The Internet Has a Theory on the 'Silver Cube' UFO and It's the Goofiest Thing of All Time
Earlier this month, I posted about this photo that was contained in a report leaked from the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. Taken from the cockpit of a F/A-18 Hornet jet, the report offered several possible theories about the object. From the Daily Mail article:
It is possible that the object is some other kind of weather balloon -- but the Pentagon task force found it baffling enough to include in their report. ...
As well as offering a list of other, more prosaic explanations, the report expressly stated there was a legitimate possibility that UAP represented 'alien' or 'non-human' technology.
In the past, the government would sit on an incident like this for weeks until everyone forgot about it. Or would come up with some preposterous theory to explain it away, the least plausible the better. Now, the Defense Department doesn't even have to put in that much effort. They've got the internet to break that sweat for them.
Source - Since the revelation was made, conspiracy theorists have flooded the internet with claims ETs are here among us. …
After the latest leak, Nick Pope, who formerly investigated UFOs for the UK's Ministry of Defence, said: "These revelations are extraordinary, and give the public a genuine peek behind the curtain when it comes to how the US government is handling the UFO issue.
"What this new information does is confirm the US government is taking the UFO phenomenon more seriously than ever before. I anticipate further revelations shortly."
However, online sleuths have been hard at work to decipher the identity of the supposed UFOs.
Yup. That's it. It's a Batman balloon. You sure had us fooled. Here we were, thinking that could be contact with an advanced race possessing technologies that are beyond our comprehension. Now we know better. It's a $4 mylar balloon from the party store that some dad let loose after his kid's superhero birthday. Nothing to see here.
Except if you buy this Batman Balloon Hypothesis, you've got something much worse and much more immediate to worry about. The fact that in your theory, our best and brightest minds can't tell an alien craft from a kid's party decoration using our most advanced detection and guidance systems. Meaning you believe that we've given a $66 million twin-engine, multirole, carrier-capable supersonic death machine armed with a 20 mm rotary cannon and both air-to-air and air-to-surface to idiots. People so incompetent they see helium filled foil bag floating around in the upper atmosphere and think it's trailing them at Mach-1 or whatever speed they were going. And you believe that the UAP Task Force was fooled too. Along with one of the men who investigated these phenomena for the our closest allies Department of Defence.
It's one thing to not take the word of some farmer in the Midwest who said his cattle have been mutilated or some couple who describe lights they saw in the sky on a drive in the country. But even in the face of mounting evidence, there are still doubters who'll believe any dumbass explanation. Who'll be denying the existence of these things even if they announce their arrival on the 50 yard line at the Super Bowl. And if you're one of these amateur cynics who sits at home debunking these brilliant, capable and accomplished people, you ought to be hiding under your bed in terror that our nation's defense is in the hands of imbeciles.
I know whose side I'm on.