I would encourage people to watch the FLIR videos from the Florida incident. These objects are being seen by pilots repeatedly, they show up on Radar, and are seen both traveling in the air, stopping in the air, and going underwater.
This object in particular has an odd shape like a top rotating. The speed at which these objects accelerate and decelerate is incredible, see this calculation from this paper by some physicists at SUNY:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwixlPL_iILxAhVeKVkFHUqoC-0QFjAAegQIAxAD&url=https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/33/1/26/pdf&usg=AOvVaw2wIzhBMrfBy4dBV1ZHK6Px
"With acceleration estimates in hand, we obtained a ballpark estimate of the power involved to
accelerate the UAV. Of course, this required an estimate of the mass of the UAV, which we did not have.
The UAV was estimated to be approximately the same size as an F/A-18 Super Hornet, which has a
weight of about 32, 000 lbs, corresponding to 14,550 kg. Since we want a minimal power estimate, we
took the acceleration as 5370 g and assumed that the UAV had a mass of 1000 kg.
The UAV would
have then reached a maximum speed of about 46, 000 mph during the descent, or 60 times the speed
of sound, at which point the required power peaked at a shocking 1100 GW, which exceeds the total
nuclear power production of the United States by more than a factor of ten.
Another interesting fact not reported:
"The engagement lasted five minutes. With the Tic-Tac gone, the pilots turned their attention
toward the large object in the water, but the disturbance has disappeared. The two FastEagles returned
to the Nimitz, without sufficient fuel to attempt to pursue the Tic-Tac.
On their way back, they received
a call from the Princeton that the Tic-Tac UAV was waiting precisely at their CAP point. Senior Chief
Day noted that this was surprising because those coordinates were predetermined and secret. Given
that the CAP point was approximately R = 60 mi away, the probability of selecting the CAP point out
of all the locations within the 60 mile radius, to within a one mile resolution (slightly more than the
resolution of the radar system), is 0.0088%, (6) discounting the altitude. It appears that the Tic-Tac UAV
intentionally went to that location, although it is not clear how this would be possible.
Whether the UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin is not really the right question. We don't know. However, it doesn't look like the most ridiculous conclusion given what we've seen. These objects have physicality, being described as metallic, show up on radar and FLIR cameras as well as conventional cameras, but accelerate faster than any object with a reasonable mass could. The other two explanations are that they are made by humans, either the USA or Russia/China. It is very difficult to believe that the USA is technologically capable of making objects that move this fast, make no noise, and don't disturb the surface of the ocean as they move rapidly through it. The navy has said that these are not the product of a secret USA program (which could be disinformation, but still). This leaves Russia, China and ???. Russia has a GDP less than Italy, and doesn't seem capable of this kind of technology. China's latest J-20 Stealth aircraft is apparently 'inspired' by the F-35, and when one considers the state of China 50 years ago, it doesn't seem likely they were on the way to making these things.
What is worth observing is how the media portrays these events. Most TV news stations have turned this into a joke; I saw one which played a clip from Men in Black before showing government vetted video of UAP's in our airspace. Even in this thread we have people with strong opinions about the likelihood of this being aliens, or maser/laser holograms, or whatever. We need to ask ourselves what we would do if we found out there was a superior and uncommunicative intelligence in the universe. It is unsettling, but these are the facts that these videos force us to confront.
For fun, I would recommend reading up on the 1561 Nuremberg 'Celestial Phenomena' since it shows how people in Germany centuries ago struggled to describe what was clearly a spectacular and terrifying battle over their city:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
What I love about this account is the effort the writer puts into describing these events objectively, despite not having any of the language we have developed from science fiction movies and modern aircraft. The illustration is beautiful as well.
