Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Mick West
Sacramento-based science writer and retired video-game programmer whose Metabunk forum is the leading sceptical analyst of UAP videos.
2021 CE · 38.58, -121.49 · status: explained
The account
West created Contrail Science and Metabunk, wrote 'Escaping the Rabbit Hole' (2018), and was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2020. In 2021 he explained the Navy UAP videos on CNN as misinterpretations and video artefacts, and in 2022 Skeptic published his analysis of optical effects in the Gimbal video.
The sceptical view
Disclosure advocates argue that his video analyses cannot address pilots' eyewitness and radar accounts.
Connections in the atlas
- Robert Sheaffer
- The GoFast video
- The Gimbal video
- Eric Weinstein on UFOs and hidden physics
- The FLIR1 ('Tic Tac') video