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In late August, Avi Loeb, the world's most renowned scientist hunting for extraterrestrials on earth, traveled to the inner sanctum of American intelligence operations in McLean, Virginia, looking for once-secret information.

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Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships. oddnews.com/article/this ...

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Interesting read.

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-09-26 11:09 AM | Reply

We actually have a lot of data about UFOs.

If they are spacecraft, for instance, they are a very dirty and destructive way to travel.

Even on this slim point, you can reason backward and have some insight into the civilization that created them.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-26 11:52 AM | Reply

If these spacecraft are armed, then the weapons they use are strangely primitive. No, not bows-and-arrows primitive. Just strangely unsuited. Like they were never designed for serious war at all.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-26 11:55 AM | Reply

"Trump promised"

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#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-26 01:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

We actually have a lot of data about UFOs.
If they are spacecraft, for instance, they are a very dirty and destructive way to travel.
Even on this slim point, you can reason backward and have some insight into the civilization that created them.
#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-26 11:52 AM

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

From what I can tell they aren't furnished by Broyhill..

#5 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-09-26 10:15 PM | Reply

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

#5 | POSTED BY REDLIGHTROBOT

Close proximity to them kills living things.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-27 09:12 AM | Reply

POSTED BY REDLIGHTROBOT

What's doing the killing appears to be microwave radiation. It's hell on plant life and has seriously injured humans.

Although the craft seem ultra-fast and maneuverable, there are cases of ordinary gunfire visibly damaging them. There are also many, many case of the vehicles crashing (if you believe that, or any of this).

They don't appear to be good pilots, and we might infer that their machinery isn't as sophisticated as ours in some ways.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-27 09:34 AM | Reply

No, they can only travel MULTIPLE LIGHT YEARS to get here, while we can't get to Mars. Allegedly.

People don't understand the vastness of the universe.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-27 12:33 PM | Reply

I'm pretty sure UFOs are just us in the far future, building saucer-shaped time machines to travel back in time to warn us now people.

Unfortunately, due to massive future deregulation of safety requirements, plus massive funding cuts to pilot training, navigation, math, and science in general, the future-us time-travelling "aliens" are not able to safely land or even fly their craft.

That's my theory, anyway.

#9 | Posted by MadMikeMcGonzo at 2026-09-27 05:14 PM | Reply

"the future-us time-travelling "aliens" are not able to safely land or even fly their craft."

Mostly just teenagers out joyriding dads space/time ship.

Or possibly Rick and Morty.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-27 05:46 PM | Reply

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