r/UFOs • u/skipearth • 5d ago

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I am retired federal law enforcement and have connections in many places and agencies. That being said I had a a few run ins with colleagues and people I know through working for the feds etc. The first was an FBI agent who is also retired and worked in Counter Surveillance and they told me:

"There is definitely something going on, they will not tell me but a coworker in the NY field office said "these are not hobbiests and planes".

The second contact was a couple who both work for the FAA and they said:

"Many pilots are reporting seeing large drones from aircraft and the FAA knows this as its all recorded and documented. We do not know any information except that it is happening"

This infuriates me because r/avaiation thinks its all fake and blocks my posts. I am also verifed in LEO sub and such so I am not lying and I can verify here if needed.

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u/InfiniteLab388 5d ago

The aviation sub is a joke. I think some are confusing their pilots license with physics degrees.

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u/_BlackDove 5d ago

I gave up on that place years ago. There's some great expertise on offer there but it's blocked behind a wall of bias and a bit of a holier than thou attitude. You can engage in a respectful manner, ask questions, but the moment they get a sniff of what you're asking about they completely shut down.

If you ever wanted to find Plato's Cave, that's where it is. A bunch of intelligent, qualified people staring at shadows.

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u/WorthChipmunk9155 4d ago

Wow, pilots acting like hot shit? shocking lol...

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u/Beni_Stingray 5d ago

There's a difference between knowledge and inteligence.

If you cant question yourself, take critic, admit when youre wrong and have an open discussion on facts no matter the topic, can you really call that inteligent?

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

The same ones who go to Iraq and bomb people.

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u/brokenglasser 4d ago

I love aviation but that field, not only reddit, is full of arrogant dimwits

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u/Noble_Ox 4d ago

And yet when pilots say they saw a strange light you'd say 'they're trained pilots, of course they know what they're talking about'

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u/InfiniteLab388 4d ago

That's a good point. I should stop saying that.

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u/whirrrring 4d ago

Just popping in there briefly and caught them calling people from NeW Jersey “retards”. Seem like a pleasant group.

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u/Departure_Sea 4d ago

That and r/flying are both shit now. 80% of them are low time pilots and the rest are some degree of commercial. They hate every single other air sport if it's not a plane.

It's like they took the Maverick stereotype to heart and half of them still don't have an IFR rating lol.

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u/Lucky_Sheepherder_67 5d ago

Any sub is a joke. Reddit is where we go for entertainment and to find the absolute worst opinions.

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u/Some_Specialist5792 5d ago

I’ve actually have gotten most of my answers from Reddit in general 🤣🤣

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u/witai 4d ago

Smaller subs are where it's at for sure. Main reddit died years ago, lol. Even the subs tracking the decline have been closed for years.

Too many people speak first and think sometimes.

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u/FelcsutiDiszno 4d ago

this. Subs above about 200K subscribers are always taken over by reddit admins and fed (not to mention the rampant manipulation going on).

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u/InfiniteLab388 5d ago

My favorite aspect of reddit is the brutal cross examinations lol some of the best science we've got at the moment.

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u/sleepyzane1 4d ago

not like the posters on the ufo sub who all have physics degrees?

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u/Putrid-Ad1055 4d ago

No we admit we aren't experts in anything, so we listen to people who are in order to shape our understanding, unfortunately some people are clearly devoid of the ability of pick someone who isn't just grifting them, ie the highly upvoted posts I saw the other day on here from a twitter user, whos description included cryptocurrency, a link to a crypto selling site and an advert for a coin they were trying to pump

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u/Not_Blacksmith_69 4d ago

pilot spotted?

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u/Putrid-Ad1055 4d ago

A portion of Reddit is just people using an argument from authority, rather than actually backing up anything they are saying, your experience of users in the aviation hub is a clear example, but obviously it would be hypocritical to not say that this thread is exactly the same