вЂњSo weвЂ™re looking at a big glare, I think, of an engine - maybe a pair of engines with an F/A-18 - something like that.вЂќДЄs for the maneuvers the craft appears to make, West said that the information on the screen, such as the zoom level, indicates that itвЂ™s not the mystery aircraft making sweeping motions, but the camera. вЂњWhat weвЂ™re seeing in the distance is essentially just the glare of a hot object,вЂќ West said as he watched the FLIR1 video with the Union-Tribune. The apparent shapes of the aircraft - one saucer-like, the other like a Tic Tac - are due to glare on the lens of the camera, not proof of flying saucers, West maintains. West said that FLIR1 and Gimbal, and the images on them - described by some as showing aircraft with no directional control surfaces, intake or exhaust - are consistent with what could be expected if you filmed a fighter jet flying away from the camera. FLIR1 was captured off the coast of San Diego in 2004 by a fighter operating off the aircraft carrier Nimitz, while Go Fast and Gimbal were captured by an F/A-18 operating off the carrier Theodore Roosevelt off the coast of Florida in 2015. The three videos released by the Navy were filmed by infrared cameras. On his website,, and on his YouTube channel, West experiments with cameras to show how light and motion can deceive viewers. Mick West, a former video-game designer, is one of the best-known skeptics pushing back on the claims of UFO enthusiasts. In a statement, it said it did so вЂњin order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.вЂќ The Pentagon said at the time the phenomena observed in the videos remained characterized as вЂњunidentified.вЂќ The Nimitz encounter In 2020, the Pentagon released the three videos itself. Flir1 and two additional videos were published by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLongeвЂ™s вЂњTo the Stars Academy of Arts and ScienceвЂќ website in 2019.ДЄfter the release of the videos, the Navy acknowledged they were real, calling the objects in the videos вЂњunidentified aerial phenomenon.вЂќ In 2017, it received renewed attention when it was published by the New York Times. The three - known as вЂњGimbal,вЂќ вЂњGo FastвЂќ and вЂњFlir1' - were filmed by Navy Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared, or ATFLIR, pods which attach to the fuselage of the aircraft.ДЇlir1, which was filmed off the coast of San Diego in 2004, was published anonymously on a UFO website in 2007, according to a 2020 Popular Mechanics report on the history of the video. Three of the most well-known videos were taken by Navy F/A-18s over both the Pacific and Atlantic. вЂњI donвЂ™t think that itвЂ™s going to reveal any fantastic new insight.вЂќ Navy acknowledges videos вЂњI think that the reportвЂ™s going to be a huge letdown,вЂќ Dietrich said. She also said she doesnвЂ™t expect the Pentagon report to provide the kind of answers many are looking for.

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