1710

With regards to the tic-tac recording quality, Faver said in the Fighter Pilot podcast that the original recording was crystal clear. What got released was a copy of a copy just like that bootleg of ET your buddy down the street got from his whose brother’s sister’s cousin who owned a video rental store. Bill Clinton feels your pain though. He too awaits a recording that doesn’t look like something recorded from a microwave.

1711

Isn’t it digital though? There should be no degredation. You’re just copying a file. Or are they saying it’s been re-recorded sneakily across multiple cell phone cameras or something?

1712

The Air Force still uses B-52s, a plane made in the 50s. Why wouldn’t the Navy still use VHS tech?

1713

I thought these were captured on F-18s though. And once it gets off the plane, surely it’s digitally encoded? I mean they’re not hooking up VHS recorders all over the shop to make copies are they?

Maybe they are, lol! :)

1714

I forgot the /s. Sorry.

1715

Haha! And normally I’m pretty good at picking it, too! :)

1716

For believers, there’s always a good reason why we don’t get the clear images that someone else saw that proves it.

1717

BTW if you like military fiction read Flight of the Old Dog.

1718

Cool, between the previous linked article and this, we can hope media is finally looking at this with some healthy skepticism and proper research on the sources.

1719

I read that back in high school and loved it. I wonder if it’s available on Kindle…

I do recall the sequels getting pretty goofy though.

1720

Yeah. The later ones got into brainwashing and psychological shit. I’m in it for the tech. Not the soap opera.

1721

Pretty sure at one point he got some RoboCop suit and went after meth dealers?

1722

Damn. I do not remember that. But I may have blocked it out. :)

Edit: They have the first book on Kindle for $4.99 at Amazon. Purchasing right now. Like you I read it many years ago. Hope it holds up.

1723

Yep, that’s when I got off the train. The earlier B52 and B1B stuff was good, though. Dale Brown is the author.

1724

Mmmm, or maybe not:

Another article failing to mention Elizondo has conflicting economic interests here.

1725

This is a really nice treatment of the Roswell incident that contains some details I hadn’t known:

For those unfamiliar with the realities of the incident:

“Apparently, it was better from the Air Force’s perspective that there was a crashed ‘alien’ spacecraft out there than to tell the truth,” says Roger Launius, the recently-retired curator of space history at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

“A flying saucer was easier to admit than Project Mogul,” Launius adds, a chuckle in his voice. “And with that, we were off to the races.”

Project Mogul, incidentally, is fascinating in its own right - a spectacularly (for the time) high tech surveillance operation using high altitude balloons and long range mics to monitor for Soviet atomic tests.

1726

Would love to buy him a drink and hear more about his time at the museum.

1727

He mentions the copy and degradation at this time mark. This was back in 2004 so maybe things like the HUD, FLIR, and radar were still on tape back then.

In the YouTube former and current fighter pilot sphere, Ward Carrol is an interesting one that’s rising to prominence. He’s a former F-14 RIO with some cool stories if you’re interested.

On the topic of aliens, the TLDR is that since the UAP’s were spotted by our military jets in our military training zones, the UAP’s are alphabet agency toys. If they were Russian or Chinese toys Pentagon would be publicly shitting its pants for funding to counter these things. I truly hope it’s anal probing aliens because I’m impacted from a recent Metamucil binge.

1728

Be careful what you wish for…

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