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What is it?

  • Ayy lmao

    Votes: 707 43.6%
  • I want to believe

    Votes: 362 22.3%
  • Swamp gas

    Votes: 106 6.5%
  • I really don't care do u

    Votes: 158 9.7%
  • Batman

    Votes: 289 17.8%

  • Total voters
    1,622

sphagnum

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
16,058
Conspiracy theorists themselves are actually pretty sure it's just a Batman party balloon.

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The "Leaked'' UFO Photo. The WHO, WHAT and POSSIBLY the WHY.

Did you see the "leaked" UFO photo released this week by the new blog site "The Debrief"? Well, here it is, along with a breakdown of how this all came to p...
 

falcondoc

Member
Oct 29, 2017
6,209
As others have said - why not get closer? Especially if its motionless. Would like more story on this one
 

Avitus

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,898
Hard to tell the scale from a simple photo still with no points of reference.

Looks exactly like a slightly deflated balloon.
 

Grudy

Unshakable Resolve
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Oct 29, 2017
2,643

Joe

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,588
I've studied a fair bit of a geometry in my day, and I'm pretty sure that's not what cubes look like. Not the normal 3-d ones, anyway.
 

CosmicGP

Member
Oct 28, 2017
4,875
Is there not some A.I. program thing that can zoom in for us and reconstruct a low res image of it?

Edit- but seriously speaking if it is a weather balloon, there should be a picture of a weather balloon out there that looks EXACTLY like it.

Edit #2-

Also from the article


Shit, imagine if anti gravity technology exists
 

TheBaldEmperor

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,837
Sees thread title: *yawn*

Sees picture of "cube": *yawn*

Sees Batman picture: pfffffft hahahshsnxjckcnc
 

Necromanti

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,546
That's the most balloon-like UFO I've seen in a while. Not sure how "cube" popped into anyone's brain while looking at it.
 

Gunny T Highway

Unshakable Resolve - One Winged Slayer
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Oct 27, 2017
16,993
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Thatonedice1

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
4,112
Working on that also.
The fact that this is pretty early a Batman party balloon makes me question literally EVERY pilot that say they saw something. If these guys can be tricked but balloons. Alot of them have probably been tricked before also
 
Nov 8, 2017
13,086
I understand skepticism, but the fact that you don't think U.S. military aviators, the most well trained pilots in the world know what a weather or research balloon would look like is disingenuous.

Balloons come in all shapes and sizes. For example - Batman shaped.

Nobody is above reproach, everyone makes mistakes, everyone's perceptions are flawed. This is yet another demonstration that the pilot worship UFOlogists engage in is nothing but an argument from authority. I can't even count the number of times I've seen someone make a post like "how can you doubt these TRAINED PILOTS?"

The fact that this is pretty early a Batman party balloon makes me question literally EVERY pilot that say they saw something. If these guys can be tricked but balloons. Alot of them have probably been tricked before also

It's a numbers game, right? I've always thought of it as follows - the more often some UFO sighting turns out to be easily explainable or outright debunked, the less likely it is any of them are genuine sightings of aliens (or secret government technology, or whatever). Since we now have so many known mechanisms by which UFO sightings can be generated - whether natural phenomena, misidentified artificial things (like balloons or regular aircraft), or outright hoaxes, we no longer need to assume there's some kind of extraterrestrial or secretive explanation for the ones remaining, even if we can't literally explain all of it instantly.

The score card is like "99% debunked, 1% unclear / ambiguous, 0% proven true".
 
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Necromanti

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,546
The fact that this is pretty early a Batman party balloon makes me question literally EVERY pilot that say they saw something. If these guys can be tricked but balloons. Alot of them have probably been tricked before also
I wouldn't trust anyone who made the jump (either directly or indirectly) from "unidentified flying object" to "alien spacecraft" without hard, concrete evidence, regardless of credentials. Things can remain unidentifiable without going in that direction. The fact that they saw "something" has no inherent meaning by itself until people try to link it to the existence of something rooted in conspiracy theories and fantasy.