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rotating disturbing videos of UFOs have

been taken by some of the best trained

pilots on the planet we actually have

military pilots who are saying I saw

something that I don't understand

unknown and Fe unknown we don't know

what they actually saw we only have

their interpretation of it so this is

the helmet that I was wearing it would

be really irresponsible to suggest that

all of these things are of the same

origin that they're of the same

technology that they're of the same

phenomenon we can't say it's aliens but

we can't say it's not aliens people in

New Jersey are concerned and what about

the explosion of news reports of strange

objects flying over New Jersey upwards

of 49 plus drone seds as scientists we

also want to get to the bottom of this

there's an aircraft there we go what are

UFOs right now on

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car.com in the halls of Congress Navy

Pilots are speaking out this object

remained for about 45 seconds or so

before darting off over the mountains we

were seeing objects with our Radars with

our cameras and even with our eyes

flying on an almost daily basis we're

very sensitive to how things turn and

how things accelerate and how things

move and this didn't follow any of those

laws of

physics as of 20123 military and

commercial pilots have reported seeing

801 objects they couldn't identify when

we're talking about having an

unidentified thing in our airspace

whether it's directly overhead or in our

Coastal Waters we need to figure out is

this an issue of flight safety is this

an issue of National Security is this an

adversary spying on us or could it be

top secret Tech developed right here at

home I can tell you unequivocally that

the government does keep secrets when it

comes to Aerospace technology the

Pentagon has what we often call a black

budget which can sometimes exceed 65

billion

in a

year even within the military there's

never been a consensus really that it's

this or that or that it's not

extraterrestrial we cannot rule out

extraterrestrials but you have no

evidence for it it comes back to the

evidence regular citizens have been

reporting things for decades and yet we

hear nothing from the government about

what this may be and now that we have

more

observations more cameras more cell

phones that are taking pictures of

phenomenon in our atmosphere scientists

need to come forward and talk about how

we can identify these

objects in science we encounter

anomalies all the time and it's our job

to try to figure out what those

anomalies are telling us about the

universe

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this isn't the first time unidentified

flying objects have captured our

imagination and startled the

world it was back in the 1940s that

sightings started piling up June 24th

1947 as he flew near Mount reneer in

Washington state pilot Kenneth Arnold

spotted something strange

as he was flying around he said he saw

these objects glinting off of the sun

because they mve like they were skipping

off of water the term Flying Saucer came

about at the time there were other

people having sightings but this is the

one that just really kind of ignite this

interest in the public about

UFOs from New York to California people

started to report seeing flying saucers

just about

everywhere sightings were spreading like

wildfire culture informs our

understanding of the world around us if

you expect to see a UFO that looks like

a pyen well when you see something

unusual in the sky that you have trouble

Discerning what it was your brain may be

more apt to say that look like a

pyen it may seem strange that in the

1940s and 50s so many Americans were

were suddenly spotting objects in the

sky but with the Cold War in full swing

it was a time of heightened anxiety and

worry about new threats overhead this

was a time period in which there was a

lot of military technology

Development coming out of World War

II we have developed

radar this was the first major war where

air power was a huge

player and there was a lot of unknown

Tech

emerging all of these things kind of

came together and then of course you had

the Roswell

incident Roswell New Mexico a Rancher

came across another piece of the Flying

Saucer puzzle essentially this ranchan

comes in says I found this material they

send a couple Air Force people from

Roswell Army Airfield out to take a look

one of them says hey I think this stuff

was

weird they take the material to Fort

Worth Fort wor says it was obviously a

weather

balloon story's

over but the public wasn't buying it and

Hollywood saw an opportunity to run with

a captivating

Story aliens sometimes friendly and

sometimes not were visiting planet Earth

the lack of Answers by the government

did leave a void and Hollywood and and

entertainment certainly filled that void

Earth versus the flying

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saucers and we were left with a wide

