Instantaneous Acceleration - Military-Filmed UFO Footage

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And I've spent a lot of time looking at infrared videos and done a lot of geometrical analysis of these videos. Those five, six observables, you know, there's one that just, it's in your face in this footage. It's moseying along at whatever speed it is. We get a lock on it. Oh boy, we got a lock on it. And it realizes, oh, you got a lock on me. Here, follow this, dude. See ya. This is weaponized. This is Weaponized. I'm George Knapp here in sunny post-winter, already feels like we're on the edge of summer Las Vegas, joined by my friend and colleague Jeremy Corbell. Man, Jeremy, it was one tough winter here, a long, tough winter we just had, brutally cold. I mean, it got down into the 40s sometimes, mostly in the 60s, though, and gosh, I'm so glad that's over with. I didn't have to use my motorized snowplow at all. The entire East Coast is belly aching. There's some, you know, once in every 10 year snowstorm. And, you know, friends are saying they're digging out their cars. I don't know if they're exaggerating, but they're telling me it's pretty gnarly on the East Coast with snow. Yeah, my regrets go out to them. I miss winter. I mean, I'd like to see at least some kind of winter here in Las Vegas, but we basically didn't have one at all. And now the sun is shining. It could go out and bag rays today. I wanted to mention something. I do want to wish a happy birthday to Mr. Four Names himself, Jeremy Corbell. I think in honor of your birthday, Jeremy, we should probably award you another name. You could be Mr. Five Name. And I nominate the name Duke because I've always liked that name. I had an uncle named Duke. And I hereby bequeathed to you, or maybe you could just think about it for a day or two, Duke. Mr. Five Names. Happy birthday. All the nicknames I've ever had have been like shithead and stuff like that. Duke, I'll take it. That's a great one. So last week on this program, we uncorked a new UAP video designated UAP by the Department of War and its analysts, not by us. It was video acquired from official Department of War vaults and collections. And although we I've been mostly off of social media for the past week or so, I was pretty sure that people would be happy about this video. glad to see some new footage, never before released, images that would be embraced by UFO world, which is always what happens. So how'd that play out? I mean, no one could possibly say that that objects in that video were birds or balloons, could they? Right. I mean, we predicted that. And it's a difficult balance and dance. It's very hard to get new data for people to look at at all. That is a heroic feat if new data gets out to the public and not just by us. I mean, it's a heroic feat in general. So I'm really grateful to be able to see these things. And, you know, I think and you think the public needs to see them too as far as our reporting goes. But we do know that there's going to be easy dismissals of things. Look, we told people the actual reality that this is part of an analysis of UAP that's designated UAP, even the term orb in documentation, triangle formation, UAP. He, you know, so obviously and clearly people have been studying the footage. You put it out and the easy things that you say is, well, you know, looks like a bird, looks like a balloon. You know, here's another example. OK, fine. But those are people filming birds and balloons. And typically when you're looking through that data and that sensor system, you'd hope to have more data. And that's always the key is that if you don't have enough data inside of a piece of footage, then people can dismiss things and try to say nothing to see here, move on. And you don't really have a rebuttal because you know, and we're reporting correctly the information, but you can't disprove the disprovers. So it really comes down to the best fidelity is going to be when there's a lot of numbers on the screen. There's a lot of data where you can see range and speed and all that. I think ultimately, George, you and I, when we've been exposed to stuff, and if we can obtain and release, then the point is we'd love to show the observables. We all talk about the observables with UAP, and there's five or six observables, but they are significant when you're looking at the way that these machines, these hard physical machines, the way that they propel and traverse. So that's really the kind of the golden ring, as they say, is if you can have a piece of footage that truly shows one of the observables we've all heard about in UFO land. You know, I laugh at some of the comments that have been sent to me by other people. It's like they can't get over the fact that these sensor systems way up in the sky do not have IMAX movie quality cameras attached to them, that they are that the images that are recorded by sensor systems, classified sensor systems, are not suitable for showing in a movie theater. They're picked up on thermal sensors, things like that. So they're not really cinematic in a presentation. and to those who think it's easy um and that there's got to be better video go get it let's knock yourself out um if it's so easy go ahead and go get it if it really exists out there we try really hard to get the best images we can we spend a lot of time vetting them and we present them and people can take them or leave them whatever they want well let me correct you once again we don't try that you know that's um we've never solicited anything people know that we're trustworthy i saw some comments online like this big conspiracy like oh they released something again like you know some mystery like we're part of some conspiracy some grand conspiracy where we get this footage and then we put it out and we must be seeding the population with some lie. You know, I take umbrage to that and I rarely do because we never asked for this. We never solicit. People trust us and that's what it comes down to. You know, I've talked to numerous people that have come forward to you and me and why did you choose, you know, us? Why did you, there's a ton of people you could go to. Why did you choose us? Because I trust you. I trust you to not handle this poorly i trust you to not twist anything and and i really um i'm grateful that people do so i just wanted to kind of say that was a response that i saw is it was part of some grand conspiracy no it's like really hard work and just allowing people to know they're safe to trust you and then if it is something that is acceptable to put out and there's there's times that it's not and a lot of the stuff most of the stuff i'd say