(03-19-2026, 06:59 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I wonder if they'd take a report from a contractor in Afghanistan in 1987 or so regarding beings that could be seen in night vision devices, but not with the naked eye? Nah. Probably best to let sleeping dogs lie.
Considering that there are no such thing as aliens - not in the sense of little green men from outer space - folks had probably best buckle up, because they're about to get massively trolled at high speed with low drag. "UFO's" and "aliens" are from alternate universes or dimensions, not this one. They're not from "outer space" or "out among the stars" in the sense of being from this same universe we are in. If they don't acknowledge that, then you're getting trolled.
ETA: The domains are being hosted at Cloudflar on Cloudflare nameservers, not the sites themselves... although, knowing typical government efficiency, they'll probably host the sites there, too. So, any aliens irate at getting exposed will only have to zap Cloudflare to take 'em right out, along with a sizeable chunk of the rest of the internet. There's a reason I won't do business with Cloudflare, or any other "cloud" infrastructure.
Personally, I wouldn’t rule out extraterrestrial at all. If something behaves in ways we don’t understand doesn’t mean it still can’t be alien. It could be extraterrestrial, interdimensional, some mix of both, or something that doesn’t fit any of our categories yet.
There was a recent Popular Mechanics piece, Fourth-Dimensional Aliens Could Be Spying On Us, and even they entertain that what people are seeing could be higher-dimensional beings intersecting with our reality, not just something traveling here from another star system.
Link: Aliens From the Fourth Dimension May Be Invading Our World And We Don’t Even Know It
And if that’s true, it would explain a lot about the secrecy. Saying we’re not alone is one thing. Telling the public we may be dealing with something that exists outside our normal understanding of reality is something else entirely. That kind of disclosure would freak people out... probably make a lot of people paranoid or go crazy.
I’ve got hunting IR goggles myself, and they’re a lot better at catching stuff overhead than most people realize. I’ve seen a few things with them while looking at the stars...
These things have been reported around all kinds of sensor systems too, especially in SIGINT and electronic warfare. Radar, magnetometers, etc... especially in hyperspectral systems catching weird stuff across different wavelengths.
Yeah… the cloud is just someone else’s computer. No way I’d want that anywhere near a .gov setup lol. I’ve got my own NAS anyway, and I trust that 100 times more.