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For discussion of everything rum and uncanny, from cryptozoology (mysterious or out-of-place animals), UFOs, high strangeness, etc. Following in the footsteps of Charles Fort and all those inspired by him, like the field of anomalistics.

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Did a US F-22 shoot down a UFO? Photo of aerial object adds to mystery (www.marinecorpstimes.com)

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Remember February 2023? It was a wild time. There were cocaine-addled bears, mushroom zombies and Air Force fighters shooting sketchy, inflatable objects out of the sky left and right.

That month began with a Chinese balloon — the U.S. said it was loaded with spy equipment; Beijing claimed it was just a weather balloon blown off course — drifting across much of the contiguous United States and igniting a furor. That was before it was blowed up real good — the technical terminology — by an F-22 off the coast of South Carolina.

But February’s bizarre occurrences didn’t stop there. U.S. pilots soon shot down three more mystery objects over Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron in as many days.

None of those subsequent objects were ever recovered, with the official line indicating they were probably hobbyist or research balloons.

But one grainy image — it’s always a grainy image, isn’t it? — of the object shot down over the Yukon has now emerged, and it’s giving significant “I want to believe” vibes...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did it shoot down something in the air that was unidentified? Unlikely, but not impossible. Was it little green men in a spaceship? No, are you 12?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Does someone need to be 12 to believe that we have been visited? Can't serious people like Jacques Vallee also believe that UFOs and aliens are real?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago