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Am I a Competent Witness

Am I a Competent Witness. Would you believe me?. USAF Officer. 20 year career Top Secret Clearance Interim Yankee White Cogint Figure. Pilot. Instructor and Evaluator in 2 Air Force Airframes Also flown civilian airframes as well as T-37 and T-38 Flown all over the world

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Am I a Competent Witness

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  1. Am I a Competent Witness Would you believe me?

  2. USAF Officer • 20 year career • Top Secret Clearance • Interim Yankee White • Cogint Figure

  3. Pilot • Instructor and Evaluator in 2 Air Force Airframes • Also flown civilian airframes as well as T-37 and T-38 • Flown all over the world • More hours than many airline pilots • More varied experience • Air Refueling • Rendezvous • NVG Qual

  4. Expertise and Hobbies • Annual meteorology courses with verbal and written exams • Daily meteorology briefings • Astronomy courses in High School and College • Astronomy is a major hobby • Physics is also a major area of Knowledge • Graduate of RPI

  5. What I Saw • Flying from Egypt to Saudi Arabia • Early morning flight • About 45 miles ahead of us • Couldn’t paint on Radar • Climbed impossibly high • AWACS was “unusually silent”

  6. So What Was It? Would you believe me if I had claimed it was a UFO?

  7. Our Brains • Our brains are always trying to make sense of data, but often gets it wrong • Expecting to see something will also lead us to give attributes to something that may not be so • It will make mistakes, even if we “know” better • There are thousands of examples you can look up and experience for yourself • We evolved on the plains at an altitude of about 5’ feet and at walking sped, our current world quite often confounds our senses

  8. Conclusion • Thought about it more • My initial impression was mistaken • Eventually figured it out • But would I had been taken as a “Competent Witness”?

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