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Congress Admits UFOs Not ‘Man-Made,’ Says ‘Threats’ Increasing ‘Exponentially’

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22 pointsbookofjoe10 comments

>Temporary nonattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as man-made after analysis, will be passed to appropriate offices and should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena

Uh. That doesn't say some are not man made. It says some they don't know what it is, while some they are sure are man made.

"This implies that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee believe (on a unanimous, bipartisan basis) that some UFOs have non-human origins," von Rennenkampff continued."

No, it does not imply that at all.

Obama-era Pentagon general disagrees. Care to back up your assertion?

"A large question, of course, is why Congress is seemingly admitting this now, in public. After all, lawmakers are privy to classified information that the general public isn't. “It strains credulity to believe that lawmakers would include such extraordinary language in public legislation without compelling evidence,” Marik von Rennenkampff, an Obama-era DoD official,\ ... "

I am not shocked that the journalist found an ex-DoD official with poor reading comprehension of technical language. Why does that shock you? And why do you share his incorrect read of the language?

Never said it shocked me. You're just making 'argument by assertion', a typical logical fallacy. A cogent reply would have explained how the quote in question did not imply the existence of UFOs created by humans, the subject of our discourse. Instead, you make an ad hominem attack on the subject matter expert.

I doubt that you read the article, and I won't respond again to an insincere interlocutor.

"... UFOs by non-humans ..."

This reminds me of the recent news of a potentially extra-solar meteor that showed up on military sensors. Discussed here [0]

I wonder if those objects are considered UFOs/UAPs by the government, and if “not man-made” just means it could be a naturally occurring meteor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32443544

What is the most likely explanation?

1. This is a way to get more funding for the military industrial complex, no new proof of aliens

2. Non US nation(s) and/or the US have achived cross-domain transmedium weapons, no new proof of aliens

3. "transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding exponentially", aliens and too frequent to ignore

4. ???

I want to believe [number 3].

I've had a few fundamental shifts in my understanding of human nature this decade. Trump was one. Discovering that the US government can publicly acknowledge UFOs, presumably from non-human origin, and that it won't even be in the top ten biggest stories of the year (by traffic or article count) is another.

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