Thread by @cabot_phillips

So, I know everyone's afraid of looking like a crazy person, but I can’t believe the new UFO report from the Pentagon isn't a bigger deal.

Our govt says there are crafts that "outstrip our arsenal by at least 100 years to 1,000 years at the moment” and we're like "meh..."

The former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence literally said the crafts we’re seeing are “far beyond anything that we’re capable of…There’s nothing we could build that would be strong enough to endure that amount of force and acceleration.”

There were so many sightings the Pentagon confirmed that they created a top secret program to investigate UFO’s.

The USS Princeton and USS Nimitz tracked an aircraft that traveled 60 miles in 3-4 seconds, after being confronted by an F-18 fighter squadron in the Pacific.

“Imagine a technology that can do 700 g-forces, fly 13,000 mph, evade radar…And has no obvious signs of propulsion...and yet still can defy the effects of Earth’s gravity. That’s precisely what we’re seeing.”

-Director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

We’re just now finding out there have been so many sightings by our military that the Senate Intel committee is holding a public hearing next month because it’s a “national security threat.”

People seem to be taking three different stances here:

1) It's advanced U.S. technology being tested
2 It's China or some other foreign military
3) It's other-worldly

If it is the United States:

1. Why would we spend hundreds of millions of dollars investigating sightings of our own crafts?

2. Why would our govt release footage of the incidents? I guess it could be a “look at us” to other militaries, but wouldn’t it tip our hand?

If it is China:

1. Confirmed sightings date to 2004, long before China had their new tech boom. How'd they keep this tech secret for 17 years?

2. Why hasn’t that level of tech been seen elsewhere in China? (Their submarines and carriers are archaic compared to the U.S.)

If it’s something other-worldly:

1. Setting aside that it’s totally irrational, if they/it are this far ahead of us, wouldn’t they be able to avoid detection?

2. If they’ve been here on/off for 20 years, why haven’t they done anything yet?

I know we've all spent years laughing at anyone who brings up UFOs, but if the U.S. military and intelligence community is to the point where they’re calling it a national security threat, it’s probably time to take them seriously.

This quote from Naval Commander David Fravor should underscore the seriousness of the topic:

“I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's something out there that was better than our airplanes.”

You can laugh, but these are serious, highly trained people talking about why we should care.

This video is pretty wild:

Here's the full 60 Minutes video for those asking:

The Pentagon said they released the videos because they “didn’t reveal any sensitive information or capabilities.”

Which makes me wonder about the videos that DO reveal sensitive information or capabilities that haven't been released 👀👀👀

I think it's worth adding another possibility:

It's the government misleading us to stoke fear in order to justify increased defense spending/expansion of Space Force, etc.

Also, Obama came out last night and (after years of silence on the matter) says:

"We can't explain how they move, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern...we don't know exactly what they are"

cnn.com/videos/media/2…