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Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by dmix on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:57AM (#20399240)
I find it uninspiring that we still only get grainy video or flir video from these jets. They claim multiple jets detected on but there was no ground based radar, satellites, or other sources that could correlate these "sightings"? The evidence always seems so thin and from a single source, almost on purpose.
Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by lolc on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:31AM (#20399872)
But this is the nature of UFO! They're always zipping about in the gray area of "barely detectable". If an object is easy to detect, it's also easy to identify with our array of sensors. If it's not detectable we don't know there's an UFO. So we'll always puzzle over grainy footage and blips on the radar.

These cameras are going to clear up some of the mysteries we've seen in the past. But they are going to find more, further out.

Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by dmix on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:38PM (#20403644)
Cool, wake me up when something more than one or two jets in the same area meaning their auto-targeting computers + pilots voice logs are all we have to work with.
Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by lolc on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:33PM (#20407688)
Oh you don't have to participate if you don't like to puzzle. I know I don't most of the time.
Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by dmix on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:41PM (#20408935)
Yep, as long as enough people are watching I dont need to waste the cognitive effort connecting pieces myself.

I was originally interested in all of this new buzz but I now know to skip it.

Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:39AM (#20399911)
What has struck me a few times with the videos from fighter jets is that the UFO does not seem to move relative to the camera, that is, it's stuck in the middle or something. Which of course to me implies it's a speck or something on the camera.

(I'm not a photographer though. I did read that e.g. scratches on a camera lens don't really have a noticeable effect on the final picture as well)

Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by flyinglizard on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:53AM (#20399990)
If they are taking those videos with their targeting pods, then the pod follows the locked target, keeping it in the frame center. It would be different if they took the videos with their gun sight, which is fixed in a single direction.
Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by hanniabu on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:43AM (#20399931)
From the videos I've seen this doesn't seem to be the case. (Object stationary relative to camera)
Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by hanniabu on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:41AM (#20399922)
It seems the usually happen out at sea so it would make sense there's no ground based sensors or satellites watching a random spot in the ocean. As for the camera fuzziness, I can't help but think how it would look if I saw something and tried to record it. I have a decent camera on my phone, but if there's something in the sky it's going to be far away and my natural reaction would be to increase my zoom. Anybody that has ever done this knows that it gets extremely fuzzy. As for cameras on jets, I would thin that if the are any good high resolution cameras that they would be face down to capture the ground.
Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by dmix on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:41PM (#20403678)
That’s no excuse. These jets were doing a multi-agency testing operation to test out the new networking features for the jets sensors. Which means ships and satellites and other things were deployed in the area during the sighting in question.

I find it highly questionable during such a deployment only two jets in the same area (ie, the same light refraction area) saw the anomaly but nothing else did.

The entire point of these new networked systems is to have multiple sources to increase accuracy.

Additionally, satellites are always watching everything all the time. Multiple catch asteroids flying extremely fast all the time. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-asteroid-peril-isnt-science... (scroll down to see videos)

Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by mopsi on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:57PM (#20408152)
> Additionally, satellites are always watching everything all the time.

Where's MH370?

Re:U.S. Fighters About to Get Infrared Sensors That Could Be... by RomanBob on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @06:56AM (#20400779)
Well, the Osulans are not going to let themselves be seen by multiple Terran sensors. That would completely violate the galactic accord.

Besides, if they were seen they would just blow up aircraft anyway.