assortment of scenarios imagining

contact with aliens with saucers or

aliens on the moon or Mars or alien

invasions that are quite dramatic what

are they where do they come from

certainly this can uh instill a lot of

fear in

people in the absence of

scientists or other authoritative voices

filling the Gap and and explaining

what's going

on all we heard from the authorities was

there's nothing to see

here but behind the scenes the military

was

investigating probably the most

significant historical investigation of

UFOs by the government was Project Blue

Book it investigated thousands and

thousands of UFO

sightings for more than 20 years

military investigators and scientists

scrutinized the data looking for

answers what are all these objects do

any of them present a clear and present

danger scientists like astronomer Jay

Allen heinik were brought in to help the

Air Force connect the

dots Dr J Allen heinik was the

consultant for the Air Force from 1947

all the way to 1969 the entire time they

were investigating this topic he was a

skeptic himself because of that early

association with aliens and Little Green

Men so when they approached him he's

like I'll do this but I'm going to

easily be able to debunk this in no time

because this is just

silliness Project Blue Book ended in

1969 when the Air Force released the

Condon

report after investigating more than

12,000 UFO sightings

701 remained

unidentified when you've not explained

that much of your data as a scientist

that's not

acceptable and it wasn't acceptable for

heinik he' had a change of heart that

would last a

lifetime he started to see that there

was Data there that indicates that not

all of these are easily solvable and

that they do deserve

investigation but he would stay away

from the alien side of things he would

try to focus on you know this is a

mystery we don't understand but it it's

just too difficult to do because the

media and the public just can't

disassociate those things the aliens in

the

UFOs this created an environment that

scientists and any serious person did

not want to go near it so aliens were

right in there with ghosts the loch nest

monster bigfoot it was all part of this

the unknown spooky stuff that probably

ain't

true because of this stigma today the

Department of Defense refers to these

unidentified flying objects UFOs as uaps

unidentified anomalous

phenomena they changed it from UFO to

UAP to try to reduce that stigma to try

to get away from that history that

historical trigger that happens in our

brains the word UFO unfortunately has

become a taboo word within the

scientific

Community it's actually been a diss

surface to our community and our society

for not trying to teach and communicate

about what actually is in the night

sky there's no shortage of things in the

night sky that can seem

strange some are natural like the colors

of the Northern Lights the beauty of a

meteor

shower planet Venus in the night

sky even clouds that form strange

saucer-like shapes

and plenty that are not so natural

wonders right now above my head are

planes you can hear helicopter flying

over there's probably some drones up

there too and if you're in the right

place at the right time you can probably

even see some satellites up there cuz

there's a lot of stuff out there that

might not be as strange as you think it

is so weird that's not a plane the

number of things that are in our sky

today are thousands oh my

God now it's not moving at all it's

hovering right there we have weather

balloons 1,800 of them are launched

daily around the world you can actually

see things in Earth's orbit from the

ground you can see for instance the

International Space Station at night

flying

overhead and if you see a cluster of

Lights traveling across the night sky

they're probably part of a satellite

system called

starlink when starlink launches a 60

satellite string people look at that and

go I don't know what that is and it

looks very weird and

concerning technology I think has

created much more clutter in the sky and

an ability for us to misinterpret

things there's a lot in our sky and in

for studying UFOs of course you have to

know what's in the sky that is known

before you can identify what's unknown

that's especially difficult when it

comes to some of the strangest sightings

ever

made those videos taken by Navy

Pilots one of the most famous is

nicknamed the

gimbal we recorded the gimbal object

when we were down off the coast of

Jacksonville Florida aboard the USS

Theodore Roosevelt in

2015 former fa18 pilot Ryan graves will

never forget what some pilots in his

Squadron told him about their bizarre

UAP

experience the event unfolded during a

night training

Mission drone

bro they see something strange they've

been closing on it for a couple minutes

as they fly towards it to better

understand it it has to be a drone

that's the logical thing no one's out

there saying it's UFOs or aliens or

whatever it's just an unknown thing and

what is it while their camera only

captures the image of one object their

radar tells a more complex story there's

