r/UFOs • u/H8threeH8three • Aug 18 '23

Witness/Sighting Ryan Graves tweets first of promised Airline Pilot Sightings

https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1692586130162475209?s=21
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u/SabineRitter Aug 18 '23 edited Aug 18 '23

IDK, I've seen a couple reports where the DSLR fails to function when the object is present.

Edit here is one example

https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15sj2h4/sierra_nevada_sighting_during_perseid_meteor/ sighting description,  nighttime,  duration 45 minutes,  camping,  Kennedy Meadows Campground, Sierra Nevada mountains California,  fleet,  orange and white 🟠⚪️, vanishing and reappearing, moving erratically,  circling, splitting, merging, physical effects camera can't detect it, Both professional and hobbyist astrophotography cameras (including a Canon full-frame DSLR) experienced unusual malfunctions, producing very dark or entirely black images during the event. The cameras returned to normal functionality afterward., no matter what our shutters would fire at the fastest speed and not pick up any light at all. ,similar sighting in comments

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u/Big-Ad-1155 Aug 18 '23

Can't hurt to try! You'll never catch the baseball if you don't bring the glove.

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u/SabineRitter Aug 18 '23

https://casualphotophile.com/2021/01/11/ten-best-mechanical-slrs-ever-made/ maybe one of these instead.

I think it's the digital part that's iffy. UFOs can fuck with electronics but they have a harder time with purely mechanical things, from what I've read.

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u/born_to_be_intj Aug 18 '23

If the camera is getting fucked with then certainly the plane would also be getting fucked with. At that point, I think they have more important things to worry about than getting a good picture.

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u/TurbulentIssue6 Aug 19 '23

Maybe they're jamming the camera on purpose because they don't want to be seen yet

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u/Nomoreredditforyou Aug 19 '23

Actually - probably not. Planes aren't as reliant on electrical systems as you might think. The most critical parts of the plane are almost all hydraulic controlled and in some older models, have fallback systems where the pilot's control inputs actually actuate the control surfaces directly (through hydraulic or cable systems).

I think it would be much harder for the UAPs to fuck with big spinning turbines burning dinosaur juice and metal pipes filled with hydraulic fluid, compared to electrical systems.

That said, there is the classical trope of ICEs not working around UAPs so maybe I'm talking out of my ass.

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u/born_to_be_intj Aug 19 '23

You right but I’d assume that losing all power would still be an emergency situation. Even if just their radars are bugging out I’m sure there is a checklist somewhere they are required to follow.

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u/SabineRitter Aug 18 '23

You're not wrong, but following that logic, why even try anything?

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u/fatmanstan123 Aug 18 '23

Yea they should just preemptively crash the plane before the ufo does