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At one time people were driving up to a tiny community in north Alabama, IIRC it was a placed called Phife, but names are not that important, it was the fact that on some nights hundreds of people would line the roads in that area and plenty claimed to see formations of UFOs in the night sky. I was invited to go many times, but I prefer to not know until they show up in daylight and land to give us a copy of their book, "To Serve Mankind", and hope it's not a cookbook.Why do they only crash in a vast field in Alabama at night? When one crashes in Manhattan during rush hour I will be a firm believer.![]()

Local scuttlebutt up in north Alabama is the high altitude aircraft were replaced by low earth orbit satellites with very advanced video and sensor arrays. There are also rumors of a few SR's on standby in case a quick flyover is called for to get some up to the minute intel on goings on around the Caribbean and gulf of Murika countries . But I think most of that is being routinely handled by a very specialized version of an Air Tractor AT-802 and a Thrush S2R-660 being converted from crop dusters to spy planes outfitted with bleeding edge surveillance arrays with the Air Tractor being designated an OA-1K Skyraider II and the Thrush designated IOMAX Archangel named after the company (IOMAX) doing the modifications to the airframe to turn it into a spy plane, so there are plenty of things going bump in the night sky these days that could be mistaken for UFOs. There are also rumors that Pinnacle Solutions, Michael Durant's Blackhawk customization shop, is also producing some high zoot Blackhawks rigged out for high speed, low altitude intel gathering, supposedly basing that platform on some DEA interdiction Blackhawks converted for nighttime operations, but again it's all scuttlebutt so who knows if any of it is true, or just loose tongues wagging on late night river banks among cat fishermen in and around North Alabama....if you think the government/military is letting us know about what they are testing/flying now to replace the SR-71, Stealth Fighter and Bomber, you are fooling yourself.
You can't ever show all your cards, and I believe our government is testing technologies right now that many of us would consider SF.
I don't think we are alone in the universe, but I don't think UFOs are buzzing the planet either.