While these objects may be unidentified, the idea that they are the products of aliens, a simulation, AI, or something else seems unlikely given the low quality of the evidence. In all cases I’m aware of evidence for something like this being the true origin of a UFO would have to overcome the more likely alternatives of
secret, experimental, or stealth aircraft, probably military, with advanced capabilities undisclosed to the public;
observational errors and instrumentation glitches;
misremembering, embellishment, and outright lying.
For a comparison, the literature on cryptids (claimed to be real but unobserved by science animals like bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and the chupacabra) is full of cases where the evidence looks pretty compelling...so long as we only look for evidence that confirms the hope that a cryptid exists. Perhaps sadly, there are no cryptid humanoids or sea monsters that we know of, and all evidence of them thus far collected is either best categorized as hoaxes, misidentifications, and hopeful misinterpretations or turned out to be evidence of real, undiscovered, and not fantastical animals.
If we take the NY Times article as a true report, it is strong argument against american “secret, experimental, or stealth aircraft” as they would not risk to crash it by flying between two airplanes in tight formation. But other explanation are possible, like disinformation.
as they would not risk to crash it by flying between two airplanes in tight formation.
This is incorrect. They shouldn’t risk crashing by flying between a tight formation, but you’ve got to consider that people who work in top secret programs are mostly just regular people who don’t talk about their work. There is plenty of room in top secret military projects for all the same jackassery that happens in public projects, like incompetence, pranks, deliberately dangerous tests, etc. Arguably more so, since they are sheltered from scrutiny.
And this ignores more prosaic explanations like an autopilot glitch. Alpha Go made weird decisions because it was misreading the apparent score, a pilot AI would certainly encounter similar problems at some point.
While these objects may be unidentified, the idea that they are the products of aliens, a simulation, AI, or something else seems unlikely given the low quality of the evidence. In all cases I’m aware of evidence for something like this being the true origin of a UFO would have to overcome the more likely alternatives of
secret, experimental, or stealth aircraft, probably military, with advanced capabilities undisclosed to the public;
observational errors and instrumentation glitches;
misremembering, embellishment, and outright lying.
For a comparison, the literature on cryptids (claimed to be real but unobserved by science animals like bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and the chupacabra) is full of cases where the evidence looks pretty compelling...so long as we only look for evidence that confirms the hope that a cryptid exists. Perhaps sadly, there are no cryptid humanoids or sea monsters that we know of, and all evidence of them thus far collected is either best categorized as hoaxes, misidentifications, and hopeful misinterpretations or turned out to be evidence of real, undiscovered, and not fantastical animals.
If we take the NY Times article as a true report, it is strong argument against american “secret, experimental, or stealth aircraft” as they would not risk to crash it by flying between two airplanes in tight formation. But other explanation are possible, like disinformation.
This is incorrect. They shouldn’t risk crashing by flying between a tight formation, but you’ve got to consider that people who work in top secret programs are mostly just regular people who don’t talk about their work. There is plenty of room in top secret military projects for all the same jackassery that happens in public projects, like incompetence, pranks, deliberately dangerous tests, etc. Arguably more so, since they are sheltered from scrutiny.
And this ignores more prosaic explanations like an autopilot glitch. Alpha Go made weird decisions because it was misreading the apparent score, a pilot AI would certainly encounter similar problems at some point.
Maybe they tested some radar-jamming tech. I also find more discussion about new radars there here.