Experience >
  
  Must be some NGAD testing going on. >
  
  Maybe the aliens like cats. >
  
  Mike Martin is delighted >
  
  It's just Jean Jacket. >
  
  I hope Tom Cardy is up for the task of putting his planetary fist in them >
  
  Per usual like every other UFO, it’ll be not only some explainable satellite but it will also have a footage of it taken from the first video camera ever made >
  
  Tell me you're fucking with ciivilians without telling me you're fucking with civilians. >
  
  Heading down to the U.S. Bank Tower roof in New York with some hand written signs and box sangria >
  
  In todays day and age of drones and lasers pretty much anything can be replicated including gravity defying optics.
  Edit: I’m not denying the greater possibility of Alien lifeforms at all but until one lands in my backyard……. >
  
  Well there is a massive ground war happening. >
  
  UFO as in they couldn’t identify the object, even a drone sighting. >
  
  ...171 sightings still remain "uncharacterised and unattributed"... >
  
  Sounds like we need to be testing more US troops for drugs >
  
  After cannabis-related sightings being deducted: Zero. >
  
  My only hope is they are watching the media and realizing the right wing gop policies have turned our species on a road to self destruction and are about to step in to save us. And yes, aliens are socialist. >
  
  Right wing bad, Left wing good.