Yeah PF, he's a good bloke, we're friends on twitter and FB etc... he always answers and is a solid honest and pleasant guy that just happens to be of just about the same mind-set as myself. .. although I have all of his curiousness and desire for the truth in this field, and he has all of the skill, time and knowhow to actually do something worthwhile about the quest for solid information!Oh wow. Never saw him before, always listened to the podcast.
Yeah PF, he's a good bloke, we're friends on twitter and FB etc... he always answers and is a solid honest and pleasant guy that just happens to be of just about the same mind-set as myself. .. although I have all of his curiousness and desire for the truth in this field, and he has all of the skill, time and knowhow to actually do something worthwhile about the quest for solid information!
Cheers Buddy.
Yeah PF, he's a good bloke, we're friends on twitter and FB etc... he always answers and is a solid honest and pleasant guy that just happens to be of just about the same mind-set as myself. .. although I have all of his curiousness and desire for the truth in this field, and he has all of the skill, time and knowhow to actually do something worthwhile about the quest for solid information!
Cheers Buddy.
I know there has been talk here of his behavior on various media outlets
Thats an understatement lol, the way he's been hammering at Ryan Bledsoe is disgusting...He's arrogant and thinks his shyte doesn't stink, very egotistical, if you disagree with anything he says, if he can't shout you down he will block you on social media...He has a cultish following on Discord, an invite only group of his fans who goes out and gives those a hard time who question the mighty JG, how dare anyone disagree with him...He blocked me on social media back when TTSA first started, he was bad mouthing them out the gate and all I said to him was maybe lighten up a bit and give them a chance to do something first before condemning them...JG has done a lot of great work but its all overshadowed by his arrogance which I have no time for...
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John may be right, maybe theyre playing with us using McMillan to leak easily debunkable stuff, while saying or claiming other things to him, thus confusing everyone. Intelligence games. Thats the problem with unverifiable anonymous leakers and sources, you dont know what their agenda really in the end is.
Oh Gawd. No idea who Ryan Bledsoe is and this is why I don't want to be involved in any of that. Always someone I should be aware of who I am not who is doing fine work - but inevitably has conflict with someone or some group. Thing is, these topics had that undercurrent of catshit to begin with and the gadgetry just enabled it all. I like the FOIA work JG has done, he appears to be pretty free with the information he's posted over the years and I've heard some ego but nothing extraordinary or over the top, par for the course really, from his podcast. More foolishness from Gene S in that regard and I still listened to him for years
Nice find, I just asked about this here:
Okay well Mr Reliable dropped the balloon on this one - he's citing this article by Anne Davis, but evidently he didn't notice that she's talking about latex party balloons (which can go up above 30K feet), not Mylar balloons - which can't expand as they rise and therefore can't rise above about 8,000 feet. The revealing portion of the text is this:a 'reliable-go-to-guy' for the real juice!
Okay well Mr Reliable dropped the balloon on this one - he's citing this article by Anne Davis, but evidently he didn't notice that she's talking about latex party balloons (which can go up above 30K feet), not Mylar balloons - which can't expand as they rise and therefore can't rise above about 8,000 feet. The revealing portion of the text is this:
"Because density is altered by altitude, the helium balloon can reach a height of 9,000 meters, or 29,537 feet. Anything higher than this altitude will cause the helium within the balloon to expand and the balloon to pop."
A little further down she says it explicitly:
"Helium can very easily escape from the balloon through gaps in the rubber polymers used in the balloons' construction"
She's talking about latex helium balloons which expand, not Mylar helium balloons which don't.
There's actually a scientific study on this from 1992, where they empirically determined the maximum altitude for both types of helium-filled party balloons; latex and Mylar:
Balloon Study
Now at this point I don't really care if that object in the photo is something prosaic or if it's something genuinely interesting; I just want to know which one it is. Maybe it is a balloon of some kind.
My point is simple: it's not a helium-filled Mylar Batman balloon like everyone (including JG) is pointing to like it's the answer, because that explanation is physically impossible.
Or maybe the photo itself is faked - a good Photoshop hoax, made by inserting a blurry image of a Mylar Batman balloon into a photo taken of a clear sky above 30K feet in altitude.
There are lots of possibilities, but that Mylar Batman balloon at that altitude isn't one of them.
Hi Thomas, Yes I already posted that link in an earlier post in which I said that it couldn't have been 'A Mylar Balloon' at the altitude ascribed to it, and I thought that i'd made my opinion that this whole 'episode' was in fact just another intentional 'obfuscatory disinformation mess' designed to throw yet another spanner in the workings of the UFO community by 'the bogeymen' ! ... for instance, I have since learned that the metadata on the photo does not add up at all, and that despite the photo being touted as being from 2018 .. the data contradicts this by proving that it wasn't taken until a year later! ... The defence of this disparity from McMillan was that "it was a photo of a photo" ... to which there have been several 'experts' that have denied this possibility. ... there is also the glaring fact that this 'great breaking news with brand new photographic evidence' is in fact a total misnomer, because this photograph has been around and posted online in May by Blake S Taylor ... again without explanation or metadata to check details with!Okay well Mr Reliable dropped the balloon on this one - he's citing this article by Anne Davis, but evidently he didn't notice that she's talking about latex party balloons (which can go up above 30K feet), not Mylar balloons - which can't expand as they rise and therefore can't rise above about 8,000 feet. The revealing portion of the text is this:
"Because density is altered by altitude, the helium balloon can reach a height of 9,000 meters, or 29,537 feet. Anything higher than this altitude will cause the helium within the balloon to expand and the balloon to pop."
