In the year of our lord 2025 I expect high quality pictures and videos. Can't be O2 deprivation at 3500 feet so the only plausible things left in my opinion is attention seeking or mental illness. Videos or it didn't happen and even that is hard to take seriously now with AI. Even a sit-down interview with aliens would be hard to take seriously.
>Can't be O2 deprivation at 3500 feet so the only plausible things left in my opinion is attention seeking or mental illness.
A plausible third option is a mundane terrestrial object and not an alien spacecraft. Even the article (despite throwing up as much alien hype as it can) points out that it could have been a weather balloon. As trite an explanation as that is, it's not impossible.
I considered that one but the object was standing still but then floated by which implied to me it was initially matching their speed. A draft could briefly pull a balloon but they would have to be below stall speed to keep the balloon with them I think.
The problem here is that pilots report flybys by weird objects all the time, going back at least as far as the foo-fighters of WW2.
I don't believe it's aliens, and I suspect there must be multiple phenomena involved (including some hoaxing) but it can't all be nothing. Attention seeking doesn't really work because until recently reporting this sort of thing through official channels would get a pilot grounded.
Attention seeking doesn't really work because until recently reporting this sort of thing through official channels would get a pilot grounded.
That brings up a good question. Should some of these pilots be forced into a psychological evaluation in addition to a retake of their 3rd class medical? Or perhaps include a mandatory psychological evaluation as part of the medical. So many people these days are on some really nasty off label mental health drugs. I am honestly surprised more people do not report being tailed by a Romulan Warbird.
A plausible third option is a mundane terrestrial object and not an alien spacecraft. Even the article (despite throwing up as much alien hype as it can) points out that it could have been a weather balloon. As trite an explanation as that is, it's not impossible.
I don't believe it's aliens, and I suspect there must be multiple phenomena involved (including some hoaxing) but it can't all be nothing. Attention seeking doesn't really work because until recently reporting this sort of thing through official channels would get a pilot grounded.
That brings up a good question. Should some of these pilots be forced into a psychological evaluation in addition to a retake of their 3rd class medical? Or perhaps include a mandatory psychological evaluation as part of the medical. So many people these days are on some really nasty off label mental health drugs. I am honestly surprised more people do not report being tailed by a Romulan Warbird.