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rotating disturbing videos of UFOs have
been taken by some of the best trained
pilots on the planet we actually have
military pilots who are saying I saw
something that I don't understand
unknown and Fe unknown we don't know
what they actually saw we only have
their interpretation of it so this is
the helmet that I was wearing it would
be really irresponsible to suggest that
all of these things are of the same
origin that they're of the same
technology that they're of the same
phenomenon we can't say it's aliens but
we can't say it's not aliens people in
New Jersey are concerned and what about
the explosion of news reports of strange
objects flying over New Jersey upwards
of 49 plus drone seds as scientists we
also want to get to the bottom of this
there's an aircraft there we go what are
UFOs right now on
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car.com in the halls of Congress Navy
Pilots are speaking out this object
remained for about 45 seconds or so
before darting off over the mountains we
were seeing objects with our Radars with
our cameras and even with our eyes
flying on an almost daily basis we're
very sensitive to how things turn and
how things accelerate and how things
move and this didn't follow any of those
laws of
physics as of 20123 military and
commercial pilots have reported seeing
801 objects they couldn't identify when
we're talking about having an
unidentified thing in our airspace
whether it's directly overhead or in our
Coastal Waters we need to figure out is
this an issue of flight safety is this
an issue of National Security is this an
adversary spying on us or could it be
top secret Tech developed right here at
home I can tell you unequivocally that
the government does keep secrets when it
comes to Aerospace technology the
Pentagon has what we often call a black
budget which can sometimes exceed 65
billion
in a
year even within the military there's
never been a consensus really that it's
this or that or that it's not
extraterrestrial we cannot rule out
extraterrestrials but you have no
evidence for it it comes back to the
evidence regular citizens have been
reporting things for decades and yet we
hear nothing from the government about
what this may be and now that we have
more
observations more cameras more cell
phones that are taking pictures of
phenomenon in our atmosphere scientists
need to come forward and talk about how
we can identify these
objects in science we encounter
anomalies all the time and it's our job
to try to figure out what those
anomalies are telling us about the
universe
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this isn't the first time unidentified
flying objects have captured our
imagination and startled the
world it was back in the 1940s that
sightings started piling up June 24th
1947 as he flew near Mount reneer in
Washington state pilot Kenneth Arnold
spotted something strange
as he was flying around he said he saw
these objects glinting off of the sun
because they mve like they were skipping
off of water the term Flying Saucer came
about at the time there were other
people having sightings but this is the
one that just really kind of ignite this
interest in the public about
UFOs from New York to California people
started to report seeing flying saucers
just about
everywhere sightings were spreading like
wildfire culture informs our
understanding of the world around us if
you expect to see a UFO that looks like
a pyen well when you see something
unusual in the sky that you have trouble
Discerning what it was your brain may be
more apt to say that look like a
pyen it may seem strange that in the
1940s and 50s so many Americans were
were suddenly spotting objects in the
sky but with the Cold War in full swing
it was a time of heightened anxiety and
worry about new threats overhead this
was a time period in which there was a
lot of military technology
Development coming out of World War
II we have developed
radar this was the first major war where
air power was a huge
player and there was a lot of unknown
Tech
emerging all of these things kind of
came together and then of course you had
the Roswell
incident Roswell New Mexico a Rancher
came across another piece of the Flying
Saucer puzzle essentially this ranchan
comes in says I found this material they
send a couple Air Force people from
Roswell Army Airfield out to take a look
one of them says hey I think this stuff
was
weird they take the material to Fort
Worth Fort wor says it was obviously a
weather
balloon story's
over but the public wasn't buying it and
Hollywood saw an opportunity to run with
a captivating
Story aliens sometimes friendly and
sometimes not were visiting planet Earth
the lack of Answers by the government
did leave a void and Hollywood and and
entertainment certainly filled that void
Earth versus the flying
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saucers and we were left with a wide
assortment of scenarios imagining
contact with aliens with saucers or
