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Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!

Mick West analyzes the Navy "Go Fast" UFO footage and shows with simple trigonometry and the data overlay that the object is slow and high up, consistent with a balloon. He explains how parallax makes it look fast and argues the original TV claims were wrong.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters repeatedly cite it as a checkable, math-based debunking of the famous UFO clips whenever UAP stories come up.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Mick West
Topic
ufo video debunking
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
6
HN mentions in dataset
13
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • See for yourself. This is the most clear case of misidentification. All the data you need is shown in the instrument recording and he takes us through how to interpret it step by step. Of course Mick has the advantage of having plenty of time …

    simonh on Hacker News · 2023-02
    In As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)

  • This is the video. I don’t know why you’re dismissive. It’s literally just trigonometry using numbers displayed in the video itself. [VIDEO]

    jonathankoren on Hacker News · 2019-09
    In Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers

  • Have you watched his debunking of the "Go Fast" video? ( [VIDEO] ) I don't see any wiggle room around what he lays out, certainly not enough to warrant putting 'debunk' into "scarequotes". The object simply was not 'going fast'; it was a weather balloon …

    catalogia on Hacker News · 2020-04
    In Pentagon officially releases UFO videos [video]

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