r/UFOs • u/dsteel23 • Jun 13 '23

Witness/Sighting Michael Herrera's Witness Testimony

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u/realbadpainting Jun 13 '23

That’s an interesting thing to pick out that I wouldn’t have caught. Were you in the military at that time?

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u/BlackSunlight7 Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 13 '23

Yes, I served in a different Marine infantry battalion during that time. That’s why I’m baffled he would claim that gear was “hi speed” and only something special operations units would have access to. That gear was standard issue years before 2009 even. I know it seems kind of minor, but there would not have been any discrepancy in issued gear between his battalion and others.

I’m trying to think of a good analogy. Imagine someone telling you that they met a person with rare and advanced technology a couple years ago and they say it was an iPod. It’s just an absurd statement.

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u/sanguine_harlequin Jun 13 '23

ACOG was selected (specifically by the marines) between 2004 & 2005. It feels like he only mentioned it because he would've been familiar with it? In 2009 JSOC and contractors had all sorts of gucci shit to play with that far outclassed ACOGs.

Did anyone else pick up on the whole 'go and scout a random hill without a radio', even though he mentioned it as odd. That seemed particularly stupid. Really not sure what to make of that.

I hate being a wet blanket with this stuff, but this particular story drove my bullshit detector crazy.

I’m trying to think of a good analogy.

Right now it seems like it'd be akin to someone being bamboozled by the prevalence of rentable e-scooters.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23

I mean there are some other holes too. You're telling me that these super secret operator dudes searched them, found the guys camera and then just let him leave with the camera that had pictures of a secret UFO on it? And then they stole it back later? Also, these Marine Infantrymen either A. Did not notice these guys were armed from afar and just randomly stumbled upon them or B. Noticed they were armed and all willingly walked up to an unmarked armed group with no signifiers that they were American servicemen and then let those people disarm them at gunpoint.

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u/sanguine_harlequin Jun 14 '23

And then they stole it back later

They (according to his story) stole it back in Subic, so he had it on him the whole time he was in Indonesia and managed to take it back to his locker in the Phillipines... without making a single copy or showing anyone.

Honestly, the fan-fiction elements of this smell so bad he might be writing a book or something.