aliens on the moon or Mars or alien
invasions that are quite dramatic what
are they where do they come from
certainly this can uh instill a lot of
fear in
people in the absence of
scientists or other authoritative voices
filling the Gap and and explaining
what's going
on all we heard from the authorities was
there's nothing to see
here but behind the scenes the military
was
investigating probably the most
significant historical investigation of
UFOs by the government was Project Blue
Book it investigated thousands and
thousands of UFO
sightings for more than 20 years
military investigators and scientists
scrutinized the data looking for
answers what are all these objects do
any of them present a clear and present
danger scientists like astronomer Jay
Allen heinik were brought in to help the
Air Force connect the
dots Dr J Allen heinik was the
consultant for the Air Force from 1947
all the way to 1969 the entire time they
were investigating this topic he was a
skeptic himself because of that early
association with aliens and Little Green
Men so when they approached him he's
like I'll do this but I'm going to
easily be able to debunk this in no time
because this is just
silliness Project Blue Book ended in
1969 when the Air Force released the
Condon
report after investigating more than
12,000 UFO sightings
701 remained
unidentified when you've not explained
that much of your data as a scientist
that's not
acceptable and it wasn't acceptable for
heinik he' had a change of heart that
would last a
lifetime he started to see that there
was Data there that indicates that not
all of these are easily solvable and
that they do deserve
investigation but he would stay away
from the alien side of things he would
try to focus on you know this is a
mystery we don't understand but it it's
just too difficult to do because the
media and the public just can't
disassociate those things the aliens in
the
UFOs this created an environment that
scientists and any serious person did
not want to go near it so aliens were
right in there with ghosts the loch nest
monster bigfoot it was all part of this
the unknown spooky stuff that probably
ain't
true because of this stigma today the
Department of Defense refers to these
unidentified flying objects UFOs as uaps
unidentified anomalous
phenomena they changed it from UFO to
UAP to try to reduce that stigma to try
to get away from that history that
historical trigger that happens in our
brains the word UFO unfortunately has
become a taboo word within the
scientific
Community it's actually been a diss
surface to our community and our society
for not trying to teach and communicate
about what actually is in the night
sky there's no shortage of things in the
night sky that can seem
strange some are natural like the colors
of the Northern Lights the beauty of a
meteor
shower planet Venus in the night
sky even clouds that form strange
saucer-like shapes
and plenty that are not so natural
wonders right now above my head are
planes you can hear helicopter flying
over there's probably some drones up
there too and if you're in the right
place at the right time you can probably
even see some satellites up there cuz
there's a lot of stuff out there that
might not be as strange as you think it
is so weird that's not a plane the
number of things that are in our sky
today are thousands oh my
God now it's not moving at all it's
hovering right there we have weather
balloons 1,800 of them are launched
daily around the world you can actually
see things in Earth's orbit from the
ground you can see for instance the
International Space Station at night
flying
overhead and if you see a cluster of
Lights traveling across the night sky
they're probably part of a satellite
system called
starlink when starlink launches a 60
satellite string people look at that and
go I don't know what that is and it
looks very weird and
concerning technology I think has
created much more clutter in the sky and
an ability for us to misinterpret
things there's a lot in our sky and in
for studying UFOs of course you have to
know what's in the sky that is known
before you can identify what's unknown
that's especially difficult when it
comes to some of the strangest sightings
ever
made those videos taken by Navy
Pilots one of the most famous is
nicknamed the
gimbal we recorded the gimbal object
when we were down off the coast of
Jacksonville Florida aboard the USS
Theodore Roosevelt in
2015 former fa18 pilot Ryan graves will
never forget what some pilots in his
Squadron told him about their bizarre
UAP
experience the event unfolded during a
night training
Mission drone
bro they see something strange they've
been closing on it for a couple minutes
as they fly towards it to better
understand it it has to be a drone
that's the logical thing no one's out
there saying it's UFOs or aliens or
whatever it's just an unknown thing and
what is it while their camera only
captures the image of one object their
radar tells a more complex story there's
a whole Fleet of them look on the
sa my
gosh as they gather more information and
