Breakdown of the Pentagon UFO videos with Mick West

Cool Worlds · 366.1K views · 2020-04-30 · 24:46

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Astronomer David Kipping of Cool Worlds talks with Mick West to break down the three declassified Pentagon UFO videos. They explain the footage through camera artifacts, glare, and perspective effects.

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HN recommends it as the boring, convincing debunking of the Gofast, FLIR and Gimbal videos, which commenters say ended UFO hype for them.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2024

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Media, journalism & propaganda Scientific method & science communication

What people said

reso · 2023-02 · Strong recommendation
Mick West's breakdowns of the Pentagon UAP videos was the nail in the coffin of this era of UFO hype for me. [VIDEO] These were supposed to be the smoking gun evidence. UFO believers inside the DoD and as high up as US Senators fought for years to get them declassified. As soon as they were public, they were all quickly identified as sensor glare, bokeh, or mis-understood perspective. More generally this showed how easy it is to misinterpret the information being put out by complex sensors like FLIR, even the operators do it.
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reso · 2023-02 · Recommendation
Gofast, FLIR and Gimbal all have very compelling explanations: [VIDEO] Mick West has reported on this all over the place.
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lwansbrough · 2021-01 · Recommendation
This whole thing has a very boring, very likely answer described in this video: [VIDEO] Essentially, there are a few different perspective/camera quirks coming together in these videos which can (apparently) trick even well trained pilots.
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