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Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!

Mick West · 155.6K views · 2019-06-23 · 6:43

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Mick West analyzes the Navy "Go Fast" UFO footage and shows with simple trigonometry and the data overlay that the object is slow and high up, consistent with a balloon. He explains how parallax makes it look fast and argues the original TV claims were wrong.

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HN commenters repeatedly cite it as a checkable, math-based debunking of the famous UFO clips whenever UAP stories come up.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2019–2023

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simonh · 2023-02 · Strong recommendation

See for yourself. This is the most clear case of misidentification. All the data you need is shown in the instrument recording and he takes us through how to interpret it step by step. Of course Mick has the advantage of having plenty of time to work through exactly what all the instrument readings are telling us and perform all the trigonometry to interpret it accurately, and explain it to us step by step, while the pilots just eyeballed it and got their estimates wrong. On the other hand the Pentagon analysts had all the time they could want to do the same analysis and still got it wrong. But you don't need to take anyone's word for it, look at the footage yourself and you can do all the calculations independently with middle school geometry. [VIDEO]

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herbstein · 2023-02 · Recommendation

> Doesn't explain the Tic Tac videos He covers the "Tic-Tac" and "Go Fast" videos too, just not in that specific video. Like in this one, where he explains how the "Go Fast" video isn't actually even a fast video zipping just above the water, but rather an object flying at roughly wind-speed at about 12000 feet. [VIDEO]

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CydeWeys · 2020-05 · Recommendation

Yes, here's an in-depth explanation by someone who actually did the math: [VIDEO] Tl;dr it can simply be explained as a balloon drifting in the wind.

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