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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51?  Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 11:40 |
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It's a captured alien spacecraft. Gotta be aliens. After everything we've been through the last couple years, there's nothing else that could top it.
Aliens.
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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51? Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 12:15 |
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FLASH!! "No, Beatrice, that was not an alien spacecraft you saw. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus." 
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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51? Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 14:49 |
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Username Protected wrote: The bigger question... Accidental disclosure, or intentional head-fake? Yes. 
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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51? Posted: 05 Feb 2022, 16:03 |
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Username Protected wrote: The bigger question... Accidental disclosure, or intentional head-fake? Yes.
first thing I thought. a foam model to give the Chinese something to do for a few months.
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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51? Posted: 06 Feb 2022, 00:15 |
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Username Protected wrote: The bigger question... Accidental disclosure, or intentional head-fake? There is no way something got left out accidentally for several days. It was definitely intentional. The real question is is it a functional aircraft or just a decoy?
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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51? Posted: 06 Feb 2022, 01:42 |
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Didn't Tom Cruise fly that for Top Gun 2?
...not that I have ever seen the movie YET!
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Post subject: Re: New at Area 51? Posted: 07 Feb 2022, 10:33 |
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That was my same thought.
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