I guess, is this level of engagement new/different? At the moment it's is mostly a huge appeal to authority, but what prompts former military service people to jump in feet first repeating the same talking old points but with huge apparent authority.
First we had Fravor/Underwood, then Dietrich now a few years later Lehto specifically called out Mick, now we have Themely parroting Corbel/TTSA. Similar deal for all of them low on reasoning/explanations but high on declarations.
Of course they will likely remain silent on any sort requests to talk or rebuttals from Mick, allowing UFO twitter to use them as a stick and any questions Mick has can be shrugged off with "talk to them."
I still think his pinned tweet should be along the lines of, "A lot pilots disagree with me, lets talk email/DM/YouTube/metabunk." Instead of trying to counter the UFO people on twitter, just continuously ask why the pilots won't talk to him, especially Lehto given his direct call out.
One thing is interesting though, Mick/Metabunk's work is seemingly important to this thing, I can't work out if it's just as anvil to allow UFO people to have a focus point to increase fervour though.
Might it be better if we stopped trying to debunk stuff, maybe not even bother with the next Corbel leak for bit, see what happens (I'm sure we'll be accused of losing/being beaten etc.)
Perhaps we might have a thread for a meta analysis of this whole current wave of Ufology.