• jeffw@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Half of it is people who think we’re talking about aliens, the other half know it’s just about other countries spying on the USA with advanced drones.

    • RocksForBrains@lemm.ee
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      There’s legit UFO incidents, but they aren’t aliens or supernatural. Different governments testing different technologies, sometimes prototype gets seen.

      When people say “well we don’t have that technology” I like to remind them of the many different technologies only the US military had access to decades before their public release.

    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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      It’s crazy how mainstream ufo talk has become.

      I speculated two things in the 90s to a group of friends and family, I think possibly during the same conversation. I predicted both these things to occur by the time we were in our 60s.

      • We’d be legally able to sit on our porch and smoke a joint.
      • The US Gov would reveal conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial activity verified to have occurred at some point in the history of our planet, after a period of normalizing it through popular media.

      I was only really serious about the first one, but the second comment was triggered by what I perceived as a spate of UFO movies and shows that spiked within a few years around the time of Independence Day.

      So far I’ve got 50% accuracy, and still a few years to go, so I’ve got my fingers crossed. 😁👽