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Explained: New Navy UFO Videos

Mick West · 284.4K views · 2020-04-27 · 2:54

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Mick West explains the three Navy UFO videos (FLIR, GIMBAL and GOFAST) released in 2020, giving mundane explanations such as a distant plane and camera artifacts. He notes the videos were not new and had been circulating since 2017.

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HN recommends it as a calm, evidence-based debunking whenever the Navy UFO videos come up.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2020–2026

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mrandish · 2026-05 · Strong recommendation

For anyone else who has a UFO-crazy uncle, I've found Mick West's YouTube channel to be invaluable [LINK] . Mick is a retired video game programmer (Spider Man, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk), who does extremely well-researched videos analyzing UFO claims. He's not flashy or trying to be entertaining, just thorough, evidence-based and scientifically rigorous. He'll even do controlled experiments, recreations and 3D models to validate what's going on. And he's unfailingly respectful no matter how unhinged the claim. His work explaining the "Gimbal Video" is a good example: [VIDEO]

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rhinoceraptor · 2022-09 · Strong recommendation

All of the hyped UFO videos released over the past few years are easily explainable given a basic understanding of geometry, imaging and gimbals. Mick West has some great videos on it: [VIDEO]

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treesprite82 · 2021-06 · Recommendation

> I found 3 pentagon confirmed videos today of Unidentified flying shapes going super fast. Whatever they are, this is pretty surreal If you're talking about the 3 videos I assume you are, I'd recommend checking out Mick West's videos on them: [VIDEO]

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