that comes our way we never use it never right So I do want to get somebody to weigh in, somebody who knows what they're talking about in analyzing videos like that and what else we might be sharing today and in future episodes. And he's become a good friend of ours, somebody we trust to take a fair look at these videos that come our way one way or another. His name is Merrick von Renenkamp. He's a contributor to The Hill, an opinion writer for The Hill. But before that, he was an analyst for the Department of State's Bureau of International Security. He was a presidential appointee to the Department of Defense, now called the Department of War. And he really has helped us understand what is and is not in videos like this. Merrick, welcome back to Weaponized. George, Jeremy, thanks so much for having me. I'm really, really excited to be here to talk about this new footage that we are about to be releasing. Wait, wait, wait. Are we releasing the secret? That's blue the secret. Okay, look. So, Merrick, there is new footage, and we've showed you something. I just want to tell our audience, you know, George and I go through this extensive process, and when we get to kind of towards the end of that process, I mean, you can attest to it, Merrick, we're really careful. Sometimes we have things that we think are really good, but we don't have the technical knowledge, and you've actually helped us assess things that we're like, okay, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. We're not sure on that one. So we're not going to put that out. So you've really been helpful to us on Weaponized with just some of the technical stuff that we are not capable of doing. So you're kind of the last step for us sometimes is, you know, is this going to increase value into the conversation about true UAP? And so we did. We shared with you kind of, you know, some really interesting footage that we were certain was interesting. and I think you concur, but I would like you to educate people, professor, you know, I'd like you to educate people about kind of what we're seeing before we look at the video so we can really understand what's going on, unless you want to tell me a little bit about what's going on in your personal life right now, because I'd like to know that too. Yeah, we can put pause on that for maybe for a future discussion, but I will, I'll preface this in all seriousness, and I've spent quite a bit of time looking at these videos. We all know the Gimbal video and the Tic Tac video, the Omaha, the Jackson, you go up and down the list, all of which are extraordinary. And they cannot, believe it or not, they cannot be explained away very easily. And the armchair debunkers have hidden behind very convoluted explanations or frankly have not offered any explanations at all for some of these videos, which I think, you know, is indicative of the truly anomalous nature of what we're seeing in some of these videos. But I am, I mean this sincerely, and I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but the footage, Jeremy, that you sent to me to review is on its face, simply on its face, the most extraordinary footage I've ever seen. And I've spent a lot of time looking at infrared videos and done a lot of geometrical analysis of these videos. So I will I'll preface the discussion by saying and you alluded to it, Jeremy, but those those those five, six observables, you know, there's there's one that just it's in your face in this footage and a preliminary analysis, which we'll get into. But on my end, and I'm just giving folks the bottom line up front here. preliminary analysis does not suggest that it's an artifact of some kind of weird camera movement and that first observable is instantaneous acceleration and it sure to you know to again at a very first kind of run preliminary analysis does appear to be what we see in this footage and secondarily we see an object and again we'll dive into the details but we see an object lacking wings flaps control surfaces um a discernible or obvious means of propulsion there's no jet exhaust and it it makes a direction change and that would be that's another observable potentially that's positive lift colloquially known as as anti-gravity but um that is that is another observable that appears to be demonstrated and and there's potentially a third and that is hypersonic velocity because the speed with which this thing appears to zip out of frame is quite extraordinary. So I'm prefacing all of that kind of with my high-level takeaways. I invite, obviously, further analysis, but this is quite an extraordinary piece of footage, and kudos to you guys for getting it out. Well, we're going to do it together. So are we going to let it fly here now? Tomorrow, maybe we'll get it here, but I wanted to see if Merrick was going to address the last week's video as well. Yeah, it's interesting. Right. We had those those three three objects that were there recorded from an MQ-1 Predator drone. This is over the Persian Gulf, looks like off the coast of Iran. Certainly interesting. I think what we really need to do and our good friend Mick West has built a 3D simulation to for precisely. these kinds of cases and videos, he seems to say it's a bird. Well, then we say, okay, prove it. You have camera elevation angle. You have the line of sight, the bearing that the line of sight is. You have the actual location over the ocean where that camera is pointed. So you have a lot of metrics. Okay, let's put it in. Let's do the science. He hasn't done that yet. I think the day before or two days before that video came out, Mick was on social media saying, oh, I'm not posting i'm not active i'm just bored i'm paraphrasing because there haven't been any good ufo videos well here here are two mick um you know let's let's go ahead and let's do the analysis uh and um you know let's let's have the discussion yeah absolutely when we saw that video that three objects it looks like a triangle like maybe it's it's a fixed uh structure and then the the the the points of light changed position relative to each other didn't look like it's a singular object but but it's still as far as you're concerned it's not that strong compared to other things that you've seen you know the the challenge with most of these videos is that we don't know the range we don't know how far that object is from the camera we know how far the the ocean or the ground is we have a very good sense of what that is but we don't have the range and And that is the key element that, you know, that will make or break. It'll separate, you know, an interesting video from an extraordinary video, unless unless it's something that's plainly obvious or in very much in your face, like the video we might be watching in a few minutes here. And that that is the key. But, you know, look, I encourage folks to do the geometrical analyses that there is a there's a lot of data in that in that video, George, in the one that was just released. And you know it interesting you know Mick West the debunker the world most prominent debunker has openly admitted that he was paid to develop code to do these 3D simulations to do this kind of work And he hasn't put it into his simulator. So, look, I look forward to seeing how that develops because we'll learn more once we have that full geometric 3D visualization of what we're looking at. Jeremy, sometimes we have to make compromises with what information we can share, right? Urgent intergalactic message to all weaponized listeners. 