I still think this known military plasma laser tech is the highest likelihood of being the explanation:<p>"Researchers working with high-power laser weapons discovered that they could create a glowing ball of fire in the sky by crossing the beams of two powerful infrared lasers…By moving the laser beams around the sky, the researchers found they could shift the plasma ball back and forth at very high speed…. At night, they demonstrated their skills, flying their glowing creations in formation high above the cold desert."<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2007/05/plasma-laser-uf/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/2007/05/plasma-laser-uf/</a>
Quoting <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23006754" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23006754</a> :<p>> This comment on ArsTechnica on the same subject links to some videos which have nice explanations for the videos: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/navy-releases-three-videos-that-showcase-unidentified-objects/?comments=1&post=38845980" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/navy-releases-three-...</a> Basically lens flare, balloon, and a plane.<p>The video links there are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Btns91W5J8&t=7s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Btns91W5J8&t=7s</a> , <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M&t=20s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M&t=20s</a> , <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oTg0kxzDs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oTg0kxzDs</a> .
The technology exists, and it is among the toppest of secrets. If you have a head for technical reading, you can have this patent: US20120105181A1. That is a rundown of the mathematics involved. You will also need to know about Radiatively Induced Fermion Resonance. Studying this secret relentlessly for years, I have found little bits of the puzzle. They are nuclear powered aircraft. They utilize a mercury-thorium solution as a fuel source and working fluid. Not a nuclear reactor, but a generator, directly converting the exploitable thorium beta decay chain, to a nuclear magnetic moment. The torus configuration is a self driving EM pump that then creates a force normal to gravity, like a super maglev. This is gimballed to achieve flight and maneuver. Many people have independently reversed this design, and the math is solid. I myself have collected documents to support every claim I just made. There is OPINT, SIGINT, HUMINT in there too. You dont see any Homer Hickam or North Korea types building them because they require literal tons of mercury, and the nuclear material. Mercury is very well controlled on a global scale, just like uranium, all kinds of environmental regulation.<p>The reason this tech will never be publicly released: they are flying nuclear hazmat nightmares. They put out an identifiable form of radiation when they operate. They can be detected, once you know how they run.<p>And we already have something better, there are rumors about newer ones with a better tech, but I dont quite understand the technical claims they make for how those work. Something about pulsed lasers and antimatter, the phrase Schwinger limit kept showing up.<p>Anyway, go buy an old Levitron off of Ebay, set it on your desk, any whenever you feel glum about the future, give it a spin and remember that its a hand powered UFO.
Suppose a nation state spend several trillion dollars on investigating every improbability to achieve science fiction like travel capacity & speed to eventually reach the conclusion we have reached global maximum of physics as it is.<p>What is the superior strategy to this nation state other than sending adversaries on a similar resource waisting wild goose chase?
I haven't found anyone serious trying to understand what happened. There's a lot of info, even just on the overlay of the cameras.
Id really like to know what the velocity, altitude and acceleration of these things was.
Do you know of anybody who has done an analysis of these videos?
Spoiler: “Real” here meaning “we don’t know what they are”.<p>A researcher YouTube already put together a video showing the unlikelihood that it’s extra terrestrial, and more of a visual phenomena of the camera they were testing out on these planes. If someone would be kind as to link it.
> But … admitting that they see things in the sky and they can’t identify them, that to me is the most amazing part of this<p>Really?<p>What is amazing about this?<p>There have been thousands of UFO sightings over the past decades and a huge proportion of these have been explained. But not all. There are still a few sightings that we have no explanation for, there is nothing amazing about it.<p>Obviously, that doesn't mean these unexplained sightings are aliens, they are most likely natural phenomena we haven't figured out yet, but there's nothing remarkable about admitting we have no explanation for something.
You know, to me it looks more like a hot pixel on an infrared array or mirror speck than any resolvable object. The thing seems to move around / jitter very slightly so maybe not a hot pixel though. Was there a crew report of actually seeing this, or just the camera or video images? With these cameras you basically should default to any other possible artifact before supposing it's a "UFO"...
"C.I.A. Admits Government Lied About U.F.O. Sightings" (1997)<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-...</a>
I read a reasonable-sounding hypothesis that this could have been adversaries testing the aircraft’s tracking and target-acquisition capabilities.<p>If you’re testing someone’s active radar, you would want a prominent object to catch their attention, which then moves in increasingly erratic patterns until tracking fails.<p>The projected image/combined laser beam seems like a feasible way to achieve this, and I don’t think it takes a huge level of commitment from a national military to build one.<p>Maybe coincident lasers were being projected from submarines just beneath the surface.