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UFO reports have turned out to be planes multiple times in the past. One of the problems that often arises is that humans are not very good at judging how far a
by krferriter 5y ago
UFO reports have turned out to be planes multiple times in the past. One of the problems that often arises is that humans are not very good at judging how far away things are when that thing is quite a ways away from them. Which leads to them looking at registered flights in the area they think the object is in, and not finding a registered flight, because they're looking at the wrong spot.
Frequently these take place around military test/training sites though, which may quite likely have things in flight which are not on pre-registered paths or transmitting location data while in flight, because it's classified even above the need-to-know of just your standard radar technicians or fighter pilots. On top of that, human error is a possibility and things can be lost track of or end up in places not originally intended.
The report released today leaves the door open to all of this, so people asserting that the DoD has conclusively said that the objects reported to the UAP task force exhibit movements impossible to explain by known human technology are simply mistaken.
- ineedasername 5y agoYou seem to be talking about civilian reports of UFOs. Those are irrelevant in this report. Sure, those happen and turn out to be planes, but civilian mistakes are not the scope of this report. It is a report about incidents logged by military and intelligence agencies. There is no need for a "normal plane" category" because they already know if something is a normal civilian or commercial plane based on easily obtainable data from flight plans airport logs etc, along with their own much better tracking capabilities and sensors. Those resources will be able to identify if something is a normal plane long before the incident needs to be analyzed by an intelligence task force.