Explained: New Navy UFO Videos

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a calm, evidence-based debunking whenever the Navy UFO videos come up.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Mick West

Topic

navy ufo video analysis

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2026

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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• All of the hyped UFO videos released over the past few years are easily explainable given a basic understanding of geometry, imaging and gimbals. Mick West has some great videos on it: [VIDEO]

• For anyone else who has a UFO-crazy uncle, I've found Mick West's YouTube channel to be invaluable [LINK] . Mick is a retired video game programmer (Spider Man, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk), who does extremely well-researched videos analyzing UFO claims. He's not flashy or trying …

• Apparently, no real gymnastics needed — just some domain knowledge. I was also freaked out by these videos until I saw this: [VIDEO]