The UFO vid shown to Congress last year was leaked

[u/XVll-L]

[u/jakeblues655]

Anyone make out what they saying?

[u/deepeast_oakland → u/jakeblues655]

“Break, Omaha (something) Kidd, Rafael Peralta, pass ability to launch helo ASAP”

This is someone (probably TAO Tactical Action Officer) asking several other units for their ability to launch a helicopter.

I can’t make out the word after Omaha but the rest of these are ship names

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Omaha_(LCS-12)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kidd_(DDG-100)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rafael_Peralta

So this video is from one ship in a small fleet and they’re all probably pretty close by. Which mean theres probably similar video from several different angles. I bet that why this one got elevated to congress. I’m just speculating, but you can see a lot of weird shit though a FLIR.

The video jumps and then you can hear a weather report being given to the Captain of the ship.

He said “we have 31 knots sustained winds gusts up to 40”

They’re discussing weather parameters for launching the helicopter or small boat.

Source, sailed with the USCG and used to talk on the radio…a lot… this was a bit of a throw back for me, I haven’t needed to make out garbled Navy transmissions in years. Fuckin squids.

Edit: for additional context. Launching a helicopter from a ship is a complex job. It’s so complex we call it an “evolution”. Many moving parts and dozens of people are involved. It’s wildly dangerous. So dangerous that if you’re working any where near the helicopter you get extra special pay (I don’t remember exactly how much, like $90 per month or something)

So when asking for “ability to launch helo” what they’re looking for is information about,

-does the ship have a helo onboard at the time

-repair status of the helo

-qualification status of the crew

• fuel status of helo

-hours already on flight crew

-weather constraints on launching

And probably like 26 other things i can’t think of at the moment. That one question is will require a small team of people to gather the info and check for errors while also considering risks involved. Before someone radios back “flight status FMC”

Edit: Edit: someone below recognized the missing name as USS Pinckney

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pinckney

[u/Eyebleedorange → u/deepeast_oakland]

So dangerous that if you’re working any where near the helicopter you get extra special pay

Oh shit I bet those guys make bank

like $90 per month or something

Oh ok

[u/9ofdiamonds → u/Eyebleedorange]

I literally belly laughed at that comment. Either OP is talking shit or danger pay in the US Navy is the same as doing a delivery driver shift haha..

Edit.....it's 90 a month. It's worse. Its sooooo much worse

[u/deepeast_oakland → u/9ofdiamonds]

I looked it up. It’s about $150

https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Special-and-Incentive-Pays/HDIP/#:~:text=Service%20members%20are%20eligible%20while,HDIP%20is%20up%20to%20%24150.

We practice so much that the risks involved are reduced. But all it takes is watching a helo landing one time to realize how stupid fucking dangerous it is. All for an extra $150. Good times.

[u/deepeast_oakland → u/[deleted]]

Lol I’m a nerd about this kind if thing. I love watching military movies and just pointing to all the ways we wouldn’t be able to do the things they show. One of my favorites on the naval side is the end of “San Andres”

Jump to 1:30

https://youtu.be/YN6wCgS42vk

They show like 20 something large ships trying to cram into the SF Bay. First of all where did all these ships come from in like a day? San Diego is the nearest Navy base that would have any of these DDGs or CVNs. At any given time ONE of these ships might be near SF, literally like one. Then they’re all trying to come in at the same time. Where the fuck are they going to go. The whole bay is trashed, where is the ship going to moore up at? They show a USCG 378 which basically doesn’t exist anymore. Look at that fucking aircraft carrier. It’s like 400 yards away from slamming into whats left of the GG bridge. Who the fuck is driving? Steer clear you stupid fuck. Then you’ve got the USS Mercy (or Comfort, can’t tell which) basting right up some DDGs wake. If two ships came that close in real life someone would get fucking fired.

Which is nearly what happened

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2023-04-19/navy-report-near-ship-collision

But then my favorite part. 1:45 in the clip. Two, count em TWO CG dolphins come bussin around buzzing the bridge tower for like no fuckin reason. I guess they were flying up to the FEMA camp that some dumb ass thought would be a good idea for the top of the Marin fucking headlands. There like a tiny two lane road to get up that goddamn mountain. Theres an hour long traffic jam every weekend. But sure lets set up A camp on top of a mountain where people can’t easily get to or from. And have CG helicopters waste fuel dragging people up to this camp, when they could be dropping people off in whatever is left of Sausalito, or Tiburon. Both of which have higher elevation than any tsunami will hit. Great use of Coast Guard helicopters. At least it looks like they’re having fun.

[u/panrestrial → u/deepeast_oakland]

I took an intro to astronomy class at uni where our Prof started every lecture by showing us a film clip from a 'space' movie and pointing out everything wrong with it - it was funny and engaging and your comment is too! Great way to illustrate concepts done wrong.

