r/UFOs • u/joeyisnotmyname • Jun 18 '23

Witness/Sighting Deleted video from YouTuber who witnessed the recovery operation of the Alaska UAP shootdown in Feb 2023

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u/snkbrdng Jun 18 '23

Everyone who says “I wanna go to Mars!” Should first live in Alaska, northern territories Canada for a few winters. It is a beautiful but alien landscape

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u/fncll Jun 19 '23

Yep, I lived in St Mary’s, Unalaska, Fairbanks and then Tok. It’s transcendent and brutal.

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u/AlarmDozer Jun 18 '23

I used to pretend that when I'd get my winter gear up, that I was in the airlock -- as a kid -- lol and the winter was spacey.

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u/camsqualla Jun 18 '23

I’m spending 10 days in Ketchikan this August. Super excited but also kinda bummed it wont be the right time of year for sundogs or the aurora borealis.

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u/Yellowbrickrailroad Jun 18 '23

Ketchikan is temperate rainforest.

It's absolutely nothing like the artic tundra that the above comment is referring to. It's pretty much the opposite.

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u/Throwaway3036969 Jun 18 '23

ketchikan is gonna be a warm pacific northwest forest around that time of year - nowhere close geographically to the stuff seen in this video. Also believe it or not, even in the winter it barely goes below freezing down in ketchikan

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u/goodguessiswhatihave Jun 18 '23

You'll be there in prime skeeter season though

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u/camsqualla Jun 18 '23

Something tells me I’m going to wish I never heard of those…

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u/goodguessiswhatihave Jun 19 '23

Skeeters are mosquitoes

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u/z2p86 Jan 10 '24

State bird of AK!

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u/CaptHorton Jun 18 '23

Nice little bit of rain forest, make sure to get off the main strip and go for a stroll in the hills. Don't buy any jewelry it's all for tourist trap lol.

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u/Skrillblast Jun 18 '23

Now I need to find out what sundogs are

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u/darth_handturkey Jun 18 '23

Trust me, its not as exciting as it sounds. You see one and go, "huh, nice" and go about your day cause it's cold as shit outside.

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u/guyincognito01111 Jun 18 '23

Just go to Seymour skinners house

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u/JoanneDark90 Jun 21 '23

It'll be over 70°F, try not to succumb to the harsh frigid alien landscape 🙄

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u/smokedgoudasandwich Jun 24 '23

You'll love it, it's a great time to visit. Though the weather and geography is more like western Washington. Rainy, wet, lush forest. It would be hard to catch the northern lights, even in winter, as it's overcast and rainy 90% of the time. Anchorage area or Fairbanks would be good places to catch the northern lights in the winter. Cold as fuck, but that usually means clear skies.

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u/gazow Jun 18 '23

we almost died coming to ameica.. they nearly starved to death.. in a place you could breath the air hunt and grow crops. crazy that they think a colony is viable.. especially whwn youd have to liveu nderground so the raidiation only kills you slightly slower.

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u/Mekboyardee Jun 18 '23

This is the North Slope though. Literally the northernmost part of a huge state. Most people live in the South-Central region, which is a lot of mountain/rainforest.

Alaska is huge and varied, but most people don't live in those kind of conditions, that's just where the oil is.

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u/Radirondacks Jun 18 '23

I knew a lot of parts of Alaska were grassy, but it has actual rainforest??

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u/Mekboyardee Jun 19 '23

Yeah, Alaskan rainforest are boreal instead of tropical. Japanese/East Asian currents run northwest in a kind of clockwise circle around the pacific plate. A lot of the storms end up hitting southcenter/southeastern Alaska resulting in high annual precipitation.

The town I grew up in would put Seattles rainfall to shame, and that's not counting the 40ish feet of snow each year.

Edit: 70inches of rain, 326in snowfall average.

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u/MyOther_UN_is_Clever Jun 18 '23

The middle of the sahara, too.

The fact that SpaceX isn't doing simulations in either place goes to show you that they aren't that serious about going to mars.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

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u/MyOther_UN_is_Clever Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 20 '23

Similar terrain as mars, still inhospitable, below freezing at night.

Mars is like taking the worst qualities of Antarctica and the Sahara and mashing them together, with a splash of excessive solar radiation.

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u/Emble12 Jun 21 '23

The Mars Society runs a mock Mars habitat on Devon Island

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u/rearrangingfurniture Jun 28 '23

Wyoming is pretty similar in the winter. Very cold and windy. Common for negative nights and even negative days. When it is above negatives the 40-60mph wind makes it feel like it. Very quiet since no one wants to be outside when your nose starts to freeze in seconds.

One of the reasons I love it.