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HomeWhat's newLatest activityAuthorsForumsNew postsSearch forumsWhat's newNew postsLatest activityMembersCurrent visitorsInfoPosting GuidelinesLink PolicyPoliteness PolicyTerms and RulesPrivacy policyAboutLog inRegisterWhat's newSearchWhat's newLatest activityAuthorsMenuLog inRegisterInstall the appInstallJavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.MetabunkSitrec - Metabunk's Situation Recreation Tool - Development DiscussionMar27Mick WestMar 27, 20224,60631Sitrec is a Situation Recreation tool that's just starting out in development. It's born from the Gimbal Simulator, and that's the only situation it's recreating - but eventually I'll extend it to GoFast, Nimitz, Aguadilla, Rubber Duck, mysterious DHS video #4, - and hopefully make it available so others can use it on arbitrary videos. You can see (and use) it here:https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/The goal is to allow real-time analysis and visualization of the possible 3D interpretations that might fit a 2D video (and any other data for a particular case) and see from that what is the most likely scenario.This is very much a work-in-progress, and not really usable for much right now, but I'm starting this discussion thread to track the progress and get feedback and ideas. The initial goal is to replicate and check the work of @Edward...Continue…Gimbal UFO - A New AnalysisMar13Mick WestMar 13, 20224,67812Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbsThe "Gimbal" UFO is the poster child of modern UFO videos. Leaked in 2017, and officially released in 2019, it's considered by many to show a genuine anomalous craft, exhibiting flight characteristics beyond current human technology.But is it? There are four observables in the video, four things you can check yourself, that demonstrate that the most likely thing we are looking at is actually a camera artifact. It's probably an infrared glare, hiding the hot object behind it, and rotating only because the camera rotates when tracking the target from left to right.This does not mean it's not a "UAP", or that it's not unidentified, or that it's not an amazing craft - it just means it's not actually exhibiting any incredible behavior, and so this opens the door to more mundane possibilities, like a distant small jet, just flying away, the...Continue…UFOs from flight deck over South China Sea - Flares?Dec04johne1618Dec 4, 202116,941106Source: https://youtu.be/c8A1tGBOK9kMUFON - event date: Nov 24 2021 - location: Hong Kong - Case 119564South China sea, 9 lights visible in video, then it becomes 12 lights in formation, closest object disappears then 3 more objects reappear on outside of formation. Filmed at 39,000ft over the South China Sea, lights all then slowly vanish.What are these strange trails of light?They might be CGI but the YouTube poster claims a reverse image search has not brought up anything.They might be flares but why don’t we see the plane(s) that dropped them or the smoke?Here is an example of a flare drop in daytime:Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PVL6sDZaknEReddit r/UFOs post...Continue…Utah Drone video of UFO [Probably an Insect Zip-By]Nov22RaviNov 22, 202153,523130[Admin: The Following video contains a summary of the key parts of this thread]Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDkqKa_NQAoA few days ago, a youtube video was posted on Reddit r/UFO's showing an object flying by a drone, with the description:I usually cover politics, but when Sam Chortek and Jimmy Chappie came to me with this exclusive UAP footage, I had to break the story. This video has never been seen by the public until now. The RAW FOOTAGE can be downloaded here: https://youtu.be/bVmGhxYrkug All Rights Reserved. 2019. For media inquires, contact [email protected] from External SourceNew links to the "raw" footage soon appeared...Continue…[HOAX] "Glowing Tic-TaC" UFO in southern France [Possibly a Drone]Nov12dimebag2Nov 12, 202111,863121[ADMIN: Turns out this was a hoaxSource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9nKGrRRZqkArticle:UFO observed in the sky from Montpellier to Perpignan: a hoax signed by Rémi Gaillard!​The Montpellier troublemaker revealed the deception this Saturday."In 1938, Orson Welles made believe in an invasion of aliens on the radio. A century later, thanks to you, I just made the same hoax", explains this Saturday in a video posted on Twitter the troublemaker from Montpellier.In this sequence of 2 minutes 30, he indicates having acted with the complicity of Loic Spadafora founder of Météo Gard - Héraul, an information Twitter account dedicated to "forecasts, news and live monitoring of meteorological phenomena", and Marie, breeder of horses in the Hérault...Source:https://www.lindependant.fr/2021/11/13/ovni-observe-dans-le-ciel-de-la-region-un-canular-signe-remi-gaillard-9925699.phpContinue…The AVRORA Callsign MysteryNov10Mick WestNov 10, 20215,45710There's an apparent aricraft with the callsign "AVRORA" that shows up on FlightRadar24. It's the subject