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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by runjake on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:52PM (#19829621)
If you watch the videos in the article interviewing crew members, they express great doube that these were sensor anomalies. They mention replacing equipment, doing several re-calibrations, and that the detections were multi-spectral and even corroborated on separate craft and sensor packages.

I'm a former military avionics dude who worked on systems like this, including "black" stuff. I don't believe in extraterrestrials having visited Earth.

Their explanations sound pretty on-target and baffling.

But anyway, they address the concerns you bring up rather well.

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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by ianai on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:44PM (#19829860)
Do you think they’re actual anomalies? Ie something actually there that isn’t explainable.
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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by runjake on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:02PM (#19829934)
I do think something was there on those occasions and that it was not an anomaly. Again, because this was viewed multi-spectrally (visual, FLIR, video, radar) across multiple vessels.

I’d need to witness it myself to form any stronger opinions. I do believe the crew people being interviewed are stating what happened to the best of their knowledge.

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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by shadowprofile76 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:42AM (#19867269)
You meant to say that it was not a sensor anomaly no?, in other words that it could have been an actual anomaly (because they were viewed multi-spectrally) as the other commentator asked? Genuinely curious.
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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by jvanderbot on Saturday May 04, 2019 @08:00PM (#19830200)
Fair enough. I definitely can't comment from an aviators perspective, just that I'm not suprised if system anomalies propegate wrong. Obviously a lot of folks are taking it seriously.
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Re:What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense? by runjake on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:20AM (#19831133)
And to be clear, anomalies do occur -- maybe even frequently.

I've seen all sorts of odd stuff on radar that did not actually exist and was some atmospheric backscatter issue or whatever.

Is this case, based on the public information as presented, there is too much correlating data from disparate systems to write it off.

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