U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs

Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by driverdan on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:25PM (#19753064)

They're often stars or planets. Unless you have knowledge and training to identify celestial bodies it's easy to mistake them for something much closer. Distance is very hard to judge against a solid background like the sky.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by warent on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:08PM (#19753712)

This is a good point, but I've never heard of a tic-tac shaped star or planet.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by readhn on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:38PM (#19753539)

B.S.! Flying an aircraft requires a lot more skills from a human than typing code on a PC in your pajamas and talking about space. if you are a pilot who is flying for 10-20-30 years. You can tell. Now, this is not 1 pilot - 1 event we are talking. Many cases. Im not claiming its proving existence of ET or anything like that.

Just that perhaps there is something there.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by sjburt on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:51PM (#19753634)

SR-71 pilots complained about having trouble telling stars from fishing boats to the point where an additional artificial horizon was added for night flying. There were reports of pilots rolling the plane up to 45 degrees without realizing it.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by newnewpdro on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:25AM (#19755053)

The altitude the SR-71 cruises at is nowhere near where these sightings are occurring, it's practically in space.

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Re:U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs by readhn on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:05PM (#19754242)

apples and oranges. totally different conditions.

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