of several threads on Reddit, but nobody seems to have figured out what it is. The track initially looks like a standard trans-pacific route, but it's not. There's only two segments, one in the Arizona desert, and one off the coast of the Russian Kamchatka peninsula. There's no data for the path in-between (which is just an interpolated great circle).The Kamchatka location just shows up as occasional sporadic results, over several days, with very low air speed. The Arizona segment is very different, a steep slope and several tight turns of a 0.5 mile diameter circle at about 26 knots(These tracks are extracted from the raw JSON files using a custom Python script)What could this be? I think there's a few options, in no great orderADS-B Spoofing - i.e. not...Continue…Explained: Reddit UFO Los Angeles lights in the sky [Light on Pole]Nov06jarlrmaiNov 6, 20214,74817This video was posted to the UFO Reddit last nightYour browser is not able to display this video.Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/qnckv6/can_anyone_explain_this_happened_in_la_last_night/I did some initial investigation over there, brightened the video and worked out the location and direction the photo was taken from.Its here:https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@34.0...4!1sO4fUqA7i3Rlih-gxbBJjSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192St Louis Street Los Angles looking down Judson Street towards an intersection on i5/i10/US101So it follows that this likely is intersection lighting in the fog, however I am unable to find a matching lighting structure on the intersection, I used Bing and Google maps and various street view angles.Google...Continue…Explained: Tic-Tac Shaped UFO Near Lake Michigan [Plane]Nov03Mick WestNov 3, 20216,20119Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGmUF6R3CYThis was a relatively straightforward case. The object looked like a Tic-Tac shaped blob. Initially I thought it was fake, but then it quickly became apparent it was a real object (or at least a really good 3D fake).The low resolution, sharpening, and digital zoom make bright white shapes turn into blobs. Here on the right there the buildings and the racetrack, with the object overlaid at the same resolution.Sharpening makes it worse at this scale, as it adds dark pixels which make it look bigger. See the gaps between the buildings. Tracking down the plane was a simple matter as they gave the flight number, date, location, and view direction.Article:tic tac ufo seen (video...Source:https://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2021/11/tic-tac-ufo-filmed-from-a-plane-over-lake-michigan-17-oct-2021.htmlContinue…UFO Seen From FedEx Plane over Mexico March 19, 2020. Venus? (NARCAP TR 20)Oct29Mick WestOct 29, 202112,19510Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu0EemWzZpMArticle:1. The UAP/Light came from above and stopped/hovered near FL37, about the same altitude as the aircraft, shone a light on the 767 and briefly approached the aircraft. Then it instantly matched the speed, and heading of the aircraft and maintained a consistent separation.a. The light descended vertically, stopped abruptly, and shone a light on the 767 causing the crew to believe that there was another airliner on a collision heading with its landing lights on.b. It changed direction from vertical descent to a sudden stop/hover, to approaching the aircraft briefly, to taking the same heading and speed of the aircraft at about the same altitude and an estimated distance of 1-2k ft.c. It matched the altitude, speed, and heading of the aircraft, 575mph and at 37,000ft for over...Source:https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20Continue…St Ives Bay UFO On Hayle Beach [Probably a Drone]Oct23Mick WestOct 23, 202110,40128Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZn29dqy-IIn the "small, or far away" category this video is quite popular. It shows a light close to the horizon. The light hovers, pulsating, then suddenly moves to the left. It hovers for a while more and then ascends vertically. When it moves it leaves a trail of light.Pretty amazing, if it were actually way out over the ocean. However, a simpler explanation occurred to me when I noticed the people walking on the beach path. If we think the object as being directly above them instead of above the horizon, then it suddenly snaps into something simpler. A drone.Unable to play video. Browser incompatibleThe light trail, first of all, is just a common artifact of webcams like this. In low light, they build up the image using image persistence. This creates trails around anything that's...Continue…Does the beginning part of Gimbal debunk the claim that the object rotates?Oct13Edward CurrentOct 13, 2021 6,33820I received a DM from a UFOlogist, @realityseaker on Twitter, who had done some work on the Gimbal video and found something. Everyone focuses on the "flop," where the object/glare (hereafter the "blob") suddenly swivels dramatically — but his analysis suggests that the video's first 24 seconds are actually more telling. With