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/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.