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Izmakiyesterday at 9:18 AM3 repliesview on HN

I'd love to believe you, but as a European who - for some reason - never get these sightings unlike Americans, I find it hard to do so. Either our mysterious alien friends really love USA or you guys have some condition that the entire Europe does not, e.g., permissions to test military equipment without having to announce it to the public, let alone the freedom to move around in a large area without it becoming a political drama.

Imagine if the German military started doing unannounced missions in neighboring countries... now imagine if a military base in the US send a couple of fighter jets from one state to another state and back. Only one of those situations would give a cluster f** of international drama, thus "odd sightings" i.e. covert military operations could be more common in the US than the rest of the world.

I'd love to believe... but it always only happens in USA.


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elcritchyesterday at 10:42 AM

> Either our mysterious alien friends really love USA

The USA is the best, who'd blame them! Perhaps aliens love American cheeseburgers and milkshakes from their time in Roswell. ;P

> you guys have some condition that the entire Europe does not, e.g., permissions to test military equipment without having to announce it to the public, let alone the freedom to move around in a large area without it becoming a political drama.

That's an interesting take. Though surely Germany or others have some more remote areas. Scotland has lots of empty land and the UK airforce right?

Then again, the amount of empty space in the wester US is not to be underestimated. I live near Mountain Home Idaho. If you drive over the desert to Nevada you cross air force land with big signs warning about it being an active test grounds. Lots of people have had fighter jets fly up and do simulated bombing runs on them as they drive through.

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jibalyesterday at 9:29 AM

I think you're confused about who you're responding to.

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anthkyesterday at 10:20 AM

Spaniard there; there used to be UFO's in the 70's... coincidentally near the US military bases ;)

There was an infamous one in the Canary Islands.

Also, weird events under Huelva. A few paranormal, but some of them not religion/spiritual based.

If the aliens were real, their technology for sure would look as magic for humans. No, forget flying saucers or whatever. These kind of civilizations would have totally different ways to travel thousands of kilometers across the galaxy.

Teleporting "magic" would just be mundane technology for them.

A simple AM radio receiver with a wire, a coil and a magnet would just be sorcery for even the upper elite from the medieval times. And today an Elementary kid can build a simple receiver with junk from a junkyard or scraps from a workbench.

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BTW, I forgot: on paranormal stuff on Huelva, I meant something like this:

https://0x0.st/Pr1Y.txt

I don't care about ouija's, haunted houses and whatever related to either ghosts or to religious stuff.

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