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They're perfect for when I'm doing news interviews. Refresh your wardrobe with Quince. Go to quince.com slash weaponized for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns now available in Canada too. That's quince.com slash weaponized. free shipping and 365 day returns quince.com slash weaponize yeah and and and that's the point um it's a very difficult dance we we do give as much as we can so for example we didn't make up these title names right this is designated uap within intelligence agencies. These are part of analysis a lot of the time. But yeah, I can't go further than that. But yes, you have to, we have to protect certain elements of information, you know, wish we didn't have to do that. Best we can do is put it out. And, you know, you're calling out one individual, you know, who does analysis that, man, there are so many bright people on the interwebs that can all contribute and really show us their findings. So I think, you know, with each video that we've been able to, you know, release to the public, it's another data point. So I kind of look at it like a bigger picture, like some videos, they just teach the public, like, this is not grainy. I even Neil deGrasse Tyson said, wow, grainy black and white videos. Grainy? These are thermal. These are weapons, platforms, and systems. They can see in the dark. There's no grain in it. So it's like, I think even the general public needs to be educated. So every piece helps us understand more when you saw the gimbal you saw the tic-tac video i mean that was huge people were like oh my gosh when you see some of these uap getting locked i mean target lock solid lock um you know you get hopefully more information and i think that's also what we're going to see today so yeah look give us a breakdown merrick so that people really appreciate the visual they're about yeah is it Because it's long. Now, let me tell you, I created title cards to replicate the exact title cards that would have been there. This shows a bunch of sections of footage and then repeats certain elements of footage. Now, I didn't do that. That was part of an internal examination done by our intelligence agencies. So, you know, that's what you're seeing in these chunks. But we're going to play it in one piece. Yes. And what I'd like to do just because I find this footage so intriguing, it's in your face, it's compelling to me, at least. I think it's so important that that I think it's worthwhile just doing a very, very high level kind of scene setter, just a little bit of context and background so folks can understand what we're actually looking at. And so what we are looking at is footage from an MQ-9 Reaper drone. And we're looking at footage from the camera that is right up here in the front. And this is not precise. It's very general. It's a very high-level overview. There's enough data in the video that allows us to see where this Reaper drone is flying. It's actually circling in Jordanian airspace, and the camera's looking almost exactly due north, maybe just a couple degrees to the east, but basically due north at a very remote area in Syria. And this black line here is the Jordanian-Syrian border. And you'll see the footage that we'll show shortly is divided into two clips. and there's a bit of a separator there. And the drone actually flies about two miles north, northeast in that brief period of time. We don't have a timestamp, so we don't know how long in between the two clips. But we do know that the drone is circling. So you can tell, and I'll get into this in a second, but it is conducting, if you're looking at the drone from a bird's eye view just like this, It's flying in a counterclockwise circle while keeping an eye on this area in Syria with its sensor, with its infrared sensor. Just some background. This area of Syria is Soweda province, which has seen a lot of ISIS and jihadist activity. So it's not surprising. And I say this intentionally. It's not surprising that we had surveillance assets looking at villages and surveying this area. and I'll get that, I'll expand on that in a bit. Now, here is, I'm cutting to the chase slightly because I'm giving folks a look at the actual, the object. It's, the closest I can describe this is, you know, it's something akin to a mushroom perhaps, but I'll just give folks a very, very quick overview of what we see on this display. And this is a very standard MQ-9 display. I want to emphasize that nothing I'm seeing here is classified. There's plenty, plenty of footage open source available out on the Internet. There's videos pulled out by the military with all of this symbology. There's nothing, nothing classified here. The fact that we were that the United States was flying surveillance assets in Syria should not be classified. And I say all that for a reason, which I'll get into in a bit. But up here we see the heading, the aircraft heading. So this is in the second portion of the video. So this is roughly flying roughly west. It's going to be more west-southwest. So two seven zeros due west. This thing is pointed. The nose is pointed west-southwest. This is the azimuth angle. That is the direction that the camera is pointed. So it's pointed 100 degrees to the right. So think of it directly to your right. Perpendicular to your right is 90 degrees. So it's basically your four o'clock position. The camera is pointed to the four o'clock position looking behind and to the right. of the actual, of the nose of the aircraft. This is the aircraft position and altitude. I did a pretty darn close check and all the numbers check out. It's flying in a circular kind of an orbit and going, I think it came out to about 120 knots, which matches up with a Reaper's kind of cruising loitering speed. But folks, if they're interested, they can input these values