they see a a whole Fleet of them on
their radar um it's harder to understand
what they're seeing and you can hear
that in their voices they're all going
against the wind the wind's 120 mes the
West
dude then the object does something
downright bizarre well if
there's it's
rotating you see the object appears to
rotate then the video uh cuts out at
that
point you know so I don't know what the
gimbal is we still don't know what it
is there's no doubt many of the
recordings of UFOs made by Navy Pilots
look very
strange to try to DEC code them it's
crucial to understand the kinds of
sensors and cameras being used so the
vast majority of the evidence that's
excited the public imagination about
these videos comes in the form of
infrared
imagery imagery taken with an onboard
infrared camera system called at Fleer
Sean Kirkpatrick former director of the
government's Department in charge of
investigating uaps what is it reflecting
and engineer Josh seer explore how the
world looks in infrared light with the
help of tadine engineer DaNell Lago so
what you have here is you got the
visible on this side here it's a 4K
visible image and then the thermal on
this side on the right side of the
screen the camera is capturing visible
light light the human eye can see but on
the left side the Boston skyline looks
radically different because this is a
thermal image taken with an infrared
camera that detects variations in
temperature the cars on the bridge are
emitting more heat than the background
the more heat an object emits The Wider
it appears the less the darker it gets
and can you switch that yes we can
invert it we can make everything that's
black hot and everything that's white
cold and that's exactly what we see our
Pilots
doing Pilots when they see things they
will toggle back and forth so that they
can try to get the best contrast to try
to figure out what they're looking at
and going so why don't we try and see if
we can see any
aircraft even on a hazy day like this
there's an aircraft there we go it
doesn't take long to spot one there is
an aircraft that you can't tell in the
infrared is an aircraft but in the
visible I sure can y exactly right and
now we don't we switch it to uh black is
Hut play the same game yeah play the
same game and see what it looks like AE
there's a plane there's a plane there's
a plane there you
go I saw this just Little Dot tripping
through the field and I was only looking
at the infrared camera and Sean who was
watching the visual camera next door
said there's an airplane and I looked
over and this enormous aircraft was
moving through the
scene it's just a blob it's a little
blob so that was an image of the engine
yeah yeah that's basically all you saw
you didn't see the rest of the fuselage
the world looks very different in the
infrared versus the
visible exploring the deceptive nature
of infrared light provides scientists
with valuable Clues to why a plane could
take on an otherworldly
shape but it doesn't explain why the
gimbal seems to move in ways that defy
physics the gimbal video is one of the
most famous UFO videos and with good
reason I think cuz it looks like a
flying
saucer UFO investigator and conspiracy
debunker Mick West spent years analyzing
the gimbal video frame by frame clue by
clue the the interesting thing about the
gimbal video besides it being a flying
sorcerer is this rotation it does and
this was very
puzzling it took a long time to figure
out what might be going on there
Mick brings a unique set of skills to
this
challenge I used to program video games
many years ago I really enjoyed the
process of solving
puzzles and I use my 3D geometry and
trigonometry and algebra and all the
skills that I use in games programming
to analyze the
UFOs Mick starts his investigation of
the gimbal by combing through publicly
available information
the plane that captured the gimbal video
is an
fa18 equipped with an infrared camera
mounted beneath the wing in a targeting
pod next he builds a simulation of the
plane and the camera which is on a
device called a
gimbal the gimbal enables the camera to
rotate as it tracks a
Target but the camera isn't the only
thing in motion
the Pilot's display reveals that the
object is also
moving from the left side of the plane
to the
right to track something going from left
to right which is what we're seeing here
the camera actually has to rotate and it
has to rotate a specific amount as it
traverses over from one side to the
other using the simulation he's created
Mick makes a surprising discovery the
amount that gimbal rotates and the time
it rotates is exactly what would be
needed for the camera to track this
object he's come up with a theory about
why the object appears to rotate and
sets up an experiment to demonstrate how
it works using his cell phone and his
desk
lamp take your cell phone and point the
camera at a a bright light a single
light and then rotate your cell phone so
you've got a rotating camera but nothing
is rotating except the artifacts of the
camera so if you have a glare like an
