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The USA shot down several UFOs

2 years ago995 words

Have you been keeping up with the news about this?

I have, and it's strange.

First, there was the Chinese spy balloon, which was openly referred to as such and once that was shot down, details - including images of the recovered debris - were shared openly and quickly.

Then, shortly after, three other things were shot down, and the people involved seem to be making a point of using the term 'objects' instead of balloons and saying that they don't know what they are, or who they belong to, and they've been unable to recover any debris even though it's been three or four days now.

∞ The r/UFOs subreddit has been buzzing with new posts every few minutes ∞, which I've been checking occasionally. Included among those posts are clips of... press briefings? Or whatever the term is. Government types with microphones in their faces, or what look like official White House announcements; not really a world I'm familiar with so I don't know how it works.

I found this clip with a guy called Marco Rubio (who could be the High Wizard of the Baby-Eating Party for all I know or care as a non-American) particularly interesting:

...I'd prefer a youtube embed, but I don't know if it's available anywhere other than this website: [LINK]

From what I gather, the US senators were all given a briefing about the situation, and he's speaking about it here as if these objects were presented as being in the same categories as UFOs or 'UAPs'.

The thing I find most fascinating is how the long-held cultural attitude of ridicule towards UFOs has been shifting in recent years, and I've seen several of these clips where reporters seriously ask about whether it's aliens and get a serious reply.

(Though not always; I saw one annoying clip where the government representative was asked if it was aliens and laughed it off and said she 'liked ET' (the film) etc.)

Others have just pointed out with exasperation that no, there are no signs that it's aliens.

In my current view, whether they're manmade or space aliens' starships or probes is a false dichotomy!



I've been interested in the UFO topic since I was tiny, and for most of my life I believed, as most people do, that they were alien spacecraft.

These days, after looking into it a whole lot more, I hold a different view.

Or rather, I still think they're a non-human intelligence (rather than, say, camera/visual artefacts or weather phenomena), but I think the idea of that being just little grey men in metal flying saucers is extremely naive and small-minded. Something truly alien would be well beyond our comprehension, as it seems this thing is.

There's a well-known UFO researcher called Jacques Vallée who you may or may not have heard of, who for years has been pushing the idea that the entirety of human history is full of strange things that are likely this same phenomena taking different forms. Now, it's big-eyed greys in saucers, but centuries ago it was the fairy folk who lived just beyond the hills, or flying galleons whose occupants came swimming down through the air or offered bread in exchange for fuel or info.

I recently read Passport to Magonia, one of his better-known books, which goes into detail about this and includes a vast collection of historical strange stories as supporting evidence.

The basic idea seems to be that whatever this intelligence is, it communicates metaphorically, on grand scales, and it tailors its forms to what would be just on the edge of onlookers' ability to comprehend. So something mostly familiar but just slightly odd or more advanced, which opens the mind to new possibilities. Instead of communicating plain facts, it seems more concerned with influencing mythology and enduring beliefs.

They also don't necessarily seem to be physical objects (though the divide between 'a real thing' and 'not a real thing' might be less rigid for them than for us). One of the dismissals of the existence of UFOs is that people are 'just imagining' them, but this plays with that and suggests that they are, in a sense, 'imagining' them, but this imagining is directed by another intelligence. So in a sense, they're illusions tailored to the viewer. Several people might witness the same abnormal event but report it in drastically different ways because they actually did see different things.

It may also originate here on Earth, or extradimensionally, or it might exist 'on top of us' in a way we aren't equipped to perceive or understand in a similar way to how we can't see the wi-fi, radio, or x-rays zapping around us all the time.

So questions like '"why don't the greys just land on the White House lawn?" seem as absurd as an ant asking "why don't the humans just come before the queen and emit these particular pheromones?", maybe. And "why would they travel all this way to see us?" might be like someone from 1750 balking at the idea of instant messages across continents because it takes weeks or months to sail across the seas.

Here's a not-too-long video that I feel serves as a decent starting point for this train of thought:



It's interesting then that the US claims to have shot down a number of things that at least some of these senators are speaking about as if they're in this same category. Are they unable to find the debris because of this not-exactly-physical nature of the phenomenon? Or is it slippery in a way that they have no idea what to make of it?

Or maybe it's just something boringly mundane and it'll all be forgotten about in a few days, like always!

Still, entertaining to think that maybe something could be happening, at the very least.