a whole Fleet of them look on the

sa my

gosh as they gather more information and

they see a a whole Fleet of them on

their radar um it's harder to understand

what they're seeing and you can hear

that in their voices they're all going

against the wind the wind's 120 mes the

West

dude then the object does something

downright bizarre well if

there's it's

rotating you see the object appears to

rotate then the video uh cuts out at

that

point you know so I don't know what the

gimbal is we still don't know what it

is there's no doubt many of the

recordings of UFOs made by Navy Pilots

look very

strange to try to DEC code them it's

crucial to understand the kinds of

sensors and cameras being used so the

vast majority of the evidence that's

excited the public imagination about

these videos comes in the form of

infrared

imagery imagery taken with an onboard

infrared camera system called at Fleer

Sean Kirkpatrick former director of the

government's Department in charge of

investigating uaps what is it reflecting

and engineer Josh seer explore how the

world looks in infrared light with the

help of tadine engineer DaNell Lago so

what you have here is you got the

visible on this side here it's a 4K

visible image and then the thermal on

this side on the right side of the

screen the camera is capturing visible

light light the human eye can see but on

the left side the Boston skyline looks

radically different because this is a

thermal image taken with an infrared

camera that detects variations in

temperature the cars on the bridge are

emitting more heat than the background

the more heat an object emits The Wider

it appears the less the darker it gets

and can you switch that yes we can

invert it we can make everything that's

black hot and everything that's white

cold and that's exactly what we see our

Pilots

doing Pilots when they see things they

will toggle back and forth so that they

can try to get the best contrast to try

to figure out what they're looking at

and going so why don't we try and see if

we can see any

aircraft even on a hazy day like this

there's an aircraft there we go it

doesn't take long to spot one there is

an aircraft that you can't tell in the

infrared is an aircraft but in the

visible I sure can y exactly right and

now we don't we switch it to uh black is

Hut play the same game yeah play the

same game and see what it looks like AE

there's a plane there's a plane there's

a plane there you

go I saw this just Little Dot tripping

through the field and I was only looking

at the infrared camera and Sean who was

watching the visual camera next door

said there's an airplane and I looked

over and this enormous aircraft was

moving through the

scene it's just a blob it's a little

blob so that was an image of the engine

yeah yeah that's basically all you saw

you didn't see the rest of the fuselage

the world looks very different in the

infrared versus the

visible exploring the deceptive nature

of infrared light provides scientists

with valuable Clues to why a plane could

take on an otherworldly

shape but it doesn't explain why the

gimbal seems to move in ways that defy

physics the gimbal video is one of the

most famous UFO videos and with good

reason I think cuz it looks like a

flying

saucer UFO investigator and conspiracy

debunker Mick West spent years analyzing

the gimbal video frame by frame clue by

clue the the interesting thing about the

gimbal video besides it being a flying

sorcerer is this rotation it does and

this was very

puzzling it took a long time to figure

out what might be going on there

Mick brings a unique set of skills to

this

challenge I used to program video games

many years ago I really enjoyed the

process of solving

puzzles and I use my 3D geometry and

trigonometry and algebra and all the

skills that I use in games programming

to analyze the

UFOs Mick starts his investigation of

the gimbal by combing through publicly

available information

the plane that captured the gimbal video

is an

fa18 equipped with an infrared camera

mounted beneath the wing in a targeting

pod next he builds a simulation of the

plane and the camera which is on a

device called a

gimbal the gimbal enables the camera to

rotate as it tracks a

Target but the camera isn't the only

thing in motion

the Pilot's display reveals that the

object is also

moving from the left side of the plane

to the

right to track something going from left

to right which is what we're seeing here

the camera actually has to rotate and it

has to rotate a specific amount as it

traverses over from one side to the

other using the simulation he's created

Mick makes a surprising discovery the

amount that gimbal rotates and the time

it rotates is exactly what would be

needed for the camera to track this

object he's come up with a theory about

why the object appears to rotate and

sets up an experiment to demonstrate how

it works using his cell phone and his

desk

lamp take your cell phone and point the

camera at a a bright light a single

light and then rotate your cell phone so

you've got a rotating camera but nothing

