Honestly - what other outcome was there? I am too cynical to believe that the government would have outed Black programs as reasons for sightings, and there isn't a shred of conclusive evidence for anything else.<p>Also, does hypersonic technology and extreme maneuverability go together? Wouldn't some really thorny CFD problems have to be solved to allow a scramjet to turn on a dime?
They did manage to grow the UFO community to the largest it's ever been, while installing their own people as authority figures in its new wave of "the phenomenon." Now DIA has a captive audience they can manipulate for the next four years.
Why does the headline fail to summarize the article? The only information I found inside was "Government Finds No Evidence That Aerial Sightings Were American Spacecraft"
isn't it obvious? they're simply avatar "cameras" being used by those running our simulation to explore through it, same as we do in a game world.
Let me get this straight... the government patents something that looks and behaves exactly like the Tic Tac craft (including going in and out of water). Then, vehicles like this are spotted in military training areas. Notice that they are not at the Superbowl or out in a field in Kansas, always at military exercises and always on the water. Hmmm.<p>Technically, you're not supposed to get patents for things that can't be built in reality. So we have a patent and videos of a working machine. Now both could be BS, but the most likely possibility is that either the patent and craft are real (and therefore of human origin) or both are not.<p>The possibility of alien visitors who only choose to visit military training over the water and never a Wal-Mart or an empty mountain range using their fancy ships --- seems very unlikely.<p>EDIT: BTW, the patent mentions that the current design can't hold people (the effect that causes the motion would kill them), but a larger version could be designed with shielding that could fit a person inside. Still think it's aliens?
If it had been, astrophysicists would have been very excited knowing that new physics must exist for this to be possible. Else they are ships which manage to survive eons traveling space intact and in perfect working condition.
Apparently this particular conspiracy theory (or whatever you want to call it) is only really a thing in the US and Brazil (or some country in South America) and the rest of the world is like 'probably not a alien spacecraft'.