jbcrawford 5 points 3 years ago

I have sort of a particular skeptical opinion on recent UFO disclosures. I've published it here:

It's important to understand that we managed to get into a situation where the military performed essentially no collection or analysis of reports of unusual aircraft for nearly 40 years. I don't think we should be too surprised by a significant revelation about advanced technology possessed by foreign governments after this period of time. At the same time, it remains very possible that these reports are mistaken. I expect that recent investment in UAS-detection technology will lead to a lot more empirical evidence in these kinds of situations, and then we'll have a lot more to go on.

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interolivary 2 points 3 years ago

There's definitely a chance that many sightings are just foreign (as in non-US in this context) technology, but I have some doubts about whether anybody could just secretly produce technology that seems to defy physics as we understand it today. Naturally it's possible that some military lab in eg. China broke physics, just a bit unlikely.

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Parsnip8904 1 point 3 years ago

I don't think you need to break physics. A combo of unlikely events + high density energy sources + modern flight technology can give rise to things that might seem to 'break' physics as we encounter in day to day life normally.

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