is rotating except the artifacts of the

camera so if you have a glare like an

artifact of the camera when the camera

rotates the scene itself doesn't rotate

but the glare rotates and I think that's

what we're seeing in the gimbal

video it's possibly something like a

dist on plane something that's hot off

in the distance the heat of the engine

was kind of pointing towards the camera

and that kind of bloomed in the camera

created this glare that was so big it

obscured the entire plane

but not everyone agrees with this Theory

I want to be clear that that's entirely

possible but I personally don't find

that particularly likely the reason for

that is strictly this Fleer system is

something that military personnel are

trained to use to identify adversary and

friendly

aircraft Pilots are well aware of how

the gimbal system works as well as the

nature of common camera artifacts like

glare I don't think this was a distant

plane I do believe it was an object that

was about 4 to 6 miles away from the

fighter aircraft not a distant jet at 30

nautical miles away if it was a distant

jet where would it come from why were we

not receiving any indications that it

was or was not part of our strike

group in 2021 the Department of Defense

formed Arrow the all domain anomaly

resolution office to investigate uaps

like the gimbal

to date Arrow considers this case

unresolved so for us anything that

remains unidentified is a severe threat

that we should be paying attention to as

tactical aviators because that's exactly

what we're training to

identify the gimbal isn't the only UAP

that appears to defy the laws of

physics

2013 just after dark at the airport in

agadia Puerto Rico

US Customs and Border control captured

this video of an oddly behaving object

it looks like the object is traveling

quickly it looks like it's disappearing

into the

water and coming out of the water

disappearing again coming

out and splitting into two and kind of

Disappearing

completely enthusiasts will point to

that and say that is evidence of warp

drives or interdimensional drives and

that it's transm medium because it's

going in and out of the

water what do we see but could there be

another reason that's more down to earth

so let's do this as a controlled

experiment engineer Josh Seer enlists

the help of Shan Kirkpatrick former

director of Arrow to cook up an idea can

they recreate this dis appearing act in

the lab sounds like with a knife Spoon

and Fork well we already did that what

do you see and two surrogate UFOs what I

thought we'd try to use to do this is a

infrared sensor uh it just Clips on uh

like so they set it up on a

tripod take a look and see absolutely

nothing we're not seeing anything at all

in these objects sea takes the spoon and

fork along with one of the UAP

surrogates and puts them in a cooler for

just about what do you think Josh second

10 seconds yeah it doesn't take long uh

I'd say 10 seconds it's more than enough

about 10 seconds later give or take all

right let's take them out and see what

they look

like that right back where they were and

what do we got well there's three

objects there wow that's pretty

Stark we can see the fork and spoon

along with one of the UFO

surrogates and I don't see the other two

cannot find the other two but they are

clearly there but over the next few

minutes they gradually disappear

again the question is why there is a

tendency for objects that are at

different temperatures when they're in

contact to eventually reach the same

temperature as one another it's not a

magic trick for an object to show up in

infrared light it must be a different

temperature than objects it is in

contact with so when the fork and spoon

exchanged thermal energy with the table

thermal equilibrium is reached making

them invisible in infrared

light and that brings us back to the

disappearing objects in the Puerto Rico

video which were also captured with an

infrared sensor

as the object becomes the same either

temperature or a Radiance as the

background you won't be able to see it

it'll become nearly invisible and it

looks like it

disappears after months of carefully

analyzing the video scientists think

they have an answer we think they're two

birds then when they get close to the

water the effect on the sensor kicks in

where it's having a hard time

distinguishing the contrast between the

background and the birds and they look

like they disappear and then they

reappear because the reflectance changes

and then they separate and then it looks

like they land in the

water this demo doesn't capture all the

conditions of this sighting but Shawn

and Josh believed that shifts in

temperature and reflection might explain

the apparent disappearing act I am

satisfied with that explanation because

that's how a scientist speaks with

respect to some phenomenal that's not

known we don't speak in

certainty so for instance if one were to

say that is either two birds flying over

the

ocean or it is a alien anti-gravity

technology exhibiting trans medium

characteristics I choose the bird

explanation the sighting in Puerto Rico

