Posted on 02/25/2021 10:54:16 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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As The War Zone points out, New Mexico is indeed home to White Sands Missile Range, the sprawling stretch of desert where the U.S. military has long tested everything from nuclear weapons to V-2 rockets. The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and today is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, too, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
But White Sands is approximately 400 miles away from the site of Sunday encounter’s west of Clayton, New Mexico, and it’s unlikely a weapon like a cruise missile could have “gone off the reservation” during a test, The War Zone’s Tyler Rogoway observes.
Scott Stearns, the chief of public affairs at White Sands, told Fox News the missile range wasn’t testing anything on Sunday. “We have no idea what it could have been or if anything similar has been sighted in that area before.”
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In a Reddit thread about the incident on r/UFOs, user Can_Not_Double_Dutch, who purports to be an airline pilot, provides information that raises additional questions about the “very weird” encounter:
Airline pilot here: Between 28,000'-40,000' (FL280-FL400) aircraft are in RVSM (Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum) airspace, which means crossing traffic can be + or - 1,000' from you. This airspace is highly controlled. And if another aircraft is transmitting on their Transponder code then you can see that aircraft on your TCAS (Traffic Collision system). For ATC controllers and pilots not to be able to see this UFO on any of their systems is very weird. And pilots never want to be the one to say UFO on radio.Even if authorized to fly through military airspace the ATC controllers would say military airspace is cold. If missiles are being tested then a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) would be issued and airspace closed off.
So I would say something was up there and passing by airlines.
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You'll be able to get an anal probe, anal swab, and vaccination all at the same appointment.
If you've had any missing time lately and notice that your derriere is kind of sore, chances are you have already been tested and vaccinated.
“New scramjet with test pilot?”
A test pilot would be flying through a commercial aviation area?
Why is the FBI confirming this instead of the Air Force/Military?
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Most obvious answer; because the FBI has plausible deniability for identification. In other words, it’s probably military.
LOL!
Okay, who’s got the Slim Whitman CD?
What, they can’t get an all new 2021 space ship vehicle?
Who told you that?
+1
NASA (never a straight answer) should be queried? Ah! You're making a joke!
I think most people would prefer fighting an alien invasion to trying to resist a communist takeover by Biden and Xi.
https://time.com/3475954/voronezh-ufo-report-1989/
Maybe someone has been reading back issues of TIME magazine?
Could have been GORT and Klaatu swinging by for another look see in their new ship. Are we about to be one ‘Burned Out Cinder’ soon?
Sure, after 2020, the only thing that could top that is a bona fide alien invasion.
If aliens do invade, how long will it take Democrats to register them to vote? Weeks or days?
We know for a fact that it wasn’t the Grays because they always fly saucer shaped objects.
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GRAYbeard58 vouches for that.
Yeah, trust the FBI who couldn’t confirm an illegal computer server in Hillary Clinton’s house despite it being used for years.
NASA used to know something.
Back in the daze of Verner Fun Brown:
“Vonce ze rockets goez up, who cares vere ze come down, zat’s not my department....”
They’ve come to support the “domestic” terrorist movement ie. conservatives, Christians.
FBI will be going door to door asking citizens if they’re working with the aliens.
I have no idea what it was. But, I know what it wasn’t: One of ours. Experimental military aircraft fly in very specific places, and times and altitudes positioned well from civilian aviation routes. They do this for a variety of reasons not the least of which is they don’t want to hit anything. Imagine the crap-storm if a civilian airliner was clipped by a Skunkworks plane.
I think a more reasonable and rational explanation in the absence of more detail is smugglers. That would also explain why it’s the FBI investigating and not the Air Force.
I'm sure there are bad apples, but you imply the above is the norm. I don't buy it, and then you have Scully.
I was being a bit facetious. Pilots are probably the most ideal witnesses when it comes to these types of events.
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