You will note the carefully couched "unidentified aerial phenomena." The Navy has stringently avoided the word "object" on this one where before, their terminology was all about "objects." It may or may not surprise you to learn that the Air Force has stringent guidelines governing the reportage of "objects." I do not know if the Navy does but considering laziness is the prime motivator in bureaucracy, I'll bet they copy-pasted. So we're very carefully not reporting "objects" here because the Navy knows damn well they're sensor glitches. It's not a coincidence that the footage comes from large wargames where many different groups are working together and integrating their sensor suites; what you're seeing is a collation error between multiple sensor packages and the central intelligence tasked with assembling all telemetry into a cohesive battlefield whole. The fact that we're seeing them now means that whatever package was being used has now been retired and any weaknesses revealed are no longer relevant to battlefield capabilities. It also means that there's something else nefarious going on and they would like the cover of Little Green Men, much as they did with the U-2, the A-12 and the Have Blue. If I had to guess, I would guess their glitch generator has been replaced.
So the Navy releases clips of sensor contacts with unidentified craft, with no context - not an hour of video showing everything before and after the few seconds of anomalous object tracking - and just... plops it out into the public commons like a smoking golden turd? Ok. Almost nothing the Navy reports is intended for US consumption; pretty much every single word any branch of the military says, is intended to send signals to other countries' military leaders. "We are so cool, so far advanced beyond you, that we are releasing this information/capability that you are still 20 years from inventing... because we have already moved on to the next thing." This is nothing more than the US military forces putting the world on notice that something new and extraordinary is going to be seen in the sky that they will attribute to "alien technology" ... and it's ours. The Navy never just says, "Eh. Fuck it. I dunno what it is. Let's give it to the public." That doesn't happen. Ever.
Agreed. This does seem to be perfect fodder that would scare the bejeezus out of a certain Asian dictator. The boy down the block who thinks he can throw his weight around to his recent acquisition of some new fireworks. He’s been shouting out his bedroom window the multiple ways he’ll toss a pack of thunderbombs in our backyard and jack up our new bike. It’d be so awesome if he caught on to rumors about our new, if nonexistent, AI drone. Maybe he’ll lay awake worried about us directing our drone to set a blowtorch to his favorite baseball card collection. He’ll keep his pie hole shut for a while maybe. Who cares how we get him to believe this, if we happen to have some odd circumstances that we can use for our story. He kicked my cat once too. That dick.
We bankrupted the USSR in the same way... leaked all kinds of fancy new tech that they spent like crazy to duplicate/exceed, and it turns out much of what we were working on was all smoke and mirrors. The USSR tried to match our technological pace, and spent themselves into oblivion. Now, every time the Little Rocket Man gets news of an unidentified trace on a radar screen somewhere, he's gonna think it's aliens. That little shit tried to poison my dog once, by throwing a steak with rat poison on it over the fence into my yard. Can't believe he also kicked your cat. What a dick.
I think there's good reason to scientifically explore these phenomenon, because that's what science is about. SETI has an improbable chance of detecting something, but it's something worth investigating. IIRC some of these pilots saw these objects on multiple instruments, making a software glitch unlikely. It's worth figuring out what they are seeing. The anthropocentric view is affecting how we respond to COVID19. We confuse our conceptualized realm of possibility with the actual realm of possibility.
That said, I'm not sure which unlikely scenario is more probable: these are visiting aliens, or this is a software glitch in the program we are in. Probably more likely is that it's something we cannot yet explain with our current technological terms and understanding. All the more reason to chase down an explanation. Nothing better in science than something you can observe but not explain with confidence. At the very least, maybe you identify some weird edge cases in aviation instrumentation.
Think about if you had a technology that allowed you to make shit appear on imaging, whether it's just software it a satellite or a drone. Clearly whatever it is isn't there because (a) they couldn't physically see it, and (b) it's impossible, as far as we know, to not generate waste heat (or noise, whatever). So if you're the military and you have (a) the best pilots in the world, (b) flying the best machines in the world, (c) using the best mobile instruments in the world, you have the best case-controlled test subjects in the world. If you can fool guys who don't freak out when their plane is about to crash, then you probably have something worthwhile. If this type of technology exists it could be a game changer if you were, say, interested in bombing a country with advanced radar. You could have a free dozen planes and make everyone think you have 1000. Cuts your attrition rate of nothing else.
I haven't put the effort in to try to understand what it is I'm seeing in those videos, so I don't have a strong perspective. I do, however, always like to remember that the special relativity equations weren't written by Einstein, but rather by Lorentz in the 1890s, which themselves were written to explain the bizarre results of the Michelson and Morley experiments. The point being that perspective and not knowledge is what was required to put it all together; we had all the knowledge we needed two decades before special relativity. In the end, there is some explanation here, but maybe of a type that no one has been able to recognize yet.
Yeah, it's the process. If we have a set of conditions that justify applying the process, then we should be able to apply without feeling silly. Just because a large amount of people favor an odd explanation, doesn't mean we shouldn't look for one. Also, why not take a light-hearted yet scientific stance? Let's actually see if these are little green men or something else?