The "Gimbal" UFO is the poster child of modern UFO videos. Leaked in 2017, and officially released in 2019, it's considered by many to show a genuine anomalous craft, exhibiting flight characteristics beyond current human technology. But is it? There are four observables in the video, four things you can check yourself, that demonstrate that the most likely thing we are looking at is actually a camera artifact. It's probably an infrared glare, hiding the hot object behind it, and rotating only because the camera rotates when tracking the target from left to right. This does not mean it's not a "UAP", or that it's not unidentified, or that it's not an amazing craft - it just means it's not actually exhibiting any incredible behavior, and so this opens the door to more mundane possibilities, like a distant small jet, just flying away, the heat of the engines (viewed up the exhaust) creating a large glare in the thermal camera. Simulator: https://www.metabunk.org/gimbal/ 00:00 Introduction 00:22 The Four Observables 01:18 What's going on 01:59 What I'm not Addressing 02:27 A full 3D recreation 03:01 The ATFLIR camera 03:25 Field of View less than the Moon. 03:55 External Gimbal Axes 05:05 Tracking left to right 05:45 Why the rotation? 06:45 Incorporating Bank in the sim 08:15 Rotating the camera rotates the image 08:47 Derotation 09:07 Real world derotation 09:22 Glare examples 10:21 Glare does not rotate 10:43 Glare derotated "rotates" 11:06 Dero does not rotate it alone 11:27 Differences between sim and video 12:05 ATFLIR's inner mirrors 12:51 Minimizing roll 13:23 Incorporating the glare angle in the sim 13:46 Observable #1 - No rotation while banking 15:23 Observable #2 - Bumps before rotation 16:01 Observable #3 - Rotating patterns 16:24 Observable #4 - Derotation match 17:12 Implications if it's not a glare.... 17:58 Background information 19:23 Patent limitations 20:06 Credits Metabunk Discussions: Investigation the role of pitch and other facts in the glare angle, Markus. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/calculating-and-visualizing-gimbal-angles.12237/ Edward Current's work on a full 3D model of the object's movement: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-blender-simulation-with-clouds.12209/ realityseaker and Edward Current on the initial lack of rotation during banking. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/does-the-beginning-part-of-gimbal-debunk-the-claim-that-the-object-rotates.12068/ Using OpenCV to track the cloud motion https://www.metabunk.org/threads/automated-motion-tracking-in-videos-like-gimbal-and-gofast.12299/ Credits: Many Thanks to Markus Pitch, Graphs, Data, etc Edward Current 3D Path analysis Chris Lehto Early Feedback Mendel Analysis Robert Hildebrandt ATFLIR Model jplaza Analysis jarlrmai Analysis dim ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

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Command David Fravor is the pilot who famously observed the "Tic-Tac" UFO (although he did not get any video). He was recently on the Lex Fridman podcast and was asked about my various hypotheses regarding his encounter and the three Navy UFO video (FLIR1, GIMBAL, and GOFAST). I was quite hopeful there would be some interesting objections. But it turned out that he's not really familiar with what my hypotheses actually were - seemingly only vaguely knowing the ideas second hand. So he mostly went off on irrelevant tangents. It was all rather disappointing, but not without interest. Here's the Lex Fridman interview: https://youtu.be/aB8zcAttP1E?t=9001 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1uRf5_dF4

This is at 4x speed. The rippling you see around the edges if from atmospheric distortion. As the moon is setting the sun is rising opposite it. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2Voy0XRRo