I’ve had many experiences staring at something in the sky or on the ground and having WTF moments. And then having “Oh, duh” reactions as my brain finally makes some kind of recognition.
Leslie Kean claimed [and still believes] that UFOs exhibit signs of intelligence by behaving aggressively when encountering military pilots, but passively when encountering civilian pilots. A more common sense explanation is that pilots preferentially report random visual stimuli to behave the way they are TRAINED to expect.
Several years ago, I described the ‘questionable foundation’ of Leslie Kean’s book on pilots and UFOs as the naïve and unverified faith in pilot reports. She has insisted the UFOs show intelligent purpose based on their perception of the nature of their witnesses, since they are reported to behave differently when seen by military pilots than when seen by civilian pilots [when the more common-sense explanation is that different pilots report observations in terms of what they expect from their own different experience bases]. The data archives she touts as ‘unexplainable’ pilot sightings [such as the French ‘Weinstein Report’] can easily be shown to contain numerous pilot misinterpretations of unrecognized space and missile activity around the world, so who knows how many other prosaic explanations were never found by the ‘investigators’? See here:
I find this counter-intuitive, and quite fascinating. All those numbers appear on the military UFO videos that have been shown in the mass media, but my ignorant eyes just sort of skipped over the data. I'm glad someone who knows what's they're talking about was willing / able to share.
As a pilot...
I totally agree with this.
I’ve had many experiences staring at something in the sky or on the ground and having WTF moments. And then having “Oh, duh” reactions as my brain finally makes some kind of recognition.
Leslie Kean claimed [and still believes] that UFOs exhibit signs of intelligence by behaving aggressively when encountering military pilots, but passively when encountering civilian pilots. A more common sense explanation is that pilots preferentially report random visual stimuli to behave the way they are TRAINED to expect.
Several years ago, I described the ‘questionable foundation’ of Leslie Kean’s book on pilots and UFOs as the naïve and unverified faith in pilot reports. She has insisted the UFOs show intelligent purpose based on their perception of the nature of their witnesses, since they are reported to behave differently when seen by military pilots than when seen by civilian pilots [when the more common-sense explanation is that different pilots report observations in terms of what they expect from their own different experience bases]. The data archives she touts as ‘unexplainable’ pilot sightings [such as the French ‘Weinstein Report’] can easily be shown to contain numerous pilot misinterpretations of unrecognized space and missile activity around the world, so who knows how many other prosaic explanations were never found by the ‘investigators’? See here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190101223008/http:/www.nbcnews.com/id/38852385
https://web.archive.org/web/20190101223008/http:/www.nbcnews.com/id/38852385
That's just straight-up bizarre.
I find this counter-intuitive, and quite fascinating. All those numbers appear on the military UFO videos that have been shown in the mass media, but my ignorant eyes just sort of skipped over the data. I'm glad someone who knows what's they're talking about was willing / able to share.