artifact of the camera when the camera
rotates the scene itself doesn't rotate
but the glare rotates and I think that's
what we're seeing in the gimbal
video it's possibly something like a
dist on plane something that's hot off
in the distance the heat of the engine
was kind of pointing towards the camera
and that kind of bloomed in the camera
created this glare that was so big it
obscured the entire plane
but not everyone agrees with this Theory
I want to be clear that that's entirely
possible but I personally don't find
that particularly likely the reason for
that is strictly this Fleer system is
something that military personnel are
trained to use to identify adversary and
friendly
aircraft Pilots are well aware of how
the gimbal system works as well as the
nature of common camera artifacts like
glare I don't think this was a distant
plane I do believe it was an object that
was about 4 to 6 miles away from the
fighter aircraft not a distant jet at 30
nautical miles away if it was a distant
jet where would it come from why were we
not receiving any indications that it
was or was not part of our strike
group in 2021 the Department of Defense
formed Arrow the all domain anomaly
resolution office to investigate uaps
like the gimbal
to date Arrow considers this case
unresolved so for us anything that
remains unidentified is a severe threat
that we should be paying attention to as
tactical aviators because that's exactly
what we're training to
identify the gimbal isn't the only UAP
that appears to defy the laws of
physics
2013 just after dark at the airport in
agadia Puerto Rico
US Customs and Border control captured
this video of an oddly behaving object
it looks like the object is traveling
quickly it looks like it's disappearing
into the
water and coming out of the water
disappearing again coming
out and splitting into two and kind of
Disappearing
completely enthusiasts will point to
that and say that is evidence of warp
drives or interdimensional drives and
that it's transm medium because it's
going in and out of the
water what do we see but could there be
another reason that's more down to earth
so let's do this as a controlled
experiment engineer Josh Seer enlists
the help of Shan Kirkpatrick former
director of Arrow to cook up an idea can
they recreate this dis appearing act in
the lab sounds like with a knife Spoon
and Fork well we already did that what
do you see and two surrogate UFOs what I
thought we'd try to use to do this is a
infrared sensor uh it just Clips on uh
like so they set it up on a
tripod take a look and see absolutely
nothing we're not seeing anything at all
in these objects sea takes the spoon and
fork along with one of the UAP
surrogates and puts them in a cooler for
just about what do you think Josh second
10 seconds yeah it doesn't take long uh
I'd say 10 seconds it's more than enough
about 10 seconds later give or take all
right let's take them out and see what
they look
like that right back where they were and
what do we got well there's three
objects there wow that's pretty
Stark we can see the fork and spoon
along with one of the UFO
surrogates and I don't see the other two
cannot find the other two but they are
clearly there but over the next few
minutes they gradually disappear
again the question is why there is a
tendency for objects that are at
different temperatures when they're in
contact to eventually reach the same
temperature as one another it's not a
magic trick for an object to show up in
infrared light it must be a different
temperature than objects it is in
contact with so when the fork and spoon
exchanged thermal energy with the table
thermal equilibrium is reached making
them invisible in infrared
light and that brings us back to the
disappearing objects in the Puerto Rico
video which were also captured with an
infrared sensor
as the object becomes the same either
temperature or a Radiance as the
background you won't be able to see it
it'll become nearly invisible and it
looks like it
disappears after months of carefully
analyzing the video scientists think
they have an answer we think they're two
birds then when they get close to the
water the effect on the sensor kicks in
where it's having a hard time
distinguishing the contrast between the
background and the birds and they look
like they disappear and then they
reappear because the reflectance changes
and then they separate and then it looks
like they land in the
water this demo doesn't capture all the
conditions of this sighting but Shawn
and Josh believed that shifts in
temperature and reflection might explain
the apparent disappearing act I am
satisfied with that explanation because
that's how a scientist speaks with
respect to some phenomenal that's not
known we don't speak in
certainty so for instance if one were to
say that is either two birds flying over
the
ocean or it is a alien anti-gravity
technology exhibiting trans medium
characteristics I choose the bird
explanation the sighting in Puerto Rico
might simply be two birds
and the gimbal video might be a distant
