OT: 118th Obsequious Banter Thread: February is the month of food days

[wankstifier]

Delving deeper into the UFO topic, there was an article in Scientific American and a podcast interview with Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, the government organization investigating UFOs. He recently retired after publishing findings expected to be disclosed to Congress soon. Despite rarely giving interviews, he recently stated that there's no evidence of UFOs or a government cover-up.

Dr. Kirkpatrick tends to dismiss many sightings as top-secret advanced drones from the US, China, or private companies. AARO often attributes numerous reports to likely being weather balloons, with only a small percentage, like the Tic Tac video (The Black Aces/Commander David Fravor), considered truly anomalous. He claims that 95-98% of items received by AARO are easily explainable.

He believes that all of the core story that has been unraveling is coming from a small group of people. This group believes that the government is trying to cover up as many as 12 ufo crash retrievals, the government at one point turned over to private companies and that at some point the private companies tried to sell back to the government and that the government/contractors are hiding the funding of those projects from congress..

I do find it strange how essentially the same group of people's names always come up on interviews/reports with subject matter experts except for David Grusch and a few others...From what i've read/watched a lot of them had worked directly or through a few degrees of separation together with Robert Bigelow/Bigelow Aerospace, Harry Reid, Christopher Mellon, Jacques Vallée, AATIP (and then more recently with Tom Delong's To The Stars Academy.

If you listen to some of the extended interviews with Robert Bigelow, and Tom Delong they come off much more eccentric and with beliefs/stories that are just to strange compared to folks that I tend to be interested in hearing there stories/testimony from (David Grusch/Lue Elizondo, Commander David Fravor). Bigelow specifically was an owner of Skinwalker Ranch, established a grant for researchers to find methods to communicate with the dead, and CIA Remote Viewing programs. Tom Delong with his story about how a shadow figure in the government reached out to him to help find a way to share the topic with the general public because the government doesnt have someone to do it...or some shit like that.

Bigelow based out of NV appears to have been close with Senator Harry Reid, who David Grusch brought up in some of his interviews as a fact witness. So if you believe Dr. Kirkpatrick that a small group of people are controlling the narrative it would seem likely that Harry Reid/Bigelow/Christopher Mellon are amongst them.

Some of the people that may be connected to Bigelow came out saying Kirkpatrick is a fraud and is lying...Grusch even at one point indicated during a couple interviews that Dr. Kirkpatrick refused to meet with him to discuss his findings.

Anyway, the likely next shoe to drop here is for AARO report to be released to congress. Based off the interviews with Kirkpatrick, it sounds like essentially its going to say that there's no cover up, no aliens, nothing strange except for chinese drones and balloons. Problem with that is by instrument measuring, radar, and first hand witnesses that seem very trustworthy, some of these objects are defying the laws of physics, going beyond 30,000mph, stopping on a dime and doing right hand turns.

It's hilarious to me that Kirkpatrick chose to post his op-eds on LinkedIn. This story is full of wacky characters.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I’m a huge Sydney Sweeney fan even though I have no clue what tv show/movie she’s in.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I’m a huge Sydney Sweeney fan even though I have no clue what tv show/movie she’s in.

She's on "Euphoria" with Zendaya. It's pretty good, and very good at times. She's an intercontinental ballistic missile.

 

[Rebels57]

I’m a huge Sydney Sweeney fan even though I have no clue what tv show/movie she’s in.

Ive seen her in

Season 1 of The White Lotus

The limited series Sharp Objects

The Handmaids Tale

Once Upon A Time..In Hollywood

The new Rollings Stones video for the single Angry (do yourself a favor and watch)

 

[Starat327]

Lord help any of you who get the stomach bug that's going around. This is awful.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Lord help any of you who get the stomach bug that's going around. This is awful.

Welcome to the club.

 

[Cody Webster]

Lord help any of you who get the stomach bug that's going around. This is awful.

I had it the week before I went to Florida. Mine only lasted for two days, but it was two days from hell.

 

[DancingPanther]

You guys are weak

 

[Starat327]

I had it the week before I went to Florida. Mine only lasted for two days, but it was two days from hell.

I'm pretty sure from 3-5 this morning I just gave up and slept on the toilet.

 

[Starat327]

You guys are weak

Not you bb

 

[DancingPanther]

Not you bb

I stronk

 

[Cody Webster]

I'm pretty sure from 3-5 this morning I just gave up and slept on the toilet.

Oh I believe it. Think I ended up losing 7-8 pounds by the end of it. For my sake, it only came out the one end. Think it took about 3 days between my last sick BM and my next BM because there wasn't a thing left inside my body

Wife's parents went to Florida with their friends a week before the family came down and half the house ended up getting the bug. The people that got sick had it for like 3 or 4 days

 

[Starat327]

Oh I believe it. Think I ended up losing 7-8 pounds by the end of it. For my sake, it only came out the one end. Think it took about 3 days between my last sick BM and my next BM because there wasn't a thing left inside my body

Wife's parents went to Florida with their friends a week before the family came down and half the house ended up getting the bug. The people that got sick had it for like 3 or 4 days

I'm going to pretend I didn't see this

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I'm going to pretend I didn't see this

There are studies that say living with a dog as a child helps you deal with things like RSV and childhood asthma. I’m just saying.

 

[Starat327]

There are studies that say living with a dog as a child helps you deal with things like RSV and childhood asthma. I’m just saying.

In this case, BRB.

 

[Chinatown88]

Y'all have terrible immune systems.

 

[Starat327]

Y'all have tiny humans.

Ftfy

 

[Embiid]

I can stand to lose about 10lbs....bring it on!

 

[Chinatown88]

Ftfy

Excuses excuses

 

[Danko]

When you have a kid in daycare, you just except you are getting every illness and move along.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Y'all have terrible immune systems.

All of the questionable street food has my immune system in perfect balance, thank you very much.

 

[Starat327]

I can stand to lose about 10lbs....bring it on!

There are better ways to do this than pissing out of your ass for a week.

 

[Chinatown88]

All of the questionable street food has my immune system in perfect balance, thank you very much.

That's the point. I was raised on room temperature food. Built it up since I was young.

 

[mja]

The middle child tested positive for Covid yesterday. The youngest complained of a sore throat at bedtime, so we'll see how that progresses once he's up and about. Fun. At least the wife and I am symptom-free, for now anyway.

 

[Embiid]

There are better ways to do this than pissing out of your ass for a week.

I had a stomach bug like that for 3 days way back....it did suck. I have been trying to lose weight for over a year and am active and decent with my diet. Unfortunately it hasn't been enough. A near death experience seems like the most expedient option left...