[u/Dom5p35 → u/9ofdiamonds]

Prior Navy. Hazard pay can fluctuate but it's not much on top of regular pay. You have to consider hazard, sea duty pay, maybe per diem, flight deck duty, etc. It all totals up to be kind of nice bonus each pay check. But that's relative really. Now that I'm out with a good job it really is pennies.

[u/Sudden-Garage → u/Dom5p35]

Yeah man but holyshit did it seem like a lot when you were deployed!!!! Like I felt like I was racking it in while at sea... Maybe it's because I just wasn't spending. Still it felt awesome to get those few extra bucks on your check.

[u/ProbablyABore → u/Sudden-Garage]

Lol it did seem like a lot at the time. It was something like an extra 100/mo when I was in for sea and hazard pay. Mid-late 90s. Spend 6 months at sea on the sub, come back to a little over 5500 in the bank account and think you were shitting in high cotton.

[u/aussie_nub → u/Sudden-Garage]

Maybe it's because I just wasn't spending.

That's the thing. Might sound shit, but when all of your other costs (food, board, etc) are paid, it's probably pretty good. Many soldiers are young and have no experience, so it's not going to earn less than someone in the private sector with 20 years experience.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sudden-Garage]

I felt rich when I worked Baskin Robbins in highschool. Amazing how money pipes up when you have zero bills.

[u/[deleted] → u/9ofdiamonds]

Yeah that sounds about right. Around the time of my first deployment I believe our danger pay for being in theater was $3.50 per day

[u/fredthefishlord → u/deepeast_oakland]

Thanks for the accurate transcript.

[u/Royal_Negotiation_83 → u/deepeast_oakland]

They say “got some white water out there,6 foot swells”

Next dude “whoa that’s getting close”

“And we have 31 knots sustained wind topside, gusts to 40”

Splash

“Mark bearing and range”

[u/Porfinlohice → u/deepeast_oakland]

Thanks for the script

[u/THI-Centurion → u/deepeast_oakland]

USS Pinckney is the missing one.

[u/My_dreams_r_strange → u/jakeblues655]

They are mostly discussing wind conditions, the behavior of the visual, and when it "splashed."

Second video, they are asking to launch a helo ASAP. In the background, you hear someone telling the object "keep going, bro."

They sound like military.

[u/beboleche → u/My_dreams_r_strange]

Second video?

[u/therealdeathangel22 → u/beboleche]

Pretty sure this is two videos cut together

[u/BringingPHATback]

I was a weatherman in the Navy. On my first deployment I saw some weird stuff a couple of times outside at night and went to go tell my buddies in the CDC (it’s the dark room with screens and blue lights you always see in Navy commercials. They’re the ones who operate these radars), and everyone in there was like “oh, those things? Yeah.”

[u/DuntadaMan → u/BringingPHATback]

One thing that is really understated, and honestly under used in modern story telling is that fucking weird things happen on the ocean, and people who spend a lot of time on the ocean get so used to weird shit that they stop remembering it is weird.

Someone recorded the largest every negative wave from an oil refinery. They went to excitedly tell the crew and they were just like "Oh yeah. Those things. That happens. Weird right?"

[u/raban0815 → u/DuntadaMan]

What is a negative wave?

[u/rwhitisissle → u/raban0815]

Probably a "rogue hole." Rogue waves are basically what happens if the tops of multiple waves randomly combine together - they add their size together. The same thing can happen if the troughs of multiple waves combine. It forms a super deep, random trough of water in the ocean. So, imagine swimming and all of a sudden there's several dozen feet of "not ocean" beneath you. And then very quickly there's several dozen feet of water above you after the rogue hole collapses. And then you die.

[u/DuntadaMan → u/rwhitisissle]

In this thought experiment you can choose to be a fish.

You still die.

[u/deltashmelta → u/DuntadaMan]

"Oh no, not again."

[u/BriefCollar4 → u/deltashmelta]

Damn you, Arthur Dent!

[u/wujibear → u/deltashmelta]

If we knew why the plant said that, we'd know an awfully lot more about the universe

[u/TruthYouWontLike → u/wujibear]

It's because the bowl of petunias has been killed by Arthur so many times it's almost given up hope at this point in the story.

[u/steveblobby → u/deltashmelta]

Nice Hitchhikers quote 👌

[u/Sl0ppy0tter → u/DuntadaMan]

Wave, death. No wave, also death.

[u/_beat_LA → u/rwhitisissle]

So, imagine swimming and all of a sudden there's several dozen feet of "not ocean" beneath you.

I'm gonna try really hard not to do that, but thanks

[u/Lacholaweda → u/rwhitisissle]

I've seen this in a minor form in virginia beach.

Also, if it's kind of a choppy day but you really want to swim, don't choose the one clear spot that goes all the way back.

[u/Tugendwaechter → u/Lacholaweda]

At the beach the sea has an incoming and and an outgoing current. Where you see the waves crest and break the water flows towards land. Where it’s calm the water flows out to sea.

