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balloons, drones, ufos it's always some weird distraction

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[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 42 points 5 days ago (3 children)

something like 70% of "ufo" sightings are people just looking at the moon

the sky is vast space with no points of reference. it is very difficult to see how close or far something is or how big or small it is. it can appear to move in strange ways because you are mving your head "or camera" and it seems to follow you. add in some atmospheric effects and haze and a little bit of imagination and people get themselves worked up

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

One time my wife and I were staring up in the sky and saw this HUGE light. We were freaking out, thought it was some military craft test. Like nothing we had seen before.

The clouds parted and it was the moon lol

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

no shame. it has happened to all of us. one night you will look in the sky, see a light and be like "WTF IS THAT?" and it will be something obvious that was just obscured or something like the moon

i bet it even seemed to move a little strangely and stuff. wild how such a vast space can fuck with your perception, huh?

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Lmao, my wife and i were once having a chat outside, when we both saw a giant green meteor race past the sky. My first reaction was a peasant brained "well, that's it. It's the end.". Her reaction was to look at me like i had two heads and call me a dumbass.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

once we were looking at the night sky. suddenly just before midnight multiple deep purple coloured bright light sources appeared circling in chaotic zigzag moves above some point far away. it only lasted a few seconds but then we realized it was only light from the moon, the rising sun and some clouds that must have tricked us somehow, so we were just amused called it a day and quickly went inside to make brunch cause we were all hungry like we just came home from an exhaustive daytrip or such but news later confirmed that all we must have seen was just a weather balloon.

</satiric acid>

now really i had seen a huge bright light in the sky that lit up the valley as if it was day once in switzerland. turned out to be a military thing they used during some night time exercise. it was like a parachute signal rocket but white and burning really long like longer than 15minutes i think and that light also didnt move much.

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

a little bit of imagination

Whenever I look at the stars I get a really strong feeling that they're moving. I know it's an optical illusion but that doesn't mean I don't see it.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

the stars in the sky "are" moving:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_kinematics

so maybe you just dont believe to have eyes that good (and likely you are right with that disbelieve) but they are moving!

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Perspective for stellar objects is very weird. Scholars have been theorising for literal millennia why people think the moon is bigger when it's nearer the horizon, and we still don't know.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

be a cracker
shoot down a "drone" in the middle of the Appalachian sky
your gun jams
it falls out of the sky anyway
the "drone" was a Boeing
everyone claps

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

people were talking too much about luigi. send out the drones.

if only luigi were here to shoot them down

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

Luigi shooting down drones

I smell a modern day Duck Hunt sequel!

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There weren't any drones terrorizing the Mid-Atlantic until they locked him up. soviet-hmm

[–] johncutting@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

I found it interesting that people are filming a bright, glowing thing seemingly intentionally designed to be visible at night and think, "SPY drone."

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seriously like 90 percent of the US is full of morons.

[–] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks like the bourgeois education system is doing its job just as it was designed to.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Reminder that American adults have a 20% illiteracy rate and 50% are reading below a 6th grade level. Like, try finding a reading comprehension test for 6th graders and remember that half the adult burgerlanders would struggle to pass it, or straight up fail. It's absolutely terrifying.

Failed state.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago

Welcome back comrade balloon

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

Saw a reddit thread the other day where they were saying, "Each drone looks different! This proves this one bit of 4chan lore that says each and every UFO uniquely manufactured out of The Alien's underwater burmuta triangle facility!" and in the video they were talking about, the aircraft had one of those standard regulation red blinking lights.

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

y'all ever wonder if there will ever be any repercussions from letting a neurodegenerative virus run wild while pretending everything's back to normal?

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

It's a bird!

It's a plane!

It's actually a plane?!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It would wild if they actually start shooting innocent ppl out of the sky.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

now that would be real failing empire hours

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

"Well we heard the liberals were doing 'unlimited 9/11s on the first world' so we started blasting!"

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

One of the white house press conferences, iirc when asked about shooting these down they said that it’s up to the discretion of local law enforcement or something like that. Wild if New Jersey police shoots down a passenger plane because of this

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How TF did this country of medieval peasants become a superpower?

[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

Being the only industrial power not wrecked by two world wars, control of global finance, and a huge nuclear arsenal? Fucking fluke