his permission, I am looking for commentary.He started with a version that's rotation-stabilized to keep the bars of the horizon indicator level onscreen, and also centered and translation-stabilized on the blob. He then wrote a clever little program to track the rotation of the blob's major axis. He found a strong correlation between the rotation of the blob (orange) and the roll of the aircraft (blue):To make this more visually intuitive, I overlaid a constant angle on his video, and then roughly animated it to show how the blob and aircraft roll more or less at the same times and amounts: once around...Continue…UFOs at Nuclear Weapons Sites (Salas, Malmstrom, Eagle Flight) - Skeptical ResourcesOct11Mick WestOct 11, 202110,45623​[Thread Updated, October 20, 2021]Robert Salas' claims about UFO deactivating Nuclear weapons are once again bouncing around the media. A lot of the older analysis of these claims is getting lost to Internet decay, so I've gathered here the key resources that help understand the story from a skeptic's perspective.James Carlson's highly detailed (357 Pages) "American, Credulous - Establishing the Truth Behind the Echo Flight Incident of March 16, 1967"Article:The Echo Flight Incident holds a sad place of pride in Robert Hastings’ history of UFO interest in the marching forth of nuclear arms around the world, UFOs and Nukes, but as we shall see, his general disregard for anything approaching a generally accepted standard of proof ensures that his magnum opus will be forever classified as an interesting but...Source:https://www.metabunk.org/f/26641522-Americans-Credulous-by-James-Carlson.pdfContinue…DHS "Rubber Duck" FootageOct06Mick WestOct 6, 202113,291102Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Q82LsMPjQA 1080p50 video. Location and time on screen identifies it as taken from "IRONS12"Which is this plane:(Note the camera)video descriptionMy apologies for the bullshit but the footage was removed by YouTube so I am attempting to post again. I am finally proud to present to you guys the very FIRST legitimate footage of a genuine UAP craft tracked for over 40 minutes by the department of Homeland Security using FLIR optics system in black hot mode. The footage was captured by an RC-26 reconnaissance plane looking for drug smugglers somewhere over Tuscon Arizona. The object was spotted 20 minutes into the footage and was tracked for a full 40 minutes until the footage ended...Content from External SourceContinue…Explained: Panama UFO "Disc" [Cessna Taking Off]Sep26jhunsleySep 26, 20216,87427I spotted this video today - Source: https://youtu.be/u68GBjdLnEAIt claims to be submitted by someone in Panama. Can anyone tell if its recent or has it been around for a while? Its a good video but I'm thinking it's a fake. The giveaway is the two guys in the cherry picker don't seem to have noticed it. Why are they in the shot? Where they being filmed when the UFO happened to appear? Or, was it a film of them which was then manipulated and the UFO added? How come no one else videoed it?Thoughts?Continue…Explained: Chilean Navy "UFO" video - Aerodynamic Contrails, Flight IB6830Sep17Mick WestSep 17, 2021231,520186Your browser is not able to display this video.If you are short on time, then I made a one minute video explaining this:Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFfuIidCK0Background: Infrared footage from the Chilean Navy appears to show some kind of flying object that briefly leaves a trail behind it.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry..._us_586d37bce4b014e7c72ee56b?lciacn1ruwjkmx6r (.", "\.)At 1:52 pm, while filming the terrain, the technician observed a strange object flying to the left over the ocean. Soon both...Content from External SourceContinue…Debunked: Pfizer Developing a Twice-Per-Day COVID Pill, Taken Alongside VaccinesSep03Mick WestSep 3, 20215,0810The clickbait site "National File" posted this false headline (and sub-heading):Article:Pfizer Is Now Developing A Twice-Per-Day COVID Pill That Must Be Taken Alongside VaccinesPfizer is so confident the pill will be approved and likely mandated that it has started production before the end of clinical trialsSource:https://nationalfile.com/pfizer-is-now-developing-a-twice-per-day-covid-pill-that-must-be-taken-alongside-vaccines/This has been shared on social media, usually without any context, making it seem like it's a pill everyone will be mandated to take twice a day forever in addition to the vaccine. In reality, this is an antiviral drug, a protease inhibitor, currently called PF-07321332, which is designed to treat patients who are ill with COVID-19. Pfizer promotes it as a potential "a novel oral therapy that could be prescribed at the...Continue…Are 99% of COVID-19 Deaths Among the Unvaccinated?Aug30Mick WestAug 30, 202119,80862I found the above meme on Facebook, and reposted it on Twitter. I should relaly not have been surprised, but I got quite a bit of negative reaction from people saying I was spreading disinformation. But I think it's essentially true, even if the 99.2% figure is a little high although the 99.2% figure is out of date . But let's fact-check with sources. Firstly the first five "Who has been vaccinated" - which might seem uncontroversial, but people were still pushing back at some.1. Donald Trump and every other living US president.That's Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton and Carter.Article:Published March 1, 2021Updated April 17, 2021Former President Donald J. Trump and his wife, Melania, quietly...Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/politics/donald-trump-melania-coronavirus-vaccine.htmlContinue…Explained: Birdwatcher's "Amazing UFO", Burwell Fen, UK. [C-130 Landing Lights]Aug18Mick WestAug 18, 20216,4472The above still image from a video was the one chosen by some media outlets a few years ago (2014) to illustrate the story "VIDEO: Birdwatcher spots UFO in skies above Burwell- and has the footage to prove it!." And why not, it looks like a weird diamond shaped craft, almost a flying saucer.This old story wasn't on my radar until I made a comment on Twitter, wondering why (with their binoculars and long-lens cameras) birdwatchers didn't see UFOs (implying the the question of why there are no god photos of UFOs). Of course people then Googled "birdwatcher UFO" and that's about the only story that pops up, so it was gleefully offered as a counter-example by at least...Continue…Shape-Changing Light From Plane with Nikon P900 - Polarizing filter + Venus?Jul20Mick WestJul 20, 202114,63361Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3w0kI53aUJust looks like Venus at sunset? But when zoomed in, it takes on all kinds of shapesI've got a P900. To me these all look like some kind of optical distortions of a small light source (i.e. Venus). However I've not seen anything this extreme before, and I wonder what's actually going on. The shapes seem relatively stable, so that seems to rule out the normal atmospheric turbulence. Camera shake and zooming don't really seem to change the shape, and we don't see it actually change shape often, that seems to be off-screen. It's possible someone is deliberately inducing the distortion with something on the...Continue…Explained: UFOs viewed from the ISS - Squid BoatsJul20DavidB66Jul 20, 20219,50117Several media sources in the last few days have publicised video footage stated to be filmed from the ISS, showing a 'fleet' of bright lights moving steadily across the field of view. The publicity seems to have started with a Reddit post here, which includes an embedded video:Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/oixo2s/can_someone_please_explain_what_i_just_saw_on_the/The date of the posting is said to be '7 days ago', and the poster claims to have 'just' seen the footage in a live feed from the ISS on YouTube. The footage is watermarked with the 'SpaceVids' logo. There is indeed a SpaceVids channel on YT, which does stream live footage from the ISS. Tracking down the original footage in the SpaceVids stream, or in NASA's own platforms, would be a major task which I haven't attempted. 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WolfTotal:95 (members:6, guests:89)Forum statisticsThreads7,606Posts253,793Members10,202Latest memberDruid1971Tales From The Rabbit HoleEpisode 56: Robert Bartholomew – Havana Syndrome and Mass Psychogenic IllnessFri, 22 Oct 2021 14:30:39 PDTRobert Bartholomew has a PhD in Medical Sociology, and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He’s an expert in Mass Psychogenic Illness...Episode 55 – Professor Avi Loeb: The Galileo ProjectTue, 10 Aug 2021 15:22:31 PDTWhat is a University professor doing investigating UFOs?  Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University heads the Galileo Project, which seeks (in part) to identify the nature of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena by establishing a network of...Episode 54 – Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko: Pastels and PedophilesWed, 04 Aug 2021 18:00:54 PDTMia Bloom is Professor of Communication at Georgia State University with a PhD in political science from Columbia University. Sophia Moskalenko is a research fellow at Georgia State University and a researcher at the National...Episode 53 – Jason Colavito – UFOs and the Invisible College, How Did We Get Here?Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:46:08 PDTJason Colavito is an author and journalist with a focus on “alternative archeology” and, more recently, the UFO cultural phenomenon. In May 2021, he wrote the article: “How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers” in...Episode 52 – Luis Elizondo – UFOs, UAPs, AATIP, and TTSAThu, 11 Mar 2021 15:06:06 PSTLuis Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official, a disclosure advocate,  a national security expert, and the former director of the Pentagon’s UFO/UAP Program (AATIP). We talk about his work in those capacities and also... DefaultContact usTerms and rulesPrivacy policyHelpRSSCommunity platform by XenForo® © 2010-2022 XenForo Ltd.XenPorta 2 PRO © Jason Axelrod of8WAYRUN Top