[u/Lightlovezen → u/Lacholaweda]

That's the riptide that you are taught when going swimming in the ocean NOT to go into as it will pull you out and hard to swim back to shore. If you do get caught in one you are taught to swim along parallel to the coastline til you can try to get out of it, but it's dangerous.

[u/dantakesthesquare → u/Lacholaweda]

Why? Is that a current?

[u/Tsupernami → u/dantakesthesquare]

Riptide, so yes

[u/Benj1B → u/rwhitisissle]

Reason #16,472 to never go swimming out in the deep ocean, thanks

[u/1stMammaltowearpants → u/Benj1B]

Reason #1: it's too deep

[u/CRYSTALKATJA → u/rwhitisissle]

“So, imagine swimming and all of a sudden there's several dozen feet of "not ocean" beneath you. And then very quickly there's several dozen feet of water above you after the rogue hole collapses. And then you die.”

my stomach just fell out of my own rogue 🕳 wtf this is terrifying. i would have died at “all of a sudden”.

[u/conduitfour → u/rwhitisissle]

Yeah I heard they were speculated to exist but unseen considering any ship caught in that would be mega dead

[u/moojo → u/raban0815]

This video talks about rogue waves and holes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ylOpbW1H-I

[u/zoey_will → u/BringingPHATback]

Haha you just reminded me how useless I felt on watch sometimes. I'd report a contact and just get, "Yup, we see it."

[u/mrtexasman06 → u/zoey_will]

As a former CICWO, I can tell you right now that folks probably weren't trying to make you feel useless. I wanted OS3 to report everything they see to me, but I felt like I should see and know about it before OS3, or I wasn't doing my job.

[u/doublemembrane → u/BringingPHATback]

Did they have any idea what they were? Like man-made craft or actual UAPs? It’s interesting that they must’ve seen it so frequently to not be fazed by it.

[u/leon_everest → u/doublemembrane]

From stories, navy guys see a lot of stuff out at sea. Lots of very strange stories. UAPs by the stories. I heard the stories on podcasts but I'm sure you can easily find similar stories from Navy vets.

[u/usename1567 → u/leon_everest]

Could u give us some names of those podcasts? Keen to have a listen

[u/leon_everest → u/usename1567]

I'm not huge into the UAP podcast world, I just really enjoy Last Podcast on the Left. They have episodes focused on UAPs, abductions, etc, and listener emails detailing some of these stories. Some content are deeper dives into things like the Rendlesham Forest incident, Skin Walker Ranch, Nephelims, and etc. They aren't experts in UAPs but do some good research and are fun to listen to. Most of their content revolves around serial killers and other macabre topics. I recommend the Rendlesham Forest Incident as a first listen. Sorry, Id have to do more digging to find specific episodes suggestions. They're on Spotify. Happy listening.

[u/LegitTaco115 → u/leon_everest]

Love LPOTL, a great ep to listen to is the donner party ep. Hail yourselves

[u/-littlefang- → u/LegitTaco115]

My intro was Skinwalker Ranch! They're a lot of fun to listen to, definitely recommend them to anyone that enjoys comedy and is even vaguely into the macabre. Megustalations!

[u/darkhalo47 → u/LegitTaco115]

Used to listen to their deep cuts like the donner party episode on long 12 hour drives across the country. God I miss that

[u/pilgrim_pastry → u/leon_everest]

I think they mentioned they were covering a paranormal topic this week, so that should be a nice palate cleanser after the Chicago Rippers 🤮

[u/RedManMatt11 → u/usename1567]

Check out Merged with Ryan Graves. He’s a former Navy pilot who has witnessed several UAPs off the East Coast while conducting training missions there back in (I believe) 2016 and was featured in the 60 Minutes special on the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force. It’s an excellent and fairly new podcast with testimonies from both retired and active pilots who have seen/experienced things they can’t explain. But it’s all looked at through the very rational sphere of “these things, whatever they are, are at the very least a flight and national security hazard”.

[u/[deleted] → u/doublemembrane]

Based on old stories of the sr71 when it was top secret, my bet is top secret pilots like to fuck with other service men.

[u/Impossible-Essay-890 → u/BringingPHATback]

Yo my brother in law said the exact same thing

[u/FedexMeUsedFish → u/Impossible-Essay-890]

He’s also banging your sister

[u/AllBadAnswers → u/FedexMeUsedFish]

Now now that doesnt make him special a lot of us are banging this guy's sister

[u/charlesxavier007 → u/FedexMeUsedFish]

Lmfao! Ruthless

[u/Human_Software_1476 → u/BringingPHATback]

Like what?

