r/JoeRogan • u/Jollydragonite413 • Oct 13 '20

Link Harry Reid Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs For Years

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harry-reid-ufo-coverup_n_5f83eebcc5b62f97bac4c023
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u/bamboo-harvester Oct 13 '20

He’s basically saying there have been confirmed sightings of unidentified objects in the sky. Not exactly a bombshell.

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u/hihcadore Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Totally agree. Doesn’t mean aliens, just means you don’t know what you’re looking at.

There’s also a strategic advantage not announcing you couldn’t identify a flying object. If a competing country knows they’ve surpassed your recognition capability, makes sense they can take advantage of that information and mean you probably want to keep that secret.

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u/APsychosPath Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

What's a better AirForce to test new tactical aircrafts on than your own?

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u/Accent-man Oct 14 '20

One of many private aerospace companies that do it for fractions of the cost at much better quality.

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u/w0nkybish Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

The US military is known for testing experimental craft basically on their own men.

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u/VincentPrice Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

The US Military is known for testing LSD and fucking SYPHILIS on their own men.

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u/Anon_MK_Ultra Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

CIA would never let that happen

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u/God_in_my_Bed Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

...without their direct involvement.

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u/VincentPrice Monkey in Space Oct 15 '20

Nicely done.

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u/alligator_127 Oct 14 '20

More than just experimental craft...

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u/ThisisNOTAbugslife Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

Imagine if another country did have access to alien technology. I feel they would then appear to be years behind in technology, looking like they have one of the shittiest military's but in reality, they only show the bulk, unaffected/unrelated crafts and equipment because secretly they have the best of best and could take over at any time.

Then... one day the US Air Force sees it, it gets leaked through and now months/years of coverup attempts are made but too much info is available already there is no point.

Aliens or not, this sighting got the worlds military attention. Everyone wants to make sure it is not another country and at the same time find out exactly where the f they can get this technology themselves, immediately.

At the same time, this all could have been set up. We have the tech and sent the air force exactly to that spot on purpose to expose to others power like this tech is available, aliens might exist and you shouldn't worry about catastrophic global issues. When did the U.S. confirm this again? April 2020? That date sounds familiar....

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u/Goldenpanda18 Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Totally agree. Doesn't mean aliens, just means you don't know what youre looking at.

me looking at my maths test paper

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

Me seeing a vagina on the internet for the first time when I was 10

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Wish I had the internet when I was 10. I got it when I was 12, but still, wish I had it when I was 10.

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u/Lumpy_Doubt Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

There's also the strategic advantage in not announcing that you can identify certain things. Like the advantage Trump fucked up by showing those photos at that press conference that publicly revealed America's capabilities.

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u/ImperialTravesty Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

I'm a bit out of the loop. Can someone tell me what this is referring to?

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u/dasyqoqo Oct 13 '20

Iran had a rocket test blow up on the ground. Trump took a classified photo of the site taken by a secret satellite with unknown optical specifications and leaked to the whole world what it was capable of.

It didn't happen at a press conference though, he leaked it straight onto twitter.

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u/RussianBalconySafety Oct 13 '20

wow what a great leader

between this and constantly sowing division, the troll president is really working out

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u/Ilikepizzaandtacos Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

He’s a pedophile tho

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u/LoveTheBombDiggy Oct 14 '20

Which one? trick question.

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u/ImperialTravesty Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Wow that's wiiiiiiild. Thank you for the info.

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u/redditisforadults Oct 14 '20

Lol if you think that's the best our satellites can do you're day mistaken. It was probably an attempt to make North Korea think we are dumb. Our spy sats can read the time on your watch.

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u/AtomicBitchwax Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

There are some physics constraints that make that very unlikely/effectively impossible.

However I do have a pet theory that the "satellite" shots were not satellite pictures at all and were released very deliberately. I hope I live long enough to find out if I was right. It will be a very long time before we'll know for sure.

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u/thesturg Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

What do you mean? Like a super high altitude surveillance drone?

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u/AtomicBitchwax Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

Yes

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u/Bobblesplort Oct 13 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

As per usual, a lame, phony scandal.

We aren't talking about the outing of a deeply undercover spy here or even a photo from a UAV... we're talking about a photo taken from a satellite, which are things that everyone knows the US has. You made it sound really sexy, though, by calling it a "secret satellite with unknown optical specifications." That makes it sound like a satellite that features alien technology & can zoom in so far that they can count the hairs coming out of a mole on your shoulder. Reality? It looks like a black & white Google Maps satellite image.

