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221 sats \ 6 comments \ @premitive1 5 Aug 2023 meta

I recently listened to a podcast that reviewed three congressional hearings on unidentified aerial phenomena, and I wonder what you all think on the subject?

https://congressionaldish.com/cd278-all-three-uap-hearings/

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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5 Aug 2023

I'm still skeptical. I have a lot of questions.

How did they manage to keep this hushed for so long? And why is it coming out now?
How come we haven't heard such reports from all over the world? Did governments everywhere manage to keep it hushed? Or did the aliens choose to visit America specifically?
If there are aliens in possession of advanced technology, why haven't they tried to contact us? Why were they not able to recover their crafts?

Although I will keep an open mind, I'm more inclined to believe that this is a psyop of some kind.

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 6 Aug 2023

Thanks for this post, I went to comment but have decided maybe I should make a full write-up.

Someone is lying about them.

Military/Commercial pilots? Current gov't Burchett Former gov't officials AARO/NASA The Pentagon

Who do YOU believe?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 OP 6 Aug 2023

I don't believe much of anyone. Humans are great at making up bad stories to explain the things they experience. Without the ability to review the evidence first hand, I cannot assume they have made reasonable conclusions, even if they speak their truth.

I'm cynical enough to imagine that everything is a farce meant to so heavily pollute the public discourse that the truth is impossible to discern from one of many well-intended fantasies. I prefer to work in the realm of eliminating impossibilities, rather than fixating on the belief that I know the truth.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @premitive1 OP 5 Aug 2023

I find myself heavily influenced by Carl Sagan, who argued the universe so big that it would be very hard to find intelligent aliens. From that perspective, I've long found it more likely that non-human phenomena or technology on earth, if it exists, may come from species that existed before the rise of humans as the apparently dominant species on the planet.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 5 Aug 2023

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