[u/Put_It_All_On_Blck → u/Human_Software_1476]

Kaiju

[u/2drawnonward5 → u/Put_It_All_On_Blck]

A mere cover story for pez dispensers marketed at mountains

[u/Neither-Luck-9295 → u/[deleted]]

yeah the ufo sub had a collective orgasm watching this

[u/Chemical_Chemist_461 → u/Neither-Luck-9295]

I orgasmed right before getting here. Poor timing…

[u/HanEyeAm → u/BringingPHATback]

I would like to think that there are weather phenomena we still don't understand, particularly those over expansive oceans. Stuff like ball lightning but something we have seen but don't understand yet.

[u/PrinceOfFucking → u/HanEyeAm]

No, it must be demons

[u/DickSplodin → u/BringingPHATback]

TBF those are the same people that will spill an entire bottle coke on their keyboard and then tell you three days later they don't know why it isn't working

[u/idontwantoitsdumb → u/BringingPHATback]

Lol, I was one of those guys. I was a combat air controller for the Navy. There's a reason CDC (combat direction center) requires a security clearance.

[u/eskimoexplosion]

I stared at this video for awhile waiting for the ATGM hit then read the title and realized it's supposed to be a UFO.

[u/monsterbot314 → u/eskimoexplosion]

to much time on r/combatfootage

[u/rocketlauncher10 → u/monsterbot314]

Two*

I gotchu bro!

[u/Tronbronson → u/eskimoexplosion]

I'm still waiting for the ATGM to hit damn.

[u/[deleted] → u/Tronbronson]

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[u/deaddonkey → u/eskimoexplosion]

2023 do be like that

[u/aaryg]

Shoutout to the civilisation that is just chilling underwater somewhere watching us fuck up the surface world

[u/doublemembrane → u/aaryg]

Oh don’t worry, we’re messing up their world too.

[u/suwann → u/aaryg]

Angrily watching all the plastic float down lol

[u/Crimson__Fox]

UFO is not a synonym for alien spaceship.

[u/[deleted] → u/Crimson__Fox]

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[u/btoxic → u/[deleted]]

Most things I see flying are UFO's cause I can't identify too many things

[u/hamdogthecat → u/btoxic]

Found the guy that cant tell superman from a bird or a plane

[u/CommunicationNo8750 → u/hamdogthecat]

Our just a guy who needs glasses

[u/shtankycheeze → u/CommunicationNo8750]

Clark Kent?

[u/McBurger → u/hamdogthecat]

I just find it really wholesome that that guy, while his city is in imminent danger, took the time to genuinely call out and point “Look! It’s a bird! 🥹🐥”

[u/lemonsweetsrevenge → u/Crimson__Fox]

Honest question: are UAP and UFO now synonymous?

[u/HollowBlades → u/lemonsweetsrevenge]

Essentially, yes. They changed it to try to get away from the UFO-Aliens association. UAP also works better because it includes stuff that is in the air but not 'flying', and things that aren't necessarily 'objects'

[u/DoubleClickMouse → u/lemonsweetsrevenge]

UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is the outdated term that is more well known in popular culture, hence its continued prevalence.

UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) is standard lingo now, as it encompasses unidentified aerial objects as well as phenomena that can be observed but aren’t confirmed to exist in physical form. Photographic bokeh are a common cause of UAP claims, for example.

Edit: Definitions

[u/regoapps → u/DoubleClickMouse]

The planet Venus is also commonly mistaken for a UAP because of how much brighter it is compared to stars. The funny thing is that even though astronomers look at the sky constantly, they don’t have higher reports of UAPs compared to regular people. The reason is because they know what they’re looking at, while regular folks would report normal things as UAPs.

[u/[deleted] → u/regoapps]

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[u/Slowmac123 → u/Crimson__Fox]

Exactly. If I attach a custom, lightweight carbon fibre 50 inch dildo to a drone and fly it as fast as possible through the city - and people can’t tell what it is because a custom, lightweight carbon fibre 50 inch dildo attached to a drone is the last thing anyone thinks of being in the sky - it qualifies as a ufo.

[u/DanGleeballs → u/Slowmac123]

It also qualifies as a UAP.

[u/Rogu636]

Video taken of an object miles away in pitch black darkness and all these comments "WhY fIlM oN PoTaToE?!"

[u/Visible_Ad672 → u/Rogu636]

it was very far

[u/SamL214 → u/Visible_Ad672]

And using thermal. In the dead of night.

[u/meat_pony]

Reading these comments has reminded me of why redditors should never be taken seriously. It's a black hot thermal image of an object 10 miles away. Floating just above the water surface at night. Can someone please link a camera capable of producing at least a 720p defined image of that ufo under those conditions?

[u/MG5thAve → u/meat_pony]

Reading these comments makes me feel as though everybody in this subreddit is ~10-14 years old.

[u/[deleted] → u/MG5thAve]

I often wonder how many times my middle aged self has argued with a 13 year old.

[u/MG5thAve → u/[deleted]]

I usually realize that right before I delete a finally crafted response that I had written over the past few minutes.

[u/CBJ11071 → u/MG5thAve]

Helps to know there are others

[u/ChuckyRocketson → u/MG5thAve]

finally

finely*

[u/MG5thAve → u/ChuckyRocketson]

Thanks for the catch. I'll leave it for posterity's sake.

