RAF Ordered to Shoot Down UFOs 21
Pilots in the RAF have fired upon unidentified objects without success since the 1980s, according to Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence's UFO project. "There was a faction in the MoD who said 'We want to shoot down a UFO and that will resolve the issue one way or another. We know of cases where the order has been given to shoot down - with little effect to the UFO," he says. The MoD refused to comment. While not making the best first impression on our alien visitors, this policy assures that the British won't end up in a cookbook.
Neat (Score:1)
Some quick research around the article led me to http://www.disclosureproject.org/ [disclosureproject.org].
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True, landing on the moon used to be good fantasy too, so was thinking the earth was flat and the center of the universe, so was believing humans to be masters of their own emotions.
I'm not an UFO believer, but I'm not a non-believer either, I like to sit in that comfortable "I don't know" area.
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Well, yes I am like you, on the fence and I don't claim UFOs do not exist. They do, people tend to assume that UFO means ship from another planet. It could be. But it really marely means Unidentified Flying Object. Which could be a number of different things.
The thing about Disclosure Project is I am almost convinced that governments are clueless about what is going on. While they might know some things that are classified, chances are it has been kept classified because it is not understood -- beyond our c
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Yeah I agree with you on that, but I do believe the governments to be hiding a LOT from the public. It's a known fact that NASA deliberately alters images before releasing them. Take of the face and pyramids on Mars for example; the image quality of that zone kept degrading over time while their cameras kept improving.
Besides, with trillion of trillions of stars out there with much more planets around them, I find it easier to believe there is life out there than the fact that we're alone in this universe,
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Yes, I recall those NASA screw-ups when they forgot to `photoshop` few images.
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The photo is unrealistic (Score:4, Funny)
First, the airplane is a MiG-21, which would definitely not be in the RAF. Maybe that should be a photo of a Eurofighter or a Tornado. And second, the UFO is rounded with a high dome, indicating a Rigellian spacecraft. Everybody knows that those assholes can't be bothered to explore a water-oxygen world that they can't even live on. The photo should have included the cigar shaped Antaran spacecraft.
MORONS (Score:2, Troll)
these people are the kind of people who deserve the thick stick treatment. get a load of that - some ALIEN visitor, definitely of SUPERIOR technology may be coming to earth. and, you order the planes to 'shoot them down' to 'clear the issue'. EVEN if its a 1% probability, imagine shooting down of the first visiting ship of a technologically superior race. If their laws and understanding is anything like our shitface civilization, that deserves a planetary whacking in response.
that kind of morons. trademark
yea (Score:2)
that's why you havent lost any of your individual freedoms in the last 8 years. oh wait ...
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Perhaps the reason they haven't managed to shoot one down is because there's nothing physical there to shoot down and they're just visual tricks created by natural phenomena?
Not meaning to ruin anyones UFO fantasy or anything but there are still perfectly earthly explanations for these sorts of events.
Game theory (Score:2)
Looking at the risks and payoffs, an attempted shoot down is the dumbest possible response. If as you say (and quite likely I might add) it's just tricks of the light, they're wasting expensive ammo and fuel. If it's a mis-identified man made aircraft, they'll kill someone for no good reason.
In the unlikely event that it really is an alien spacecraft from an advanced civilization (and to get here, it would HAVE to be a technologically advanced civilization) the best shooting at them can accomplish is to con
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If you can spot it and chase it close enough to shoot at it, you could surely identify a spyplane or follow it.
Failure to verify your target often ends badly.
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