Comment by scotty79 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by scotty79 | Hacker News Reader

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> The US Military released rather intriguing, yet unexplained videos of objects outmaneuvering our top jets.

Those videos show no such thing. All the stuff about outmanoeuvring is a fantastic narration.

Videos show only dots which can be (and were) explained as a bird from above, plane from behind and glitchy camera mount with a bit of optical artifacts on top. Which is infinitely more plausible than aliens from another star or another dimension.

> but who are any of us to say what is possible or what is not?

I feel like learning physics increased my ability to tell possible from impossible things tremendously. Second factor is learning as much as you can about scams and liers.

With those two foundations you should have a solid capacity to appreciate reality

To me, if you watch videos of what amateurs can do with the maneuverability of a $300 racing FPV drone it is most likely those are military drones of some sort.

Even a $300 racing drone looks pretty alien if you have never seen one. A $3 million dollar one would absolutely look like it is from another planet.

The USAF and the Pentagon themselves released those videos, labeling those recording as "unexplainable".

Let me point them, and the fighter jet pilots, to "Scotty79-from-the-internet", so that they can all understand that what they all saw or recorded were in fact birds. :p

> "unexplainable"

Just unexplained, which means noone there bothered to explain them seriously enough to create an official document. Which was correct (lack of) action to take because those observations were irrelevant for anyone except the most keen ufologists.

> Let me point them, and the fighter jet pilots

Jet pilots are good at flying jets. It's kinda hard so they don't have much capacity left to be good at anything else. Like explaining visual glitches and unusual outputs of highly complicated machinery.

> to "Scotty79-from-the-internet"

That weren't my explanations. I was merely citing the ones given by a guy with doctorate in physics and expeirience with IR cameras. There are others. All infinitely more plausible than "it's aliens".

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