[u/Mobile_Crates → u/MG5thAve]

*posterior's

[u/SpaceBowie2008 → u/[deleted]]

Go on to /r/relationships and be told from a 14 year old that you should leave your wife because she put the toilet paper roll on backwards. The majority of the people you are talking to are kids. Me I am a millennial high fellow kids.

[u/ChildhoodLeft6925 → u/SpaceBowie2008]

Or go on r/AITA and be told a woman should never date until her daughter goes off to college because she promised she never would.

[u/Ragnarok314159 → u/[deleted]]

I used to, but then realized that a nephew or niece can end the argument with a Fortnite reference and think the argument is over and that they won. So now I just let them go ahead and think they win.

It makes their failures that more more colossal.

[u/babysealsareyummy → u/[deleted]]

Ur a poop faced dork! I'm not playing Fortnite with you anymore!

[u/HockeyMasknChainsaw → u/babysealsareyummy]

I’m telling mom you said poop

[u/RelativeExisting8891 → u/MG5thAve]

I'm always going to chalk up things to people thinking they know everything there is about A, B, and fucking Z

[u/RumpRiddler → u/RelativeExisting8891]

I skimmed a lot Wikipedia articles so I'm basically a doctor in every subject now. And I hate it when anyone thinks they know more than me about anything.

-Almost everyone on the Internet.

[u/I_Invent_Stuff → u/RumpRiddler]

I have learned so much from aimlessly browsing the interwebs, that I could be an expert witness in a trial,on any subject at all.

[u/3Snowshoes → u/RumpRiddler]

I stayed at. Holiday Inn Express last night, dunce.

[u/RelativeExisting8891 → u/RumpRiddler]

"I watch YouTube, I watch the news" - the average younglin

[u/SponConSerdTent → u/RelativeExisting8891]

I watch the people who watch the news, and read their comments!

I'm the opposite of informed, I have the weight of many idiots sitting upon my squished and over stimulated brain.

[u/SaiyanrageTV → u/MG5thAve]

I used to rationalize it this way. Now as I've gotten older, I just realize some people are as smart as they'll ever be at 10-14 years old. Or they've reached the peak of their logic/reasoning capabilities, at least.

If you look at....well, everything, I think my theory is proving to be correct.

[u/Oblargag → u/SaiyanrageTV]

People who peaked at highschool and it never got any better.

[u/FalseTagAttack → u/MG5thAve]

Just type a/s/l in your TLC to have everyone enter their age sex and location, that way you can tell who to ignore. ez pz

[u/Steef_Broganoff → u/FalseTagAttack]

16/f/cali

[u/MajorMalfunction1999 → u/meat_pony]

Im pretty positive that all military footage released similar to this purposely has the camera quality nerfed to hell. I remember watching ac130 gunship footage from Afghanistan and someone explained that even though the camera quality looks dog dookie on our end, to the users it looks crystal clear.

[u/dilespla → u/MajorMalfunction1999]

This guy thermals. I’ve worked on a lot of thermal systems. If this was taken from any of the US ships in the last 10 years there is a much higher quality video somewhere, but highly unlikely we’ll ever get to see it.

Remember how clear the thermal images were from Afghanistan? Some of them were from 130’s, some were helos. All had better quality than this, and that was from the early years, like 15-20 years ago. We can’t get free healthcare, but we’ve got thermals that will pick out a tick on a dogs ass miles away.

[u/Bayou_Blue → u/dilespla]

launches missile from submarine: Don't worry, Fluffy, a tickbuster is on the way!

[u/Cwaynejames → u/dilespla]

As an example, I remember reading that the NV and Thermal stuff in the film Sicario was filmed with a CLOSE to military capable system, and those looked crisp as hell.

[u/377371927482810474 → u/[deleted]]

The 2023 definition of SPLASH(ED) according to MULTI-SERVICE TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES FOR MULTI-SERVICE BREVITY CODES

1. [A/A] [A/S] [S/A] Hit observed with valid DWE against a target.
2. [S/A] [S/S] Informative call to observer or spotter 5 seconds prior to estimated time of impact.

[u/BarefutR → u/meat_pony]

Apparently in some pretty serious wind too.

[u/LatterNeighborhood58 → u/meat_pony]

It's a black hot thermal image

The term is "red hot" and if it's so hot, why don't they cool down the image before showing it to us. /S

[u/DL1943 → u/LatterNeighborhood58]

they should have just blown on it

[u/8LeggedSquirrel → u/meat_pony]

Not to mention if it's a very high quality picture/video then it would not be "unidentified"

[u/Merlord → u/8LeggedSquirrel]

The point is, it's super convenient that every video that UFO conspiracy theorists claim is evidence of aliens is ALWAYS grainy, shitty footage. Yes if it was higher quality it wouldn't be unidentified, it would be identified as something completely mundane and uninteresting

[u/confirmSuspicions → u/[deleted]]

Editing is so good now that you could show me a legitimate, unaltered video and I would be incapable of telling if it was real or not just because it could be adobe premier or deepfake.

