<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvh</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s my theory about the recent influx of UFO footages coming from high places. US military was working on advanced drones. Nothing fancy, think current best tech, add 15 years and billion in r&amp;amp;d, that kind of stuff. Then when it was ready for test they flew it secretly before their own pilots and waited for reports. And waited. And waited some more. Silence. They disabled stealth, added flashlights, nothing. Military pilots didn&amp;#x27;t reported it. Maybe Venus. Or moonlight bouncing off swamp gas, but not UFO. Why?&lt;p&gt;In past decades whenever military pilot reported UFO they were laughed at, sent to psychologist, evaluated, sent behind the desk. Other pilots knew and when they saw something really weird they have kept it for themselves.&lt;p&gt;Then the higher ups panicked. If they don&amp;#x27;t report our drones, they will not report Chinese or Russian drones either. We have hundreds and thousands of eyes in the sky but they will not report because they are afraid to speak.&lt;p&gt;So they came up with a campaign. They started to publish official UFO footage and started more openly talk about it to show pilots that it is now ok to talk about UFO. Don&amp;#x27;t be afraid pilots, if you see something strange jus tell us, we take it seriously now.&lt;p&gt;There are no aliens. Videos you saw are created or modified to look legit, and officially supported or confirmed. Goal is to encourage pilots to report possible Chinese drones.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An investigation of the Pentagon&apos;s UFO program</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lend000</author><text>There are several important new pieces of information here and significantly more detail than we had before.&lt;p&gt;In particular, we learn that &amp;quot;Brigadier General Richard Stapp, Director of the DoD Special Access Program Central Office, testified the mysterious objects being encountered by the military were not related to secret U.S. technology.&amp;quot; There is also evidence put forward that Elizondo was put on the program because his varied experiences and clearances would be useful in ascertaining whether sightings were related to black projects.&lt;p&gt;There is more confirmation here that anomalous events have occurred at ICBM bases, which is pretty sobering. The most prominent of these events happened in the 1960&amp;#x27;s, and there are similar reports that came out of Soviet Russia (not mentioned in this article).&lt;p&gt;We also learn the lengths that both the government and the contractors went to deliver misinformation about the program since its initial revelation, despite it not actually involving any exotic technology.&lt;p&gt;Many people will take this at face value and believe the Pentagon&amp;#x27;s next statement, despite the fact that they have continuously stated &amp;quot;we are done studying ufo&amp;#x27;s this time, nothing to see here&amp;quot; since Blue Book publicly ended, only for there to be another program revealed later. IMO this debunks the &amp;quot;secret US aircraft&amp;quot; angle that a lot of skeptics use, and it makes it highly unlikely it belongs to a &amp;quot;local&amp;quot; adversary.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An investigation of the Pentagon&apos;s UFO program</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/</url></story>