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Chilean Navy UFO video
Also known as: Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released by Chilean Navy, Chilean Navy video
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously | The New Yorker newyorker.com Apr 30, 2021 12 facts
claimIn the case of the Chilean Navy UFO video, the helicopter pilots inaccurately gauged the distance and altitude of the object, leading to the premature exclusion of the possibility that it was a commercial airliner in a takeoff climb.
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.
claimMick West theorized that the odd formations in the Chilean Navy UFO video were aerodynamic contrails, based on his experience observing planes over his home in Sacramento.
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).
claimOn January 6, 2017, Leslie Kean published an article in the Huffington Post titled 'Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released by Chilean Navy' regarding a nine-minute film shot on infrared cameras from a helicopter that the CEFAA had been studying for two years.
accountMick West posited that the object in the Chilean Navy UFO video was an aerodynamic contrail from a plane, and by January 11, 2017, the Metabunk community identified the object as IB6830, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Santiago to Madrid.
claimMick West theorized that the odd formations in the Chilean Navy UFO video were aerodynamic contrails, based on his experience observing planes over his home in Sacramento.
claimThe Metabunk community identified the object in the Chilean Navy UFO video as flight IB6830, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Santiago to Madrid.
claimMick West posted a theory on the Skydentify subforum of Metabunk that the object in the Chilean Navy UFO video was an 'aerodynamic contrail' from a plane.
claimBy January 11, 2017, the Metabunk community identified the object in the Chilean Navy UFO video as IB6830, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Santiago to Madrid.
claimUFO inquiries are highly vulnerable to erroneous assumptions because they rely on a process of elimination, which in the case of the Chilean Navy video, led to the premature ruling out of a commercial airliner in a takeoff climb.