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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 28, 2026

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I recall there were some users here really into UFOs. Are they still on the forum? I’m ~80% sure that I saw “UFOS” the other day, which I assume is always just some weird government drone exercise. If they’re still here I’d like to upload the video somewhere to get their opinion.

I'm happy/would find it fun to look at videos, though as much as the Half-Life apocalypse sounds more fun than the AI apocalypse I'm pretty convinced at this point that no real UFOs have been sighted and we are doomed to be #foreveralone.

https://vimeo.com/1205617393

These things were moving incredibly fast in and out of clouds, very high in the air, maybe a mile up, and a mile or two in front of me. I suppose it could be a searchlight / spotlight plus strange atmospheric conditions, but it did not seem to be reflecting off of the clouds as much as passing through them, there was no beacon leading up to the light source, and it was changing its altitude consistently. The day before I took this a plane near me encountered a drone and then three days later a plane hit a drone. At the end of that video, when they stall in unison, that’s not an artifact of the video but just what they did. But maybe it really is just a searchlight and weird visual tricks because of overcast weather? I don’t know.

It does really just remind me of those searchlights they used to have all the time in the German countryside to advertise disco nights, somewhat like this. You can get all sorts of weird cloud layerings that would result in them getting diffusely reflected off of a narrow volume.

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