into Google Earth or Google Maps. so they can see exactly where this object was over time. Down here is the military coordinates. It's called MGRS. It's basically a specialized, it's basically the military's version of latitude and longitude. It's a very precise down to a couple feet. It's kind of the military's own lat-long system. So that tells us where the camera is pointed, where on the ground, what position over the earth, right? What ground position that camera is looking at. And if folks are interested, they can go online. They're MGRS converters. So you just plug these numbers into the converter, and then you can convert to latitude, longitude, and map it. I'm not going to spend too much time on these numbers. This is elevation above sea level for that ground location. This is the bearing, so the direction the camera is looking relative to the target. Slant range, ground range, field of view height, field of view width. Not relevant really to the discussion here. The laser is not firing. The laser will designate and also get ranging, really precise ranging, but it is, to the best of my understanding, not firing at this point. So we're not getting a precise range off of this to this object. And this is just like this is the left-right kind of metric of where the camera is pointing. The elevation angle shows where relative to the camera's nose, how far down, in this case, it's eight degrees down below the aircraft's nose. So it's looking, as you can see from the footage, we're looking down at the ground. This right here is an indicator of whether the object is locked. That'll change over the course of the video. This is incredibly important because this tells us we are in black hot. That means objects that are warmer, hotter are going to appear darker. They're going to appear black and objects that are colder. And that is very important. Cold objects appear lighter. And throughout the course of this video, this object, intriguingly enough, despite maneuvering and doing this apparent instantaneous acceleration, is colder, colder than its surroundings, which is interesting. Aircraft are generally going to be warm. Friction on the on the skin of the aircraft will make them appear warm. We've seen that before, and that is something that is indicative of UAP, is that the propulsion itself doesn't give the same heat signatures that you'd anticipate. I'm just curious, when you're looking at the, you said like a mushroom shape, it is like lenticular on the top, and it's got a little bit of a bottom. Is this, are we seeing, we're seeing the thermal signature, but oftentimes we see the shape too. like you would see wings on this if it was a plane or something at this that's right and i have that's absolutely right jeremy i have a couple examples of that that i can show maybe after we show the video you're absolutely right um and and we'll we'll get into kind of theories of what it could be maybe after i showed the uh after we show the clip uh this little indicator right here shows where north is and as i mentioned the camera is pointed basically due north so that means uh that once if the camera if this indicator is up at the top here that means we are indeed looking north. If it were down here, that means we're looking south. It's kind of that simple. It's very intuitive. And this over here is the zoom and the field of view, which basically means the lens. And we'll see the operator cycle through. And I believe this is four times digital zoom. So I think this is about as close as we can get. This is zoomed in as far as we can. I'll just very quickly note there are two minor little oddities that I noted that I don't think are a major deal, But I did notice, and we'll see in the other footage in the video, that there are brackets around the corners of the screen. The bracket in the bottom left that is usually there is not there. So that could be a quirk of that particular system. I'm not sure what that is. And the other quirk that I noticed was the elevation above sea level does not change over the course of the video. So that could be a setting that the operators do. But I think I braised that because this video, again, on its face is so profound that I think we need to be very, very meticulous about everything about it. I think if we're going to come out and say that this shows what we think it does, we need to be very, very, again, very meticulous about every little detail. Well, all I ever say is it's short. They think it is that that was the whole thing. There was a full examination done and it was their words. This is instantaneous. acceleration UAP. But yes, when people look at it, then we have to decide, is that correct? Exactly. But I will say everything else, everything tracks. I mean, this is, you can, again, look at plenty of examples online of an MQ-9 display. Again, nothing classified. It's a perfect match with all this data. So I have very little doubt that this is legit, But I did want to flag all those little caveats. That said, the other once once I watched the video a few times, Jeremy, I I remembered seeing this this office of director of national intelligence source was quoted in a Daily Mail article from back from October of 2022. I believe this is from Josh Boswell. And the operator describes quite literally what we are about to see. He describes, you know, an MQ-9. So we have the platform, an MQ-9 Reaper drone. The source describes the exact scenario that we see in this video, a town, basically a rural area of Syria. And again, you can check that with the with the the coordinates. And then the source describes what we appear to see in the video, an orb. The operator chases this orb. And then and I'm going to quote here, the source says, then it will do something remarkable, like suddenly bolt off the screen. So, again, we have platform, location and observed behavior. So that gives me even more confidence that this is this is something this video, I suspect, has done the rounds within the intelligence community, within within the military and has certainly potentially garnered some some some inquisitive folks. And so I think that's that's fascinating to have this this this description match precisely what what we appear to see in the video. That's amazing you found that. I had never remembered that. I'm going to hear it from people that control Reapers and people that are pilots that they'll see these sharp angle turns or these incredible speeds. Like Commander David Fravor talks about that. Just boom. It was there and then it wasn't. You could just barely see that it moved. But you could tell. So we've heard about it a bunch. Now you bring up that article. That's what it