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  • NASA conclusion on UFOs. You are deluded

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 14 23:06:56 2023
    No proof, not substantive evidence they come from "out there." But we all knew that. Another oddity; why change the name from "UFO" to "UAP?" Nothing was more direct than UFO, even if some of them were reflections off water, mirages, balloons, car
    headlights in the distance, Venus, etc.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66812332

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  • From J Birch@21:1/5 to RichA on Fri Sep 15 15:28:18 2023
    On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 2:06:58 AM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
    No proof, not substantive evidence they come from "out there." But we all knew that. Another oddity; why change the name from "UFO" to "UAP?" Nothing was more direct than UFO, even if some of them were reflections off water, mirages, balloons, car
    headlights in the distance, Venus, etc.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66812332
    I assume such an 'expensive' change (imagine the expenses & hassles if you changed your name today) has more than one reason, both internal (NASA, CIA, aviation, etc) & external (media, political, social, etc). The two I see off-hand are, that "UAP" is
    a much more general term than is implied by "Object", and allows exploration of events or phenomena that happen daily (lots of daily work & projects, instead of waiting for a rare & fraught headline project), and (so far) it is relatively unencumbered by
    the 'weirdos' factor. Whether it proves a useful change, remains to be seen.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to J Birch on Fri Sep 15 21:04:01 2023
    On Friday, 15 September 2023 at 18:28:20 UTC-4, J Birch wrote:
    On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 2:06:58 AM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
    No proof, not substantive evidence they come from "out there." But we all knew that. Another oddity; why change the name from "UFO" to "UAP?" Nothing was more direct than UFO, even if some of them were reflections off water, mirages, balloons, car
    headlights in the distance, Venus, etc.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66812332
    I assume such an 'expensive' change (imagine the expenses & hassles if you changed your name today) has more than one reason, both internal (NASA, CIA, aviation, etc) & external (media, political, social, etc). The two I see off-hand are, that "UAP" is
    a much more general term than is implied by "Object", and allows exploration of events or phenomena that happen daily (lots of daily work & projects, instead of waiting for a rare & fraught headline project), and (so far) it is relatively unencumbered by
    the 'weirdos' factor. Whether it proves a useful change, remains to be seen.

    We see this manipulation all the time. Like when "global warming" became "climate change." "Abortion" becomes "reproductive rights" etc,. I think there is one to rename "bombing run." The vagueness of language is a key government policy.

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