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US | Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds

Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds

The government wants you to believe.

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4w ago

US | Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds

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Kirkpatrick, who spoke with the Journal, says he’s found evidence that the government “fabricated evidence of alien technology” in an effort to distract from real weapons programs being carried out by the government in secret.
- Is that supposed to be some kind of surprising revelation?
  
  You're not the only person who does this, but this sort of comment adds nothing to the conversation.
  Just because you already believe something or have heard of something before doesn't mean that's true for other people. Spreading knowledge inherently involves repetition.
  And even if it were true that something is common knowledge, what good is it to say "I know that?" If the first comment was a waste of characters, then so is the follow up.
When you lie about everything truth ceases to exist.
Distracts from the really dirty laundry
the Air Force developed an exotic electromagnetic generator that simulated this pulse of disruptive energy without the need to detonate a nuclear weapon. When activated, this device, placed on a portable platform 60 feet above the facility, would gather power until it glowed, sometimes with a blinding orange light. It would then fire a burst of energy that could resemble lightning.
is that technically possible?
what would it take to build one?
- I feel like it is glowing orange something has gone terribly wrong.
  ETA: I looked up some reasons it might glow orange. There are legitimate reasons. I thought it meant it was glowing while charging which is what the article makes it sound like. Maybe it got too hot and started glowing? Possible and probably unsafe or something wrong in the design. But I wouldn't think that would be as bright as it seems like the article means.
  However, if it's releasing plasma and sodium vapor it could give a bright orange glow. So it's possible that it charged up, fired, released plasma plus something that turned bright orange (there are a couple of other things, but I'm sticking with sodium in this example), then shot a lightning like ray when the plasma found a path to ground. Similar to how a Tesla coil in a plasma ball works but with something that turns orange (sodium vapor) instead of purple (xenon and neon or whatever).
  But I could be misunderstanding.
Ever since the Pentagon released video clips of "UFOs", it should have been common knowledge that they were doing this. Since they would not have released clips of unknown potential threats or enemy weapons.

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