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by NaturalPhallacy 1826 days ago
Or they thought they had a stealthy little bird the locals wouldn't ever see, and got busted.

Being full of human beings out military is fallible.

>Also, I would have to imagine that any supervisor involved would have immediately contacted the civilian agency involved to say "it's us, please back off."

I would imagine them doing no such thing. Most of the nuclear program wasn't disclosed to anyone until Kodak discovered it on their own.

Our military has a host of secrets and everyone in it does their sincere best to keep them, particularly when ordered to.

>would have immediately contacted the civilian agency involved to say "it's us, please back off."

If the civilian agencies - or any entity really - doesn't have "need to know", they won't be told a thing. Based on this thing escaping, they don't need to know anything at all.

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> Based on this thing escaping, they don't need to know anything at all

Or you're wrong and it's not what you think it is, but seeing all your replies it's clear you're already set on what to believe.

I expected better epistemic humility from a username like that.

Do you have hard evidence that the "fallible military" would deliberately confuse and frighten a civilian pilot, or that such incidents are common enough to make this a plausible explanation?