1) known US aircraft activity either simply misinterpreted or kept secret from the public or even most of the military apparatus, sometimes strongly denied either as a way to disseminate vague information to adversaries or misinformation
2) foreign or personal aircraft either known or unknown to the US.
3) rare weather phenomena, hallucinations, optical phenomena, or other miscellaneous things which might be rare but with mundane explanations
The thing to notice is cameras have become much more prevalent and much higher resolution, but "UFOs" in pictures haven't. The only things that aren't obviously something understandable are still fuzzy dots on screens despite screens and cameras getting enormously better.
Just look at this https://media.gvwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/28154540... and tell me that if you saw that you wouldn't think it was a spaceship. It was kept super secret for a quite a long time and surely was the source of plenty of UFO reports.
I'm not convinced or even particularly suspicious that anything that "isn't what it seems" is anything more than mundane.
1) This isn't a recent phenomena. People have been seeing discs in the sky for literally thousands of years.
2) Aircraft can't make 90 degree turns or descend from 80,000 feet to the deck approximately instantly.
3) Groups of extremely highly trained military pilots have seen them, and the video and IR data has been released from these encounters. You can't make 4 people in 2 aircraft hallucinate at the same time, and fool all the instrumentation on them (radar, IR...) and also fool the battlespace radars on the cruisers directing them. And if you could, that too would be kind of interesting to look at whatever that is.
You're repeating old points you don't understand because as you acknowledge, you don't know the subject. Please start with Vallee.
People have reported talking to ghosts and angels for thousands of years too. People's senses and memory is fallible and can lead to misinterpretations and misunderstanding.
> 2) Aircraft can't make 90 degree turns or descend from 80,000 feet to the deck approximately instantly.
You are assuming that their reports that the objects actually made these movements are indeed correct perceptions of the movements seen.
> 3) Groups of extremely highly trained military pilots have seen them, and the video and IR data has been released from these encounters. You can't make 4 people in 2 aircraft hallucinate at the same time, and fool all the instrumentation on them (radar, IR...) and also fool the battlespace radars on the cruisers directing them. And if you could, that too would be kind of interesting to look at whatever that is.
A lot of conflation going on here. The Nimitz incident did involve 4(?) people, but not at the same time. The radar technician (radar data has not been released) did report seeing multiple objects on the radar, but not much else about them such as the rapid, physics-defying movements reported by the Fravor the pilot who reportedly saw an object with his own eyes. The IR video captured by another pilot also does have reasonable explanations (even including the on-screen display sensor readings) that counteract the claims that the object was moving as fast as they thought it was at the time, or as the video might make it seem.
The initial two F-18's had two people each.
I was referring to the disjoin between the radar technician, the fighter team with Fravor, and the later fighter plane that actually captured the infrared video.
This just isn't true if you listen to their interviews. I'm going to assume you're just the disinformation guy now.
FAA doc on visual perception in the air:
https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media...
Failures in visual perception for pilots and people in boats are widely known shortcomings of human eyes. We just aren't evolved to see things at that scale accurately.
Get out your phone, and take a picture of your hand. Its very close, and you'll get a great photo.
Now, go outside at night, look at the beacon on top of a crane in the distance, or a plane landing a few kilometres away. Try to take a photo of it with your phone camera.
We have great cameras, sure, but not everyone is carrying a 300mm lens in their pocket
Just two examples of high resolution UAP videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBQ1Ftj4hPE&ab_channel=OrdoN...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmGhxYrkug&t=0s&ab_channel=...
The problem is not resolution per se, but the fact that is quite easy nowadays to manipulate images and videos (I'm not saying these videos are fake, BTW).
The first doesn't look like an insect to me even after being primed by your comment prior to watching it.
I haven't found any analysis of the first one though, it could be CGI but it doesn't seem to be an actual bug.
The “bug” appears several miles away, following the mountains, and crosses the camera in just a second. That's not a real real bug.
But lets try again: watch all of the following:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4tDSbqa8tyOLSOhF82YkiP7u...
At the point where the object passes the camera platform is moving right to left while the approaching object is moving far to near and right-to-left.
Note: I'm not saying it is or isn't a natural phenomena or is or isn't a hoax, only that I think the first one probably isn't an insect.
Seems like another whitewash, "it can't possibly be happening" report.
If you spend some serious effort on this and stay away from the crazies you'll come to the opposite conclusion of this report. A good starting point is Vallee's books.