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In the video those lights you see at the center are landing lights pointing towards the camera. In IR you would see the plane fuselage and wings as they heat up due to friction. Also you would see two big heat sources from the engines in the wings if those were airliners. Navigation lights...

Agree the pilot might be saying something about the FLIR. Not sure what though.

I confirmed with Alpha check my hypothesis above. He agrees basically. The radar is just handing off the Bearing Range and Altitude to the ATFLIR but they are not correlated beyond that. It makes sense given what we know.

yup he was a Rhino pilot: https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/team/vincent-aiello/ Irrelevant but it is. See here: https://forums.vrsimulations.com/support/index.php/A/A_Forward_Looking_Infrared_(FLIR)#Trackfile_Slaved_Mode OK I think I have figured it out. See below with emphasis added What...

Funny fact. The NYT had no idea what the pilots were talking about here.

As I said. I think there is a difference between SLAVING the ATFLIR to the L+S track and just pointing it in the direction of the L+S track. But I could be wrong. It is just an hypothesis based on the little I know about those systems from sims and their dialogue. What do you think the pilots...

You are quoting the SIM manual for DCS. That simulation does not include all of the ATFLIR modes. The tracking method used for GO FAST for example (autotrack) is not simulated at all. I think what is happening here is that this not L+S SLAVE. This is ATFLIR pointing at the L+S track. There is...

What do you mean? Second 24 in the video: Source: https://youtu.be/QKHg-vnTFsM?t=24 Seems pretty unequivocal to me. I've assumed PILOT/WSO based on the context.

I was assuming it would be boxed. But the pilots are saying the exact opposite (also directly in the video!). The ATFLIR may be pointed at the L+S track but not "slaved". Slaved might mean something more such as "providing guidance to the weapon" while if it is just pointed no data is being...

Yes I've linked a couple myself and some tutorial. I love sims. However: those are very partial simulators. Not all modes are present and most of those systems are heavily classified. Also the F-18/C being simulated is from around 20 years ago. It is a LOT 20 aircraft from the 2000s. A lot has...

Fravor was almost certainly talking about the NIMITZ video (FLIR1). Here you can clearly hear the pilots say they have L+S tracking and that the objects are on the SA screen (the situational awareness screen).

I was assuming the same (that L+S should be boxed) but I don't think that is actually necessary judging from the behaviours we have observed. The pilots can be clearly heard confirming the radar has an L+S track. I think we might not have all the details of when the L+S SLAVE is boxed and...

Another very interesting aspect of the video we did not consider: the object seems to be slowing down. See this video below. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_eXsOovx4w This is consistent with testimony by Ryan Graves claiming the object slowed down and changed direction after the...

I think you need to be clear Mick that this is an hypothesis (a reasonable) but it is not a certainty. This is proof that a front glass rotation is not NEEDED for ATFLIR to track the object. So the gimbal rotation hypothesis is possible (we cannot exclude it) but contradicted by two facts: -...

I think everyone agrees this is IR glare. That is pretty evident (we can't be certain though). The question is "What is it"? It disappears and reappears as it reaches the horizon/water. The only options are: - it's moving up and down slighly so it reemerges (like a capsule splashing back up...

I don't understand why we are talking about the ISS!? Has the post above been proven to be mistaken? We have exact ship position and azimuth. How can the ISS move perpendicular to the horizon?! The ISS is a football field sized lab in low earth orbit remember? :-D It also moves fast. It orbits...

That is a false statement. A state of the art air-to-air interceptor jet from the most powerful military in the world is depicted failing to intercept and identify a fleet of radar contacts (audio clearly states this, as well as testimony) at a (relatively) close range. This is an unexpected...

Multiply that statement by 4. And they are not just using their eyes. This theory is impossible given the procedures and systems involved.

The point of VIPER teams (the claimed source for the video according to Corbell https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-ufo-radar-data) is to: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6456291/uss-carl-vinson-cvn-70-visual-information-personnel-viper-logo Basically they seem to be tasked with...

Also LRF works by bouncing light onto the object and measuring the return of that light based on the time of flight principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_rangefinder If you point a light into another light you won't be able to see any return. Those object were emitting IR radiation and...