eclecticsynergy
Ambassador of Electric Synergy
Certainly there are unidentified things in the sky which don't appear to behave like aircraft. Many of these probably aren't actually flying objects at all. Atmospheric and celestial phenomena along with optical illusions can account for some of these.
Then there are the many objects tracked on radar. Ground echoes, system glitches and even deliberately generated artificial returns can account for some of these.
The ones that are hardest to explain involve visual sightings from the ground and the air along with confirmed tracking by both airborne and ground radars. Secret aircraft could - and probably do - account for some of these.
Others which don't appear to behave at all like aircraft are more perplexing. There isn't any simple way to explain these, and there have been more than just a few over a period of many decades since they flew in formation over Washington DC on two weekends in 1952, effortlessly evading the jet fighters sent to intercept them.
The Air Force statement back then was that the objects seen by thousands on the ground and many pilots in the air were stars and meteors. The well-defined radar images were said to be ground returns reflected by temperature inversion, which was known to cause fuzzy ghost blobs on radars. The government's official position was that these were not real objects, that there had been no incursions into restricted airspace, and that the armed forces were ignoring these and any further sightings since they posed no threat to national security.
Since then, objects have been observed and tracked performing impossible maneuvers, like going from hover to hypersonic and back to hover instantly, with zero acceleration or deceleration time. Or descending from 18,000 feet to ground level in less than a second. Or making sudden acute turns at three times the speed of sound. (At that speed a Blackbird would need an area larger than Ohio to turn around.) Or literally flying circles around commercial aircraft at altitude, and playing cat-and-mouse with Navy fighters. Or diving into the ocean at speeds which would pulverize stone, then traveling at hundreds of miles per hour underwater and descending in minutes to impossible depths - many kilometers deep - while tracked on sonar.
They have demonstrated situational awareness of ships and aircraft in their vicinity, and clearly are under intelligent control.
I'm not saying that it has to be little green men or interdimensional time travelers. They might even be completely mechanical - some of their maneuvers should cause G forces that would liquefy any living occupants. "Robots from beyond the galaxy..." (cue warbly Theremin music). I have no idea.
Whatever these things are, they have found loopholes in physics as we understand it.
Then there are the many objects tracked on radar. Ground echoes, system glitches and even deliberately generated artificial returns can account for some of these.
The ones that are hardest to explain involve visual sightings from the ground and the air along with confirmed tracking by both airborne and ground radars. Secret aircraft could - and probably do - account for some of these.
Others which don't appear to behave at all like aircraft are more perplexing. There isn't any simple way to explain these, and there have been more than just a few over a period of many decades since they flew in formation over Washington DC on two weekends in 1952, effortlessly evading the jet fighters sent to intercept them.
The Air Force statement back then was that the objects seen by thousands on the ground and many pilots in the air were stars and meteors. The well-defined radar images were said to be ground returns reflected by temperature inversion, which was known to cause fuzzy ghost blobs on radars. The government's official position was that these were not real objects, that there had been no incursions into restricted airspace, and that the armed forces were ignoring these and any further sightings since they posed no threat to national security.
Since then, objects have been observed and tracked performing impossible maneuvers, like going from hover to hypersonic and back to hover instantly, with zero acceleration or deceleration time. Or descending from 18,000 feet to ground level in less than a second. Or making sudden acute turns at three times the speed of sound. (At that speed a Blackbird would need an area larger than Ohio to turn around.) Or literally flying circles around commercial aircraft at altitude, and playing cat-and-mouse with Navy fighters. Or diving into the ocean at speeds which would pulverize stone, then traveling at hundreds of miles per hour underwater and descending in minutes to impossible depths - many kilometers deep - while tracked on sonar.
They have demonstrated situational awareness of ships and aircraft in their vicinity, and clearly are under intelligent control.
I'm not saying that it has to be little green men or interdimensional time travelers. They might even be completely mechanical - some of their maneuvers should cause G forces that would liquefy any living occupants. "Robots from beyond the galaxy..." (cue warbly Theremin music). I have no idea.
Whatever these things are, they have found loopholes in physics as we understand it.
