UFOs Are in the News Again, but Investigator Mick West Has Been Busily Debunking Them
You probably know UFOs are all over the news again, with new videos released by (or in some cases leaked from) the US military. As a kid I was fascinated with the possibility that Earth was being visited by strange creatures from another solar system, piloting spacecraft capable of amazing feats that defied the laws of physics.
But the more I learned about the vast scale of the universe and the almost unimaginable distances between stars, and the more I read Carl Sagan and other scientists and writers who debunked the UFO theories, the more skeptical I became. And as much as I would have seriously loved for UFOs to be alien spacecraft, I eventually had to admit to myself that it was extremely unlikely.
Even apart from the problem of distance, what would all these aliens be doing on this obscure backwater planet in an insignificant arm of the Milky Way? Is Earth some kind of cosmic interchange that all the creatures of the galaxy have to pass through on the way to Zaxilon 7? Because there sure seem to be a lot of them. And are humans really that interesting to creatures that can travel between stars? If so, why don’t they just contact us openly?
Anyway, I’m still as skeptical as that disillusioned kid, so here are a couple of videos by UFO investigator/debunker Mick West, dealing with the recently released footage and showing there’s much less to them than it seems at a cursory glance, or a 10-second clip on CNN.
New reference footage from night vision monoculars (including the military standard PVS-14) demonstrates pretty conclusively that the supposed flying pyramid UFO actually looks exactly like a slightly out of focus light in the sky - quite possibly just a plane, as the ship was right under a flight path for LAX.
Some of the other lights are identified as Jupiter and some stars.
I don’t think that means the Navy got it terribly wrong. This was initially unidentified (with the UAP Task Force Investigates), and they maybe even thought it was a triangle for a few minutes. But it’s not. It’s just some lights in the sky.
Thanks to Jesse and Stian for the footage, and Dylan_DTV for finding the astronomy match.
The latest US Navy related UFO video is low resolution, and has some camera movements that make it look like the object is moving rapidly left and right. But stabilizing the video shows it’s not making these sudden moves. It’s really just sinking very slowly towards the horizon, with an a constant horizontal velocity.
There are six minutes missing from this descent, which makes it look quicker than it actually is.
When it gets to the horizon, it looks like it SHRINKS, rather than disappearing from the bottom up. This suggests it’s a glare, much larger than the actual heat source.
Ultimately there’s not enough information to determine what it is, but we can tell that is not making any sudden moves.
