Kevin Knuth

You don't know the distances to the objects.

Without knowing the distance to the object or the speed or the size of the object, you need some kind of length scale to be able to tell how much of an angle corresponds to how much distance and where the object is.

So without knowing how far away the object is or how big the object is, you can't determine its speed.

which means you can't determine its acceleration.

So when the thing zips off and looks like it accelerates very fast, is that an illusion from being zoomed in so much, or is it actually accelerating at a very high rate of speed?

That's not clear without a second camera doing triangulation.

Now, metadata will only get you so far.

That tells you what some of the camera settings are.

So it would tell you what the magnification of the camera is.

And so that's sometimes helpful to determine what's going on.

But usually you would need to really analyze a video of a UIP.

You're gonna need images from multiple cameras taken simultaneously.

That would be ideal.

Right.

That's what it comes down to.

Yeah, that's part of the difficulty.

Congress clearly wants transparency, and they've requested specific videos that some of the representatives have seen, those who have classification have seen some of these classified videos.

And Representative Luna put

out a list of I think 46 videos that, that, that they wanted released.

Um, they had a deadline of April 15th, I believe that just whizzed on by, um, made a whooshing sound like one of Douglas Adams, um, deadlines, you know, Douglas Adams has this great quote.