plane but one of the most famous UFO
sightings has been even more challenging
for
investigators I was an eyewitness to
what is considered one of the most
important UFO or UAP encounters and
that's the uh USS Nimitz tictac
encounter November
14th 2004
about 100 miles Southwest of San Diego
Alex Dietrich then a young Aviator in
training along with her commanding
officer David fraver a seasoned pilot
with more than a decade of flying under
his
belt set out on a routine training
exercise it was clear blue skies calm
Waters when we get a call by this
controller kind of like an air traffic
controller for our military exercise and
they say hey we need you to go check out
this contact over here the radar on one
of the ships in the strike group had
detected an unknown object and this is
2004 just a few years after 911 the hair
on the back of our neck stands up and we
go hm okay and we divert and we head
towards
it and we don't see anything
initially but somebody sees a
disturbance in the water and this
strange thing is flying very fast but
erratically over the this area of water
it was off-white you know sort of a
white creamish color we didn't see a
cockpit we didn't see windows and it
moved in ways that we didn't understand
Dietrich and fraver returned to the
nimts without taking video of the
object so another aircraft went in
Pursuit and captured
this we call it affectionately a Tic Tac
because it looks like the little breath
mint Mick West decides to take on the
challenge to see if he can make sense of
the movement of the Tic Tac it's a very
blurry video I think he's actually out
of
focus and it's not actually doing
anything it's just basically flying away
and a bit to the left and more or less a
straightish line but the thing is David
fr's description is very
dramatic in fact when Commander David
fraver testified before Congress in 2023
he described an object that in his 18
years of flying traveled at speeds he'd
never seen before as we looked around he
saw a white Tic Tac object with a
longitudinal axis pointing North South
and moving very abruptly over the water
like a pingpong ball he talks about the
object kind of ping ponging around close
to the ocean and then doing this very
difficult synchronized movement up
towards the
top I'm going to tie it off over here
Mick conducts an experiment based solely
on the Pilot's eyewitness
reports using his backyard swimming pool
and his version of the Tic Tac yeah I
made the Tic Tac out of a piece of wood
and some bits of white wire and painted
it
white he suspends his Tic Tac over the
swimming pool about
there climbs up a ladder with his phone
and starts
recording so what I set up with the pool
demo is just a good illustration of what
might have happened to try to figure out
what's actually moving
here is this object moving or is the
camera moving because we don't have um
any frame of reference we've just got
the pool behind us you kind zoom in a
little bit so all you see is the pool it
really looks like the object is
moving even though it's
not it's only the camera that's
moving it's a good illustration of
Parallax which as we know is one of the
big causes of optical
illusions you may have experienced this
illusion I usion looking out the window
of a train the trees just outside the
window appear to be moving in relation
to the landscape in the background but
the only thing that's actually moving is
you we're not reliable our eyes are not
reliable if you're going to court and
you're the accused and it's a eyewitness
testimony that's going to you know the
big evidence against you good
luck so when a military Aviator
especially someone like Commander fraver
with combat experience says that they
saw something in the sky that they can't
quite explain that operated in a way
that seemed to contradict what they
understand the laws of physics would
dictate I tend to give those witness
testimonies a great deal of credence
because these aviators are not just
highly trained pilots they're highly
trained combatants the pilot observation
is I see something the data we need is
what the sensor is gathering and that's
the numbers we actually
need in the case of the Tic Tac the
pilot did see something but some of the
key technical questions hadn't been
investigated at the time and trying to
investigate those now is not going to
give us a whole lot because there's
nothing to really examine the farther
back in time you go the less data there
is for every one of these cases and back
in 2004
there was no data retention policy for
these kinds of
events according to Shan Kirkpatrick the
radar data from the incident no longer
exists so we'll never know if it would
support or rule out mix Parallax Theory
I don't know what we saw and I refus to
speculate because I think it would be
irresponsible of me to say you know well
was definitely an adversary spying on us
or it was definitely an alien visiting
from outer space uh because I don't
know for Alex that was the end of the
Tic Tac story and then I went on with my
life my career and I didn't really think
