A still from the footage (which can be viewed below). Image Credit: US Navy
The controversial footage, which has been widely circulated for years, shows an object moving over the ocean.
Believed to have been captured on camera by a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet off the coast of Florida in 2015, the clip gained considerable traction after it appeared online three years later and was officially published by the Department of Defense in 2020.
It was one of several clips to have sparked a renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon in recent years and also helped to influence the holding of official congressional hearings on the subject.
Now a new report compiled by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has offered up a fresh analysis of the video while playing down claims that it shows anything mysterious.
AARO determined that the object was likely traveling at 13,000ft (as oppose to near the ocean's surface) and was moving with the wind at speeds of anywhere from 5mph to 92mph.
This is in stark contrast to earlier claims about the object performing extreme feats of maneuverability.
"AARO assesses with high confidence that the object did not move at anomalous speeds," the report states.
"The object's apparent high speed is attributable to motion parallax, an optical effect that induces an observer to perceive that a stationary or slow-moving object is moving much faster than its actual speed when viewed from a moving frame of reference."
The findings have been met with mixed reactions, with skeptics arguing that the analysis confirms what they've been saying all along and others arguing that AARO's methods and conclusions are either flawed or insufficiently transparent.
It certainly doesn't seem as though the report will settle the matter for everyone.
You can check out the original "Go Fast" footage for yourself below.
Indeed! There's as much evidence in that video that what was filmed was an alien spacecraft as there is evidence in that same video that the Empire State Building is only 3 feet tall and made entirely out of cheese. Unidentified does not = alien spacecraft. And never has done. But that's the belief system that truth seekers are up against.
@Hazzard 'However, climate scientists, meteorological data, veteran Navy witnesses and even a computer simulation continue to cast doubt on the validity of the government's 'parallax' theory. So I'm not alone in this. AARO is known for trying to make every incident not look like an UAP event. And maybe I'm ignorant, but my logic tells me that when an object is flying higher with respect to the surface, the object seems to go slower than when it's close to the surface. And the direct witnesses experiencing it first hand, the pilots, know when thing are off and if things are extraordinary. And w... [More]
The Navy videos have been disected and explained in great details on many occasions. We have the original statements from everyone involved in this incident You obviously know nothing about this case, except for the clickbait headlines and the snowballed UFOlogy version.
Doesn’t the object in this clip appear to go underwater at one point? How does that occur given a proposed distance of several thousand feet. I wonder, does, and if so, how, does the report address this?
Maybe little explanations could be interesting (as they were for me) : - angular velocity : its the same as the translation velocity, but for rotation movements - parallax : impact of the changement of position of the observer during the observation of an object. Its also a web technique where the backgrounds elements are moving slower than the elements on the foreground meaning that we could have the illusion of an object going much faster than in reality (the referential is of course the key)
Here is my questions. - If the object was travelling between 5mph to 92pmh, how was the plane able to keep up for so long? Doesnt the plane have to have a minimum speed to maintain flight capacity? - If the object was changing speed between 5mph and 92mph, how is it that in the video, apparently to me and based on what I have seen, the camera has not changed zoom at any point? I do not recall any comment about the plane going in "circles" to film the object.
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