UFOs: No Longer Crazy?

[SYZ]

I thought you guys were supposed to be critical thinkers. It was stated that when they arrived at the location the search for anything that might be in the sky before they began. The sky was clear. Balloons don't appear out of nowhere, nor do they perform maneuvers and move at a high rate of speed.

Yes, high altitude weather balloons do seemingly appear
"out of nowhere".  Because of their distance from a ground
observer, they often only become visible when the sun strikes
them at a particular angle as  Thumpalumpacus has said.

And there's the possibility of wind shear, which occurs whenever
the wind speed instantly loses 15 to 30 knots, or gains more than
15 knots.     Also microbursts can happen when the wind speed
loses more than 30 knots.  

These conditions can easily cause sharp and erratic movements
of weather (or any) balloons.    And planes!

    Ask any pilot.

[Minimalist]

I don't know that it was an "object?"  All I saw was a spot of light. The term that springs to mind most readily is "hoax."

The notion that this jackass could "summon" aliens who have been hanging around just waiting for him to send up the "bat signal" is simply ludicrous.

[Minimalist]

John Oliver weighs in on the UFO bullshit.

[Inkubus]

Finally teh big reveal:

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs - now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) - reveals long-hidden truths with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

Or maybe not:

Luis Elizondo's book "Imminent - Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs" contains many extraordinary claims about crashed alien craft, psychic powers, abductions, implants, vast government conspiracies, glowing orbs, and other unusual things.Link

Mick West's knowledge of lights n shit going on in the sky is encyclopedic.
He is one smart dedicated motherfucker. He completely demolishes that arse gravy* of a book. The transcript is there and as you would expect it's the same old shite:

The third video is GoFast. Elizondo has a short description of this, saying on page 145:

The object in one of the videos also resembled a Tic Tac, at least in the sense that it was rounded, smooth, and egg-shaped.

This is nonsense. The object in GoFast is a white fuzzy dot that covers about 8 pixels on screen. There's no way of knowing if it's rounded or shaped like a pyramid or a snowflake. You certainly can't tell if it's smooth or egg shaped.

...So, I set out here to sample the accuracy of Elizondo's book. I picked the parts that I was familiar with, and that were based on public information that anyone can verify - the videos. You can see there are lots of errors, some wishful thinking, and sometimes claims of things being the exact opposite of how they actually were.

Now remember this is not a breakdown of the video, that only came out yesterday. This is West's analysis of the Kindle version of the book, and look at the timestamp, he posted that vid on Fri 23rd 04:05

I came by it at 13:00 and the view count was 12,056.

It's now 23,230.
 
But now look at the Ross Jizrag - Elizondo bollocks, that came out two days ago and again I made a note of it:

@ 13:04 it was 32,000.

It's now 843,000. And no doubt 3 million by this time next week.

What The Fuck Is Wrong With People!

* Nods, Stephen Fry.