[u/Montymisted → u/confirmSuspicions]

The age of AI deepthroated images that can show anything is here.

[u/NinesX9 → u/Montymisted]

AI deepthroat you say...time to do my own research!

[u/Robofetus-5000 → u/[deleted]]

Yup. I was just thinking the other day: how everyone has a camera now, and the only thing we've been able to get concrete evidence of is police brutality.

Where is bigfoot.

[u/Dyzcoverweekly → u/Robofetus-5000]

The real bigfoot was the police brutality we made along the way

[u/bigboybeeperbelly → u/Robofetus-5000]

If I see Bigfoot I'm not taking a picture.

Keep it secret, keep it safe.

[u/HeroGothamKneads → u/bigboybeeperbelly]

Yeah sorry but we only share photos of things we trust humanity won't/can't hunt to extinction.

[u/bigboybeeperbelly → u/HeroGothamKneads]

That's why I only share pictures of myself. Bring it on, humanity.

[u/nonpondo → u/Robofetus-5000]

Bigfoot got arrested in the 90's, everyone knows this, he's in San Quentin until 2028

[u/TheAzarak → u/meat_pony]

The point they are all obviously pointing out is that there is no UFO ever recorded with a good quality recording device. If it was more clear, it wouldn't be a UFO and is probably an object not worth noting about. People with these kinds of clips are always like "wow what could this thing be? Aliens? Secret government tests? Random other bullshit conspiracy?" No, it's just a normal object obscured by horrible video recording. Regardless of what the reason for the bad quality is, you won't find UFO sightings on good video recordings, because these UFOs are never actually anything unusual.

[u/mightylordredbeard → u/TheAzarak]

It’s not the video that interests me. It’s the crew’s reaction and the fact that it was shown to Congress. I’m assuming this is the CIC of a Navy ship. The crew assigned to CIC are no slackies by any means. They know how to use their equipment and are good at using it. They can see a single from bird miles away on their equipment. They are highly trained to know what they’re looking at. This video being presented to Congress tells me that not a single sailor could tell WTF they were looking at in their 100s of years of combined experience and training. That is what interest me.

When I was in the Marines and sailing on Naval ships, if we saw something out in the sky or in the water and wanted to know what it was, they could tell us. 100% those dudes knew wtf was all around us at any point in time from every single piece of trash floating in the ocean to the flock of birds 5 miles out to the submarine periscope off in the distance to the fish underneath us. They were incredible good at their jobs. So if the Navy said “we have no idea what we saw” that’s a huge deal to me.

I’m not saying it’s aliens, but the fact they don’t know really interest me.

[u/CommunicationNo8750 → u/meat_pony]

People are dumb, especially about how dumb they are.

[u/DL1943 → u/CommunicationNo8750]

thats the scariest part of being stupid.

if you are stupid, how would you know? youre stupid.

[u/---_____-------_____ → u/DL1943]

Especially because being smart and thinking you’re smart feels exactly the same as being stupid and thinking you’re smart.

Because of this I’m sure I’m stupid. If there’s one person I can’t trust it’s me.

[u/Throwaway7219017]

Screen wipe.

Narrator:

It’s 2319, and thanks to our friends at InnovaDrone, the most popular pastime is Temporal Drone Control, or TDC. Due to the Temporal Slipstream, you and your friends can fly drones at any point in world history.

Buzz a T-Rex, confuse gladiators in The Coliseum, set a bush on Mount Sinai on fire, drive a 1950’s housewife to drink, hover over the White House in 2017! Think of the fun you can have!

[u/DescendingOpinion → u/Throwaway7219017]

Is this the same company that make the Crank Prank TimePhone?

[u/woardun]

As an alien myself, i can confirm that is not ufo

[u/DurraSell → u/woardun]

Sure, to you it’s nudraow’s recon drone.

[u/4Ever2Thee → u/woardun]

I wouldn’t be caught dead flying around in that thing

[u/PaulsRedditUsername → u/4Ever2Thee]

It's a bit grainy, but that looks like a Betelgeuse Magdrive Works model X1 which everyone knows is a cheap piece of crap. The only guys who buy those are chuds who want to impress airhead girls who don't know any better.

[u/machuitzil → u/woardun]

Until it's identified, it's a UFO. We have rules here, alien dude. This isn't 'Nam.

[u/ramm100]

For those curious, I have developed a site where all this kind of leaked footage (as well as officially released footage up to this day) has been added to:
https://the5observables.com/

[u/guestoftheworld → u/ramm100]

Hi, you are amazing! You should totally add a section to archive solved/debunked sightings. I think that would convince UAP sceptics that the site is reliable and even assist those who aren't sceptical enough to think critically about what they may have seen.

