• @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    23 days ago

    Riiight yes, gotcha.

    Hmm considering how big the VentureStar would have been, my off-the-cuff airship theory seems like it might make sense - at least if we’re not assuming some sort of extremely secret completely noiseless new propulsion technology, which just doesn’t seem like something they’d be testing in populated areas where everybody can see them.

    Shit, could just be a lighter than air “disinfo craft” – purpose-built to make people go “holy fuck what the hell is that thing”, to make it seem like the US is fielding some sort of completely insane near-magical technology.

    • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 days ago

      I mean… yeah, that is a viable explanation.

      Nothing I have personally seen would not work with the dirigible idea… observational high altitude blimps and balloons are real things, disinfo by making people think its aliens is a real thing too.

      The scifi / advanced classified tech explanation would be more fun, but at least for me personally, I never saw the thing like… suddenly accelerate to mach fuck you… always stationary, hovering.

      Online, on a few forums, I have seen other people claim they have seen craft that match the description of what I saw… they have claimed they saw it suddenly accelerate, and I have seen a very shitty quality video once that seemed to show that.

      But those people could be BSing, that video could be fake.

      ???

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      • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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        23 days ago

        Oh yeah I’d loooooove it if this was some sort of absolutely bonkers new propulsion tech – let alone FUCKING ALIENS AKJDSAJKDASJKA – but it just doesn’t seem very likely. Keeping something like completely new physics secret for decades, eh, I don’t see that happening.

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