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The debate around UFO sightings has taken center stage, with a fresh dataset from Nuforc's databank sparking discussions on the authenticity and quality of the footage. While some commenters, like numpy-thagoras, argue that the sheer volume of decent-quality footage is noteworthy, others, such as jibal, remain skeptical, asserting that rational people know it's not "real." The conversation takes a nuanced turn as participants discuss the technical requirements for capturing credible evidence, with Animats highlighting the UFODAP sensor cameras and numpy-thagoras suggesting that a robust setup needs multiple 4K cameras and more. As the discussion unfolds, it becomes clear that the real question isn't whether the sightings are "real," but rather what they might reveal about our atmosphere or potential misidentifications.
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UFODAP supposedly has about a hundred automatic cameras around the world, mostly in the US. You can buy the hardware. It's a pan-tilt-zoom camera under a plastic dome, with hardware that looks for moving objects in the sky, photographs, and tracks them. Analysis software recognizes birds and aircraft. If two sites connected to the same control program lock onto a target, they can triangulate. It's possible to use ADS-B data for filtering out known aircraft. The hardware is good enough to detect and track the International Space Station.
But they don't see to be catching much.
Incidentally, hobbyists have been flying triangular jet-powered high speed drones since at least 2017.[2] Watch the video. That would look like a UFO if it wasn't a clear day and the pilot wasn't making low passes. Many of the "flying triangles" are probably something like that.
Russia, Ukraine, and Iran all use something similar, in various sizes.
[1] https://ufodap.com/technology
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGDAZyQ44k
There's advanced hobbyists who have much more sophisticated drones as well [1]. Nothing outside the reach of more advanced advanced engineering with fuel cells. Though it could be some covert government program or research group and possibly even foreign governments.
The drone in Tuscon AZ outran police helicopters for over an hour:
> Typical commercial drones cannot travel 100 mph even under the best conditions. > Eventually, the helicopter ended up flying toward Mount Lemmon at an altitude of 14,000 feet, thousands of feet above the helicopter. The pilot wrote the drone would circle the helicopter at 100 mph. > "[T]his did not appear to be any off-the-shelf" drone, the pilot wrote. > Another helicopter crew member wrote it appeared to be a "very sophisticated/specialized" drone that was "able to perform like no other...I have observed."
1: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/tucson-poli...
https://www.twz.com/40756/new-details-emerge-on-the-highly-m...
A real setup needs multiple 4K cameras, some kind of LWIR, MWIR, etc. as well as SDR with proper antennae for each of their respective performance envelopes.
I think it's good, but it will not be good at picking up the "targets of opportunity".
It's not flying saucers, it's weird orbs / spheres. There is volume of footage, and sufficient quality. I think we're past the point of "is it real" and more at "okay so what is this really and what is it doing".
If we could take Tier 1 reports from NUFORC, have tons of metrics available with sensor data, we can make a better guess.
Indeed, rational people know it's not real.
(Yes, there are almost certainly other intelligent lifeforms in the universe. No, they have not been here. In the 1950's my brother became very interested in UFO sightings and maintained files of 3x5 cards detailing them. Then he grew up.)
I think it is difficult to make an argument in either direction. But almost certainly they’ve not been flying weirdly shaped disks
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1468rqs/cmv_e...
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/th...
among many others.
> we might have been visited in forms that are completely incomprehensible to us
So what? That's not an argument that we have been. It's not a rebuttal to the arguments that we haven't been. It's like saying the President Trump might be a shapeshifting reptile from Aldebaran. It's like saying to someone who notes that there's no elephant in their dining room that there might be one that's invisible and very nimble so no one bumps into it. It's a child's (or theist's) "anything is possible" logic. It has no place in rational discussion.
Imagine if the German military started doing unannounced missions in neighboring countries... now imagine if a military base in the US send a couple of fighter jets from one state to another state and back. Only one of those situations would give a cluster f** of international drama, thus "odd sightings" i.e. covert military operations could be more common in the US than the rest of the world.
I'd love to believe... but it always only happens in USA.
There was an infamous one in the Canary Islands.
Also, weird events under Huelva. A few paranormal, but some of them not religion/spiritual based.
If the aliens were real, their technology for sure would look as magic for humans. No, forget flying saucers or whatever. These kind of civilizations would have totally different ways to travel thousands of kilometers across the galaxy.
Teleporting "magic" would just be mundane technology for them.
And there is no "paranormal stuff".
On the laws of physics, we are like toddlers discovering an adult world. The quaterion concept it's almost from yesterday, and yet it drives real world stuff. Even networks, such as some hypercubic topology, as the one I've seen from mycrovtif. Yes, it's bound to the Hamming code, too. You don't need to break physics, but understand them better. And the case it's that there no intuition once you drive QM, where even 'particles' collide into themselves.
Said this, my point will serve as a slight hint in order to successfully understand the rest.
Completely irrelevant.
> On the laws of physics, we are like toddlers discovering an adult world.
Perhaps you are, but not everyone is. FLT travel is well known to be impossible.
I won't comment further.
So, if Isabel Orta -she- lied, I would expect to be ridiculed down to the extreme in the media.
Because, let's get fair, people in Spain would just watch stuff like Cuarto Millenio (paranormal, UFO and conspiracies stuff) on Sundays for the laughs on crazy theories and 'discoveries'.
Yet the journalist told her story in prime time, in serious media, not under these kind of magazines turned into TV shows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_of_anomalous...
The USA is the best, who'd blame them! Perhaps aliens love American cheeseburgers and milkshakes from their time in Roswell. ;P
> you guys have some condition that the entire Europe does not, e.g., permissions to test military equipment without having to announce it to the public, let alone the freedom to move around in a large area without it becoming a political drama.
That's an interesting take. Though surely Germany or others have some more remote areas. Scotland has lots of empty land and the UK airforce right?
Then again, the amount of empty space in the wester US is not to be underestimated. I live near Mountain Home Idaho. If you drive over the desert to Nevada you cross air force land with big signs warning about it being an active test grounds. Lots of people have had fighter jets fly up and do simulated bombing runs on them as they drive through.