One thing that bothers me about this explanation is we know those pilots had a lot of experience with those systems so I'd expect they'd know "camera flare" when they saw it on those displays. But it's clear from the audio they did not recognize it as that. And there was more than one pilot seeing it, and from different angles.
I'd like to hear what the pilots and ship crew members think about this.
Pilots may be competent users of these systems, but they are not experts at anything beyond flying their missions, in general. Experience as users is not the same as expertise under unusual conditions.
Or flying planes planes for the military is just really hard, and you're holding them to an unreasonable standard.
Even the best programmer writes software with bugs, especially when they're not playing it safe and just writing fizzbuzz over and over again.
There is a reason virtually every fighter jet ever made was made with ejection seats or retrofitted with them later: They're inherently risky aircraft, and almost impossible to bail out of.
If you have some actual statistics that show that USN and USAF pilots crash their jets at a greater rate than other nations, I'd like to see it. The absolute number of crashes tells nothing because some countries (Russia) barely fly their jets at all.
Yeah. These guys must really suck.
Some people want real proof, not having to rely on believing experts.
I guess it is a chasm across society. Some people want to be able to believe.
Has an actual fighter pilot’s reaction.
Seems to me like our gov's own investigation would've found gimbal glare to be the culprit if that were the case. But they didn't. What they said is:
"Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us..."
And:
"We absolutely do believe what we're seeing are not simply sensor artifacts."
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