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Any chance these have already been in testing and account for UFO sightings recently declassified?

by cheez 6y ago

simonh 6y ago
The recently declassified 'UFO' sightings have been pretty thoroughly debunked as spurious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs&t=986s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs&t=986s
- cheez 6y ago
  hmmm, so trained pilots misclassified a bird?
  - simonh 6y ago
    Turns out humans are fallible, even expert one. If we assume a very, very tiny chance that a trained pilot will misidentify a target, multiply that by the millions of hours of pilot flight time in the US military, and out pop some rare extreme outliers on a fairly regular basis. But that isn't even speculation. We know the pilots misunderstood what they were seeing, because the telemetry data refuting their misunderstanding is right there on the recording. To argue their case though, how often does the target tracking system they were using pick up a bird? They may never have seen it do something like that before, and may not even have known it was possible. Also it's one thing for a knowledgeable expert to calmly review and decode the telemetry data at a desk, but the pilot was a little busy also flying an airplane at the time.
    - cheez 6y ago
      But it could be a UFO from alpha Centauri!!!! Just kidding, I gotcha.
saberdancer 6y ago
If you are talking about navy videos like tictac and gimbal, those videos are probably showing ordinary things through IR camera which makes it look strange. Gimbal videos is even named "gimbal" as the effect seen in the video is cause due to gimbal rotation. I'm sure US has some kind of secret programme, but I doubt they released the videos showing their own top secret programme. It's much more likely that they released it to throw a bit of a smokescreen and cause their peers like China to expend resources trying to research it. They are releasing some kind of strange patents as well, that seem to be type of pseudoscience which could be a similar play.
- cheez 6y ago
  This makes sense.

Any chance these have already been in testing and account for UFO sightings recently declassified?

by cheez 6y ago

Any chance these have already been in testing and account for UFO sightings recently declassified?

The recently declassified 'UFO' sightings have been pretty thoroughly debunked as spurious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs&t=986s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs&t=986s

cheez 6y ago
hmmm, so trained pilots misclassified a bird?
- simonh 6y ago
  Turns out humans are fallible, even expert one. If we assume a very, very tiny chance that a trained pilot will misidentify a target, multiply that by the millions of hours of pilot flight time in the US military, and out pop some rare extreme outliers on a fairly regular basis. But that isn't even speculation. We know the pilots misunderstood what they were seeing, because the telemetry data refuting their misunderstanding is right there on the recording. To argue their case though, how often does the target tracking system they were using pick up a bird? They may never have seen it do something like that before, and may not even have known it was possible. Also it's one thing for a knowledgeable expert to calmly review and decode the telemetry data at a desk, but the pilot was a little busy also flying an airplane at the time.
  - cheez 6y ago
    But it could be a UFO from alpha Centauri!!!! Just kidding, I gotcha.

saberdancer 6y ago

If you are talking about navy videos like tictac and gimbal, those videos are probably showing ordinary things through IR camera which makes it look strange. Gimbal videos is even named "gimbal" as the effect seen in the video is cause due to gimbal rotation. I'm sure US has some kind of secret programme, but I doubt they released the videos showing their own top secret programme. It's much more likely that they released it to throw a bit of a smokescreen and cause their peers like China to expend resources trying to research it. They are releasing some kind of strange patents as well, that seem to be type of pseudoscience which could be a similar play.

cheez 6y ago
This makes sense.