disclosure amendment was completely neutered :marseyitsoveralien:
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/18cn2k9/fy24_ndaa_conference_report_final_the_agreement
For context, high-profile members of congress worked on bipartisan legislation (Schumer's version) that would establish measures to declassify and disclose UAP/UFO-related info. A handful of republican senators with suspicious 
ties to defense contractors 
intervened and removed everything that would actually ensure that UAP-related information is shared with the public. /r/UFOs is naturally pooping the bed, the linked thread is just one of many examples.
Not going to lie, my expectations were low but I'm still disappointed. 
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An interesting point that was brought up on the Grusch JRE episode is that if they disclosed everything and it was found out that private companies were doing government work that no one else had a chance to bid on that it would open the floodgates for lawsuits.
Which is the lamest reason to deny us alien bussy but also the most realistic reason for why they won't disclose anything.
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Obviously all countries/governments/private contractors collaborate to maintain this secret.
The same way they collaborate on anything else, ever.
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There's an even more undramatic explanation btw.
You might have heard that Musk's Starlink uses phased array antennas. This sounds like startrek technobabble, but in short and mostly nontechnical terms: it's a grid of individual antennas that emit radio waves with a specific phase (the exact level at each moment in time, not just given frequency and amplitude), which then combine to form for example a narrow beam pointing in an arbitrary direction:
This way unlike satellite dishes which have to be physically pointed exactly at the satellite, a Starlink antenna can be pointed in its general direction and finely orient the beam electronically.
Phased arrays are not limited to creating parallel radio beams, in fact they can simulate pretty much anything. For example, if the beam focuses into a point somewhere in front of the antenna, to anyone further out it would appear as if the waves are emitted by an object at that point. The antenna can then move this virtual object around in blatant violation of all laws of physics.
One problem is that similar to holograms (which work on the same principles but with visible light) the virtual object must appear between the observer(s) and the antenna. That is, it appears to float in front of it, but only when the antenna is its backdrop:
So a Starlink-style antenna won't really work for tricking commie radars into seeing a bunch of cruise missiles flying towards their ships. You need something huge, like an irregular phased array with individual antennas located on multiple ships, helicopters, drones, and whatnot, which report their relative positions with sub-millimeter precision and are told which exact signals to emit to paint the needful picture. Which sounds exactly like the NEMESIS system that the Navy has been developing since 2013: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29505/the-navys-secretive-nemesis-electronic-warfare-capability-will-change-naval-combat-forever
So here's a boring explanation for the USAF sighting UFOs: it's the Navy (and/or other branches of the military) testing their phased array toys, radar trickstery works exactly as expected, visual confirmations if any are hallucinated as humans are wont to do.
And a boring explanation for congresscritters neutering the legislation: they were discretely explained that yes, the sightings are real but it's our next generation electronic warfare technology, and no, neither you nor of course the general public should get any details, in the interest of national security.
!nooticers
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What?
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oh shit that's interesting, thanks for writing this
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So its aliens, got it
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Some UFO influencer recently claimed that a defense contractor has reverse-engineered propulsion technology that can drive a nuke across the world in 2 minutes. I don't believe it, but I heard it!
Seriously though, if all of this isn't bullshit then Raytheon , Lockheed etc. are definitely working on reverse engineering.
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I have reverse engineered it, but I use it to propel a giant dildo that
probes
random bussies. You'd never see it but you'd certainly feel it.
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