Mick West

The problem that UFO fans (and other fringe believers) have with a request for "extraordinary evidence" is largely a semantic distraction. It's something they like to leap upon as if it's skeptics being biased and unreasonable. Of course, an...

Yeah, I think that factored strongly into their choice. ATFLIR (and other military camera and targeting pods) are sensitive equipment. Although this is all speculation. Maybe it's actually pretty typical of what they have.

1957 (This is a repost due to the old video link disappearing from Youtube.) Chuck Connors from the 1957 Episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo" S1E1, "The Thin Rope. Scroll to 18 mins in for the spreading contrails in multiple shots. Tales of...

It's from the AIAA talk

Can you please link to posts, don't use post numbers. There's a link icon on the right. And if you want to reference something in a post, then reply to that post.

Any vulnerability of US Military systems to being fooled by mylar balloons would be something that they would not want to broadcast. Mylar balloons are a very cheap decoy.

From the hearing: Scott Bray: We attribute this increase in reporting to a number of factors including our work to destigmatize reporting an increase in the number of new systems such as quad copters and unmanned aerial systems that are in our...

Aspects of the military "isolate, characterize, identify, mitigate" structure is found in this DARPA publication regarding addressing unidentified thread radar signals: Isolate unknown radar signals in the presence of other hostile, friendly...

The closest they came in the hearing was the usage of the word "characterize" Schiff: The larger effort that is being undertaken to study and characterize UAP reports is an important step towards understanding these phenomenon what we know and...

I don't think anyone on Metabunk holds that position and I don't think my statement indicates otherwise.

But why show this if there's better footage they could have shown?

I think Mick is saying it's a bright specular reflection of the sun from the object rendered as a ball due to being out of focus, so likely a shiny object, like a Mylar balloon.

The longer version has more stars. In particular it has the star Altir, as a VERY distinctive triangle. Which shows the original starfield traverse I did was correct

The first eight seconds is nothing at all to do with the UAP, which is only in the video for three frames in the last second.

All three frames of FlyBy The white region is bokeh, most likely from a reflection [Edit: a reflection off the shiny/reflective object]. The camera is focused on the canopy.