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"Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles" "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) partially identified as being unknown anoma
by druadh 5y ago
"Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles"
"Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) partially identified as being unknown anomalous aircraft, referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Vehicles (UAVs) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)"
Are you referring to the use of a commonly accepted initialism, 'UAV', as them 'begging the question'? Otherwise, it took about 33% of the paper for them to use the word "vehicles".
Don't be that guy.
- mullingitover 5y ago> Are you referring to the use of a commonly accepted initialism, 'UAV', as them 'begging the question'? I've heard 'UFO' in the common vernacular in this context, but UAV isn't one I'm familiar with. UAV is the common term for a drone, not a UFO. Meanwhile regardless of how long it takes them to use 'vehicles' a second time in the paper, it's right there in the title.
- hugh-avherald 5y agoWhen I google this term, the only site on the first page of results that uses 'Unidentified Anomalous Vehicles' is this paper. Even if UAV were an actually common term, it is still question-begging to use this term as opposed to the far, far more common 'UFO'.