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shardian:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/23/airforce.ufo/index.html

Air Force said the "UFO" sighting was actually ten F-16's doing a night training mission, even though they said initially they had zero planes in the air that night, and it took more than two weeks to issue the "ten planes" report.

I'm don't believe in UFO's, but damn this is odd. First off, why would F-16's on a night mission (need massive flood lights? Do they even have massive flood lights? I thought they operated on HUD and readouts during night flight.

Why did it take more than 2 weeks to find out they did have a fairly large night mission going on? I find it pretty scary that our Air Force don't even know where ten 100 million airplanes are, don't you?

ChadTower:

Of course they know where their planes are... that doesn't entitle us to that knowledge.

shardian:
If that is the case, they should have said after two weeks, "It was a sensitive training mission and divulging that info was a security risk", or something like that. I have no problems with the military keeping some things from the public. For them to say " oh yeah, we have serious communication issues in which we just don't even know where our planes are at any time." Truth or no, I'd rather think our AirForce is competent, you know?

ChadTower:

Yep.  Reasonable people may be willing to accept that, but really, it's the media that has to accept it.  The media doesn't like being told "you aren't entitled to that information".

shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 24, 2008, 09:12:00 am ---
Yep.  Reasonable people may be willing to accept that, but really, it's the media that has to accept it.  The media doesn't like being told "you aren't entitled to that information".

--- End quote ---

We were a much happier, optimistic country before the media pulled the curtain back. ;D

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