about
it that is until 13 years later when the
New York Times published this article
with links to the Tic Tac and gimbal
videos when the New York Times released
this story it really gave the whole
topic a bit of credibility where a lot
of people saw it as taboo and sort of
silly but if the US government has been
investing tens of millions of dollars
into investigating these reports there
seems like there could be something to
it people are interested in this topic
of UFOs and Congress has begun to get
involved there's been a couple of
Congressional hearings calling expert
witnesses to try and figure out what's
going on here
in your belief is this this flying Tic
Tac I mean is this is it capable of
being the product of any other Nation on
the earth no I actually I think it
defies current Material Science and the
ability to develop that much propulsion
and I I know there's been some physicist
of calculations which is beyond anything
that we
have should we be concerned that some
UFOs are Advanced Technologies from out
of this world or secret Technologies
developed by our
adversaries or could there be another
reason UFOs have remained so elusive for
decades remember back in 1947 in Roswell
New Mexico when a Rancher found strange
debris in his
pasture the Air Force said it was from a
weather
balloon but as it turns out it was part
of a classified US military program
called PR
Mogul the Air Force launched these
balloons and they had these sensors on
them where they can measure vibrations
in the air to be able to monitor Russian
nuclear
testing the General in Fort Worth Texas
decided I'm going to cover up this
classified project and I'm going to show
the public that what we recovered was a
weather
balloon it would take half a century for
the Air Force to admit exactly what had
crashed in Roswell so there was a cover
up but it was a cover up of a classified
project not you know an alien
spacecraft the secrecy led to the
conspiracy and certainly the Air Force
did not help themselves by being secret
and dismissive of the
topic when it comes to government
coverups perhaps the most infamous is
Area
51 Tales of alien spacecraft hidden
inside this remote Air Force Base about
83 Mi Northwest of Las Vegas have
persisted for
decades it turns out the military has
been secretly developing cuttingedge
technology here since the
1950s but did not even acknowledge the
existence of the base until
2013 there are lots of aircraft we know
have been tested at Area 51 entirely in
secret at the time including the f117
the
SR71 the B2 spirit and many more right
around the same time that B2 Spirit was
in development common sightings of UFOs
around the United States tended to
transition away from the pie saucer
shape we were familiar with in earlier
decades and toward a more triangular
shape this is a model of what people
claim was the tr3b which is a legendary
aircraft that people allege was built
using reverse engineered alien
technology by the 1990s rumors of
triangular-shaped spacecraft became so
widespread they became part of popular
culture Blockbusters like the xfiles
featured a triangular-shaped alien
spacecraft hovering over Agent Fox
molders
head I think the government should and
does expect that the public is going to
fill in the blanks as they see fit as
long as people are talking about aliens
operating out of Area 51 well then
they're not revealing anything about the
legitimate military platforms that are
being tested there it creates a bit of a
smoke
screen there's always Advanced
technological programs going on that are
on a need to no basis if you don't need
to know even if you are a member of the
government or the military you're not
going to know and that's the way it
should
be this is all about spy versus spy or
military versus military to maintain
technical
superiority we don't want other people
to learn what we're building where we
might employ it because then they can
defeat it there are reasons to do that
none of it is
alien none of
it I think we're in an era where
conspiracy theories are popular
is this another
one when it comes to sightings by
military pilots and the public how can
science help separate unfounded
conspiracy theories from
reality fact from fiction from the very
days that Galileo first lifted his
telescope to the sky and made
measurements of the moons going around
Jupiter everybody else could then
reproduce those measurements and go oh
yeah he's right and that confirmation
is what has made the scientific method
so powerful over the last 400 years the
thing we need is
data and we need real data and we don't
have it we at Nasa are a in 2022 NASA
brought together a group of experts to
explore ways to collect that data NASA
should lead the scientific discourse we
need to elevate this
conversation the NASA UAP panel was
formed to bring that sence perspective
into this that analysis has not been
done a lot of people argue uh that we
have data but the vast majority of that
data is anecdotal and that's just not
going to cut it the panel recommended
