• [email protected]
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    11 hours ago

    Why did /r/ufo start hitting the front page after citizen citrus groped his way into the White House, both the first and second time? Did trump campaign on releasing UFO info?

    • @[email protected]
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      106 hours ago

      While I enjoy speculating over UFO/UAP footage, it can be abused by a lot of media to take the spotlight off of some other very real and most likely concerning news.

      Trump is speed running the collapse of a nation, so it makes sense for coverage to deviate to UFO/other news when he’s doing dodgies.

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      A little bit, yeah. Trump supporters are also very desperate people, many of them turned to the dark side due to grievances with the world. And not all of them are always imagined. The wrong part is the conclusions these people come to and the way they go about correcting what they think is wrong…

      Conspiracy theories are rife with these people. UFO ones where aliens poke you in the butt and interview you about the planet and wipe your memory are very common in these groups.

      Meanwhile as a progressive the aliens I fantasise about are like… enlightened and compassionate lol.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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      2110 hours ago

      Every time I had seen it hit the fp when I still used Reddit, it was because some new ex-military person came out saying they had proof that the US government had aliens and alien craft… Only for it to be a big ol’ fat nothing burger.

      • Echo Dot
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        Remember when there was all those drones and everyone was convinced it was either a Russian invasion or aliens and then, nothing

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          127 hours ago

          The aviation subs/communities pointed out how kind it was for aliens to use Federal Aviation Administration approved lights and lighting schemes. Really kind of them to build craft that follow US laws.

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            The news also got obsessed over the fact that drones made of plastic don’t appear on radar.

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              They worked out new scanning frequencies to find them. Same deal as the balloons that were sneaking in. Wonder whether they’ve already dismantled the gear for both, or is the military safe from the completely reasonable budget cuts?

        • @thedirtyknapkin
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          yeah, that was around the time that dji released its first commercial cargo drone…