Ask HN: What is the likely explanation about military UFO sightings?
Is it some kind of geopolitical game? Is it aliens? Is it software bugs?
It was in the spotlight for a time, but now not so.
It was in the spotlight for a time, but now not so.
But not all of them seemed consistent, so maybe there are LGMs out there.
As a physics student the axiomatic assertion that the universe is rational, observable and repeatable was hammered into my head. Maybe it's not. If the universe has some bits that aren't repeatable, it's interesting, but it's not physics. So who knows?
Perhaps it's just Pere Ubu playing a joke on us all.
But it is interesting that as soon as everyone was carrying cameras around in their pockets, the number of UFO and Cryptid sightings went waaaay down. I kind of miss Nessie, Sasquatch and the Little Green Men. Fie on you, mobile phones vendors, for making a world where camera-shy Fay and ABCs and aliens no longer show themselves to tripping teens and long-haul truckers on lonely stretches of I-80 under the inky black sky.
Hopefully I can inject some fire into my son's heart. It's a good topic worth wasting a whole life on it, as long as one pursues it scientifically.
They are basically stuck on Earth due to lack of a special fuel that allows them to jump start inter-galactic engine so they can only slip out of ocean once for a while and wander in the Sun system.
They are using us as covers as it is difficult to do a remote scan from their galaxy and pinpoint a small colony under sea and surfaced by a sort of primitive Human society. And it is too costly and agianst the rule to send a fleet to do a close by investigation so their enemies either have not found them yet or decided to drop the issue.
To make us better cover they periodically send dreams of wonders, usually scientific or religious information, to gifted humans during night. Most of the scientific "discoveries" throughout the history were injected by them.
Possible explanations: light, reflections, lasers, weather phenomenon, weather balloons, secret military tech, eye witness hallucinations (exhaustion, drugs, optical illusions, etc.), radar malfunctions, and hoaxes.
I remember there was a pilot who observed the “tic tac” UFO that said him and his buddies used to fly at night and turn on their lights while making a rapid maneuver and laugh when the UFO reports came in. Because from certain angles and evasive maneuver looks completely stationary followed by an other worldly rapid acceleration. But it’s all optical illusion and observer perspective.
You can believe whatever you wish, but I’m willing to remain skeptical until there’s more definitive evidence.
He was a video game developer that worked for Neversoft. He has the website https://www.metabunk.org/home/
I think that he goes into great detail on what the most recent US Navy releases are, the pyramid shaped drowns are actually stars being affected by bokeh.
The famous "gimbal" UFO is actually just another plane and the image is affected by lensing effects.
Although I then have the additional question - if it was so quickly debunked by these debunkers - why does the US Navy think they are sighting pyramid shaped drones flying over the pacific ocean?
Is it that they lack the knowledge to id these things - or is it a part of some physiological warfare?
As far as I'm aware[1], bokeh does not cause radar and distinct and tracking FLIR signatures in fixed 3D positions from multiple Navy craft.
1. I have been trained on and worked on low-observable (aka "stealth") aerial platforms and various aerial sensing systems (optical/FLIR/radar/multi-spectral/etc).
FWIW: I'm not in the "it's aliens" camp. My leading hunch is some sort of multi-spectral spoofing platform(s).
So yeah. It wasn't aliens. It's never aliens.
(puts on sunglasses)
or so they say.
[0]https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/ufo-believing-pentagon-bosses-...
[1]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally...
[2]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/congresss-ufo-hearing-...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
Unidentified "Flying" "Object". Anything that cannot be identified is classified unidentified. It is flying, and it looks like object. Someone records it and enters the data as trained.
Someone is paid to observe sky, they see something they can't explain, they log it as they are ordered or paid to do. It might be explained with further effort, or it is just artefact of some other phenomenon or activity.
I’ve got nothing.