several ways to collect more data
including repurposing existing
technology like the National Weather
Services radar system called
Nexrad radar stations that are found
throughout the US so those same sensors
should be able able to see if an object
comes whizzing through at an
extraordinary velocity it should be able
to pick out that type of thing that's
just one example of the type of networks
that we could repurpose for UAP
research astronomer AI lobe is taking a
different approach collecting more data
in a novel way we just constructed an
observatory at Harvard
University we are monitoring objects
that fly overhead and trying to make
sense with them
this collection of instruments is part
of Harvard's Galileo project the Galileo
project is developing several sites that
are spread across a geographical region
where each site has an array of
sensors Optical cameras infrared images
there's audio from infrasound to
Ultrasound there's
radar it's a wide array of instrument
to basically look at the sky all the
time to to see if you find any
anomalies some instruments have
otherworldly names like this one called
doll after the cyborg aliens featured in
the do Who
series inside doll there are eight
infrared cameras behind the window there
is a camera they
overlap and so they get a full picture
of of the entire sky at all times in the
infrared when something of interest is
identified by the main set of cameras we
zoom on it in the sky and this is the
camera that can move around and look at
the object of Interest automatically
based on the computer system that we
develop you can imagine if you have a
camera pointing overhead you're going to
see a lot of things that are
identifiable so they use machine
learning what people call artificial
intelligence that can recognize the
knowes recognize the birds the airplanes
the balloons leaves all the known things
and sort of reject those filter them out
and then what you're left with is the
anomalies you're left with things that
you cannot understand the things you
can't
identify and as we speak right now we
are being
recorded so far we have been operating
this Observatory for several months and
we saw hundreds of thousands of objects
in the sky
none of them appears to be
anomalous but even if one in a million
came from outside of this Earth that
would be big news to humanity and will
change our future and that's what drives
my
science one way or another the more data
were able to bring into this
conversation the more we're going to be
able to get to the
truth Ryan Graves is trying to collect
data from a different Source his fellow
Pilots Military and
Commercial but there's a problem they're
hesitant to share their experiences
because of the taboo surrounding
UFOs they don't feel comfortable
reporting because of that fear that
there could be professional
repercussions at their employer social
repercussions with their peers at the
airline because the conversation
immediately jumps to well there's no
proof there's actually terestrial you
couldn't travel across the universe to
get here and it's like whoa whoa whoa
Pilots are seeing things that are in the
sky that they don't understand what they
are and are posing safety risk that's
where the conversation needs to stop and
hey is this not only an aviation safety
risk but is this a potential National
Security
risk so I was asking Pilots whether they
have encountered the uip and uh they
were very Cy about it a ation and space
psychologist IA Whitley is working with
Ryan conducting research to find out if
this reluctance to talk about UAP
sightings also impacts a pilot's ability
to focus on the job creating a safety
issue when the pilot seeing something I
want to make sure that they're
comfortable speaking about it because it
then occupies their capacity and focus
and attention and takes them away from
actually flying if you're trying to
ignore something on unidentified in a
distance your mind is still thinking I'm
not thinking about it I'm not thinking
about it I'm not thinking about it I'm
not thinking about it and now they don't
see what they need to be seeing you were
just asking about uh U visual views yes
and what attracts your attention
movement is what attracts your
attention commercial pilots have been
seeing objects that have been causing
them some serious
consternation I don't think anyone would
like their Pilot Flying their aircraft
to have an exential crisis as they're
flying their aircraft um and coming in
for a
landing the more cases we can explain
the less distraction there's going to be
and if there is actually any real threat
or any real issue out there then we can
focus in on that without all this extra
noise and there's another way we can
collect more data With a Little Help
from the
public it would seem like they're going
sideways in the Lower East Side of
Manhattan at Enigma Labs a staff of soft
designers and UFO enthusiasts are
developing a first ofit kind crowd
sourcing app the goal is really to bring
people together to share their uip
experiences and their sightings you know
