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Comment by wydfre | Hacker News Reader

The best quote I've got on UFOs is from Leroy Chiao, a former ISS commander.

"Probably some sort of secret military program" [0]. Cannot find original on youtube any longer.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1eWnHHMrck&t=30s

I don't really like that explanation either because, as they state in this OP document, each report has to be looked at individually because they are all actually different. He says "these objects" as if the reports are all the same and explainable by the same thing. It is possible a handful of them are actually experimental aircraft (judging by their inclusion of that as one possible explanation for some incidents in the report and their statement that the reports disproportionately come from the area around DoD testing facilities, it's plausible), but that doesn't mean all the reports are examples of that, or even that a significant number of them are.

Oh yeah I watched that live on the news and I was kind of startled that he just said “well looks like the trend lines are moving and the cats out out of the bag I guess I’ll just come out and say…” I really remember this interview because I’ve always suspected this was a very advanced craft. I had an encounter in the mid 90’s and what impressed on me by looking at it was that this was something that moved, not in a natural way like a bird or a plane (or drone) but more like you were peering into a video game world like TRON. I cannot shake that feeling and it’s obvious if you’ve ever witnessed this craft. So that’s interesting right there.

Well that is one of the categories and is probably what the classified briefing was about but it doesn’t apply to the incidents they weren’t able to explain.

Seems curious that a secret military program would choose to fly their super secret aircraft in airspace where the usual, non-secret military was known to be performing scheduled and easily avoidable training exercises.

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