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Leslie Kean and Mick West are connected through their public discourse and conflicting analyses regarding UFO phenomena, specifically the Chilean Navy video discussed in Kean's 2017 article [1], [2], [3], and [4]. Kean has publicly criticized West's debunking methodology and his lack of genuine interest in the subject [5], [6], and [7], while West has provided technical analyses of videos promoted by Kean [2], [3], and [4].
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously | The New Yorker newyorker.com 9 facts
accountOn January 6, 2017, a skeptic on Metabunk brought a Huffington Post article by Leslie Kean titled 'Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released by Chilean Navy' to Mick West's attention.
claimMick West posited that the object in the Chilean Navy UFO video, which was the subject of a 2017 Huffington Post article by Leslie Kean, was actually aerodynamic contrails.
quoteLeslie Kean stated regarding Mick West: 'If Mick were really interested in this stuff, he wouldn’t debunk every single video. He would admit that at least some of them are genuinely weird.'
accountOn January 6, 2017, Mick West analyzed a video titled 'Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released by Chilean Navy' by Leslie Kean, which featured a nine-minute infrared film studied by the Chilean Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA).
quoteLeslie Kean stated regarding Mick West: 'If Mick were really interested in this stuff, he wouldn’t debunk every single video. He would admit that at least some of them are genuinely weird.'
perspectiveLeslie Kean expressed skepticism regarding Mick West's debunking methods, stating that if he were truly interested in the subject, he would admit that at least some of the videos are genuinely weird rather than debunking every single one.
perspectiveLeslie Kean stated that Mick West's analysis of the video released by George Knapp and Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell was reasonable.
claimMick West posited that the U.F.O. video released by the Chilean Navy and discussed in a 2017 Huffington Post article by Leslie Kean was actually a commercial airliner, specifically flight IB6830 from Santiago to Madrid.
perspectiveLeslie Kean expressed the opinion that Mick West is not genuinely interested in UFOs because he attempts to debunk every video rather than admitting that at least some are genuinely weird.