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The Dumbest UFO Explanation: Cockpit Reflections
There is a little blurb on UFOs and optical illusions going around FB that made me laugh, it was so absurd. Cockpit reflections explain UFOs. I was like for real? I re-read the recent NYTs piece looking for that phraseology, but didn’t find it. The closest I found was from 2019 piece, where scientists and aviation medical and psychologist blew it off as optical illusions due to fatigue. It was a pretty lame excuse, but it makes me want to scrutinize the NYTs piece further, because it was not useful in spectacular ways.
David Fravor’s TicTac was not an optical illusion. Optical illusions of light playing against the pilot’s canopy is outrageous. That explanation fails to explain radar contact from the jet, from the ship, from NORAD… Yes, NORAD. NORAD tracked the objects in orbit descending to 80,000 feet where the Nimitz Carrier group made contact. Optical illusion fails to account for multiple sensor arrays catching these things, in addition to four sets of eyes, at two different altitude.
Maybe you will give me David Fravor’s experience and say the rest were that. I would say anyone who suggests that as an explanation is seriously dumbing down our aviators.