might simply be two birds

and the gimbal video might be a distant

plane but one of the most famous UFO

sightings has been even more challenging

for

investigators I was an eyewitness to

what is considered one of the most

important UFO or UAP encounters and

that's the uh USS Nimitz tictac

encounter November

14th 2004

about 100 miles Southwest of San Diego

Alex Dietrich then a young Aviator in

training along with her commanding

officer David fraver a seasoned pilot

with more than a decade of flying under

his

belt set out on a routine training

exercise it was clear blue skies calm

Waters when we get a call by this

controller kind of like an air traffic

controller for our military exercise and

they say hey we need you to go check out

this contact over here the radar on one

of the ships in the strike group had

detected an unknown object and this is

2004 just a few years after 911 the hair

on the back of our neck stands up and we

go hm okay and we divert and we head

towards

it and we don't see anything

initially but somebody sees a

disturbance in the water and this

strange thing is flying very fast but

erratically over the this area of water

it was off-white you know sort of a

white creamish color we didn't see a

cockpit we didn't see windows and it

moved in ways that we didn't understand

Dietrich and fraver returned to the

nimts without taking video of the

object so another aircraft went in

Pursuit and captured

this we call it affectionately a Tic Tac

because it looks like the little breath

mint Mick West decides to take on the

challenge to see if he can make sense of

the movement of the Tic Tac it's a very

blurry video I think he's actually out

of

focus and it's not actually doing

anything it's just basically flying away

and a bit to the left and more or less a

straightish line but the thing is David

fr's description is very

dramatic in fact when Commander David

fraver testified before Congress in 2023

he described an object that in his 18

years of flying traveled at speeds he'd

never seen before as we looked around he

saw a white Tic Tac object with a

longitudinal axis pointing North South

and moving very abruptly over the water

like a pingpong ball he talks about the

object kind of ping ponging around close

to the ocean and then doing this very

difficult synchronized movement up

towards the

top I'm going to tie it off over here

Mick conducts an experiment based solely

on the Pilot's eyewitness

reports using his backyard swimming pool

and his version of the Tic Tac yeah I

made the Tic Tac out of a piece of wood

and some bits of white wire and painted

it

white he suspends his Tic Tac over the

swimming pool about

there climbs up a ladder with his phone

and starts

recording so what I set up with the pool

demo is just a good illustration of what

might have happened to try to figure out

what's actually moving

here is this object moving or is the

camera moving because we don't have um

any frame of reference we've just got

the pool behind us you kind zoom in a

little bit so all you see is the pool it

really looks like the object is

moving even though it's

not it's only the camera that's

moving it's a good illustration of

Parallax which as we know is one of the

big causes of optical

illusions you may have experienced this

illusion I usion looking out the window

of a train the trees just outside the

window appear to be moving in relation

to the landscape in the background but

the only thing that's actually moving is

you we're not reliable our eyes are not

reliable if you're going to court and

you're the accused and it's a eyewitness

testimony that's going to you know the

big evidence against you good

luck so when a military Aviator

especially someone like Commander fraver

with combat experience says that they

saw something in the sky that they can't

quite explain that operated in a way

that seemed to contradict what they

understand the laws of physics would

dictate I tend to give those witness

testimonies a great deal of credence

because these aviators are not just

highly trained pilots they're highly

trained combatants the pilot observation

is I see something the data we need is

what the sensor is gathering and that's

the numbers we actually

need in the case of the Tic Tac the

pilot did see something but some of the

key technical questions hadn't been

investigated at the time and trying to

investigate those now is not going to

give us a whole lot because there's

nothing to really examine the farther

back in time you go the less data there

is for every one of these cases and back

in 2004

there was no data retention policy for

these kinds of

events according to Shan Kirkpatrick the

radar data from the incident no longer

exists so we'll never know if it would

support or rule out mix Parallax Theory

I don't know what we saw and I refus to

speculate because I think it would be

irresponsible of me to say you know well

was definitely an adversary spying on us

or it was definitely an alien visiting

from outer space uh because I don't

know for Alex that was the end of the

Tic Tac story and then I went on with my

