Hacker News with Generative AI: UFOs

NASA's Metallic Orbs: The Surprising Briefing Everyone Missed (medium.com)
On July 1, 2023, a Pentagon official at NASA headquarters calmly stated, ‘We see these metallic spheres all over the world, making maneuvers we can’t explain…moving at Mach 2 against the wind, with no apparent propulsion.”

UFOs, Space Exploration, Government, Military

16 points by fiifiappiah 3 days ago | 3 comments

What Is Project Blue Beam? Conspiracy Theory Erupts over Drones (newsweek.com)
The recent surge in mysterious drone sightings across the United States has sparked a resurgence of the Project Blue Beam conspiracy theory, which claims the global elites plan to fake an alien invasion.

Conspiracy Theories, Drones, UFOs, United States

13 points by pseudolus 33 days ago | 2 comments

Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report (twz.com)
The Pentagon provided new details today about how its deployable, readily reconfigurable suite of sensors called GREMLIN works to help set the stage for figuring out what unidentified objects in our skies are and are not, if they appear at all.

Military, Surveillance, UFOs, Technology

109 points by speckx 62 days ago | 125 comments

Experts testify before lawmakers that the U.S. is running secret UAP programs (npr.org)
Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the U.S. government been covering up unexplained phenomena, and using secret extraterrestrial discoveries to boost its own technology?

U.S. Government, UFOs, Extraterrestrial Life, National Security, Technology

5 points by nataz 65 days ago | 1 comments

Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress (text.npr.org)
Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the U.S. government been covering up unexplained phenomena, and using secret extraterrestrial discoveries to boost its own technology?

UFOs, Government, Extraterrestrial Life, Congress

41 points by samizdis 65 days ago | 99 comments

US Congress to hold second hearing on UFOs in attempt to 'pull back curtain' (theguardian.com)
The United States Congress will hold a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the topic of UFOs that some lawmakers are hopeful will lead to new information on a subject that is the focus of many conspiracy theorists but has also recently attracted serious attention from government officials.

UFOs, Government, Politics, Conspiracy Theories

10 points by c420 66 days ago | 5 comments

US Government UAP Footage (aaro.mil)

UFOs, Government, Military

18 points by master-hax 96 days ago | 4 comments

Deadhorse UFO Incident: NORAD Logs Reveal Insights into Object's Countermeasures (liberationtimes.com)
Thanks to a FOIA release from the Canadian Government in September 2024, we may now have a glimpse of the extraordinary countermeasures deployed by UAPs against NORAD command and control facilities during the intercept and shootdown of an object assigned a NORAD designator of UAP#20 off the coast of Deadhorse, Alaska on February 10, 2023.

UFOs, Military, Government, Canada

18 points by keepamovin 103 days ago | 17 comments

Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft (space.com)

Space, Satellites, UFOs, Spacecraft

125 points by alex_young 120 days ago | 50 comments

'Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive' (theguardian.com)

UFOs, Extraterrestrial Life, Science

5 points by Anon84 137 days ago | 2 comments

Surging Belief in Alien Visitors Is Becoming a Serious Problem for Our Society (sciencealert.com)

UFOs, Society, Science, Belief

21 points by laktak 137 days ago | 30 comments

Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive (theguardian.com)