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Entertaining, almost convincing. I want to believe.

However we know it is one of...

* A hoax, like hundreds of other videos of UFO sightings.

* One branch of the military testing a piece of equipment another branch is not able to identify.

* A video showing an actual space craft built by aliens from another planet.

Consider which of these is most likely and which is least likely. Consider also that extraordinary claims should be backed by extraordinary evidence.

I'm surprised BBC picked this up.

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The whole point is because its from the military (which I hope the BBC verified), then it's supposed to rule out 1 or 2.

It's basically a filler story that the BBC news would put on at the end of the news along the lines of "little boy saves hamster".

If it's a secret experimental aircraft and you're afraid of a 3rd party leak, isn't it better to get ahead of that, release the video yourself and then say it isn't yours? Let the media and general population come to their own conclusions, wildly speculating about UFOs.

Nothing here says the audio is even genuine.

Why not? It's obviously very fact based. #2 seems pretty likely. If the US (or some other government) has a drone that can move in ways not generally known about, it seems like news to me.

There are additional reasonable explanations. Unknown rare physical phenomena for example Ball lightning.

Could also be a genuine error like a fly on the lens or a bug in the viewfinder software.

That's a thermal camera, so I'm a little bit doubtful it's a bug, plus there were apparently multiple witnesses and computers there.

This story got picked up because there’s actual video footage. But unfortunately only one video. If there were multiple observers, why can’t we see multiple videos?

The pilot is witnessing it too

Isn’t it in the dark? Isn’t he just witnessing it on the tracking screen?

I'd have thought he's at least verifying that it's not a fly on the lens. I didn't think that pilots would fly completely blind.

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