The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Updated 2:11 PM ET, Wed September 18, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-trnd/index.html
Nothing really new in these recent news stories, besides the assertion that the Navy never really intended them to become public. Which unfortunately plays directly into public suspicion (whether justified or not) that they are hiding more events like this and aren't being honest and forthright about them. They just shot themselves in the foot in that regard.
I think that my earlier comments on these incidents in this thread, posts 1441, 1456, 1474, 1490 and 1514 have stood up very well. These are the best UFO reports that I'm aware of.
I still think that this evidence justifies the preliminary working assumption (something of a lemma) that something was physically there in these instances, some rapidly moving aerial objects that didn't display characteristics that allow them to be easily identified and may arguably exceed any currently known aircraft technology.
That's a pretty staggering idea in itself, even if we don't try to extend it out to space aliens. I fully agree with taking an agnostic position for the time being on the question as to what they were. My two preliminary judgments are exactly the same as they were in post #1441:
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1)
Something seems to have been happening and (
2) we don't have a clue what it was. Which seems to pretty much be the Navy's thinking too.
The Fortean-influenced philosopher of science (Kuhn writes about anomalies too) in me makes me want to term this a classic
anomaly, something that may (or may not) indicate a serious unexpected gap and void in our current world-view.
That's what some on this board want so desperately to deny. It's why their knee-jerk reaction to these exceedingly interesting reports is dismissive, sarcastic one-liners.
Because the whole idea of the unknown intruding into the sphere of real life...
scares... people. People would much prefer to believe that their immediate surroundings operate according to principles that are fully understood in all the important aspects. They prefer to believe that whatever mysterious unknowns remain in the universe only show themselves at the distant margins of the micro- and macroscale, at CERN or the astronomical observatories. (I'm sure that paleolithic people sitting around their campfires thought that they had it all pretty much figured out too.)