appears we're seeing. It's actually that article. So the the the date Jeremy that you had for this uh for this incident I believe was 2021 That article came out in October of 2022 And here we are what three three and a half years later looking at the literal quite literally what appears to be the video that was described there If not maybe there are others And if there are There's a lot of others describing a general thing, but I mean, yeah, down to the point of Syria. So it could be. I don't know. yeah well let's play it um so the the video we're going to play is uh three minutes long it's almost three minutes long and that's because it shows these two parts um there's a little flash of black between the first two clips and you kind of watch it and you're like huh and within our intelligence agencies they were like huh and so you'll see these title cards in between those are not my words is what I'm going to say. Those are not my words. And then you can see the analysis that was done. And so it'll repeat a few times. Okay. Let's play it. The following UAP video has no audio. We recommend our audio listeners to watch the full video version of this episode. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so here we do see the operator. You can see he's on the top left. He's in the narrow field of view. He can zoom in further, and the operator will. We're in black hot. This object appears to be moving left. That is almost certainly parallax. So if you can see at the top, the plane is flying east. Something is moving perpendicularly to it. So that's almost certainly parallax. Operator tries to lock it up here. And you can see that the operator is attempting to do it manually, not working. Now we had that break. And now this is the second part of the clip. And at that box, you'll see that's the operator trying to get a lock. And here we have a successful lock on this object. And then the operator will do a digital zoom. It's currently an ultra-narrow field of view, which is about as zoomed in as you can get without going into the digital zoom. And zoomed in. And this is as far as you can get. And here we see this odd mushroom shape. Let's call it a mushroom. No lenticular, right? There's no wings, no exhaust plume. I still locked on. And here it breaks the lock, so it appears, and then it just zips off. That is quite extraordinary on its face. So let's slow it down here. I think we're going to go down to 50% speed. And, again, we have basically two movements. That initial, it kind of zips off to the left, direction change, and then it shoots off. wow yeah that's um wow is is uh that's all i've i've been able to say for the last few days clearly going away in this first part but then you think that to the right is an actual movement of the object i do and i think this as you get down to 25 percent five percent speed um it it becomes quite apparent and i you know i'll run through a couple hypotheses for what what could explain it and then i think we can i think we can rule those out um but we'll let this video finish playing this was their examination of a shape they were doing kind of sharpening techniques to try to define the shape of the object at times it's almost vaguely gimbal-like um but uh yeah that's pretty remarkable but the movement is here let's watch this last one to highlight UAP's shape, their wording. Right. And if we're seeing this visually, not on the thermal sensor, what might it look like? Would it just be round that we'd see in the sky? George, that's a really good question. I think there's enough. I'm venturing into speculation territory, but the shape, and I'll show you just in a second here, I'll show you kind of what that's actually kind of a great jumping off point. So let me let me kind of to answer your question, George, we'll look at, for example, some some footage of of drones, known drones. Right. These are these are we've we've identified these as drones. We know they're drones from the footage that they came from. So here's our here's our our friend. And these are all known drones. And you'll notice that even in lower from further away and lower fidelity infrared video, you can still see the body basically of an aircraft and the wing structure. Right. Even here, you can see the wing structure and the body of the aircraft clearly visible here. And then a quadcopter, of course, you know, has a very distinct shape and outline and infrared. And it looks absolutely nothing like like this. no wings no tail no rotors no exhaust no plumes of heat exactly and and just to my point about this kind of footage not being classified this is all out there this is actually footage from the exact same sensor platform and mq9 these are all believe it or not this is in what we're looking at is an mq9 taking video of other mq9s on a runway and you can see we're in white hot wht the engines in the back are hot and they are believe it or not they're white uh you see that You see the exhausts, right, from these F-16s. Now, George, to your question, these look like fighter jets. These look like drones. That most certainly does not look like any kind of conventional aircraft that I could think of. yeah remember george we put out um a uap that we had documentation we knew for sure it had been fired on and people kind of laughed at me at first when i said we fire upon uap on a regular basis well it's because i'm getting reports from within commands people reach out to me they tell me when events happen and this one i we ended up obtaining an image of and i was kind of embarrassed to put it out kind of look like kermit the frog but we called it syria dome uap because it's the best way we could describe it was a dome shape and that's kind of what i'm seeing in this image merrick is uh you know it appears to be dome shaped with you know man it looks like one of those weird ass like uh was it gulf breeze images remember this bizarre jeremy guys it is it is truly bizarre and i want to quickly if i may because i i want to address i think the the first thought that i had hey man maybe this is the the sensor operator jerking the camera around and that this is you know this is because that could that could and we saw that in the the famous tic-tac video there's one moment um i think about midway through the video where the where the operator changes the field of view basically changes the lens system and it looks like it shoots off um and and we can actually we can we can investigate that hypothesis um and so if you guys don't mind i'll i'll kind of uh i'll pull up what i hear for the average person because you're so technical it takes me a second to understand man when i first saw it right i mean