no no, you misunderstood. After 4 days of sightings, they sent up decorated Cmdr Fravor to see for himself, accompanied by another pilot, they saw it and it zipped right passed them after observation. His team told him about it, he went up there, and he saw it for himself. and then ANOTHER squad went up, and saw the exact same object whizzing around the cat point area an hour later. that's 4 pilots in one day, and footage. 120 knots, is not possible to move that way against the wind, and those are pros telling you that. esp going 3k mph.
But the other follow-up pilots didn't see anything physically impossible. The one that got it on FLIR didn't even have a visual, and nothing on FLIR shows impossible movement.
I really suggest you read a full breakdown of the incident. There are numerous discrepancies and inconsistencies in the stories, and the certainty given by the "best narrative" that UFO seekers make out of the event isn't necessarily the most accurate one.
Image source: zztopfila. Part 1- A Summary of Events Part 2- The Radars Part 3- Fravor’s Encounter with the Tic Tac Part 4- The FLIR Footage Part 5- The Additional Sightings from the Nimitz and Pri…
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Here are just a few points I think you have to take seriously about the encounter.
1. Those first two pilots that went up, Fravor and Dietrich, have dramatically different accounts of how long the tic tac encounter lasted. Fravor claims that he had a visual on the Tic Tac for 5 minutes. Dietrich claims the visual was for 8-10 seconds. Dietrich's WSO, Slaight, agrees that it was just 8-10 seconds. That's a WILD discrepancy, and gives you the idea of how pumped up they were and thus how potentially inaccurate their accounts might be.
2. The initial and primary visual of those two pilots on the tic tac was from 20,000 feet away, and supposedly it was a 40' white object against a frothy white background. So they're already amped up told they're looking for some UAP that's been messing around the ship, and then they see something at quite a distance against a difficult background. So there's a good chance that their minds were adding a lot of details there.
3. The pilots and WSOs were in constant communication with each other during the interaction and talked about it afterwards. Thus they are not particularly independent witnesses - every interpretation of events was constantly being influenced by what the other pilot/WSO were saying, as well as influenced by the radar operator and their narrative about UAPs. Of course, there are still discrepancies. But there may have been even more if they weren't feeding off of each other's narrative.
Finally, before Fravor had his encounter, this little evidence that the "objects" were moving unusually at all in the previous four days. At least according to one radar operator, they were basically travelling like balloons. I quote this part in full:
Another potential inconsistency concerns the nature of the UAP’s behaviour. Day has repeatedly stated that the UAP were
“All going about 100 knots”. On numerous occasions he has described tracking them from off the Californian coast down south to off the Mexican coast. He has described what he saw on his radar scope,
“If you can imagine snowflakes slowly falling through the sky, that’s kind of the way they appeared and tracked towards the south”.
There is also contention over whether the UAP were displaying the quick movements in the days leading up to the intercept on the 14th of November. Voorhis has been asked ‘Before the interrogation, they never did any extreme manoeuvres?’ Voorhis has responded
“Exactly. Any time they appeared, they’d just be doing this whole drift south thing at 100 knots or so”. Voorhis has reiterated this sentiment several times including this comment,
“They were just like 100 knots, same direction…This went on and on for days until we got the word there was going to be an interrogation…It wasn’t until the interrogation that they started going a little nuts”. In
his interview with Mick West, Voorhis makes is abundantly clear that the UAP were simply travelling along at around 100 knots and not displaying quick movements until the day and time of the intercepts.
As you already mentioned, and is detailed in the link, the prevailing winds up there were around 100 knots. So for four days, they were basically just drifting by in the wind. That sound nothing like what Fravor observed, which again casts at least a bit of doubt over how accurate his observation was and what he may have been misinterpreting.
Like I said, if you actually care about this sighting, then read this page in full. There are a LOT of discrepancies between the different people in the account and a lot of open questions about what was seen.
One last one.....are you aware there was a submarine doing live test-fire exercises right in the vicinity of the whole incident? And that one of the test projectiles it may have been firing was a long, white, cylindrical object? And that Fravor reported unexplained frothy water at that point, and then noticed the white cylinder leave from there? Hmmmm....
Image source: zztopfila. Part 1- A Summary of Events Part 2- The Radars Part 3- Fravor’s Encounter with the Tic Tac Part 4- The FLIR Footage Part 5- The Additional Sightings from the Nimitz and Pri…
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