[u/adines → u/ramm100]

Using AI-upscaled video is inadvisable for something like this. It will add detail it thinks "should" be there.

[u/idunupvoteyou]

Jeremy Corbell is PISSED... now he can't make money off this clip anymore.

[u/a_good_tuna → u/idunupvoteyou]

Did you check the bottom right corner?

[u/NewNormalMan → u/a_good_tuna]

He’s saying Jeremy can’t can’t make money because it was leaked so everyone has it now

[u/ForbiddenNut123 → u/idunupvoteyou]

Idk what it is about that dude but he’s always given me a bad vibe. I saw him first on JRE years ago and just didn’t like him at all.

[u/Alioops12]

I watched an illuminated orb changing colors for a minute then it dove into the ocean at Pillar Point near Mavericks. It was checking out the huge radar dish on the bluff. 30 mins later I heard fighter jets which I never heard living there for 6 years.

[u/yourARisboring → u/Alioops12]

I saw a satellite make a right turn. 12 years ago. Nothing else happened so it was pretty uneventful but I still think about it cuz satellites don't do that.

[u/vishnusbasement → u/yourARisboring]

I was once stargazing with a NASA friend, who was very much an ET denier, in the Mojave about 10 years ago, when we both watched a satellite make an instant 90° turn. Only reason we were watching it in the first place is because it wasn’t following the standard satellite orbit.

[u/yourARisboring → u/vishnusbasement]

That's exactly what happened. Moving North to South and then without skipping a beat heading due West. It would've pulled dozens if not hundreds of Gs if it was a physical object. But up to that point, and immediately after that point, it looked every bit like a normal satellite passing overhead.

[u/SponConSerdTent → u/[deleted]]

For sure. They have to be moving really fast to stay in orbit, to lose all that momentum in one direction and switch to another direction is insane.

Having seen something similar I still would love to hear a satisfying explanation.

[u/anivex → u/SponConSerdTent]

Oddly enough, I've seen this same thing with a group of 4 friends, standing outside in Pensacola, FL.

Looked like a satellite, moving super fast; suddenly stops and changes direction, then zips off.

That was 21 years ago. We all saw it, and actually all just went home after that.

[u/vishnusbasement → u/yourARisboring]

Yup, we were 100% sure it was a satellite based on lights and speed. My theory was it had something to do with light refraction, just an optical elusion messing with us. I’ve seen boats sailing upside down over the horizon so wouldn’t be the weirdest elision even.

[u/eLemonnader → u/yourARisboring]

I was once camping with my dad on a remote part of the PCT, near a campground that was closed for the season. There were pretty much no other souls around for miles, as far as we could tell. At 10:30pm, we're gathered by our fire pit (no fires due to the season) and I see this light rise up over this ridge, about 3 miles behind my dad, due north. Then, I see it make a sharp left and start to maneuver seemingly along the ridge crest. I paused mid sentence and asked my dad "wtf is that?"

We both start to assume a drone of some sort, as it's flying left, then right, up, down, then hovering. We think maybe someone is camping along the trail and has decided to fly their drone at 10:30pm. The only problem is we ended up watching this thing pull maneuvers over the top of this mountain for over 3 hours before we finally succumbed to exhaustion at around 2am.

To this day, I have no clue what we saw. I'm not saying it was aliens or interdimensional beings, but I've wracked my brain for possible explanations and I have none. The closest airstrip was like 40+ miles away. We were literally camped at the last point of remote civilization for miles in an area that was completely closed, during a season when most of the Sierras were choked in smoke due to the fires.

There's no commercial drone with a flight time like that. There were no distinguishable lights to indicate an aircraft of any sort. It was just a single speck of light. Looked basically like a bright planet. If it'd been a helicopter, we would have heard it, and I also doubt someone'd be flying a helicopter around at high altitude, in the remote wilderness, over one ridge, for 3 hours, in the middle of the night.

[u/rslurry → u/yourARisboring]

Years ago, I was atop a mountain with a SETI researcher and some other scientists watching a meteor shower. We watched some satellites for a while, and I noticed one that was moving on an orbit that appeared it would soon intercept another satellite, and pointed it out to my group. We watched as it reached the other satellite, changed orbit to move parallel with that satellite for maybe 15, 20 degrees across the sky, before it changed orbit again and began going in a totally different direction. No one could think of a reasonable explanation except possibly refueling, but the changes in orbits appeared nearly instantaneously like you described (though not as drastic) which doesn't really add up.

[u/yourARisboring → u/rslurry]

X-37B?

[u/rslurry → u/yourARisboring]

It's a good suggestion, but it wasn't on a flight at that time.

To be clear, I don't think we saw aliens, but I don't have any explanation for the observation.