if people don't have a place to talk
about this or report what they're seeing
I think they can feel really lonely and
and feel very isolated when in reality
this is a huge community of people who
should be able to come somewhere and
talk about what they're
seeing so we're collecting sighting
reports we get a lot of starlink and
SpaceX rocket videos but at the same
time people are submitting things that
cannot be explained this time I've got
one that I can't figure out maybe you
can help me out this is really cool just
this light comes floating in and then it
hover but
wait why why does this came slowly right
yeah those are fireworks Isaac right
those are probably fireworks probably
smoke rising up and smoke rising up mhm
but in just a second it will get
weirder what isn't that weird brighter
it's get brighter yeah it keeps getting
brighter and it's a broad beam of light
so it's not a star so what do you think
about maybe drone but I mean look how
still it is it doesn't have blinking
lights I mean it doesn't look like a
drone so let's fast forward a
little ohing rising up yeah so it kind
of gets the camera's not M it rises up
back this is a good one I don't know I
don't know what that
is apps like this provide the public
with a place to share their sightings
but could one day be a source of data
for scientists to study we're not
relying just on did you see something
we're asking your cell phone to make a
measurement it's going to record the
position of the phone on the planet
because we all have GPS's in it and
because it has little compass in it it
will also tell us what direction we're
looking at so we can actually do
scientific experiments with actual data
because our modern cell phones are so
good now at recording
numbers the more data the better the
more sightings the more eyes we get on
on something that's truly
anomalous the closer we get to maybe
answering that question what is
it Alex Dietrich has learned from
firsthand experience that for many
people data alone is not enough the
topic is so charged because there are so
many conspiracies and it's such a um you
know it does something to people's
brains when you say UFO at the
University of Colorado Boulder Alex is
trying to change that so this is the
helmet that I was wearing uh you're
welcome to try to put using her
experience as a way to teach students
how to separate fact from fiction what
is it about
UFOs what do we know and how do we know
it what I find is that some of my
students have been going down those
Reddit thread rabbit holes working
themselves up into a lather with
salacious headlines for content and
clickbait if you're reading an article
about UFOs what do we look for when we
are looking at our sources I hope they
will be more Discerning when they
consume media going forward that they
will question where the information that
they're getting comes from because I
want to advocate for us to all take a
deep breath and to come to this subject
with a lens of critical thinking
critical thinking people let's all let's
all apply critical
thinking and that brings us back to the
million
questions could this be extraterrestrial
technology what would it take for a
spacecraft to come from a distant World
a very important question that we need
to be asking today when investigating
UAP is whether or not even if there are
Advanced alien civilizations out there
if they have the means to actually reach
us 3 2 1 consider this one of the
fastest spacecrafts ever launched NASA's
New Horizons took 9 years and 5 months
to reach Pluto 3 billion miles away
getting to the closest star system with
a planet that might Harbor life would
take that tiny spacecraft a whopping
880,000
years the universe is so unfathomably
large there's 100 billion stars in our
Milky Way and there's a hundred billion
galaxies in the observable universe
that's 10 to the 22 one with 22 zeros on
it with a number of stars and the
distances between stars is incredibly
vast I have not seen any evidence that
we have been visited I think it's still
worth looking for evidence because we
can't conclusively demonstrate that we
have not been visited half of the time
scale the galaxy has has existed there
was no planet Earth so that's plenty of
time for life to have evolved and
technological life to have developed on
another
planet the answer is get more data we
need much much more data and the way
you're going to get more data is that
you're going to have more eyes on the
sky UFOs have been a part of our culture
for decades they've been the subject of
curiosity but rarely the subject of
serious scient C ific
investigation but that is
changing I think it's critical to be
open-minded don't be dismissive and
search for the data like any good
scientist what I think is important is
that we are collecting more than just
the eyewitness accounts but that we also
have the right Hardware in place for
things that will be seen today tomorrow
so that we don't sit here and bicker
about about what happened 20 years ago
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