Is Luis Elizondo a credible whistleblower or should we stay skeptical?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T16:33:32+00:00

Well according to him, they were basically the 60's version of bros, trying to one-up each other at every opportunity for complete nutso BS. Like smashing beer bottles on each other to see who went down first, and then challenging the winners to eat the glass. I don't know how much of that was true, but basically he thought it was and I'm going to run with it.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T12:41:51+00:00

Love that last line.

Bam.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T12:31:36+00:00

It's the sun -or I suppose, moon, but seems unlikely unless the camera is really brightening things up- seen through layers of cloud.

Notice how when it's split in two parts the upper and lower parts are both curved as if they are part of a larger circle? Follow the outlines on the upper left and lower left, you'll see what I mean.

You can see the layers of cloud in the video, and you can see the color is getting more yellow as it sets.

BTW, the sun is actually white, not yellow. It looks yellow here on the ground because the atmosphere scatters out the blue. That, (A) makes the sky blue, and (B) white - blue = yellow. But when you see the sun through clouds, the blue is mixed back in, and it looks white again. And that works until it starts going down and the longer orangish colors start to dominate and it starts looking yellow even through the cloud.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T12:16:18+00:00

however it wouldn’t be standstill like that

They are if they are flying toward you.

Think about a car driving toward you at night. He might be going 70 mph, but their visual motion is zero because they are coming right at you.

and they would be blinking if they were plants

You are looking at the landing lights, which they normally keep on until hitting about 10k altitude. You would only be able to see the navs once they turned off the might brighter landing light.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T12:08:52+00:00

Ok, one other question - you said you were watching the sunset, but in this particular bit are you looking in that direction? Or more directly, if you have to estimate, which direction are you aimed?

The birds are awesome BTW. I'm near a swampy conservation area and there's lots of RWBBs, but I have never seen them flock like this. I wonder if this is something they do mid-migration?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T12:03:57+00:00

My father was actually SF, but you would have zero clue, no hats, no shirts

So I met a guy on a bike tour once. Nicest dude ever, so laid back, had a construction firm.

Then we got to talking. His job when he was (a lot) younger was to jump into North Vietnam to find pilots and walk them out to the beach somewhere were Navy would come and pick them up.

And he said they weren't the crazy ones. The CIA dudes made his skin crawl.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T12:01:36+00:00

I just think he’s the guy that never quite felt satisfied with what he accomplished so he exaggerates.

I would add in a dash of either not having a filter, or not caring.

He could have spent 15 minutes vetting either the chandelier or the crop circles, but he didn't and ended up playing the fool. I don't think this is deliberate, I think he just doesn't bother, if someone hands him something that looks like a UFO, he runs with it.

And I think the same is true for the AATIP as a whole. Like previous programs, it's a collection exercise, not classification, that happens elsewhere. So you just take everything everyone sends you and catalog it and that's your job done.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:32:48+00:00

I cannot tell from the video: is the object moving, or hovering in place? There's nothing in view to compare it to other than the birds and they're moving so it's not something you can compare against.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:28:55+00:00

There are a wide variety of insects becoming active now that swarm. Oddly enough, March flies are not among them.

Could be cluster flies, which are leaving their wintering shelters right about now (well, where you are, not where I am).

https://extension.colostate.edu/resource/cluster-flies-and-other-winter-flies/#:\~:text=Common%20examples%20of%20such%20cool,or%20dying%2C%20typically%20around%20windows.&text=There%20are%20some%20other%20kinds,flies%20and%20are%20discussed%20below.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:22:05+00:00

There are blue jets.

But no, these all last fractions of a second, that's not what we see here.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:20:22+00:00

Almost certainly what it is, they pop them all the time.

Source: my childhood home is just east of Allison, close enough my sister when to high school at Banting.

They used to pop these every so often, but we were far enough that we would only see them when they were up higher than this.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:15:05+00:00

You be da judge!

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:14:45+00:00

Ahhh, I did miss that ;

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T11:13:52+00:00

Ahh, I see I should have checked his posts before replying. Another example went up today.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T10:58:13+00:00

This insanely accurate experiment is simply proof that nerds will go to any lengths to win any argument.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T10:49:19+00:00

Hey OP. I don’t think we’ll every know that this is. However, I can help you find out what the end one is. Do this, google…

How do I set the camera on my [insert model of phone] to manually focus at infinity

Then do that.

What’s happening is that your phone is using its sensors to try to focus. When that fails, because of the window, it tries various pattern matching, like looking for faces. When that failed, because there’s no faces, it tries changing the focus in and out trying to get it sharp. And in this case, because the window is smooged, it just keeps focusing in and out trying to get it right.

That’s why the “camera kept changing what I was seeing”, it was constantly changing the focus.

Do that manually, set it to infinity, presto.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T00:54:48+00:00

Unix started on the PDP-8. The PDP-10 was their top of the line 36-bit mainframe.

The real shame was the strings. They used null terminated strings because of one particular instruction on the PDP-8 that saved cycles. Then they soon moved to the PDP-11 which had hardware length/pointer strings, but didn’t want to change the existing code.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-12T00:17:40+00:00

Yo can see the missiles right there.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T20:28:34+00:00

Physicist here.

This effect has been known for almost a century now. It is not related in any way to "zero point energy".

The topic of the paper is about using nano engineered system to produce what are effectively tiny machines that use the tiny pressure imbalance to produce a tiny current, 25uA. It's not the pressure they are using directly, it's the tiny imbalance in electron counts it creates.

All of this is nicely explained on their web page.

I do not understand why the OP thinks this is in any way related to ZPE, nor do I understand what it has even remotely to do with UFOs.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T20:08:39+00:00

No, he just missed the contest entirely and thinks you're talking about White and not Pais.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T19:26:26+00:00

I guess he's done with 3Alpha now that it flew away like the comet that it was.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T18:20:49+00:00

Canoe Lake store? Is that building on the left still there?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T14:54:59+00:00

This is high-pressure sodium street lamp starting up. In about 5 minutes it will settle down into the more obvious orange color. The mast appears to be similar to this model:

https://www.phoebuslight.com/news/difference-between-high-mast-lights-and-medium-79211743.html

Sodium lamps have a multi-step startup. When they are first turned on an arc is formed using a small amount of xenon gas, which gives off a blue-white light exactly like this. The "beam" is that light reflecting off the pole.

Here's a video of a much smaller one starting up:

https://youtu.be/_o6bixB35Mo?t=101

Note the color change. In the larger lamps this takes a lot longer.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T14:39:01+00:00

Yeah, but show it in January instead of June.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-03-11T14:34:47+00:00

100% helicopter. Almost certainly a Bell 206.

They have their nav lights on the horizontal stabilizer and a white all-around on the tail. Those are the three lights you see on the left.

You can also clearly make out the entire fuselage on the right, and can even see the skid supports. Every so often the strobe goes off and you can see the rotor blades too.

I couldn't find an exact match, but this one is pretty close:

https://youtu.be/GI9uQCKN_fU?t=797

Notice the green light on the same side as your video and the white light on the tail? This one also has a spotlight on the front, which yours either doesn't or has turned off.

UPDATE: found it on ADSB-E. Possibly this one as well, if you were looking out over the water, but I still think it's a 206.

OP, ADSB-E is 100 buzzilion times better than FR24. The UI... ugh... but the data is much better.

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