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Its speculation that it was sensor glare, boke etc. Hardly convincing at all considering its some YouTuber basing his research on grainy video.

Speculation that also does not factor in multi eye witness accounts and radar measurements.




They exhibit all the characteristics of bokeh and sensor glare, and it’s speculation that they are anything else.

As for instrument measurements, the track that turns out to be a bird is identified as such mainly by simply correctly interpreting the instrument data.

So we’re back the square one. All the ‘smoking gun’ evidence turns out to be a damp squib and now we’re just expected to believe unrecorded ‘radar measurements’ and eye witness accounts.


Simon H, your inter-galactical mission has failed!

People of planet earth KNOW, that YOU and your friends are HERE and we will not submit to extraterrestrial leadership!

Your denial of an obvious fact is evidence of you being part of the extraterrestrial gang that tries to stay in the dark - but it is too late, you can hide in Antarctica or in the oceans, we still know that YOU are here!

BTW - would you please like to support us in building better polyphonic analog synthesizers? This technology is stuck in the 80s and we still have limitations in total voice count and number of modulation sources - we need some serious evolutionary jump in this area. Thanks!


Bokeh and sensor glare doesn't automatically discount the observations

It could be a plane (or something else) and reflecting light in a way that causes bokeh/glare

Looks like for every ten "I want to believe" person there's also another 'skeptic' that will discard a video for unrelated reasons


I know of eye witnesses that have seen a pig fly, and I have data that shows pigs can fly. Clearly this means pigs can fly.


If all of our pilots said they saw pigs fly then it wouldn't seem so crazy.




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