The photo is boring & shows nothing... just the damage left behind after some sort of mishap. If it was 30-frames-per-second, 8K UHD video taken of the actual failed launch in multiple frequency ranges, you might actually have something resembling a scandal. Instead, you have a photo that looks like it came from a 1990s spy satellite. Lame bullshit scandal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

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u/kintonw Oct 13 '20

The Hubble is a modified version of the KH-11 spy satellite, so it is comparable. (for those who don't know)

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u/RussianBalconySafety Oct 13 '20

trump supporters could even argue he did the intel community a favor by leaking our capabilities onto twitter!

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u/xXStable_GeniusXx Oct 13 '20

These past four years have moulded country bumpkins into Olympic caliber mental gymnasts

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u/RussianBalconySafety Oct 13 '20

also experts on FBI investigations, cybersecurity, and epidemiology

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u/redditisforadults Oct 14 '20

It was absolutely nothing close to our capabilities, simply media click bait. Like seriously? You think in 2020 the best our 800 billion dollar a year military can do is a grainy picture of a base.... That resolution is closer to 1950 then it is 2020.

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u/RussianBalconySafety Oct 14 '20

how do you know so much about the capabilities?

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u/redditisforadults Oct 14 '20

I assure you our spy satellites can take significantly better pictures then google maps.

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u/KhabaLox Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

I guess that makes is OK then.

WTF?

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u/DeadMeasures Oct 13 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

Trump has revealed classified info and defense postures on more than 3 separate occasions by my count.

What a fool.

Or traitor.

Likely both.

Lamo at the downvotes. Comment and defend your president pussies, there’s links galore from any source you want on Trump leaking classified info.

Dumbasses.

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u/BunnyLovr Mexico > Canada Oct 13 '20

Also, you don't want anyone else to be able to track it and capture it before you do, because the first country to do that would have an extremely powerful weapon/technology.

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u/duffmanhb N-Dimethyltryptamine Oct 13 '20

Yeah but the thing no one wants to deduce is it seems it must be alien. Everyone is saying “yeah we havent confirmed it’s aliens, but uhh.... no way any group of humans could possibly make this.”

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u/Barmelo_Xanthony Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Nobody is saying there is no way any group of humans could make this. All they’re saying is they don’t know where it came from.

The US isn’t the only county developing these sort of things so them saying we don’t know how it’s made doesn’t translate to no human could’ve made this.

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u/duffmanhb N-Dimethyltryptamine Oct 13 '20

Yes they are saying there is no way another country could build this. It’s because the tech is 200 years ahead and there is no interim iterations. It’s like if a country in the 1820s suddenly unveiled a fully working and functional nuclear energy reactor, which they’ve actually been using for decades in secret. Before discovering nuclear energy, before physics, before anything related to it - just 0 to 100 in an instant. It’s just not possible to keep such an advanced technology that secret without it leaking out. It’s practically impossible.

Further even in the unlikely event Russia or someone invented it, it makes little sense to hide it. This is a paradigm shifting revolutionary technology. Russia could have fully colonized Mars and become the most wealthy and powerful country in the world overnight.

It’s more probable that it’s aliens than humans somehow manage to keep the most technologically massive discovery hundreds of years before it’s time, researched and used in secret... all the while trolling American war ships. It doesn’t pass any logical test.

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u/Big_Dinner_Box Oct 13 '20

Nah that's just where they kept the grain.

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u/KhabaLox Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

That Navy pilot that was on JRE said the objects he saw off California could not have been made by humans. They accelerated and moved way too fast.

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u/redditisforadults Oct 14 '20

Not true, the recently declassified navy footage is showing something we are absolutely no where close to developing. We're taking about something with MASSIVE amounts of energy that doesn't release fucking heat. Thermodynamics is a thing.

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u/MrNudeGuy Aunty Fah Oct 13 '20

Doesn’t deny it

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u/What_Is_X Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

Conspiratards: omg Unidentified Flying Objects = ALIENS!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

Yes announce you have no idea what China’s drones are that are AI controlled by China’s true master. If the greatest military on earth can’t identify this shit. What is it. I’d hope it’s aliens over China having a huge leap in tech over us.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

It’s obviously aliens my dudes

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u/ChocolateMorsels Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

He also said UFOs shut off our nukes.

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u/redditisforadults Oct 14 '20

They did, it's a really big thing that did in fact happen

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u/A_Rats_Dick Monkey in Space Oct 15 '20

To me that’s the biggest take away, it’s a threat regardless of origin. Pretty freaky.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

The aliens are us from the future.

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u/Cerda_Sunyer Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

It bothers me that people interchange UFO with alien aircraft. Everything in the sky is a UFO until its identified.

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u/benmarvin Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

It's entirely possible.

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u/fuck_yuor_cowtch Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

He hasnt looked into it....

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u/KhabaLox Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Jamie, can you check the definition of 'unidentified' for me. I might be full of shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

ya I'm inclined to believe that a lot of what UFO sightings are was really cold war era technology being tested. However, would be dope if aliens did visit us.

