Pentagon confirms existence of $22m UFO program, releases incident videos
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the source of the released UFO footage, though commenters often debate whether the video shows anything beyond camera artifacts.
What it is
A short Global News report on the Pentagon confirming a $22 million UFO investigation program and releasing Navy infrared footage from the 2004 Nimitz encounter.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites themodelplumber · 2019-04 · on “U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs”
I wonder if this video release impacted the decision? [this video] I remember when it came out it caused quite a stir. Edit: Here's the Wikipedia page: [LINK]
Cites soulofmischief · 2019-05 · on “What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?”
Isn't this most likely just a response to the surge of drones over the last half decade? I imagine UFO sightings have proportionally increased and thus the number of ad-hoc reported sightings within the Navy finally crossed the threshold. It could even be a foreign government or spy agency doing amateur reconnaissance with new tech. As the article states, > The lack of a structured procedure and classification system, and the nebulous fear of being stigmatized by reporting things like UFOs [is] something that has long plagued the military and private sectors alike There is also the nebulous fear of people overreacting whenever you finally decide to implement these common-sense policies. You
Critical TeMPOraL · 2019-06 · on “Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech”
It was. But the video looks like the camera software is trying to track something that's on or within the camera, thus doing a steady rotation at roughly uniform rate. In plane's frame of reference, this footage would correspond to an object trajectory shaped like a circle centered around the plane. That's a pretty weird trajectory to have. See for yourself: [this video] . And tell me, why would the UFO start rotating exactly at the moment the camera is about to cross 0 degrees, and persist through what looks like camera axis reorientation, continuously rotating at the rate about 2x of the rate camera axis rotates?