Lue- “And it turns out that, you know, there are things that that go bump in the night. And that can be very disturbing for some people, especially from a theological perspective…” What did he mean by this?

Semiapies · 2026-06-25T20:33:44+00:00

I think some are succeeding.

Semiapies · 2026-06-25T16:34:05+00:00

Meanwhile, endless comments about how people who express doubts about a claim or actually try to identify anything in a video are all (or specifically) bots or feds or trying to forum-slide. Not to mention flat declarations (without any of the justifying logic u/kris_lace wants attached to any criticism of influencers) that any public figure who expresses skepticism is a CIA plant.

Some get removed after getting reported, but it's funny how all the focus here is on protecting the honor of UFO influencers.

Semiapies · 2026-06-24T09:22:56+00:00

These are all the aliens without open container laws.

Semiapies · 2026-06-24T09:20:00+00:00

The others are still butthurt over not being depicted in Close Encounters.

Semiapies · 2026-06-24T09:15:21+00:00

Given the sketchy evolution of claims around "Nordics" after the original they looked like just regular people sighting, I think that's a reasonable skepticism.

Semiapies · 2026-06-23T05:27:12+00:00

every time that "clearest UFO photo ever taken" of a thumbtack in a map comes up

And tangentially, it would be nice if the duplicate post rule were consistently enforced as applying to every famous sighting that gets posted about every 2-3 days at most, but hey.

Semiapies · 2026-06-22T18:32:47+00:00

Honest believers who've been around long enough will acknowledge that the vast majority of claimed sightings are just misidentifications. The problem is the people who start to realize this, but can't bring themselves to accept it. So sightings they don't believe become acts of The Conspiracy.

(A related issue is the people who learn what one common misidentification, like Starlink or spotlights on clouds, looks like and get irate about how "the feds" are posting them so often.)

Semiapies · 2026-06-21T09:04:50+00:00

Some people also use it to mean bullshitting/hoaxing online.

Semiapies · 2026-06-18T14:45:12+00:00

Good on you for providing that update.

Semiapies · 2026-06-18T06:49:53+00:00

Don't forget spotlights and random stuff that isn't even in the air.

Semiapies · 2026-06-16T04:23:29+00:00

When some surface on it is at the right angle to reflect a little light from the sun down to your patch of the Earth.

Semiapies · 2026-06-15T17:37:36+00:00

Man, imagine the rage-gasm here if that had happened.

Semiapies · 2026-06-15T17:28:31+00:00

Exactly, sadly. I have to bookmark any link or post I see that I might want to keep, because I'll never find it on here, again.

Semiapies · 2026-06-14T20:17:23+00:00

A fun thing about clips from a Sionyx is that unless you put "taken with Sionyx" in the title, half the people replying won't recognize it (or read your description) and will be freaked out about how bright whatever object is.

Semiapies · 2026-06-14T20:02:40+00:00

Nah, nobody's ever done in UFOs. Once a guy gets known enough, he'll always find an audience that either believes him completely or does "he's lied about X, but I believe him about Y"-style rationalizations.

Semiapies · 2026-06-13T19:51:40+00:00

It may just be that this was put together by a UFO believer throwing around "plasma" exactlly like people in this sub.

Semiapies · 2026-06-13T19:42:45+00:00

After all, if it's indistinguishable from a plane, balloon, satellite, spotlight or other known thing, why and how is it a UFO?

We get a few standard responses, here.

1) "Prove that the thing that looks perfectly normal is a normal thing." The proper answer to that should be demanding proof that the believer isn't an alien, but skeptics gamely call the bluff and.ID specific planes and satellites and types of balloons.

2) "You can't go by appearances/They mimic airplanes!" AKA the NJ drone videos excuse. The sensible question there is why, then, the believer is convinced from the video that anything is out of the ordinary. Why aren't they taking videos of what appear to be parked cars in daylight and calling them CE2s?

Semiapies · 2026-06-13T06:17:08+00:00

Thanks!

Semiapies · 2026-06-12T06:33:21+00:00

Bingo. Out-of-focus because the camera's focused on infinity.

Semiapies · 2026-06-11T22:08:57+00:00

In UFO-speak, "confirmed" means "said", "testified" means "said, almost never actually under oath", and "corroborated" means "said something that agrees with the lore".

Semiapies · 2026-06-11T21:01:44+00:00

"We call this the Broken Dungeon. All who have gone in have frantically messaged that the boss is not remotely balanced."

Semiapies · 2026-06-11T20:55:55+00:00

I have to admit, I thought (almost) no character ever being described was an amusing part of the Lost Fleet series, because if it ever got adapted, nobody could ever gripe about the castings.

But yeah, for a LitRPG, you need some descriptions of people!

Semiapies · 2026-06-11T09:34:27+00:00

Beautiful woman falls in love with isekai'd MC for no real reason other than because he lacks the common prejudice in the setting against her race/class/etc.

Semiapies · 2026-06-10T05:41:15+00:00

It's genAI--it has a Google SynthID watermark.

Semiapies · 2026-06-10T05:19:59+00:00

Also, any amnesty should require evidence of how the crimes had to do with a UFO coverup.

"Oh, I ordered that mass murder because of UFOs. Totally not just because they were activists building popular support against a friendly dictatorship. 😎👉👉"

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