Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as eyewitness testimony and multi-radar evidence in UFO threads, though some dispute it.
What it is
A 60 Minutes segment in which Navy pilots describe encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena, ahead of a report due to Congress.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends creamytaco · 2021-07 · on “America’s government comes clean on UFOs”
I suggest you familiarize yourself with some of that eyewitness testimony because everything you wrote simply does not apply: [this video] If you have more to say that you'd also want me to address, it better be directly relevant to the events described in this video.
Recommends pmarreck · 2022-03 · on “Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (2019)”
It's clear from your comment that you haven't seen this shortish 60 Minutes piece yet. You should. It would fairly quickly dissuade you of this theory. [this video]
Recommends pmarreck · 2023-02 · on “As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)”
> I wonder how much some of these unidentified phenomena might be checked for some similar effects. come on, man. at some point, after enough of these reports, toeing the line you're toeing starts to look ludicrous. these are trained observers, pilots who know what to expect in the sky. and do not take lightly that there is still a certain amount of embarrassment (a social cost) to even coming forward, so to even make this claim is still a brave act at this point. 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]
Recommends pmarreck · 2023-02 · on “As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)”
It's an irrelevant example. The question in THIS case is not whether "the wings fell off before or after hitting the water, if at all", but whether "there was a plane hitting the water at all" (also a plane that was caught on multiple radars). It's simply not a good comparison. The Navy pilots say they see bogies on radar (not just visually) every day . Watch the "60 Minutes" broadcast I linked elsewhere (which is only 13 minutes long: [this video] ). The USG has already admitted these things are real but have an unknown source. To continue to maintain extreme skepticism at this point is to bury one's head in the sand.
Cites ostenning · 2021-06 · on “Do we believe in UFOs? that's the wrong question”
How is the idea of UFOs even a "conspiracy theory" anymore? UFOs or UAPs are now a verified phenomenon that seem to be observed fairly regularly by trained military, "every day for a couple of years" [this video]
Cites CodeArtisan · 2021-06 · on “U.S. government prepares to issue landmark report on UFOs”
i can't tell precisely but according to one of the pilots on CBS 60 minutes; there were four peoples "watching it for five minutes". the relevant part: [this video]
Cites pmarreck · 2022-03 · on “Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (2019)”
The information from multiple different radar signals tracking the same objects would seem to rule such things out: [this video]
Cites pmarreck · 2022-03 · on “Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (2019)”
Is this sufficiently extraordinary? [this video] Also, it's already conceptually possible to get around the spacetime problem: [LINK] (This doesn't imply such a thing would be easy to build; but at least it's theoretically possible, maybe)