of course i have some background on it but i thought the instantaneous motion was when it started going away what looked like away from the camera and that was so impressive and then that little thing to the right i was like no way they had to move the camera just being all that thing moved away but the the the idea you're having is that they were examining the instantaneous motion not just the incredible shoot away but then that move to the right was the actual instantaneous motion that's what that's what uh is really um i'm struggling to to understand here and it does seem to indicate that that was um indeed a a very anomalous maneuver and an example again of that um that instantaneous acceleration observable so i will i'll quickly um i'll share let's see if this works here um i do want to investigate this uh this this theory potentially that this could be the sensor operator rapidly inadvertently moving uh the camera to the side and i don't think that that's the case because um we actually see the operator once it shoots off to the right or appears to shoot off to the right um the the operator actually does precisely that the operator moves the camera because operator wants to wants to find this thing and where did it go um so we do have an example there it goes off to the right and then here i'm going to go frame by frame he the operator rapidly moves that camera to the right you can see the whole background everything the entire scene shifts from right to left so this is what we would be seeing if the operator had indeed um moved that camera and that could have been the right if folks want to say that that's what explains that instantaneous acceleration. We don't see that when that object shoots off to the right. And there's another way, I think, and even just another way to analyze this and give us even more confidence that this is not some camera artifact. And that is that the object moves left to right. So it has this apparent rightward motion. First of all, it moves kind of left and it It appears to really make a course change, and then it shoots off to the right. But we see that the background, actually, if we look very, very closely, the background is actually moving perpendicularly as a result of parallax, kind of just the way the plane is moving. The background appears to move from basically downwards, from top to bottom, and we'll show that here. So here the object zips off, and you can see the background moving downwards, But we can do it even more slowly. We'll go frame by frame here. There goes the object. It shoots off to the right, and we're going to stop here. And we'll go frame by frame, and we'll see there's a couple of features, darker features that move straight down. Even while the object is still visible moving right, the background is moving downwards. And that, to me, is a very strong indicator that this object did what it appears to do. And as remarkable as it is, despite any observable propulsion, just zips off and no technology that I know of can can do anything remotely, remotely close to that. And people will say, OK, maybe it's China. OK, if China has this kind of technology, we're all screwed. I'll just be honest with you. We're totally screwed. You can just drop a nuke anywhere in the world instantaneously. instantaneously um and beyond that what would what would china be doing flying ultra advanced technology over the syrian desert they haven't there's absolutely no reason for them to be doing that um we man this is just blowing my mind just that you know as like a i understand everything you said and yeah i you know i had a an idea but i i thought at first just that first movement was so impressive that was the instantaneous motion but the way you're showing how the ground movement keeps going in the same direction as the thing does this instantaneous shot to the right i i am convinced more than ever now that that is correct i mean this reminds me of you know exactly what commander fravor talked about how he can't describe it even it's in it's inhuman it breaks the our ideas of physics that something can do that it's it's interesting on many levels that jeremy to your point about that first it literally breaks that it appears i'll just i'll caveat all this it appears to break the lock like you said it does that kind of up and it's like a if you're looking at the video right it's kind of like a counterclockwise movement it appears to maneuver no wings that that that alone is extraordinary that alone is positive lift that is right that's maneuvers without wings, control surfaces, flaps, right, engines, exhaust plumes, props. So it breaks that lock and then it just shoots off. And that is, I don't have a good answer. Again, having looked at the most obvious and apparent hypothesis that this is a camera movement, this is an error by the operator or a field of view change. If you can see at the top, the field of view does not change and it doesn't matter because either way the background would move with the object if that were the case and we can quite clearly see um that that is not the case so i this is this is this is truly extraordinary in in my opinion and george one one thing that like really stuck out to me just from like a weapons platform you know standpoint and this is a thing i know a little bit about you know i looked at a lot of these videos over time and i I always look at the it rate G it first says and that the first thing you see when something is beginning to kind of track. It's the systems like starting to compute, I think relative motion. So it's like basically computing relative motion. Then when the target gets like centered, you see that next and stable enough, the software then displays this thing called point, P-O-I-N-T, and you see it on on the left and that's you know kind of making the aim point from how i understand it but then finally when it has a solid lock on the target to where a system like it computes that it it can fire like a control they call it a control solution you know launch a hellfire or whatever it needs to do um that's when you finally see our point and that's what it says our point on the left displayed on the screen that motherfucker was rock solid locked by the reaper's weapon system when it when it decided to shoot the fuck off yeah just from my uneducated viewpoint it's moseying along at whatever speed it is we get a lock on it oh boy we got a lock on it and it realizes oh you got a lock on me here follow this dude see ya and it it's it's fascinating it's um i'm engaging engaging purely in speculation here, but gentlemen, to both your points, it's almost like it's showing off, right? It's like, oh, look what