Scientific Study of UFOs

I've been pretty skeptical of reported UFO sightings most of my life, but in December 2017 the military released some intriguing videos.  It seems that improved radar systems are enabling more video capture of some unusual fast moving objects.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_Task_Force

More recently CBS has interviewed pilots that have seen UFOs off the US coast 'daily'.  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/

I find this fascinating, as this info seems much more credible than the typical noise that pervades this topic.

If indeed pilots are routinely seeing these things off of our coast, it seems to me we should be organizing a large national effort to scientifically study this.  C'mon man, we may be talking real aliens here !

Indeed, in response to the videos released by the military in 2017, a small group of individuals has begun organizing a network of video cameras to survey the night sky looking for UFO like objects.

https://www.space.com/spotting-ufos-sky-hub-surveillance

They are reportedly using AI to wade through the video data, and have already found a few interesting things.  As the camera and zoom technology improves, it will be interesting to see where this leads.  I think these guys have the right idea.  Let's bring science and technology to this issue and make it public.

On that thread can we at least spend a few pennies to add some better cameras to the aircraft that are seeing these things 'daily'.  Really ?  Daily ?  Really ?

We are seeing these things daily and the released videos are the best pictures we have ?  Hmmmm.  That doesn't really smell right does it ?

I get that there is a lot more physics that we don't know than we do, but the data to date while interesting is not enough.

I want to believe, but better pictures and data please.

Some fascinating interviews with David Fravor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52GCI7rqV4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBt4CNHyAck

Update: NASA is taking this on !  Awesome.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/

UFOs and Intelligent Alien Life

• UFOs
• I wish I could see a good UFO, but unfortunately have not.
• Why do all the videos have to be at a distance and blurry, bummer
• If there are any aliens reading this please contact me.  Especially if you own a UFO.  I would really like to go for a ride in a UFO.

• Are We Alone ?
• Some smart folks ask why we haven't detected other intelligent life in the universe.
• Given the exponential rate of growth of technology the logic goes that we should be able to aim a telescope at distant stars and see cool giant space cities or some such.
• Good question.  One of the bigger good questions of life in fact.
• The more we look without seeing anything artificial the more it seems we might be alone.
• Perhaps we have underestimated the odds of things aligning for advanced life.  Maybe we under estimated earth's geographic and other factors that led to the evolution and adaptive nature of man.  Maybe it isn't just 10 things that had to happen to get to this point, maybe it is 100.
• An alternate option is that intelligent life has existed before but destroyed itself.  Does it make sense to leave hundreds or thousands of children unattended in a nuclear reactor control room ?   Now imagine 1 billion children in a control room that could wipe out the human race.  That is what we are looking at in the very very near future in the domains of AI and nanotechnology.
• Another alternative is that as other intelligent species have evolved they moved into other 'domains' of existence that are harder for us to detect.  The transformation of human existence into something 'digital' is not that crazy anymore.  We are only a few years away from computers being smarter than humans.  A computer with the capacity to download the sum of every interesting bit of a human can't be that far behind.  And once we're fully digital it get's really crazy.