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    DoD IG Evaluation of DoD's Action Regarding UAPs

    Wow.....interesting times. Is this basically the beginning of the famous UAPTF report that should be released in June?
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    NYT: GIMBAL Video of U.S. Navy Jet Encounter with Unknown Object

    In the video tutorial above it seems the "SLAVE" indicator should show "L+S" as selected if the ATFLIR was correlating its lock to a radar track. We don't see that in the gimbal video so I guess that points to the F-18 not having radar lock on the object at the time. Just a point lock with...
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    NYT: GIMBAL Video of U.S. Navy Jet Encounter with Unknown Object

    In any case: the pilots commentary is very precise and gives very clear and direct testimony of the data they had on their screens. "There's a whole fleet of them look on the SA" (SA = situational awareness screen with data based on radar and data link from AWACS and other aircraft in the area...
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    NYT: GIMBAL Video of U.S. Navy Jet Encounter with Unknown Object

    Just to be clear Mick that's an hypothesis right? We have no conclusive evidence that's how ATFLIR would actually behave in those conditions. For all we know both the ATFLIR and the object might be rotating as we have no way of determining or understanding the actual movements of ATFLIR. The...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    Recent podcast with Knapp: Source: https://youtu.be/xd4RZ21oFUM?t=719 He states that: "the images off of Oceana...look pedestrian and mundane... the people who shared them with me said...we don't know what they are looks like they are some kind of drones". He then says that those people in the...
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    USS Omaha "Transmedium" Sphere Descending To the Sea

    The GIF shows that those stills are all taken from recordings of the screen. None of them comes from the original. You can see the camera is always pointing at almost 0° bearing. But the camera shifts around a lot. I wonder why the Government would not use the original.....there was no other...
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    USS Omaha "Transmedium" Sphere Descending To the Sea

    Ok a hint from Jeremy Corbell in a podcast made me realise something: the last image he released appears to be a still taken from a video. It is not the same as the other images that seem taken from a presentation slide. To me it looks like someone filming a screen (not the original). He is...
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    USS Kidd (and other Ships) "Drones" Encounter, 2019

    Sure let's spend a couple of days figuring out we are looking at an airliner. That's gonna work great during a war against drones, stealth fighters, nuclear ICBM etc. We got all the time in the world to figure it out "taking the most cautious and safe approach." Worked great during Pearl...
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    USS Kidd (and other Ships) "Drones" Encounter, 2019

    I don't see any other explanation though :-D military's failure to defend itself chasing for days ordinary lights in the sky such as stars or balloons or airliners or similar enemy spying with impunity or similar civilian drones buzzing Navy ships with impunity or similar proof of alien...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    Can we confirm more solidly that the position fits? It is definitely a likely position given the Navy presence and training ground but can we confirm the land profile matches in a more definitive way? It would be a major breakthrough. Once that is done we can: attempt to calculate altitude...
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    Long Distance Drones, Maybe Foreign, as Possible UFOs.

    https://www.spytalk.co/p/bombs-in-the-box-chinas-trojan-horse
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    WHAT!?!?!?!!? https://i.gyazo.com/bbc52becce8cb31f45d6c1e570a1a25b.mp4 THAT MUST BE IT. I think the Navy should be scared about us or hire us (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I'm really not sure if it means anything but trying to match the apparent size on google earth gives me a camera 5000m high. I...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    Can we estimate altitude from the other elements? I'll brainstorm here. Method 1: there might be a slight curvature in the horizon. According to: http://thulescientific.com/Lynch Curvature 2008.pdf However there is definitely some cloud cover in this case. Method 2: I can see an island next...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    This is how an F/A-18C looks like flying at the stall limit (110 knots in this show): Source: https://youtu.be/52zgIccljK4?t=251 It is not trivial at all. It is an airshow stunt. Basically it's disabling the AOA limiter (usually you wouldn't be able to do that manoeuvre...those jets are...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    I finally thought of looking at the image EXIF data. We get all the camera parameters there including focal lenght etc. I can confirm that the FOV is 65.5 deg (I used 65 in my calculations). So that assumption is confirmed. I was trying to figure out if any barometric data or GPS data was...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    Remember that the engine thrust produced also varies as the air density lowers. The values you see indicated in that stall report are meant at low altitude and in a standard atmosphere (U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1962). Look at the envelope I linked in post #97 for an idea of the required speeds...
  17. gtoffo

    My Chat With Luis Elizondo

    Reid is retired. Elizondo HAD a job and left it in protest to push for disclosure. For all we know he might be retired after his long military career and living off his pension. You have no proof his motivation is profit. So I think your analogy is unfair unless you do find proof. In any case...
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    My Chat With Luis Elizondo

    That is an unfair and inaccurate statement. Elizondo and Reid are pushing for the government to release that information for more study. They are not asking for money (as far as I know). That's exactly what we would like to have too. It is a fact that the government has more data that they are...
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    Green "Pyramid" UFOs in Night Vision Footage are Bokeh

    That is a very reasonable take (as always) from Elizondo. Definitely sounds like he thinks this case is most probably closed. He seems to indicate this footage was analysed by the UAPTF but probably the conclusion was airplanes. The "confusion during a UAP incident" would make most sense. If...
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    Sphere, Acorn, Metallic Blimp - Three iPhone Photos From an F-18 via Mystery Wire

    It specifies on the sheet it's CAS (which varies with altitude). And it's a stall profile derived from flight test (see it says "flight derived"). The way they do this is they get at a minimum safe altitude (there might be total loss or control or spin and the pilot might need to bail out) and...
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