The videos have been explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8

The pentagon released them because they were getting sick of FOIA requests from the mob of people the To The Stars folks have been rallying.

GAO is currently reviewing the contracts granted to those folks as well.

That video only explains the video footage if you assume everyone who were part of that operation are lying.

There were plenty of people who saw it on their radars, and at least one of them was a very highly ranked military.

The radar issue is discussed in the video. What he says is entirely accurate. Despite how capable these radars are, they don't prevent the operator doing the equivalent of asking the wrong question.

Eyewitness testimony, even from experts, is notoriously unreliable. However everything in the testimonies so far is consistent with misunderstanding parallax.

His radar explanation for FLIR doesn't really hold well if you take their stories into account though. There's a limit to how far away it could have been since they're saying they saw it near sea level below where they were. He also doesn't explain why the jet engines of said plane didn't show up as a different color on the IR camera.

Eyewitness testimonies are not very reliable, no, but unless they're lying, there was definitely something unexplained going on there. It's possible there's an explanation which covers all of it, but Mick West's doesn't.

Not to mention that he's a game developer and not an aerospace engineer. I really doubt he has any experience using the systems that he's explaining. I would love to see that video "peer-reviewed" by someone who has the credentials to talk about those things.

Hahaha. "Debunking" video by Mick West. He's the guy that thinks the Navy can't tell the difference between a bird, and an aircraft. A bug on a sensor and the plane. Desperate mental gymnastics a crazy attempt to confirm existing biases and preserve a belief system he feels is threatened by data. Why have anything to do with someone so trapped like that?

That video was debunked, the author clearly has no idea how these systems work.

>GAO is currently reviewing the contracts granted to those folks as well.

The inspector general is investigating the complete and total failure of our bureaucracy to report and respond to these things.

The videos are real. But, just because we can’t explain it doesn’t mean it’s outer space aliens.

Any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic (or outer space alien technology).

Sometimes a bug on the lens also looks like magic.

How does that bug show up on the radars of two ships?

Operator error https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27354181

The military is bending over backwards not to favor the outer space aliens hypothesis. It's "unexplained aerial phenomena". Not knowing what it is makes it interesting enough.

For what it's worth, we at least know the videos are official: https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents

Ha, indeed, why would the Pentagon ever engage in disinformation?