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Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by bufferoverflow on Monday December 25, 2017 @03:32AM (#16003321)
There are other options, if you're talking about the latest UFO video:

3) equipment failure

4) mass delusion

5) error in judgement

6) the creator of the matrix messing / debugging

7) government or private company testing a new type of propulsion

Now look at all these options rationally, which ones are more likely?

The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time. With 4K cameras in cheap smartphones, 50x optical zoom cheap consumer cameras, cheap telescopes widely available, our UFO videos haven't gotten any better.

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by runeks on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:27AM (#16003731)
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time.

Of course it is. The greater the clarity of the footage, the lower the probability that the filmed object will remain unidentified (as in Unidentified Flying Object).

If you’re on the look for unidentified things, how could anything but unclear evidence be useful?

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by Houshalter on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:03PM (#16004813)
Even when people do get clear video, people just accuse it of being a drone or CGI. Video evidence means shit in 2017.
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by bufferoverflow on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:37PM (#16005184)
That's not entirely true. Cameras are starting to introduce video signing. At least there's a chance to prove the source was filmed with camera X, if its public key is known. It would be cool if camera manufacturers had a public API for that too.

Example:

http://www.urbanalarm.com/knowledge-base/2016/digital-chain-...

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by runeks on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:34PM (#16010841)
> At least there's a chance to prove the source was filmed with camera X, if its public key is known.

To be fair, the only thing that can be proven is that it was either filmed with that camera, or someone has extracted the private key from the device (or just tricked the signing chip to sign a custom data packet).

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by nerflad on Monday December 25, 2017 @07:22PM (#16006341)
What a great idea.
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by deepnotderp on Monday December 25, 2017 @03:35AM (#16003334)
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time. With 4K cameras in cheap smartphones, 50x optical zoom cheap consumer cameras, cheap telescopes widely available, our UFO videos haven't gotten any better.

Ding ding ding.

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by akhilcacharya on Monday December 25, 2017 @02:25PM (#16005357)
In fairness military FLIR pods are better/more credible than cheap smartphone cameras.
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by raverbashing on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:08AM (#16003527)
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time. With 4K cameras in cheap smartphones, 50x optical zoom cheap consumer cameras, cheap telescopes widely available, our UFO videos haven't gotten any better.

Try taking a picture of a plane at a height > 3000ft with equipment available at hand (during the night) see how it looks like

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by bufferoverflow on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:37AM (#16003585)
So UFOs only fly at night? Cause during the day people with consumer cameras have zero problems recording planes at much higher than 3000ft:

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=zoom+airplane&q=zoo...

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by jcun4128 on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:45AM (#16003775)
I zoomed in on a commercial airliner flying above my house once with a 40x camera, it was really cool.
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by raverbashing on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:26AM (#16003726)
Most sightings are at night
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by akhilcacharya on Monday December 25, 2017 @10:44AM (#16004480)
I think there’s an 8th possibility that is plausible - the government testing stealth technology that can spoof sensing equipment.
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by novaleaf on Monday December 25, 2017 @04:07PM (#16005714)
FYI the Nimitz FLIR1 video was taken at a distance of around 30 miles. pretty good video for that distance.

Also this is the only declassified video, I would assume better video exist but this will help ease us into acceptance.

Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by lolc on Monday December 25, 2017 @04:49PM (#16005866)
Acceptance of what?
Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by taneq on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:10PM (#16011884)
> The problem with the UFO evidence is, it's shitty every single time.

Maybe, like Bigfoot, UFOs are actually intrinsically fuzzy.