life my career and I didn't really think

about

it that is until 13 years later when the

New York Times published this article

with links to the Tic Tac and gimbal

videos when the New York Times released

this story it really gave the whole

topic a bit of credibility where a lot

of people saw it as taboo and sort of

silly but if the US government has been

investing tens of millions of dollars

into investigating these reports there

seems like there could be something to

it people are interested in this topic

of UFOs and Congress has begun to get

involved there's been a couple of

Congressional hearings calling expert

witnesses to try and figure out what's

going on here

in your belief is this this flying Tic

Tac I mean is this is it capable of

being the product of any other Nation on

the earth no I actually I think it

defies current Material Science and the

ability to develop that much propulsion

and I I know there's been some physicist

of calculations which is beyond anything

that we

have should we be concerned that some

UFOs are Advanced Technologies from out

of this world or secret Technologies

developed by our

adversaries or could there be another

reason UFOs have remained so elusive for

decades remember back in 1947 in Roswell

New Mexico when a Rancher found strange

debris in his

pasture the Air Force said it was from a

weather

balloon but as it turns out it was part

of a classified US military program

called PR

Mogul the Air Force launched these

balloons and they had these sensors on

them where they can measure vibrations

in the air to be able to monitor Russian

nuclear

testing the General in Fort Worth Texas

decided I'm going to cover up this

classified project and I'm going to show

the public that what we recovered was a

weather

balloon it would take half a century for

the Air Force to admit exactly what had

crashed in Roswell so there was a cover

up but it was a cover up of a classified

project not you know an alien

spacecraft the secrecy led to the

conspiracy and certainly the Air Force

did not help themselves by being secret

and dismissive of the

topic when it comes to government

coverups perhaps the most infamous is

Area

51 Tales of alien spacecraft hidden

inside this remote Air Force Base about

83 Mi Northwest of Las Vegas have

persisted for

decades it turns out the military has

been secretly developing cuttingedge

technology here since the

1950s but did not even acknowledge the

existence of the base until

2013 there are lots of aircraft we know

have been tested at Area 51 entirely in

secret at the time including the f117

the

SR71 the B2 spirit and many more right

around the same time that B2 Spirit was

in development common sightings of UFOs

around the United States tended to

transition away from the pie saucer

shape we were familiar with in earlier

decades and toward a more triangular

shape this is a model of what people

claim was the tr3b which is a legendary

aircraft that people allege was built

using reverse engineered alien

technology by the 1990s rumors of

triangular-shaped spacecraft became so

widespread they became part of popular

culture Blockbusters like the xfiles

featured a triangular-shaped alien

spacecraft hovering over Agent Fox

molders

head I think the government should and

does expect that the public is going to

fill in the blanks as they see fit as

long as people are talking about aliens

operating out of Area 51 well then

they're not revealing anything about the

legitimate military platforms that are

being tested there it creates a bit of a

smoke

screen there's always Advanced

technological programs going on that are

on a need to no basis if you don't need

to know even if you are a member of the

government or the military you're not

going to know and that's the way it

should

be this is all about spy versus spy or

military versus military to maintain

technical

superiority we don't want other people

to learn what we're building where we

might employ it because then they can

defeat it there are reasons to do that

none of it is

alien none of

it I think we're in an era where

conspiracy theories are popular

is this another

one when it comes to sightings by

military pilots and the public how can

science help separate unfounded

conspiracy theories from

reality fact from fiction from the very

days that Galileo first lifted his

telescope to the sky and made

measurements of the moons going around

Jupiter everybody else could then

reproduce those measurements and go oh

yeah he's right and that confirmation

is what has made the scientific method

so powerful over the last 400 years the

thing we need is

data and we need real data and we don't

have it we at Nasa are a in 2022 NASA

brought together a group of experts to

explore ways to collect that data NASA

should lead the scientific discourse we

need to elevate this

conversation the NASA UAP panel was

formed to bring that sence perspective

into this that analysis has not been

done a lot of people argue uh that we

have data but the vast majority of that

data is anecdotal and that's just not

