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For anyone fixated on the idea that the apparent shape of the Gimbal object must represent its true shape, it should be sufficient to point to the example of the FLIR1 video. In that case the apparent shape of the object in white-hot IR mode is utterly different from its apparent shape in TV...

Different case, as has been pointed out, but interesting for the 'tic-tic' incident if it is new information. I don't recall seeing it before, but I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of that case. Do you have a source for it?

Judging by that familiar 'bonfire' case with the huge rotating diffraction spike, there isn't any close relationship between the size of a glare and the size of the hot object. In that case the 'spike' was many times wider than the fire. I recall that previously someone did some work on the...

Unless you know otherwise, I don't think he was the pilot or WSO on that occasion. He just talks a lot about it.

This reminded me of the saying (in various wordings) that a lie will travel round the world before the truth can get its boots on. This one has also been attributed to Mark Twain, who seems to be a quote-magnet like Einstein or Churchill. In fact it is at least a few decades older than...

If such a competition existed, and Einstein was involved, there would be public records of it, and Einstein scholars, of whom there are many, would know about it. There is an ongoing project to publish all of Einstein's works and correspondence. Unfortunately the published volumes have not...

According to various sources, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton is purely a research institution, does not have undergraduate students, and does not award degrees. Some general background here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study However, lectures and...

I'm sure you didn't mean to smear Einstein, but that's his daughter Margot. [Correction: strictly his step-daughter, make of that what you will.]

I didn't know about Einstein's Navy work, or if I did, I had forgotten it. (I have read the biography of Einstein by Ronald W. Clark, but that was many years ago. More recently I read the book by Abraham Pais, which is mainly about Einstein's scientific work, and I don't recall if he mentioned...

There seems to be at least one major objection to this story: Einstein didn't have a security clearance. According to this source, he had been rejected for security clearance in 1940 on grounds of his 'pacifist tendencies': https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/albert-einstein By 1947...

Is it on a treadmill?

Yes, that's what I thought (vaguely recalling previous discussions). But unless it is explained when the sim is publicised, I guess at least 50% of the audience (and 99% of the UFO-nuts) will think there is something wrong with it, and Mick will spend days on Twitter explaining why there isn't!

I know this has been explained before, and I think I understand the explanation (or at least I did at the time), but on viewing the simulation it still looks intuitively as if the clouds are moving in the wrong direction. People coming new to the subject are likely to have the same reaction, so...

Thanks, that seems very likely. Still, it's interesting that losing lock, and sometimes losing the image altogether, coincides with the changes of mode. One would hope that there would be a seamless transition, with this multi-million dollar system!

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but in the FLIR1 video, at least in the version linked below, something odd happens around 0:17 and 0:41. I wanted to see exactly how the apparent shape of the object changes when the ATFLIR changes from IR to TV mode (at 0:17) and back from TV to...

In the Nimitz case Alex Dietrich was flying 'high cover' at around 20,000 feet, and I think she stayed at that level. Fravor went down much lower to observe the object. I'm not sure how low he went, but at least down to 12,000 feet. Difficult to see how they could see the same reflections...

By those definitions, yes. The International Commission on Illumination definition of glare seems to be mainly concerned with its use in relation to lighting generally, not specifically in photography. The definition of 'lens flare' is from a Wikipedia article, which has no great authority...

Thanks for the video clip. I'm pretty sure that is the one I meant. I remembered it as 'black hot', which just goes to show how dangerous it is to rely on memory without an objective record to back it up. Well, my memory anyway! I would describe that spike as 'glare', and certainly not as...

If you know the video I meant, could you give a link or at least its YouTube title? As I recall, the 'rotating spikes' in that video don't look anything like 'typical lens flares', as I interpret that term. However, the definition in the Wikipedia article on 'Lens flare' which you link to is...

I'm not sure what Itsme means by the distinction between 'spike' and 'glare'. A glare may or may not have projecting spikes; if it does, the spike is part of the glare, not something separate. Perhaps 'spikes' in an image can be caused by something other than glare, but I can't offhand think...