Rocagnante said:
I'm talking about the objects our Navy pilots purportedly see on a regular basis. If true, then they could probably shoot our planes out of the sky at will if they turn hostile.
Either they're lying or UAPs are real objects. At this point I'm still leaning towards lying until better visual evidence is presented and confirmed and more people still acting in official government/contractor capacities come forward.
We know that UAPs are real, just like UFOs are/were always real. the key word in each is "unidentified". All both of those terms mean is "we saw something in the air that we don't recognize." There's nothing else implied. Hell, I saw the bushes move behind my house the other day, that was a legitimate UWO, "Unidentified Walking Object." Which sounds really impressive and mysterious, but it was almost certainly a dog or a cat.
"Hey, what's that?"
"I don't know."
That's a legitimate UAP/UFO sighting. There's never been a time in history when that wasn't happening.
A cloud can be a UAP/UFO, a floating clear plastic bag can be a UAP/UFO, a bird can be a UAP/UFO if you can't tell what those examples are in certain conditions.
It frustrated me even as a child when people (not saying you) would use UFO and "alien flying saucer" interchangeably. And for most that's still what they're strongly implying with UAP. It was so strong that's why they replaced the term. "UFO" became embarrassing.
Ultimately, I guess it's also frustrating to be asked to accept that the all-powerful government (mind you, not just ours but practically every single government on the planet would have to be in on it) has been orchestrating a cover-up of this for 100 or more years, but now we're asked to accept that our primary source of evidence of
everything being exposed is from intelligence agency whistleblowers (from the government), a few seemingly interested congressmen (from the government), and military pilots (from the government).
So the government has supposedly been covering this up the whole time, but at the same time now all our best evidence that something otherworldly is going on is that people at all levels of government publicly say they don't know what's going on, either.
Honestly, what do the people on here who are convinced that non-human intelligence is interacting with us really expect to happen at the congressional hearings (assuming that happens)? Anything at all? I see some people online have a "Just you wait and see, you won't be able to deny it when it's all presented in public!" attitude like they expect someone is going to park a big truck with spaceships and alien bodies outside the front door of Congress for everybody to dig through. And hey, that would be awesome! I suspect though that the best we'll get, if it even happens, are a few unknown "whistleblowers" to just repeat "I can't discuss that" over and over.
Real whistleblowers end up like Snowden in exile or prison, but for some reason whistleblowers with world-altering "biggest story in human history by far" alien or interdimensional-being claims (because
that's what he says) end up getting permission from the government to go on TV and talk about it without risk.