I am aware of this one video of a blurry blob showing up on radar. What I am not aware of is 5000 UFO sightings with indisputable physical evidence.
Where are the high resolution videos? Where are the spectrographs of “impossible alien metals”? Where are the detailed studies of time and location of each encounter trying to treat it as an actual scientific phenomena?
Basically, where are the 5000 counterexamples to this comic?
You made a claim in the OP that the incident in the link would disappear if you would just have better cameras. I made the point that this isn’t true as it doesn’t explain the radar data.
Julia Galef wrote about how noticing confusion is a key rationalist skill. If you started with the assumption that this is just can be explained by cameras and that’s not true, it makes sense to notice that your assumption was wrong.
Where are the detailed studies of time and location of each encounter trying to treat it as an actual scientific phenomena?
There are internal military investigations. The military released some data but not all that it has. The military doesn’t like Russia/China to learn about its exact camera capabilities so doesn’t seem to publically release its highest-resolution videos.
It would be great if all the data was just out in the open, but it’s not.
I’m not particularly interested in arguing about this 1 video. I want to know where are the other 4999 videos.
There are internal military investigations. The military released some data but not all that it has. The military doesn’t like Russia/China to learn about its exact camera capabilities so doesn’t seem to publically release its highest-resolution videos
The military is verybad at keeping secrets. And surely not all 5000 of the highly believable UFO reports occurred within the US military.
I suppose you’re getting the 5000 number from the 5% claim but Hanson actually doesn’t claim 5000 as a number but rather makes the claim “I’d guess there are at least a thousand such strong dramatic reported events.”
So here you drop from a 5% claim to that of about 1%.
As for where, it doesn’t take too much to start getting some leads. Most are news stories that probably don’t meet your criteria but this might at least offer some basis for thinking something is going on. I think the question then becomes more why is the government and military taking these steps—they are clearly not costless and many other efforts are competing for funds—if there is really nothing but smoke and mirrors.
I am aware of this one video of a blurry blob showing up on radar. What I am not aware of is 5000 UFO sightings with indisputable physical evidence.
Where are the high resolution videos? Where are the spectrographs of “impossible alien metals”? Where are the detailed studies of time and location of each encounter trying to treat it as an actual scientific phenomena?
Basically, where are the 5000 counterexamples to this comic?
You made a claim in the OP that the incident in the link would disappear if you would just have better cameras. I made the point that this isn’t true as it doesn’t explain the radar data.
Julia Galef wrote about how noticing confusion is a key rationalist skill. If you started with the assumption that this is just can be explained by cameras and that’s not true, it makes sense to notice that your assumption was wrong.
There are internal military investigations. The military released some data but not all that it has. The military doesn’t like Russia/China to learn about its exact camera capabilities so doesn’t seem to publically release its highest-resolution videos.
It would be great if all the data was just out in the open, but it’s not.
I’m not particularly interested in arguing about this 1 video. I want to know where are the other 4999 videos.
The military is very bad at keeping secrets. And surely not all 5000 of the highly believable UFO reports occurred within the US military.
Yes, the military can’t keep the secret that they have more data that they don’t release.
Why? The fact that the military saw something is a good way to know that an incident wasn’t doesn’t fall under the explanations you listed.
I suppose you’re getting the 5000 number from the 5% claim but Hanson actually doesn’t claim 5000 as a number but rather makes the claim “I’d guess there are at least a thousand such strong dramatic reported events.”
So here you drop from a 5% claim to that of about 1%.
As for where, it doesn’t take too much to start getting some leads. Most are news stories that probably don’t meet your criteria but this might at least offer some basis for thinking something is going on. I think the question then becomes more why is the government and military taking these steps—they are clearly not costless and many other efforts are competing for funds—if there is really nothing but smoke and mirrors.