LMAO

Ok sure, well, when you put it like that...

Math is the easy part.

It's the rest thats impossible based on current tech. I don't know what they are. I don't think they're in our capability to build and operate at this point in time.

Exactly, they had to come from their new spaceport. :D

I'm not so sure about that.

I had a college roommate that was smart AF whose first job out of college was working for Defense Appropriations at massive military contractor. On a visit back to KC about 4 years later, we got together one night for a hang. He had moved to Dallas by that point and I was in LA but as luck would have it, we were both in KC on the same weekend.

Anyway, I asked him if he could tell me about any new and awesome weapons developments, to which he replied "No, I have high level clearance and everything I know is highly classified". So I said, "Come on man, give me something!".

He said, "The SR71 was created in the early 60's but wasn't fully declassified until the early 80's. Now, just imagine what kind of weaponry we've created in the early 90's that won't be declassified for at least 20 years.

There's your answer."

UFO just means unidentified object. If they said it looks like a cruise missile and it was over a known military area...perhaps it was a..you know...cruise missile.

but everyone always assumes aliens.

But with these things moving and behaving the way they are, thats not just like a 40 year leap. It's like...**** I don't even know how many.

I'm skeptical it's "otherwordly" but I dunno if we made it.

Ok well it's either otherwordly or we made it. You can't be skeptical of both.

Computer chips and AI have exceeded Moore's Law. Advances in superconducting alloys and crystal growth along with other experiments on the space station will have most certainly played a role.

The US isn't spending all $800 billion dollars on traditional warships and planes each year...

I'm fully in the "I don't know" camp.

It's fun to think it's aliens or whatever, but I honestly have no clue.

Moving in ways impossible for modern technology!

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The notion that an advanced alien civilization visiting Earth while being caught on radar shouldn't be "fun" in any way, shape or form.

Alien visitation can mean only a few things. Either they're scouting the planet for necessary resources such as water or other highly valuable minerals and mineral deposits or they're planning an invasion.

If an alien civilization can travel at lightspeed throughout the universe, there's nothing currently in human technology and innovation that can match their technological prowess.

Humans would be as consequential to them as insects are to us.

Yeah, this is pretty close to going from 50,000 ft to 50 ft above MSL in seconds.

You might find this short article interesting:

https://lithub.com/why-would-aliens-...er-with-earth/

I don't think we can say anything on it if they are. They're so advanced as you say, their thinking would be completely foreign to us. I doubt they'd need any minerals or to invade if they're that advanced.

I'd also guess they've figured out how to travel faster than light, be it bending space or something. Who the hell knows.

Aren't you aware that we have tic tac shaped aircraft the size of a 747 that can go from 60,000ft to 100 ft altitude in 1 second?