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Re:I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Im... by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:34AM (#27354181)
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.

Re:I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Im... by nchie on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:13AM (#27354800)
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.