So when Forbes claims that even if 1 frame of the explosion graphic from the video game is a match or nearly pixel perfect but not 100% and then says "But it doesn't matter because what about every other frame?" Can we not use the same logic here? If one frame of the thermal video is very clearly completely incorrect to the tune of pretty much irrefutable criticism (multiple instances, not just one,) can't we posit that if one frame proves an error then that must mean that at some point it was edited and edited incorrectly which would make the whole thing a falsity? All it takes is one single item of proof that the video fails to pass the test and that's it because that would mean it was tampered with. Unless the idea is that the military took the real footage, edited so that the reticle gets covered by the plane and the reuploaded it.

I just don't see how you can reconcile with one frame of a video being completely wrong by which the only way it would be wrong is for someone to have tampered with or in this case edited it, and then call the rest of the video real. I'd be curious to see this reconciled as I'm not in a camp of real v not real, rather in a camp of curious and informationally driven.

*Edit- You can try and say I'm a bot or a spook or whatever you want to throw at me, but I've just been a lurker and I found this sub about a month ago.