I can do. I can break your lock and then shoot off, right? It's pretty extraordinary on its face, I think. Look, the bottom line is I want the release of this video to spur some serious attention. Like, we have the Age of Disclosure. Great. Phenomenal. Did incredibly well, right? But this is what we're talking about. This is what we want. We want this critical mass to form. We want more interest. I want this I want this video to blow the minds of every scientist that looks at it. Right. I want them to be so perplexed that they actually become interested, fascinated, almost maybe obsessed with this topic, because that right there, there's no easy explanation for that for that video. This may be video evidence and proof of one of the observables for the first time in the public history. This could be. It's quite extraordinary. Can I can I add maybe? Sorry. Go ahead, George. Yeah, I was just going to just dumb question. And do we know how fast that thing is traveling when we first see it? And then can you guess about the speed when it? I have a hunch. I did a very, very basic back of the envelope calculation. It all depends on range. That's the that's the key. We don't have the range just like the other video. And this kind of comes back to that. But the beauty of this video is we don't need the range to know that it's doing something pretty extraordinary. Right. Again, breaking that lock without wings or propulsion or flaps. Right. And then shooting off. Rage is irrelevant at that point when you when you see something do that. And, you know, look, the other the only other thing I could potentially think of, which it kind of fails immediately as a balloon balloon wouldn't change direction. It could maybe if it's punctured right, it could shoot off like at a party. But again, a balloon is not going to change direction. And the only balloons that would look anything like that are latex balloons. And from my understanding, they don't they wouldn't shoot off. They just kind of they kind of shred and they deflate slowly. So I'm trying to think of any any possible prosaic explanation for this. And I I'm still coming up short. Would our sensor systems keep a lock on a balloon, even if it popped a hole in it? I think, again, you know, I would hope so. I don't know. These these systems are designed to track ground targets. So it's not designed to track the fast movements of a fighter jet, for example. That's not the primary kind of role of these camera systems. But again, that instantaneous acceleration departure off to the right is not something that I've ever seen in any other footage. I mean, can I just add maybe one more item? I mean, I think this is this is important, but I do want to raise this. And that is you guys remember the the ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Source that was quoted describing basically exactly this video. That individual was quoted further in this article, and the individual basically says the Pentagon and the intelligence community are self-congratulatory. They're patting themselves on the back because, oh, gee whiz, they solved half of the UAP reports that have been filed and sent to them. But I'm going to quote the source here. We don't give a crap about the ones they've resolved. Yeah, there are balloons up there and balloons are sometimes mistaken for UAP. But there are shitloads of classified videos that are pretty profound and pretty clear. They don't want to talk about this stuff because they really, really don't know what the hell they are. And that's the truth. And I raise this and I bring this quote up because, again, that source now has more credibility because that source described pretty much exactly what we saw in that video. And this this is where I my blood kind of begins to boil, because there's absolutely no reason for that footage to have been classified. There's it's not surprising that we were surveilling rural that part of rural Syria. What, four or five years ago now? It's there's nothing. I don't I'm not qualified to know any of that. You know, I don't I don't know. Never ask. I'm this is my personal opinion. There's absolutely no reason for that stuff to be classified again. that that symbology is all over in the public domain. That is pretty profound footage. And there is a there is the public has a right to see that kind of footage. And they've clearly been hiding it. And this is what really makes me sorry to go on a rant here, gentlemen. But this has been going on for 80 years. This is a letter from the chief of intelligence at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to the Air Force Chief of Staff in November of 1948. And he basically says the exact same thing as this source. Yeah, if the press or the public asks, tell them it's all balloons. We've resolved a whole bunch of it. And there's really nothing to see here. And it's quite literally, this is the playbook that 80 years has been followed, that there's profound, compelling, highly anomalous stuff out there and it is being hidden away. And that really, that is unconscionable. And again, I don't see any reason for this stuff to be classified. I think Arrow needs to step up. And look, Dr. Kozlowski, the director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon's UAP Analysis Office, he seemed to be fairly open. If he's been blocked, stonewalled, then he needs to resign, right? This is outrageous that this kind of footage is being withheld from the public just for the sake of analysis, but also because it could very well be as profound as it appears to be. So there's no additional information if they were to open this up. Is there anything else attached to that that could be potentially troubling if our adversaries knew it? I'm racking my brain here, right, George? So, again, I'm thinking of any potential harm to national security here. And classification is that's how classification systems are designed. It's what is the harm to national security? Is it grave, significant, severe, whatever? And that's what determines the various levels of classification. Again, not surprising that we had Reaper drones looking at that particular portion of the desert in Syria. Not surprising at all. Zero. There's been a change in government since that video has been recorded. The security situation has changed dramatically in Syria. So, again, generally, the reasons for classification are capability, so sensor platform or location. And, again, I don't see any plausible reason why, again, there's public imagery of this type of footage out there in the wild, put out by the military. And I just don't see any logical reason why the location, again, what was this, five years ago