going to cut it the panel recommended

several ways to collect more data

including repurposing existing

technology like the National Weather

Services radar system called

Nexrad radar stations that are found

throughout the US so those same sensors

should be able able to see if an object

comes whizzing through at an

extraordinary velocity it should be able

to pick out that type of thing that's

just one example of the type of networks

that we could repurpose for UAP

research astronomer AI lobe is taking a

different approach collecting more data

in a novel way we just constructed an

observatory at Harvard

University we are monitoring objects

that fly overhead and trying to make

sense with them

this collection of instruments is part

of Harvard's Galileo project the Galileo

project is developing several sites that

are spread across a geographical region

where each site has an array of

sensors Optical cameras infrared images

there's audio from infrasound to

Ultrasound there's

radar it's a wide array of instrument

to basically look at the sky all the

time to to see if you find any

anomalies some instruments have

otherworldly names like this one called

doll after the cyborg aliens featured in

the do Who

series inside doll there are eight

infrared cameras behind the window there

is a camera they

overlap and so they get a full picture

of of the entire sky at all times in the

infrared when something of interest is

identified by the main set of cameras we

zoom on it in the sky and this is the

camera that can move around and look at

the object of Interest automatically

based on the computer system that we

develop you can imagine if you have a

camera pointing overhead you're going to

see a lot of things that are

identifiable so they use machine

learning what people call artificial

intelligence that can recognize the

knowes recognize the birds the airplanes

the balloons leaves all the known things

and sort of reject those filter them out

and then what you're left with is the

anomalies you're left with things that

you cannot understand the things you

can't

identify and as we speak right now we

are being

recorded so far we have been operating

this Observatory for several months and

we saw hundreds of thousands of objects

in the sky

none of them appears to be

anomalous but even if one in a million

came from outside of this Earth that

would be big news to humanity and will

change our future and that's what drives

my

science one way or another the more data

were able to bring into this

conversation the more we're going to be

able to get to the

truth Ryan Graves is trying to collect

data from a different Source his fellow

Pilots Military and

Commercial but there's a problem they're

hesitant to share their experiences

because of the taboo surrounding

UFOs they don't feel comfortable

reporting because of that fear that

there could be professional

repercussions at their employer social

repercussions with their peers at the

airline because the conversation

immediately jumps to well there's no

proof there's actually terestrial you

couldn't travel across the universe to

get here and it's like whoa whoa whoa

Pilots are seeing things that are in the

sky that they don't understand what they

are and are posing safety risk that's

where the conversation needs to stop and

hey is this not only an aviation safety

risk but is this a potential National

Security

risk so I was asking Pilots whether they

have encountered the uip and uh they

were very Cy about it a ation and space

psychologist IA Whitley is working with

Ryan conducting research to find out if

this reluctance to talk about UAP

sightings also impacts a pilot's ability

to focus on the job creating a safety

issue when the pilot seeing something I

want to make sure that they're

comfortable speaking about it because it

then occupies their capacity and focus

and attention and takes them away from

actually flying if you're trying to

ignore something on unidentified in a

distance your mind is still thinking I'm

not thinking about it I'm not thinking

about it I'm not thinking about it I'm

not thinking about it and now they don't

see what they need to be seeing you were

just asking about uh U visual views yes

and what attracts your attention

movement is what attracts your

attention commercial pilots have been

seeing objects that have been causing

them some serious

consternation I don't think anyone would

like their Pilot Flying their aircraft

to have an exential crisis as they're

flying their aircraft um and coming in

for a

landing the more cases we can explain

the less distraction there's going to be

and if there is actually any real threat

or any real issue out there then we can

focus in on that without all this extra

noise and there's another way we can

collect more data With a Little Help

from the

public it would seem like they're going

sideways in the Lower East Side of

Manhattan at Enigma Labs a staff of soft

designers and UFO enthusiasts are

developing a first ofit kind crowd

sourcing app the goal is really to bring

people together to share their uip

experiences and their sightings you know

