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If what you're saying is that better sensors are a good thing I obviously agree wholeheartedly with you! Just don't expect better sensors to reduce the LIZ, they'll rather expand it.

Yep. Depends what your goal is. If your goal is to eliminate unidentifieds in the LIZ, Unless you posit "real UFOs," whatever they are, knowingly avoid getting in range of sensors, existing sensors are numerous and powerful, we should have...

Yes, but those instruments are paid for by normal working folk. More money for one thing means less for another, or higher taxes. If those instruments go to the military, fine, and I'm all in favor of the US military maintaining an edge over...

If what you're saying is that better sensors are a good thing I obviously agree wholeheartedly with you! Just don't expect better sensors to reduce the LIZ, they'll rather expand it.

Yep. Depends what your goal is. If your goal is to eliminate unidentifieds in the LIZ, Unless you posit "real UFOs," whatever they are, knowingly avoid getting in range of sensors, existing sensors are numerous and powerful, we should have...

I guess to some extent, I think it is. One would assume the various agencies and contractors that build and run these sensor systems are constantly trying to improve them. As such, the resolution improves and the UAP just move out beyond the new...

I guess I disagree a bit here. Yes, more data is always better and maybe there is something interesting, but the history of UFOs is largely a history of mostly explainable things. Misperception, faulty memory, bad photos, outright hoaxes and as...

They might increase the detail for items that are resolved -- items that can be resolved already are being identified. The true unidentified stuff is out in the LIZ, and you can move the LIZ, you can,t eliminate it. Higher resolution of things...

Yes, but those instruments are paid for by normal working folk. More money for one thing means less for another, or higher taxes. If those instruments go to the military, fine, and I'm all in favor of the US military maintaining an edge over...

I guess to some extent, I think it is. One would assume the various agencies and contractors that build and run these sensor systems are constantly trying to improve them. As such, the resolution improves and the UAP just move out beyond the new...

I guess I disagree a bit here. Yes, more data is always better and maybe there is something interesting, but the history of UFOs is largely a history of mostly explainable things. Misperception, faulty memory, bad photos, outright hoaxes and as...

If a video reveals two blurry pixels in one frame, it's simply unknowable because the information is simply not there to be studied. "Deploying the right sensors" is not a thing that most sightings can do, if the thing is fleeting, or (as happens...

But is that nuance warranted? Better sensors simply move the LIZ further away so it actually gets bigger (in area: imagine a sphere doubling its size), not smaller.

The cherry on top is the irony that the LIZs are now geometrically larger, so more things can and will fall into them - the more we can know the more we won't know. [* I'm reticent to suggest by which scaling factor. One could argue that it's...

And at the same time the number of prosaic objects in the air at all ranges has, ahem, ballooned. More than 15,000 satellites in low earth orbit, including 10,400 Starlinks. (https://planet4589.org/space/stats/active.html) More than 44,000...