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Chilean Navy
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously | The New Yorker newyorker.com Apr 30, 2021 14 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.
claimMetabunk participants concluded that the Chilean Navy U.F.O. video was a commercial airliner after determining that the helicopter pilots had inaccurately gauged the distance and altitude of the object.
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).
claimMetabunk participants concluded that the Chilean Navy helicopter pilots inaccurately gauged the distance and altitude of the object, leading them to prematurely rule out the possibility that it was a commercial airliner in a takeoff climb.
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.
claimThe Metabunk community identified the object in the Chilean Navy UFO video as flight IB6830, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Santiago to Madrid.
referenceLeslie Kean wrote a Huffington Post article titled “Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released by Chilean Navy” regarding a nine-minute infrared film of an object that the Committee for the Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA) had been studying for two years.
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.
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.
claimThe Metabunk community concluded that the helicopter pilots in the Chilean Navy UFO incident had inaccurately gauged the distance and altitude of the object, leading them to prematurely rule out the possibility that it was a commercial airliner in a takeoff climb.
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.