I get that not everyone in the Navy has access to the same equipment/expertise, so maybe this is just a matter of some easily excitable folks ignoring the experts from the very beginning....
I get that not everyone in the Navy has access to the same equipment/expertise, so maybe this is just a matter of some easily excitable folks ignoring the experts from the very beginning....
Human observations are the least reliable form of evidence. There are countless ways you can incorrectly interpret what you see.
For example, it's very hard to correctly estimate the distance or size of an object in the sky. Pilots are no better at this than anyone else. If you think something is closer than it actually is you'll also incorrectly interpret its speed and size.
If I put my conspiracy theorist hat, this "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science" smells to me to a "Intelligence Community" front.
It's that if you check the founders they are related to the "intelligence community", and the way the video was "leaked" to the NYT feels kind of funny too. This guy Luís Elizondo (1) is clearly from the "community", what it's not so clear is that he was in charge of investigating UFOs as he is claiming. I don't know, maybe they just want to make money or they are legitimate and just want the truth.
Of course, this is just a "feeling" that I have, so, I'm not claiming is falsifiable or it's the true, for now it's only something to have an eye on that I wanted to share.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859896
tl;dr it is a "psyop" but the target is our servicemembers who were too scared to report weird phenomena.
I don't know if laughing or crying about that statement and what it says about humans.
As far as it being bad news — it’s never comforting to learn a different civilization has vastly superior technology, and may not share your values.
The writer of the article is dismissing evidence to fit his theory. And the guy is a professor of epistemology.
https://youtu.be/Eozxt_HnPu4 around 52min)
The issue is that the data is classified and it was not released yet, making it more difficult to independently prove those claims.
The planes might also (I mean, yes, they have, but we don't know what it is exactly) classified capabilities and sensors. And "black boxes" (not exactly that, but more like FOQA probably).
It is also likely someone took data from those flights and tried to plot the possible object paths. Did any (unclassified) conclusion come from that?
I don't question the pilots or radar operators who report seeing things they believe to be extraterrestrial in origin. But with enough missions, sooner or later the radar data will synch up with human eyes in a way that seems to indicate almost anything.
There are two pilots and two wizards that saw the same with their own eyes (even I have only see the other pilot confirming it). That's an UFO. That doesn't mean that it's extraterrestrial.
To say that it's extraterrestrial at this point, is, in my opinion, so ridiculous like to say that there is nothing to explain (like the author of the article seems to believe).
(1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E (this is a great interview interesting in its own right, even without the UFO part)
He says there were others who saw the same thing, but this interview alone does not prove that.
Some other things that don't gel about his account:
1 - He says during his encounter he didn't turn on his helmet cam because he didn't think of it. Yet much of the rest of the interview is him talking about how highly trained he was (giving the impression that he's one of the best pilots the US has) and yet he made a critical mistake here exactly at the point where a video would be most useful in corroborating his testimony.
I'd also like to know under what circumstances he's been trained to turn that camera on. If he went against his training by keeping that camera off, that would be a red flag. But we just don't know and the interviewer didn't even ask.
There was also no discussion about whether the other person in the plane had a camera of his own, and if he did have one why he didn't turn it on, or if he did turn it on where that video is.
2 - No one on the ship or any of his commanding officers said anything about the anomaly or did anything about it, and neither did he. The pilot says this is because they were all too busy and because the object didn't have another country's flag on it, but that doesn't seem credible.
If you see something that seemingly defies physics and flies faster than any known technology, it seems very unlikely that no one investigated it or even talked about it... for 16 years.
He said he had debriefings and that's where they learn things. What was the debriefing for this mission like? Did they talk about this anomaly? If not, why not?
At the beginning of his story he said he was actually ordered to investigate the anomaly. You'd think there'd be some discussion afterwards at the briefing about what he and the other people he claims saw it actually saw, and the people who ordered him to check it out would want to hear about what he saw first hand. But he said no one talked about it.
Unbelievable.
This is not pedantry but an important distinction. What the pilots saw were images in their retinas that they interpreted as an object.
Claiming the unidentified phenomenon is an object is begging the question; we need to prove what the phenomenon is before we can rightly categorize it as an object.
That's still not true. It's more likely to be one glitch you haven't thought of than three successive glitches that you have thought of.