[u/rick_rolled_you → u/yourARisboring]

I saw a satellite, well it looked like a star because it was stationary. And what happened next I’ll never forget. It looked like 4 other lights moved out from behind it to form a triangle or a V. Then those (now 5) lights moved in ti a circle, started rotating (like a wheel), then they all moved back in to one and then started moving across the sky until I could see it anymore. I told myself ti never forget what you just saw, because you’ll true older and forget or think it happened differently, but that’s exactly what I saw.

[u/SponConSerdTent → u/yourARisboring]

Same. I saw a satellite moving across the sky, and then it stopped. Then it zoomed off in another direction, much faster, at what looked pretty much like a right angle. Then it was gone.

My mom and I both saw it, so it wasn't just me.

Weird stuff. Haven't heard any explanation that satisfied me.

I still wonder if it could have been a satellite being decommissioned or something.

[u/nunaguna → u/Alioops12]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

[u/Capt_FATWADE → u/Alioops12]

I’d like to hear more of this lol

[u/SkiiMazk]

all in all even if its not "aliens" or something it's extremely interesting, a flying object that seems to be able to stop its movement & submerge itself in the ocean is some cool shit.

[u/TheDollaLama]

I dont know what's worst, the alien conspiracists or the plethora of redditors that so casually assume they know what this is. There's a reason why it's labeled a UFO or UAP.

[u/croppedcross3 → u/TheDollaLama]

I enjoy looking at UFO related things, but the amount of insanity on/r/UFO keeps me away from it. Last thing I remember seeing on there was a post showing that a video from earlier that week was just two birthday balloons that got tied together and the comments were filled with people refusing to believe it wasn't an alien craft. You can't have a legitimate discussion without getting downvoted to oblivion if you show a hint of non belief.

[u/Origamiface → u/croppedcross3]

After the Pentagon came out and said, 'yeah there's shit in the skies that we can't explain and the UFO videos in the New York Times are real', a lot of people who weren't interested before started paying attention, including myself.

I think this has drawn a lot more reasonable people to the sub, but the credulous, the fanatics, and true believers, haven't gone anywhere. I often err on the side of skepticism on the sub, but don't get downvoted for it.

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[u/RadBadTad]

Holy shit it's possibly a thing (maybe)

All 7 of those completely black pixels really do help identify it.

[u/Zanzan567 → u/RadBadTad]

Pretty impressive tbh for something’s that’s 10 miles away

[u/depthninja → u/Zanzan567]

If it's 10 miles away, how big does that make it? There's no banana, I can't tell.

[u/JustTheNewFella → u/RadBadTad]

Well it's a ufo for a reason

[u/Project_T00THL355 → u/RadBadTad]

It's a special type of thermal camera looking at an unknown object 10 miles away

Edit: In the middle of the night too, hence the use of a thermal camera as opposed to a normal camera

[u/Dabier → u/Project_T00THL355]

It cost more money than you or I will probably make in a lifetime to be able to see things your eyes couldn’t possibly make out, employing some of the brightest minds the military industrial complex has to offer…

All for some armchair imagery analyst to be like “video quality bad”. Can’t make this shit up folks.

One thing’s for certain - we’re only seeing things like this now because of this technology.

[u/ElectronicCarpet7157 → u/RadBadTad]

Was this was the same camera that shot Big Foot?

[u/Mjt8 → u/ElectronicCarpet7157]

This is a US warship’s FLIR imaging.

Edit: for those unfamiliar with the whole UAP issue, it’s worth checking out this 60 minutes piece.

https://youtu.be/ZBtMbBPzqHY

[u/[deleted] → u/ElectronicCarpet7157]

"850 Billion a year is hardly enough to update our cameras too!" - Pentagon probably.

[u/DeadJoeGaming]

https://youtu.be/WAfiJqUHDg0

[u/Lars0 → u/DeadJoeGaming]

reminds me of this: https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-navy-once-fired-300-rounds-at-an-aircraft-then-realized-it-was-venus-67500

[u/Latter_Bell2833]

Take me to your leader… but not in this thing.

[u/ptr32]

I once threw a frisbee over the ocean so far that I lost sight of it. Always wondered what happened to that thing. Now I know.

[u/ImmortalHitman720]

All hypothetical but..

If beings who have the technology and ability to traverse the vast distances of the universe were hostile we would all be dead before we knew what happened. Our weapons and nonsense is a testament to their great restraint.

If they have any idea that we split the atom in the 1940s and created weapons that could destroy the planet/species they might see a greater interest in our survival than even we do. With all of this talk of weapons in space its plausible to think they wouldn't be okay with that.

[u/Any-Priority-4514]

For the “picture and/or video sucks” crowd… do y’all ever get past this arrogant statement and invest the minimum amount of investigation as to why “picture/video sucks”? Does it ever occur to you all that US military radars are really, REALLY good and that the object you’re seeing in this (and other) video could be 10’s of miles away? What POS camera do you all have that could offer a clearer image of something 10 miles away?

[u/GarbluutDingdiddy]

I’m fully convinced the Aliens have a base deep in the ocean