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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 founded Metabunk, an online forum for examining anomalous phenomena, in 2013.

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.

claimMick West established a website to combat misinformation regarding Morgellons disease, a condition characterized by the belief that strange fibers emerge from the skin, which has no established medical basis.

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 founded Metabunk in 2013, an online forum where contributors examine anomalous phenomena.

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 founded Metabunk in 2013, an online forum where contributors examine anomalous phenomena.

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.

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.