60 Minutes, Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs: BUSTED!
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used by skeptics in UFO threads as a debunking of the Navy pilot videos.
What it is
Thunderf00t critiques a 60 Minutes segment in which Navy pilots describe UFO encounters, arguing the footage has mundane explanations and has been debunked.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends oldgradstudent · 2023-02 · on “As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)”
> At least watch this 60 Minutes short piece about this phenomenon with interviews with real Navy pilots before you assert things like this [this video]
Critical scottshamus · 2021-06 · on “U.S. government prepares to issue landmark report on UFOs”
I think we’re going to discover that the people operating these sophisticated instruments aren’t properly trained on how to handle anomalies in their data. One of them was simply an out of focus nightvision system with a triangle focal ring. The tic tac video is most likely a large sea bird and the fighter pilots didn’t properly understand how parallax at high zooms looked. This YouTube video is pretty snarky but it’s a decent overview of it. [this video]
Critical oceanghost · 2021-07 · on “UFOs: 'These objects show physics we don't understand'”
I've said it once, I'll say it again-- these videos are all explained and all have been debunked. This is most likely a advertisement for the US Military's ability to track very small things such as drones. If there are videos of things that might be alien-- these are not them. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [this video] [LINK] Bob Lazar debunk: [LINK]