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This was an excellent interview. Nice job @Mick West. Keep them coming. I doubt they would accept unfortunately but what about trying to interview some of the pilots next? It would be enlightening I think to share with them some of the theories regarding the videos and hear their reactions. I...

Dave Falch (the author) is mentioned a couple of times.

We are discussing exactly this here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/the-shape-and-size-of-glare-around-bright-lights.10596/ We are trying to figure out what the shape of the IR glare seen in GIMBAL means and what it may say about the thing producing it.

As the videos shown in the cruise videos demonstrate: the camera is very good at avoiding those problems. Exposure is adjusted very fast to avoid loss of details. Those are not your typical IR cameras but a complex sensor suite made exactly for this purpose: to track flying targets. The...

I'm trying to find "long distance" ATFLIR shots. No luck so far. We don't really know the GIMBAL range though. Or do we? Can it be estimated given the clouds behind? The clouds make it look like a relatively close object. Also: we are in NAR 2X zoom. It might be more powerful than the ATFLIR...

I think this video gives a good idea of how IR glare would look like on one of those sensors. Around 9:43 you see an F-18 go to full afterburner. It is followed by same image in visible light basically. The heat increases significantly. Couple of observations: sensor is very good/fast at...

Wow guys, that was crazy fast. I think that arms factory is almost certainly the culprit here. The many bangs heard would be consistent with a depot blowing up or something similar. I was also looking around for those obelisks! Great catch! OMG THE SALAD BOWL IS JUST PURE GOLD :D

Yeah either this or some industry blowing up. Would be interesting to find the exact coordinates by using google maps. The weird lights probably first responders? This long line of lights is pretty weird though. Flash looks like a hell strobe but the red line below it? Source...

There are confusing reports of explosions and lights from Mage, near Rio de Janeiro. Locals say this was a UFO crash of course. I can't find any reporting on official newspapers but something seems to be decently happening down there as there are many videos circulating on social networks. Here...

Yes and this is actually one of the stranger things of all. Why do the new radars detect them? (at the time of Nimitz the SPY 1-B had no problems while all other radars including the one of the Hawkeye which is very powerful had weird issues). I think most probably the things are just too...

Not really. That's a "Statement by the Department of Defense". It's basically the Secretary of defence addressing the nation officially. Not a lot of wiggle room there. If there is a "secret part of the defence force" the pilots may not know. But the President and the Secretary of Defense sure...

Usually external private companies are used exactly for this purpose. It isn't "us" doing the test. We didn't know Skunkworks was testing this. Did the DoD make any comment at the time though? I don't think so. Any government entity is prohibited from lying purposefully to the American people...

Yes. The other explanation would be: total and utter incompetence by the Navy. I'll let others assign the probabilities they see fit but I agree it may very well be an explanation to all of this. It cannot be excluded. I believe it is much less probable given the size and resources available...

It's an old topic. But this appears to be the new standard label for unidentified "stuff". They are unidentified so you don't know if those were actually objects. So they are not UFO but UAP. Phenomena covers everything from objects, to weather, to radiation, to malfunctions, to anything really...

This is a bit of a stretch of interpretation Mick. I don't think you have enough information to dismiss this as "balloons". I'll try to explain my POV in detail here as other's have asked also @deirdre. Some of those reports are extremely weird such as "The crew initially detected two UADs on...

I hadn't noticed the change in vertical angle. Could that be helpful to identify range? If we assume both objects are maintaining a static altitude. And we know the speed of the F-18 we could probably figure it out. Only problem is: the angle indicators are rounded to the closest integer.

So you think they will stop now? This will only increase the flood obviously :) Sure sounds like a conspiracy to me. If they know what it is why don't they say so? Why lie? Especially if "the Navy likely thinks the videos have mundane explanations". Why not say what it is? "The phenomena is...

Possible. Why not just release them to one of the FOIA petitioners in a quiet manner and let only UFO researches deal with it? Why the grand announcement? You say "which might mean: they don't know the exact objects in the frame OR it might just mean they never really looked into them" What...

Thanks for the recap @deirdre but I am very familiar with those events and their publishing history :) The DoD told us last week those are still unexplained phenomena and decided to release the videos for the record. As Mick has discussed with Tim McMillan they couldn't have said something...

I see. Actually his videos are great. I think they are interesting comparisons of the difference between IR and TV mode. The images for aircraft are clearly distinguishable usually. Not sure how his equipment compares to the NAVY's though... why does the Navy ATFLIR TV mode just stay B/W for...