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  1. Mick West

    The 'Gimbal' UFO: Marik Claims "New Findings" Falsify Prosaic Explanations

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_cuDp3pY4 I've not watched it in full, but it seems to be Marik summarizing his old arguments from years ago, and adding in the odd theories from @Zaine M. from https://www.metabunk.org/threads/some-refinements-to-the-gimbal-sim.12590/ (and maybe...
  2. Mick West

    Rep. Luna Requests UAP Video, With a List of Names.

    1. 4 UAP formation – Iran, 8/26/22 2. Syrian UAP instant acceleration, 2021 3. UAP USO formation Wiley 2X Zinc 4. Cigar-shaped or fat spherical UAP, 10/15/22 5. Spherical UAP erratic movement remix (RUST), 2022 6. Spherical UAP over AFG in and out of clouds, 11/23/20 7. Spherical UAP pulsing...
  3. Mick West

    Artemis Moon Mission 2026

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo Launching soon (hopefully). Human's first trip to the Moon (orbit only) for 50 years. What will be interesting will be the reaction of the "space is fake", "Earth is flat", and to a degree "People never went to the moon" people.
  4. Mick West

    Barksdale AFB - 'Multiple Waves' of Unauthorised Drones

    drone sighting that temporarily raised alarms at one of the United States Air Force's largest and most strategic airfields earlier this month was more extensive, and potentially more dangerous, than first reported, according to a confidential internal briefing document reviewed by ABC News...
  5. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: Featured Sitches

    Sitrec version 1 just had a hard-coded list of sitches, which is still there under Sitrec/Legacy sitches. Sitrec 2.0 (or rather 2.33.1+) allows users to save their own sitches, but it lacked a mechanism for people to browse existing sitches. So I added a "Featured" label to the sitch browser...
  6. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: Shorter URLs (Object References) v2.33.0

    Previously, Sitrec URLs looked like: https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Giddierone%20Contrail/20260303_003228.js Now they look like: https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/Giddierone%20Contrail/20260303_003228.js or optionally...
  7. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec File Browser

    The old "Open" and "Open (A-Z)" drop downs are gone, replaced by a modern file browser that displays your saved sitches in a list or grid format, with thumbnails. You can search this, and change the sort order and grid layout. I'm trying to get older sitches to have their thumbnails...
  8. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: Contrails

    Planes leave contrails that move with the wind. https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Giddierone%20Contrail/20260303_003228.js Should be fairly self-explanatory. Right-click on a track and then edit the contrail options. Set the wind in physics...
  9. Mick West

    Fixed Sitrec Performance Issues

    There's no contrail rendering yet. Although it does not sound too difficult with a single wind vector. Is Sitrec very slow on your Mac?
  10. Mick West

    2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran

    On 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on various targets in Iran. The operation, codenamed Roaring Lion (Hebrew: מִבְצַע שְׁאָגַת הָאֲרִי, romanized: Mivtsá She'agát Ha'arí) by Israel, and Operation Epic Fury by the United States Department of Defense, began...
  11. Mick West

    Light in the Sky Seen from California Feb 27 2026

    View from Lancaster, CA, looking East, at a very exact 5:47:26 PST this morning. Here's the view from that phone. Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Opmn-RJ3pwlFOY-qGVqpsAlSKHFpiew-/view?usp=drivesdk Seems to move too fast to be a contrail. It looks very much like a rocket. But which...
  12. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: 3D Buildings

    This is a limited rollout of this feature. Enabled for mostly senior members and some heavy users. Both the photorealistic buildings and the flat-shaded buildings are free to a small degree, but if a lot of people start looking at a site, it could get expensive (for me). So let's just see how it...
  13. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: Geoid

    As part of my work on doing full 3D building support, I found that I needed to change the globe model to be more accurate. Previously, I was using a simple sphere, and so altitudes were simply heights above that sphere. The Earth, of course, is an oblate spheroid, an ellipse with an imperfectly...
  14. Mick West

    FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days

    The Federal Aviation Administration issued unexplained notices late Tuesday closing airspace over El Paso and a large patch of southern New Mexico west of Santa Teresa for 10 days. El Paso International Airport is closed to all flights, the city said. The orders close off all air travel in the...
  15. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: Video Info Display (frame counter, time)

    Under the view menu you can now toggle the display of a frame counter, video time, sim time, in variosu formats. You can position them within the video view. This also works in the stand-alone video viewer. https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?sitch=video
  16. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec: Accurate Moon Phases

    I now use a 3D illuminated model of the Moon to accurately display the phase. I also added a "Celestial Lock" to the Camera -> Camera Heading, to let you lock the camera to point at a particular celestial body.
  17. Mick West

    Sitrec Tutorial Videos

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slA7aV2Mags I've started a series of tutorial videos to get people more quickly up to speed with using Sitrec. The above one on the user Interface should be the starting point (even if you've used Sitrec before, there's several useful features) Source...
  18. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec Coordinates Input: Flexible Lat/Long. MGRS

    I've updated Sitrec to handle most coordinate formats, including MGRS (Military Grid). So any of the following formats should work if you paste it in the lookup box. 37S CR 11926 9292332.45836.999 37SCR119269292332.45836.999 37scr119269292332.45836.999 18SUJ233739.169-77.043...
  19. Mick West

    Syria UAP 2021- Apparent Instantaneous Acceleration

    Source: https://youtu.be/nKtJslcHlCQ DATE - 2021 LOCATION - Syria / imaged from the border of Jordan (32°05'39.2"N, 36°53'54.4"E) IMAGING TYPE - Thermographic / Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) PLATFORM - MQ-9 Reaper / Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS-B) EVENT DESCRIPTION - Filmed by a...
  20. Mick West

    New Feature Sitrec Notes

    Press "N" to toggle the notes view (also at the top of the show/hide menu) Just a simple text box, URLs should be converted to clickable links. It gets saved. I recommend adding in as much info as possible to the text box for later reference. If there's a Metabunk thread, then you can link to it.
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