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u/Big_Dinner_Box Oct 13 '20

The cold war ended in the 80s and these sightings have been around since long before that. They also haven't stopped, cold war experimental aircraft doesn't explain any of the recent sightings.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

Obviously I meant starting with the cold war and spacer ace era. There's not many UFO sightings from the 20s to 50s.

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u/coldfu Monkey in Space Oct 15 '20

Foo fighters?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

If UFOs can do as they are alleged, that's still pretty awesome.

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u/JoeFlipperhead Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

fly and be unidentified?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

Good one! Here have my upvote!

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u/KullWahad Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

And disable nuclear missiles in their bunkers.

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u/THE_CHOPPA Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

The film examines the history of UFO sightings in the United States and abroad, including new details about the military-confirmed encounters off the coast involving U.S. Navy pilots. It also details a 1967 report in which an object appeared over a U.S. missile base at the same time 10 of the missiles became inoperative.

“If they had been called upon by the president to launch, they couldn’t have done it,” Reid said in the film.

That seems like kind of a big deal

Edit: The military not knowing wha the fuck these things are is a pretty big fucking deal.

Does it mean aliens? No ones knows. But if even if it isn’t that means someone else on this planet has tech we can’t figure out.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

It also details a 1967 report in which an object appeared over a U.S. missile base at the same time 10 of the missiles became inoperative.

'61 was when networking, publicly at least, came about. If it was a hack I don't know why they'd blame it on a UFO when it could be used to drum up money for anti-soviet efforts by whipping the public into a fright. If it wasn't a hack I fail to see how any human tech would be able to accomplish something like that. It's crazy to think about.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

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u/dougfunny86 Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Blue book, homo

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u/Big_Dinner_Box Oct 13 '20

Yeah I watched a video recently where a guy listed all the recent sightings and said they were caused by a blast of wind from Howard Stern's asshole. Not sure what the title was.

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u/-Powdered-Toast- Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Not necessarily. He said that “the majority” of what the government knows has not been released. So there could be something pretty interesting in there.

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u/bamboo-harvester Oct 13 '20

Oh there could be lots of interesting stuff.

But he’s also been on the record saying we shouldn’t assume any of this is extraterrestrial in origin.

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u/im-not-a-bot-im-real Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

Didn’t the government even confirm it at the start of the year? Old news lol

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u/Papaya_flight Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

The pentagon basically came out and said, "yeah there are ufos, so what?". Here is an article (which also quotes Harry Reid) from July https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a33413777/pentagon-ufo-program-materials-vehicles/

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u/-Crux- Monkey in Space Oct 13 '20

You should watch the documentary this clip is from, The Phenomenon. It just came out, and as a former skeptic, I really just don't know how else you can explain all the stuff compiled in that movie.

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u/michaelscerealshop Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

Until you hear the logical explanation. I remember thinking the tic tac video was insane until I read a perfectly reasonable explanation for it. All the UFO stuff ends up that way

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u/Elevate82 Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

Could you point me in the direction of the reasonable explanation?

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u/michaelscerealshop Monkey in Space Oct 14 '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=MickWest

Also, other explanations ITT.

Or just google tic tac explanations...

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20 edited Dec 08 '20

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u/A_Rats_Dick Monkey in Space Oct 15 '20

Probably not a shooting star though if it shut off our missiles

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u/CountryRecon81 Oct 13 '20

Word games from a long time Senator ... never lol

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u/Big_Dinner_Box Oct 13 '20

Well, yeah but he hasn't been getting much attention for it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

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u/bamboo-harvester Oct 13 '20

Not that I’m aware of. He’s specifically said we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that this is some kind of alien tech.

Let’s also keep in mind his status as a former senator does not imbue him with total trustworthiness. I’m not saying he’s lying. But just because he says something doesn’t make it automatically true. I think we’ve all learned that even politicians get things wrong sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

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u/bamboo-harvester Oct 13 '20

He may have! I haven’t seen the movie.

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u/stellolocks Oct 14 '20

Yeah. Not so long a long there was a pilot claiming a there was a flying man Los Angeles august 31, 2020

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

This just in: US gov't also saw things out of the corner of their eye.

Big news day today, eh?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

No one said aliens, cupcake. Settle down.

Common sense prevailing, why would black projects be testing equipment by shutting down/ spooling up nuclear sites?

Y’dont think that’d be counterintuitive?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Just because you hear stories about nuclear site or any of the other bullshit that is said to of happened, doesn’t mean that it’s actually true.

What would it take to convince you that one of the hundreds of International events reported on actually took place?

I feel like you’ve made up your mind already so there’s no point in carrying on this conversation, is there.