now, why that should be classified. All right. Arrow, you have access to everything. That's what you tell us. You want to be transparent. Go get the rest of this data and let us take a look at it. Let the public analyze it if you're not going to do it. And Arrow, frankly, where are taxpayer dollars going? They were silent after that Yemen hellfire video that was released during a congressional hearing last year. Not a peep, nothing. And, you know, they're literally can see the metrics. Tens of millions of views that video has received across various news and media platforms. Not a peep. So what is our government? What is our Pentagon? Where are tax dollars going? We have an office specifically, specifically tasked, congressionally tasked to investigate this kind of stuff. not a peep out of them so they better look at a bare minimum they should confirm whether they have this this footage in their holdings does arrow even have this footage i don't know the answer that question but we can start there yeah i mean i'll say this is it's really a dance as a journalist george and i try to figure out you know can we put something out you know uh we you know we're we're trying to follow all the rules here with journalism. There's so much that comes, I'll say, in front of our eyes that we can't, we just can't, you know, and there's a lot of reasons embedded within some of the things you just said, that would be those reasons that journalists don't report on certain things, you know, but this one doesn't have any of that. There's no indication to me that we had zero indication that this is not something that is acceptable to the public. so the public has always been asking for more data and you know good or bad that's what we're trying to do is put our best foot forward and show and just enrich the data set that's out there on UAP with videos so this is not like a trust me bro situation you see it now you analyze it we don't usually do this Merrick we don't usually do a whole analysis so maybe because we're not experts at it me and George you know usually we we put it out we say okay here's another piece of data you know take out your your knives and dissect it but it was really fun and neat and interesting for you to give us some background it allows me to kind of understand and see what i'm looking at kind of better now um i think we should play the footage again or something like that um you know in the episode but just thank you so much for breaking that down for everybody let's bottom line it here um i am very impressed with this footage and believe it to be showing something at this point, I believe it to be showing something truly extraordinary that we have heard throughout history and from pilots, but I had never seen footage of it until now. And Jeremy and George, thank you, first of all, for bringing me in. It's truly an honor to break this stuff down for you. But congratulations on getting this out. This is, again, in my book, This is extraordinary footage after an initial analysis, at least. And and thank you. Thank you for for driving the conversation forward, because this is the kind of stuff, again, you know, with with when you add all the congressional hearings and the age of disclosure and all that we've seen over the last several years. You guys are driving the conversation forward. So so thank you for for everything that you're doing. thanks Merrick by the way um I'm always the optimist of our duo Jeremy is the the pessimist and um we might have a reason to have you come back real soon that's possible interesting I'm intrigued is it a threat or a promise when yeah exactly hey Merrick thanks so much man we'll see you we'll see you soon Jeremy I'm trying to remember when we sat down in the hotel room and recorded a little session about this particular video clip. And how long ago that was, six months ago, maybe, or something like that? I wouldn't know time, George. Anticipating that someday we hope to release it. And we're, you know, given our best shot at trying to figure out what we're seeing on the screen. And then you hear someone as bright and as knowledgeable as Merrick. And I can't help but feel like an idiot compared to him. But that was very welcome analysis. And now the rest of the world can take a look at it and make up their own minds about it. Absolutely. It's about enriching the data set and putting it out. Now, I will say, though, this is not just like some, you know, video that just could be anything. We have to stress this. This is labeled UAP by your intelligence agencies and government. It was part of an extensive analysis done because it's a UAP on specifically the apparent instantaneous acceleration. So when you see those cards between that's what so I created those cards based on my knowledge set. Right. Word for word. I mean, so if you think about it, this is their investigation into instantaneous acceleration. man can you imagine how much more there is that show extraordinary capabilities like this that just it's conversation stoppers you're like okay there is stuff that can move in ways that everybody has told us UAP can do you know for for decades and decades if not centuries now it's it's really fascinating you know we're told over and over month after month this is a new era of transparency We want to be transparent. We want to get to the bottom of this, analyze these videos and cases, photos and evidence and figure out what it is. If it's if it's something we don't know, then we'll say it. Well, time to get off the pot. I'd say there's no reason, as Merrick says, there's no reason why the public can't see that kind of video, that there have to be extraordinary steps taken to share it with the public, both in the U.S. and around the world. And there's so much more similar kinds of clips that exist in servers. And there's no reason to hold it back. If not just from us, what about Congress? There's a task force at Congress that is seeking this information. Why can't you share it with them as a first step? You know, time to live up to the ideals that are supposedly the reason that Arrow was created in the first place. We'll do our best. will stick to the way we've been doing things, which is very carefully and slowly. But I think, you know, we'll keep going. Yeah, there are reasons to be suspicious, as we know. And those reasons, I think, will eventually come out. Some of the subterfuge that's going on right now, right now. Right. But in the meantime, it's birthday time. It's time for you to have some fun. Hope you enjoy your birthday. Hope people don't rag you too much on social media now that they know about it. And I'll talk to you soon. We'll see you next time.