DISCLOSURE IN THE USA
Is that still 'live', or stymied by conclusions of the recent government open hearings, that there is no existing, material evidence of any extraterrestrial contact and perhaps now NASA should take a look at it... just in case?
The great 'disclosure' appears to be that there are reasonable explanations for almost all of the reports collected by the Navy over the last few years, and the Pentagon has begun to realise this.
Here's the New York Times from 29 October anticipating this report.
U.F.O. skeptics and experts in optics have long said many of the videos and sightings by naval aviators represent optical illusions that have made ordinary objects — weather balloons, commercial drones — appear to move faster than possible. Military officials have largely come to the same conclusion.
Besides the images of the green triangles, the other recordings released by the Pentagon have not been categorized as surveillance incidents, at least so far. But Pentagon officials do not believe that any of them represent aliens, either.
One of the videos, referred to as GoFast, appears to show an object moving at immense speed. But an analysis by the military says that is an illusion created by the angle of observation against water. According to Pentagon calculations, the object is moving only about 30 miles per hour.
Another video, known as Gimbal, shows an object that appears to be turning or spinning. Military officials now believe that is the optics of the classified image sensor, designed to help target weapons, make the object appear like it is moving in a strange way.
So we have good explanations for the
Green Pyramid UAPs = bokeh from a triangular aperture
GoFast = small, mundane object travelling at 30mph
Gimbal = optical distortion in the sensor system
Add to this the observation of several drones apparently associated with a Chinese spy ship in international waters,
and the toy mylar balloons seen off the Virginia coast (The Batman Balloon and other similar objects).
All these events have been examined at Metabunk with similar results; no aliens, just mundane events seen in unusual circumstances.
All that is left really is the FLIR1 clip, associated with the TicTac sighting of David Fravor. Here's what the NYT had to say.
Military analysts remain puzzled by the third video, known as Flir1. The object captured in the 2004 video appears to hover over the water, jump erratically, then peel away. Military officials say that event is more difficult to explain, but officials who have studied it are convinced it is not a piece of alien technology.
Note that the Metabunk analysis does explain the 'peeling away' aspect of the clip by demonstrating that the camera changes magnification at that point, thereby losing contact with the target - this was almost certainly a distant conventional aircraft, but it has not yet been identified, and many other aspects of that day's events remain mysterious.