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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by nvarsj on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:30PM (#34671005)
Quite a bizarre strawman [1] that doesn't prove your point at all. Here we have multiple professional pilots reporting similar events, with recorded evidence from the tracking systems on their fighter planes. And enough evidence that even Congress has authorised to look into it further. It probably is all some natural thing happening, but it's not some hoax by teenager girls in the 1920s.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by serf on Sunday February 05, 2023 @06:50PM (#34671201)
>Here we have multiple professional pilots reporting similar events, with recorded evidence from the tracking systems on their fighter planes.

to be clear : multiple professionals from the same government, similar cultures and professional background, using similar equipment, tactics, sensor arrays, and vehicles, in a similar geographical region.

Maybe i'm jaded, but 'multiple professionals' means absolutely nothing to me if every one of those professionals is a cog in the same propaganda mill.

I'll be more likely to buy into any of these stories once we have agreeing reports from groups of people that aren't coordinated to play-nice with one another.

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by WalterBright on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:07PM (#34671388)
Professional pilots are not trained observers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34670921

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by naasking on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:30AM (#34676997)
That objection only works because the people on the ship had an expectation of what the fault could be. Presumably fighter pilots have expectations of what other aircraft, balloons and birds could be, and these phenomena defy those characteristics. These just don't seem comparable.
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