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originally posted by: derfred33
a reply to: mirageman
You see, this is ATS at it´s best, the mud pit should be deleted. This is you want to keep this site alive.
originally posted by: neformore
Can't answer for the unarmed planes unless - as has been seen in other cases nor related to this - armed ones could not get near the objects?
originally posted by: neformore
a reply to: mirageman
That is a common thread in a lot of military sightings. Recon/training flights are slightly different and although I'm not an expert in carrier ops there would always be alert aircraft kept on standby, so maybe it was judged that an unarmed intercept was the way to go?
We typically don’t fly with live Hornets unless we’re actually going into a combat zone or we’re on a training range and we’re gonna shoot something. And the reason is — you can go through history of the Navy or Air Force - if you put live missiles on airplanes, and then you start doing training where you’re squeezing the trigger, someone always messes the switchology up, and someone gets shot down. It’s happened multiple times. So, we don’t do it. There’s times that we do, but it’s rare.
And no one came to talk to me. No one came to take my tapes. No one showed up in a suit. No one told me not to talk. No one talked to any of my aircrew that were involved in this all. There were six people total involved, the two that shot the video and the four of us that looked at it for five minutes with our eyes. No one — nothing.
It's just kinda hanging out. And they're just filming this thing. And then when they get close, it's gonna zing off the left-hand side... and that's pretty fast to leave that field of view... I mean, you're talking something that's just sitting in space in the wind, and then it just all of a sudden accelerates. Airplanes don't work that way.
We typically don’t fly with live Hornets unless we’re actually going into a combat zone or we’re on a training range and we’re gonna shoot something. And the reason is — you can go through history of the Navy or Air Force - if you put live missiles on airplanes, and then you start doing training where you’re squeezing the trigger, someone always messes the switchology up, and someone gets shot down. It’s happened multiple times. So, we don’t do it. There’s times that we do, but it’s rare.
2009-2010 Luis Elixondo -The man who was supposedly Director of AATIP was touting a shipping business idea around the East Coast of the US. See Never Ship Empty. Seems like he wasn't that dedicated to his day job. Or was this some kind of Studio Six like intel operation?
originally posted by: ColdWisdom
a reply to: mirageman
So does this mean that the Nimitz hoax originated on ATS, more than a decade before Delonge & AATIP claimed to “declassify” the footage as part of their half-assed attempt at a psyop?
originally posted by: drewlander
a reply to: TexasTruth
Still unsure why any government would supress videos on unidentified aerial phenomenon unless the video were of their own projects. Can anyone explain this?
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: neformore
2009-2010 Luis Elixondo -The man who was supposedly Director of AATIP was touting a shipping business idea around the East Coast of the US. See Never Ship Empty. Seems like he wasn't that dedicated to his day job. Or was this some kind of Studio Six like intel operation?
originally posted by: circuitsports
The story is fake from one end to the other.
The footage release is sanitized for release, the optical sensors and FLIR are far more advanced than what is shown in the video. They are fielding technology that was built into the f22 and miniaturized but still capable.
The original footage is classified - the technological capabilities of the sensors is classified - even when we sell these planes to our allies they are stripped of these capabilities, the lack of sales of the f35 is due in part to nations realizing the planes aren't very special without them.
originally posted by: Sublant
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: neformore
2009-2010 Luis Elixondo -The man who was supposedly Director of AATIP was touting a shipping business idea around the East Coast of the US. See Never Ship Empty. Seems like he wasn't that dedicated to his day job. Or was this some kind of Studio Six like intel operation?
This is just stupid. Like saying Elon Musk isn't dedicated to his day job, whatever you think that is.
originally posted by: hawkguy
a reply to: ConfusedBrit
Fravor is/was an O-5 in the navy. You don't get to that rank, especially working with classified weapons systems if you talk to people about things. If they came to him and told him "support this smokescreen. It's for the betterment of the country and National Security." He'd do it without a question. Not because he's a puppet or anything so dramatic, but at the point he is he's effectively "bought in."