GoFast video (USS Theodore Roosevelt)

A quantitative reconstruction of the 2015 'Go Fast' Navy video, using onscreen elevation, azimuth, range, altitude and airspeed telemetry, placed the object at roughly 13,000 feet altitude, moving about 390 meters in 22 seconds (roughly 40 mph), consistent with wind speed at that altitude - not the extreme speed suggested by the video's nickname.

this object moved about 390 meters in 22 seconds, and that corresponds to a velocity of just 40 miles per hour, and so that's a velocity is consistent with wind speeds at 13,000 feet

Our check Confirmed closely: physicist Josh Semeter (Boston University, Director for Space Physics) presented a trigonometric/telemetry reconstruction of the Go Fast video at a NASA UAP panel, placing the object at about 13,000 feet altitude and roughly 390 meters of travel over 22 seconds (~40 mph), noting this matches typical wind speed at that altitude and that apparent extreme speed was largely a parallax effect from the aircraft's own ~435 mph groundspeed. This independently corroborates AARO's own 2023 case-resolution finding of non-anomalous speed (roughly 5-92 mph depending on assumptions).

Sources metabunk.org, youtube.com

Said in Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (Official NASA Broadcast)

The apparent extreme speed in the 2015 'Go Fast' video was largely a parallax illusion caused by the observing aircraft's own rapid motion (about 430 mph), not by the tracked object's actual speed.

some or most of the motion that we observe, the apparent motion of the object, is in fact due to the rapid motion of the sensing platform, which is about 430 miles per hour in this case

Our check Confirmed closely: physicist Josh Semeter (Boston University, Director for Space Physics) presented a trigonometric/telemetry reconstruction of the Go Fast video at a NASA UAP panel, placing the object at about 13,000 feet altitude and roughly 390 meters of travel over 22 seconds (~40 mph), noting this matches typical wind speed at that altitude and that apparent extreme speed was largely a parallax effect from the aircraft's own ~435 mph groundspeed. This independently corroborates AARO's own 2023 case-resolution finding of non-anomalous speed (roughly 5-92 mph depending on assumptions).

Sources metabunk.org, youtube.com

Said in Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (Official NASA Broadcast)

AARO's official assessment of the Go Fast video, presented at a recent congressional hearing, is that the apparent high speed is possibly explainable by parallax, and that the video shows no anomalous maneuver.

They just came out at the recent hearing... this is possibly parallax.

Said in UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate

AARO did not interview the Go Fast aircrew before issuing its parallax assessment, which von Rennenkampff calls a major analytic failure.

I have a major bone to pick with Arrow. They didn't talk to the air crew about this.

Said in UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate

The Go Fast object was reportedly part of a four-object formation flying 'line abreast,' per Ryan Graves, which von Rennenkampff argues is inconsistent with a simple wind-blown balloon explanation.

This was one of four objects that were in a line of breast formation.

Said in UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate

The Navy GoFast video resolves to something moving fairly slowly, most likely a weather or mylar balloon; this conclusion is shared by AARO, NASA, and Metabunk's independent analyses.

that pretty much resolved to it being something that was moving fairly slowly... probably something just like a balloon like a weather balloon.

Said in UAP Evidence & Analysis | Mick West