A little further down she says it explicitly:
"Helium can very easily escape from the balloon through gaps in the rubber polymers used in the balloons' construction"
She's talking about latex helium balloons which expand, not Mylar helium balloons which don't.
There's actually a scientific study on this from 1992, where they empirically determined the maximum altitude for both types of helium-filled party balloons; latex and Mylar:
Balloon Study
Now at this point I don't really care if that object in the photo is something prosaic or if it's something genuinely interesting; I just want to know which one it is. Maybe it is a balloon of some kind.
My point is simple: it's not a helium-filled Mylar Batman balloon like everyone (including JG) is pointing to like it's the answer, because that explanation is physically impossible.
Or maybe the photo itself is faked - a good Photoshop hoax, made by inserting a blurry image of a Mylar Batman balloon into a photo taken of a clear sky above 30K feet in altitude.
There are lots of possibilities, but that Mylar Batman balloon at that altitude isn't one of them.
Hi Thomas, Yes I already posted that link in an earlier post in which I said that it couldn't have been 'A Mylar Balloon' at the altitude ascribed to it, and I thought that i'd made my opinion that this whole 'episode' was in fact just another intentional 'obfuscatory disinformation mess' designed to throw yet another spanner in the workings of the UFO community by 'the bogeymen' ! ... for instance, I have since learned that the metadata on the photo does not add up at all, and that despite the photo being touted as being from 2018 .. the data contradicts this by proving that it wasn't taken until a year later! ... The defence of this disparity from McMillan was that "it was a photo of a photo" ... to which there have been several 'experts' that have denied this possibility. ... there is also the glaring fact that this 'great breaking news with brand new photographic evidence' is in fact a total misnomer, because this photograph has been around and posted online in May by Blake S Taylor ... again without explanation or metadata to check details with!
So no my friend, I do not argue with the fact that it couldn't be a mylar balloon at 30k ft, but I do think that the picture is of the 'Batman Balloon' that I have been posting since shortly after seeing the picture, but not taken at the altitude that the report states! ... Anyway mate as always I could be wrong, but it's my belief that this case is only of interest because of the 'triangular UFO photo' that had been announced to be coming our way , as in fact been replaced with this piss-poor stir-causing disinformation article that has accomplished it's goal by weakening the credibility of the community and some of it's members. ... And yes, JG was in error by using the wrong ballooning statistics, but the general gist of "this could just be an intentional bit of disinformation' that he was getting at, is in sink with my own personal discernment of this situation. ... And anyone can make mistakes, and I said he was reliable, not flawless [who is?] and have not yet come across the arrogance or vindictiveness that our friend Nivek has seen from him so i'll stand by my assessment of John being a genuine guy. ... for now anyway. ... Here is Kieth Basterfields up to date assessment of this ... Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - scientific research: A history of, and some comments about, a purported UAP photograph (ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com)
Cheers Buddy.
Yeah I agree that, given the complete absence of anything to indicate that this photo is in any way related to the UAPTF report, or that it's anomalous in any sense at all, the best theory that I can see is that Tim McMillan got punked by an anonymous source - probably some IC insider employed to discredit people like Tim McMillan and the ufo field in general. It's always bad practice to rely upon anonymous sources, and incidents like this one...and the factless >4-year RussiaGate fiasco...prove that.Hi Thomas, Yes I already posted that link in an earlier post in which I said that it couldn't have been 'A Mylar Balloon' at the altitude ascribed to it, and I thought that i'd made my opinion that this whole 'episode' was in fact just another intentional 'obfuscatory disinformation mess' designed to throw yet another spanner in the workings of the UFO community by 'the bogeymen' ! ... for instance, I have since learned that the metadata on the photo does not add up at all, and that despite the photo being touted as being from 2018 .. the data contradicts this by proving that it wasn't taken until a year later! ... The defence of this disparity from McMillan was that "it was a photo of a photo" ... to which there have been several 'experts' that have denied this possibility. ... there is also the glaring fact that this 'great breaking news with brand new photographic evidence' is in fact a total misnomer, because this photograph has been around and posted online in May by Blake S Taylor ... again without explanation or metadata to check details with!
So no my friend, I do not argue with the fact that it couldn't be a mylar balloon at 30k ft, but I do think that the picture is of the 'Batman Balloon' that I have been posting since shortly after seeing the picture, but not taken at the altitude that the report states! ... Anyway mate as always I could be wrong, but it's my belief that this case is only of interest because of the 'triangular UFO photo' that had been announced to be coming our way , as in fact been replaced with this piss-poor stir-causing disinformation article that has accomplished it's goal by weakening the credibility of the community and some of it's members. ... And yes, JG was in error by using the wrong ballooning statistics, but the general gist of "this could just be an intentional bit of disinformation' that he was getting at, is in sink with my own personal discernment of this situation. ... And anyone can make mistakes, and I said he was reliable, not flawless [who is?] and have not yet come across the arrogance or vindictiveness that our friend Nivek has seen from him so i'll stand by my assessment of John being a genuine guy. ... for now anyway. ... Here is Kieth Basterfields up to date assessment of this ... Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - scientific research: A history of, and some comments about, a purported UAP photograph (ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com)
Cheers Buddy.