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I haven't followed this discussion closely, but I think the passage I have quoted from #587 overlooks one important point. In Mick West's 'glare' hypothesis it is assumed [KEY ASSUMPTION] that the 'uncorrected' image is viewed in a display where the 'top' and 'bottom' of the screen correspond...

I have had another look at the comments under Lehto's video. Unfortunately I cannot find the one I quoted at #12 above. There are over 600 comments so I may just have missed it. Or he may have deleted it. For the record, the quoted passage in #12 was copied and pasted from Lehto's comment...

Have you got a reply to my question at #93 above? Take your time if you need to, but the usual custom here is that if you can't back up a claim you withdraw it.

Can you say where and when he said that, preferably with a link? On Saturday at #12 above I copied and pasted his explanation, probably also from Saturday, in the comments thread under his video. It doesn't say anything about trigonometry or software. If he has changed his mind, or maybe...

But Lehto doesn't know how the system works, does he? By his own account he doesn't know where the RNG figures come from. He just has a gut feeling that they must be wrong, based on his conviction that the object is much closer to the sea than the figures imply, which in turn is based on his...

Why?

Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't Radar measure the direct distance along the line of 'sight'? No trig needed for that. (Assuming we are talking about radar beams transmitted from the plane itself, not some other source.)

Isn't that (the reduced sharpness of the ocean) just because after the pod starts tracking the object, the ocean is moving faster in the background, so there is motion blur?

Another point that occurs to me on reading Lehto's comments at #11 again is that he clearly doesn't know how the RNG data on the display is derived, or where it comes from. Neither do I, but then I don't go round boasting about being a Top Gun pilot, and dismissing other people's views based on...

I just checked the video again to see new comments, and found that when I sorted them by 'Newest first' the newest were from 6 hours ago. I suspect that Lehto is putting all new comments on hold.

I don't see any comment from you under the video in question. Is it somewhere else, or is he maybe blocking you? It would be prize hypocrisy if he complains that you don't talk to pilots and then blocks you! Scrolling through the comments on YT, I did notice that Lehto had responded to a...

The guy may be an excellent flyer, but he doesn't seem to understand parallax or camera focus. His argument near the beginning seems to assume that parallax effects would make distant objects appear to move faster than close ones, which is the reverse of the case, but it's difficult to be sure...

The comment is at 40:24 give or take a few seconds. I agree he definitely says it (Gimbal) switches to TV mode. Maybe he is unconsciously thinking of the FLIR1 video, where there is such a switch. But it's still a surprising mistake to make when the Gimbal video is in front of him. [Written...

This is getting confusing. A total of 12 nm from edge to edge implies a diameter, not radius, of 10 nm for the outer ring (which is not quite on the edges). This would put the Swan Ace within 5 nm of the Omaha. Surely not? Did you mean from center to edge?

The UK just recorded the first day without a single Covid-related death since March last year. But there is still much concern about the spread of the 'Indian' variant, which is thought to be more transmissible than even the 'UK' variant. It's difficult to be sure of this, because in the UK...

The Swan Ace itself 'just disappears', but in that case it is plausible that there is a long gap in the time frame, so that the Swan Ace has time to gently steam out of the picture. The same explanation might apply to other objects which disappear at the same time, but for the earlier sudden...

I don't know how much weight we can give Corbell's list of points, which may be just his interpretations of the data or what he has been told at second or third hand, but I note he states that 'unknowns were self-illuminated'. If they were drones this would imply that they had display lights...

The Navy base on San Clemente Island would be an obvious source for drones (fixed wing or copter) but it would be surprising if that was the whole story. Even if the drone operations were secret at the time, would the Navy really let media speculation about 'drone incursions' run riot if they...

Apparently, drone racing is a thing. As of April 2019, the world speed record for a non-military drone was over 160 mph, and in short bursts speeds of up to 180 mph were possible. Still, 138 knots is indeed pretty fast, if it was not a radar glitch or a misreading of the data on screen.

I have edited my #153 above to correct an error and an oversight. The error was an incorrect reference to a previous post (#93). The oversight was that I had forgotten that #93 doesn't estimate the time of the final clip in the video, since the Swan Ace ship, which formed a key reference...