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The F-35 can sacrifice stealth for payload in what Lockheed unironically calls "beast mode." In stealth mode it can carry two missiles or bombs in closed internal bays, but in beast mode it carries four wing mounted pylons for additional weapons...

I, too, would like to know, could be a useful skill to tack on. If it feels off topic here, perhaps over in Practical Debunking?

The F-35 can sacrifice stealth for payload in what Lockheed unironically calls "beast mode." In stealth mode it can carry two missiles or bombs in closed internal bays, but in beast mode it carries four wing mounted pylons for additional weapons...

That's not *nuance*, that's *wrong*. She misspoke, that's clear (which is not an indicator of stupidity, given that she was under stress - so a retraction of your false assertion above would be appreciated, I did not make the suggestion you think...

What is an extraordinary "coincidence" is that Mike Rogers witnessed up-close the two biggest UFO events in Arizona.

That confession does suggest he didn't know how the UFO was to be created. It's important to note that, in context, that recorded phone call was spontaneous and Mike either didn't want to give more detail yet or Ryan Gordon just didn't ask the...

Could a mod move it somewhere relevant? There is an existing thread on the Phoenix Lights that essentially concludes it was planes, but I feel that discussion would derail a discussion of the theory it was a hoax (regardless of who perpetrated...

Mike Rogers is not (now) claiming the government built it. He is (now) claiming he built it. Those quotes were from interviews over the past few years before he "confessed".

I'm disappointed you can't parse the meaning of what she said without resorting to suggesting she's so stupid she doesn't know whether her own dad was an actor in a movie. His role was as crew captain. Words can have nuanced meaning in context...

Even a hoax may be an elaborate puzzle. I'm interested in the psychology of why people do things, so I need to know exactly what they did (or if not, why and how they lie about it). I've said nothing about trying to convince anybody being my...

I don't know if he even found such a sheet of plastic. He told his Phoenix Lights encounter story placing himself front and center - he was the first to see it (along with a few others in Prescott, he concedes), he chased it, he calculated it's...

The F-35 can sacrifice stealth for payload in what Lockheed unironically calls "beast mode." In stealth mode it can carry two missiles or bombs in closed internal bays, but in beast mode it carries four wing mounted pylons for additional weapons...

I, too, would like to know, could be a useful skill to tack on. If it feels off topic here, perhaps over in Practical Debunking?

Perhaps over-confidence or poor planning led to a similar situation where an F-117 was shot down over Serbia. In that event, US F-117s kept flying the same route every night, so a skilled Serbian anti-air operator was able to target the F-117...

There's a bit of coincidence there anyway -- the two incidents that night are not directly related. The first, the V-shaped formation of lights that were identified as being on a formation of aircraft by one witness who had a telescope and thus...