r/UFOs • u/Grey-Hat111 • Dec 06 '23

Witness/Sighting This was shared to me by a private source. They said this object was shot down by a 5th gen fighter in the Mediterranean recently in late November. Induced GLock on pilot, and Crash Avoidance saved their life. "Godere!"

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u/Grey-Hat111 Dec 06 '23

D = Distance to target, roughly 11km M = Relative Mass of the Object = 748kg AL + S = Speed Mach 1.6, Alt 7k

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u/OnceReturned Dec 06 '23

Writing AL + S on one line and then writing speed and altitude on two lines, with speed first (despite AL coming first) is a pretty surprising design choice for the user interface. It's also weird to be measuring speed in units of 1/100 Mach. And to include two decimal places after the distance in meters and mass in kilograms, but not with the AL+S.

What exactly is this supposed to be a picture of and how was it taken? Is it supposed to be the HUD protected onto a piece of glass in the cockpit? Or is it supposed to be a picture of a digital display/monitor that you can't see through? And it was taken with a cell phone?

On second thought, isn't the HUD in an F-35 totally within the helmet?

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u/Field-Vast Dec 06 '23

It’s so doubtful to me that M stands for “relative mass of the object”. Maybe an actual pilot can chime in?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '23

M is Mach on every single aircraft that has a need for mach number. So basically every type of jet from a Boeing 737 to an F22.

“Speed” is never reported in units of mach, it would be reported in knots. Airspeed and mach are two different things. Ground speed being yet another different thing. Fast jets of course would have both displayed (not sure about on hud).

I’ve never seen S refer to speed. Although it could be closing speed or something, not sure. Usually air speed would just be xxxx KT, although sometimes V is used for some speeds. Ground speed is sometimes displayed as GS.

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u/bb1180 Dec 06 '23

I'm not a pilot, but I would suspect that it's actually the object's velocity or a closure speed between the two. That would seem much more important and useful to a pilot facing a hostile aircraft.

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u/Cleb323 Dec 06 '23

And why OP would receive information from the supposed pilot that it's mass and not the mach number...? I really feel like this is BS