Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!

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Strong rec simonh · 2023-02 · on “As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)”

See for yourself. This is the most clear case of misidentification. All the data you need is shown in the instrument recording and he takes us through how to interpret it step by step. Of course Mick has the advantage of having plenty of time to work through exactly what all the instrument readings are telling us and perform all the trigonometry to interpret it accurately, and explain it to us step by step, while the pilots just eyeballed it and got their estimates wrong. On the other hand the Pentagon analysts had all the time they could want to do the same analysis and still got it wrong. But you don't need to take anyone's word for it, look at the footage yourself and you can do all the c

Recommends jonathankoren · 2019-09 · on “Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers”

This is the video. I don’t know why you’re dismissive. It’s literally just trigonometry using numbers displayed in the video itself. [this video]

Recommends catalogia · 2020-04 · on “Pentagon officially releases UFO videos [video]”

Have you watched his debunking of the "Go Fast" video? ( [this video] ) I don't see any wiggle room around what he lays out, certainly not enough to warrant putting 'debunk' into "scarequotes". The object simply was not 'going fast'; it was a weather balloon sized object moving at weather balloon speeds that only looks like it's going fast due to parallax. The only question in my mind is whether the USN is filled with fools who couldn't figure out what he figured out, or whether they're deliberately fucking with us. I'm strongly inclined to think it's the later.

Recommends CydeWeys · 2020-05 · on “The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real”

Yes, here's an in-depth explanation by someone who actually did the math: [this video] Tl;dr it can simply be explained as a balloon drifting in the wind.

Recommends acqq · 2020-05 · on “Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage”

That's only the reminder in the sense of "I've made other videos before about that" of Mick West. The relevant playlist of Mick West with many videos with detailed analysis is: [LINK] For example [LINK] Explains how the camera's automatic tracking system contributes to the appearance of movements which aren't real at all. Or: [this video] how the appearance of the "fast movement" is actually due to the plane speed, not the speed of the object observed, which is almost certainly something simple like a weather balloon ...and much more details there.

Recommends herbstein · 2023-02 · on “Pentagon Downed Object over Alaska, Officials Say”

> Doesn't explain the Tic Tac videos He covers the "Tic-Tac" and "Go Fast" videos too, just not in that specific video. Like in this one, where he explains how the "Go Fast" video isn't actually even a fast video zipping just above the water, but rather an object flying at roughly wind-speed at about 12000 feet. [this video]

Cites methodover · 2019-09 · on “The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal”

Gofast is just a weather balloon. [this video] Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a gimbal. [LINK] Nimitz is also a jet. It’s far away, and blurry. [LINK] It would be really cool if these were alien spaceships. They’re likely not.

Cites methodover · 2019-09 · on “Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers”

Reposting my comment from yet another HN post on these pretty mundane videos. Gofast is just a weather balloon. [this video] Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a gimbal. [LINK] Nimitz is also a jet. It’s far away, and blurry. [LINK] It would be really cool if these were alien spaceships. They’re likely not.