The Navy Says Those UFO Videos Are Real

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111. first of all

when someone says "gone in a second" that's a euphemism for "really fast."

He wasn't timing it, and he wasn't measuring it. But let's assume he was exactly right.

And second, no, it's not close...60K feet in a second is roughly MACH 55. That's fast, speed of light is about 186K miles per second. Not feet, miles.


We've reached MACH 10 with current tech in planes, MACH 25 with the space shuttle.

Now, assume it was oh I don't know, 60K feet in 2 seconds...because humans aren't perfect timepieces.

That's MACH 27, so only 2 off the space shuttle.

Now, what if he was off by say 10K feet or so. Not all that surprising given we aren't exact measuring devices.
Now you are at Mach 23, slower than the space shuttle.

Point is, we aren't talking exact numbers here because we have a guess from a pilot...no doubt it's better than you or I could guess but he's not a computer or a robot. We don't know that it was acceleration that was "beyond our comprehension." Even if we straight up use his estimate, it's not terribly off from what we could do in the 70s and 80s with rockets i.e. the Space Shuttle.