if people don't have a place to talk

about this or report what they're seeing

I think they can feel really lonely and

and feel very isolated when in reality

this is a huge community of people who

should be able to come somewhere and

talk about what they're

seeing so we're collecting sighting

reports we get a lot of starlink and

SpaceX rocket videos but at the same

time people are submitting things that

cannot be explained this time I've got

one that I can't figure out maybe you

can help me out this is really cool just

this light comes floating in and then it

hover but

wait why why does this came slowly right

yeah those are fireworks Isaac right

those are probably fireworks probably

smoke rising up and smoke rising up mhm

but in just a second it will get

weirder what isn't that weird brighter

it's get brighter yeah it keeps getting

brighter and it's a broad beam of light

so it's not a star so what do you think

about maybe drone but I mean look how

still it is it doesn't have blinking

lights I mean it doesn't look like a

drone so let's fast forward a

little ohing rising up yeah so it kind

of gets the camera's not M it rises up

back this is a good one I don't know I

don't know what that

is apps like this provide the public

with a place to share their sightings

but could one day be a source of data

for scientists to study we're not

relying just on did you see something

we're asking your cell phone to make a

measurement it's going to record the

position of the phone on the planet

because we all have GPS's in it and

because it has little compass in it it

will also tell us what direction we're

looking at so we can actually do

scientific experiments with actual data

because our modern cell phones are so

good now at recording

numbers the more data the better the

more sightings the more eyes we get on

on something that's truly

anomalous the closer we get to maybe

answering that question what is

it Alex Dietrich has learned from

firsthand experience that for many

people data alone is not enough the

topic is so charged because there are so

many conspiracies and it's such a um you

know it does something to people's

brains when you say UFO at the

University of Colorado Boulder Alex is

trying to change that so this is the

helmet that I was wearing uh you're

welcome to try to put using her

experience as a way to teach students

how to separate fact from fiction what

is it about

UFOs what do we know and how do we know

it what I find is that some of my

students have been going down those

Reddit thread rabbit holes working

themselves up into a lather with

salacious headlines for content and

clickbait if you're reading an article

about UFOs what do we look for when we

are looking at our sources I hope they

will be more Discerning when they

consume media going forward that they

will question where the information that

they're getting comes from because I

want to advocate for us to all take a

deep breath and to come to this subject

with a lens of critical thinking

critical thinking people let's all let's

all apply critical

thinking and that brings us back to the

million

questions could this be extraterrestrial

technology what would it take for a

spacecraft to come from a distant World

a very important question that we need

to be asking today when investigating

UAP is whether or not even if there are

Advanced alien civilizations out there

if they have the means to actually reach

us 3 2 1 consider this one of the

fastest spacecrafts ever launched NASA's

New Horizons took 9 years and 5 months

to reach Pluto 3 billion miles away

getting to the closest star system with

a planet that might Harbor life would

take that tiny spacecraft a whopping

880,000

years the universe is so unfathomably

large there's 100 billion stars in our

Milky Way and there's a hundred billion

galaxies in the observable universe

that's 10 to the 22 one with 22 zeros on

it with a number of stars and the

distances between stars is incredibly

vast I have not seen any evidence that

we have been visited I think it's still

worth looking for evidence because we

can't conclusively demonstrate that we

have not been visited half of the time

scale the galaxy has has existed there

was no planet Earth so that's plenty of

time for life to have evolved and

technological life to have developed on

another

planet the answer is get more data we

need much much more data and the way

you're going to get more data is that

you're going to have more eyes on the

sky UFOs have been a part of our culture

for decades they've been the subject of

curiosity but rarely the subject of

serious scient C ific

investigation but that is

changing I think it's critical to be

open-minded don't be dismissive and

search for the data like any good

scientist what I think is important is

that we are collecting more than just

the eyewitness accounts but that we also

have the right Hardware in place for

things that will be seen today tomorrow

so that we don't sit here and bicker

about about what happened 20 years ago

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