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originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: Guyfriday
That is the crux of the matter here.
We have been seeing videos like this for decades and the gov makes little comment. Here they seem to be admitting to a program yet they aren’t commenting on the videos as far as I know.
This is a disclosure with a real little itty bitty d. So itty bitty it flattens out to this _
It's not that simple. Plenty of pilots have given bad us information about UFOs and they weren't lying. Jim Oberg has documented such cases.
originally posted by: Zadiel74
I know it's been posted plenty of times, but read his statement and think again. He's either a liar, or he saw a UFO. Period.
The resulting perceptions look like many other 'classic UFO encounters" reported by pilots, encounters that superficially have a high credibility because of the technical expertise of the witnesses. But both of these man-made events provide a rare opportunity to calibrate pilots' perceptions to what we know was actually being observed, and to raise a caution flag about accepting similar perceptions as gospel.
There wasn't so much as inaccurate observations, just not knowing what they were looking at. I read about 10 minutes and they saw a broken satelite and thought it was 'beyond this world' and 'moving nearly super sonic'
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
It's not that simple. Plenty of pilots have given bad us information about UFOs and they weren't lying. Jim Oberg has documented such cases.
originally posted by: Zadiel74
I know it's been posted plenty of times, but read his statement and think again. He's either a liar, or he saw a UFO. Period.
Case Studies In Pilot Misperceptions Of "UFOs"
originally posted by: Zadiel74
It blows my mind that people are insinuating the pilot didn't see what he says he saw. Like hes mistaking some sort of glitch or lense flare for his sighting. I'm sorry but no way.
originally posted by: Zadiel74
"Retired US Navy pilot David Fravor trusts what he saw with his own two eyes. And what he saw, in 2004, was a flying object that cannot be identified. Otherwise known as a UFO.
It was a "white object, oblong, pointing north, moving erratically," he told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Tuesday evening.
At the time of the sighting, Fravor was a naval commander, in the cockpit of a US aircraft, and the details of the encounter are still fresh in his mind.
"As I got close to it ... it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds," he said.
The object in question had no wings. As such, one might think it was a helicopter. Not so, said Fravor, who noted clear differences between a chopper and the aircraft he came across.
"When helicopters move side to side, they kinda slow, and then they pick up speed going the other way," Fravor explained. "This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball, bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way."
The movements of the flying object were unlike anything Fravor had ever seen, largely due to its agility and the way it handled.
Speaking live with Sciutto, the former naval pilot said the aircraft had "the ability to hover over the water, and then start a vertical climb, from basically zero up towards about 12,000 feet, and then accelerate in less than two seconds, and disappear."
As a believer in UFO's, Fravor knows there are skeptics.
"It's easy to doubt what we can't explain," he said. However, he reminded viewers that he was among other aviation experts, all of whom did their due diligence on that day.
"It was an actual object that we tracked ... for somewhere around five minutes, before it rapidly accelerated."
originally posted by: Iridomyrmex
Either way, it damages the reliability of his testimony, and suggests that the best view he got of the object is on this fuzzy video.
I think you're getting the two separate UFO events/videos confused.
It's along the same lines as the pilot in this case saying it wasn't "from this world".
originally posted by: makalit
There wasn't so much as inaccurate observations, just not knowing what they were looking at. I read about 10 minutes and they saw a broken satelite and thought it was 'beyond this world' and 'moving nearly super sonic'
So it shows their eyes saw what was really happening, they just weren't sure if it was UFO or not. and thought it was.
He said he knows it wasn't space debris, how is that not an inaccurate observation? He said he's seen space debris and satellite reentries before and this didn't look like those. So if you take what the pilot says at face value, your analysis is doomed, and there's no reason to think he's lying.
D'Alton continued: "The craft was flying level, going much too fast to be a man-made aircraft. I've flown all over the world, and I know this thing wasn't a shooting star, space debris or the northern lights."
The "from another planet" again sounds like the pilot in this case, David Fravor, jumping to unwarranted conclusions that it wasn't "from this world" just because he doesn't understand what he's looking at.
Said Bob Parkhouse, the flight's chief steward: "The UFO was moving from left to right across the horizon. It was a sight I'd never seen before!"
"The crew watched the craft for two minutes, said Capt. D'Alton. 'Then it took a lightning-fast right-angle turn and zoomed out of sight.' Other pilots, including a Lufthansa German Airlines captain, reported a UFO sighting around the same time. Capt D'Alton said. 'It had to be something from another planet -- because it was definitely not man-made!' "
I noticed that too. Maybe we aren't being shown all the video that exists, but the video would certainly be more interesting if it did show what the pilot describes.
originally posted by: Iridomyrmex
Unfortunately, the video accompaniment to the pilot's account does not display any "ping-pong" activity (besides obvious zoom/mode-switch glitches). Nor does it display any "erratic movement", nor any rapid ascending or descending.