Aliens in UFOs or UAPs still haven't visited us

Great piece about the hooey from NY Mag's Intelligencer, much of it focused on "journalist" UFO pusher Leslie Kean. When I saw the bits about her and psychics, I was already thinking of one blast from the past name from Harvard. When I saw the afterlife bits I was convinced.

And, so I posted on Twitter without even scrolling down the story further, but when I did, yep, John Mack was indeed prominently there.

Nuff ced.

Actually, to add to it, this:

Mick West, who runs a website called Metabunk, explained on YouTube that the “Gimbal” video shows the heat image of a jet from behind and the aura is an artifact of image sharpening.

NEVER trust a photo that's been edited at all. INSIST on a memory card photo where the image in question has the same date as those on other file numbers in a row, and when the metadata reflects that, too. And, even then, have some competency in, and confidence in your skills in, photo editing. Especially, maybe have done some "Photoshopping" yourself, i.e., cloning, but not just cloning; also use of more creative filters and such.

The author goes on to cite an (in)famous alleged siting on June 24, 1947 in the Pacific Northwest, not too long before Roswell. It notes that the touted Kenneth Arnold was not the only person to spot items that day, and that these were almost certainly balloons from Project Skyhook. And, if not Project Mogul, as at Roswell, it was another balloon project, he says. Related? Bigger balloons with different material got launched after that, and into the early 1950s, and yep, inspired other UFO scares. More disgustingly, contractors for the CIA apparently were looking at germ warfare by high-altitude, long-distance balloon in the 1950s. Were they used?

Unfortunately, this is another thing where blogging friend Skeptophilia seems to want to be be a bit less hard in his skepticism than I am. Since he's not on Twitter any more, and his version of Blogger doesn't want to save comments and I'm not on TikTok (shoot me), I can't heads up him about this.

He remains skeptical in end, overall, but pooh-poohs Jason Colavito's explanation on one of the four events he cites. And, on the last, he claims that a 1.5 meter woman is "small." That's approximately 5 feet tall, which would be of exactly average height in Japan of 225 years ago (if the tale were true).

C'mon, Gordon; do better.

Sadly, he won't. I forgot that I wrote about his relative lack of skepticism 11 months ago, and updated it in late July to specifically note his lack of skepticism toward David Grusch.

And, we haven't even discussed the Fermi paradox.