Recent content by Mick West

Not impossible. I've been working on making it more general purpose, so you can set up your own situations. And of course they might use it for Aguadilla. I'd be surprised though.

Everything not moving in the view (assuming the camera does not rotate) is moving relative to the plane at 352 feet per second, or 11.7 feet per frame. If it were 100 feet long it would move 0.117 times its length (11.7/100) per frame. The distance is irrelevant because things look smaller, as...

It's an assumption to test the question: "is this consistent with a balloon". If it can be shown to be moving under its own power then that would invalidate the balloon hypothesis. But what we can say is that there is nothing inconsistent with it being a balloon.

We don't. We know: 1 - the plane is going 240 mph, or 352 feet per second 2 - the object's apparent speed is about 4.3 times its own length per 1/30th of a second From just those two things, and assuming it's not moving under its own power and there's no significant wind we can estimate the...

There was a thread last month discussing a lower quality version of this video, with less information:https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ufo-filmed-over-new-york-city-what-is-it.13406/ In particular there was discussion about it being a solar balloon. If the calculation of <3 feet is correct, I...

Source: Michelle Reyes, Facebook This video was shot on March 24th, 2024, but recently showed up on a NewsNation segment with an interview of Michelle. Ben Hansen was in the segment, persumable as a representative of Engima Labs who had done some analysis, determining it was not fake, probably...

Compressing the levels on the IR image, we get the distinct impression that it's not a two-tone ball, looking more like a white sphere with a black "hat". We don't know if it's black hot or white hot. There's possibly some detail on the white part, but maybe just noise. The shape of the...

AARO is not saying it's that particular type of balloon. Their assessment is only with "moderate confidence" and some of it seems a bit of a stretch. Although the pilot described the object as uniformly gray in the visible spectrum (it appears uniformly black from the viewing angle in the EO...

AARO thinks it's a balloon https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/case_resolution_reports/Case_Resolution_of_Eglin_UAP_2_508_.pdf (U) AARO assesses the reported UAP very likely was an ordinary object and was not exhibitinganomalous or exceptional characteristics or flight behaviors. AARO has...

Marik suggested I put this one into Sitrec. I like that Peterson had a Sitrec-like recreation back in the 1990s It would be good to A) verify this, and B) extract more info, like size, and speed. At a minimum, I need the first frame for each unique AZ, EL, and RNG value. This should be in a...

Just bumping this, as it might not have got noticed waiting for approval.

I did a fairly significant site upgrade today, updating: Ubuntu (the server's operating system) from 20.0.4 LTS to 22.0.4 LTS PHP (the language used by the forum software, and a bit of Sitrec) from 7.2 to 8.3.6 Xenforo (the forum software) from 2.2.something to 2.2.16 This all should be good...

AARO has released two documents, and this statement (which is also the first paragraph of the report. : The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) first learned of the KONA BLUE program from interviews conducted as part of its historical review. Multiple interviewees identified KONA BLUE...

Photo: Prasen Yadav Ufologists often like to make a connection between UFOs and nuclear power, and often quote historical incidents. A recent article by Marik Von Rennenkampff said: In late 1948, for example, dozens of pilots, defense personnel and scientists associated with the famed Los...

I know. But I often move posts that are not quoting someone.