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Pentagon release UFO video

Because it's a valid idea as to how the universe might actually be explored by thinking beings in a reasonable time frame? It is somewhat misnamed - John von Neumann came up with the concept of universal assemblers but not of using them as space probes. The probe concept might date from as late as the 70s.

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/vonNeumannprobe.html

The name of the object is 'Oumuamua by the way. If it were really a Von Neumann probe, I would expect it to slow down and harvest raw materials to make copies of itself. Perhaps its inherent protocols might forbid this if it detects that a system appears to be home to intelligent life. Probably it's just a rock with a bizarre aspect ratio that we have yet to explain.


I wasn't discounting the idea but the claim is rather interesting...
 
It's a possibility. It's also unlikely perhaps that such an object's composition would be disguised to match that of an asteroid.
 
Note the use of the word "possibly". Of course, we have no rocket or probe capable of chasing down this object to learn more about it. I doubt funding could be obtained to build a suitable probe unless several more objects with the same or similarly bizarre characteristics were observed. I did suspect that the deduced length:width ratio of 10:1 might be partially an artefact of a varying albedo across the surface (as is the case for Saturn's moon Iapetus where the ratio is 7:1) but I assume the observed spectroscopic variation must tend to rule this possibility out.
 
Note the use of the word "possibly". Of course, we have no rocket or probe capable of chasing down this object to learn more about it. I doubt funding could be obtained to build a suitable probe unless several more objects with the same or similarly bizarre characteristics were observed. I did suspect that the deduced length:width ratio of 10:1 might be partially an artefact of a varying albedo across the surface (as is the case for Saturn's moon Iapetus where the ratio is 7:1) but I assume the observed spectroscopic variation must tend to rule this possibility out.


Or it's just a large rock that somehow fits some prescribed measurements. Maybe God does have a sense of humour and put them out there to troll scientists :D

I'm kidding here, just to clarify OK
 
Or it's just a large rock that somehow fits some prescribed measurements. Maybe God does have a sense of humour and put them out there to troll scientists :D

I'm kidding here, just to clarify OK
Yeah, I know but scientists get nervous when people ascribe definitive statements to them in the absence of data or possible experimental verification. It can be used to derail careers.

The fact that this rock appears to be tumbling chaotically makes it seem unlikely to me to be artificial - unless it's deliberately putting us off the scent.
 
Trajectory of Oumuamua slingshot around the sun
setting a course home =)
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One more UFO story. This one involves several commercial aircraft communicating with air traffic control about a large bright white aircraft they couldn't identify. Apparently F-15's were scrambled from Portland, OR. The article has audio/video detailing the conversations between the pilots and the ground as well as radar images.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ng-ufo-over-oregon-that-sent-f-15s-scrambling

Some have speculated that it could be the B-21 "Raider", the Air Force's next-gen bomber, or possibly some unknown hypersonic experimental aircraft, but who knows.
 
One more UFO story. This one involves several commercial aircraft communicating with air traffic control about a large bright white aircraft they couldn't identify. Apparently F-15's were scrambled from Portland, OR. The article has audio/video detailing the conversations between the pilots and the ground as well as radar images.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ng-ufo-over-oregon-that-sent-f-15s-scrambling

Some have speculated that it could be the B-21 "Raider", the Air Force's next-gen bomber, or possibly some unknown hypersonic experimental aircraft, but who knows.
Another possibility is the long-range fighter that the USAF wanted to accompany the B-21 or an SR-91 Aurora or similar strategic reconnaissance aircraft. Having seen the famous "doughnuts-on-a-rope" contrail when on a flight above the Atlantic, I tend to believe there could well be several advanced US aircraft whose existence has never been publicly acknowledged.
 
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Didn't someone make a mediocre action movie about the Aurora?

There was the movie Firefox in the 80's with Clint Eastwood as an American test pilot who has to steal an experimental Soviet hypersonic fighter. The show was actually a pretty good spy/thriller with good FX for the time. Then there was a movie called "Stealth" with Jamie Foxx. I don't recall many of the details of that film other than it had an AI aboard an experimental fighter that went crazy or something.

Anyway, both movies had planes that resembled what Aurora was assumed to look like. I know Aurora was meant to be a reconnaissance aircraft and not a fighter like the two movies I mentioned, but watching a jet fly around for two hours at mach 10 (or whatever speed) would probably get pretty boring for audiences.
 
There was the movie Firefox in the 80's with Clint Eastwood as an American test pilot who has to steal an experimental Soviet hypersonic fighter. The show was actually a pretty good spy/thriller with good FX for the time. Then there was a movie called "Stealth" with Jamie Foxx. I don't recall many of the details of that film other than it had an AI aboard an experimental fighter that went crazy or something.

Anyway, both movies had planes that resembled what Aurora was assumed to look like. I know Aurora was meant to be a reconnaissance aircraft and not a fighter like the two movies I mentioned, but watching a jet fly around for two hours at mach 10 (or whatever speed) would probably get pretty boring for audiences.


I love the movie Firefox..... And he had to think in Russian for the thought control system to work. GI Joe later ripped off the same plane with a different language.

I can't find the movie title but remember in the 90s there was a movie about a triangle shaped plane called the Aurora. Anyway yeah Firefox was cool.

Stealth was fun, at least I thought it was fun. I liked the idea of a drone that has an active AI onboard and could be told in plain English what to do and it would go do it, unless it gets screwed up... It was hit by lightning in bad weather, and that screwed up the AI.
 
The fact that this rock appears to be tumbling chaotically makes it seem unlikely to me to be artificial - unless it's deliberately putting us off the scent.
Just because it's artificial doesn't mean it's still operational and controlled. A derelict spacecraft thousands of years dead would end up tumbling chaotically like any other object.
 
New ufo video clip, this time over the ocean surface.
A small dot (ufo-drone(?)) at high speed, the pilots get a lock, there is audio/talking.
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Somewhat underwhelming,
I'm still waiting for that crystal clear detailed shot of an extraterrestrial craft.
 
New ufo video clip, this time over the ocean surface.
A small dot (ufo-drone(?)) at high speed, the pilots get a lock, there is audio/talking.
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Somewhat underwhelming,
I'm still waiting for that crystal clear detailed shot of an extraterrestrial craft.
Those "pilots" don't sound very professional. Instead, they sound way too excitable to be in charge of multimillion-dollar aircraft and lethal-force weapon systems. But, yeah, chasing a dot isn't much in the way of evidence.
 
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