Mick West is a British-American software developer and former video-game programmer who co-founded the company behind the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. After retiring from game development, he focused on explaining conspiracy theories, contrails, unusual imagery, and UFO reports through the website Metabunk and the book Escaping the Rabbit Hole.

West’s first major career was in software and video games, where he co-founded Neversoft and worked on technically demanding, visually complex projects. After retiring, he turned sustained attention to online misinformation, aircraft trails, and unusual videos, eventually creating Metabunk as a public forum for collaborative analysis. His background in graphics and programming informed tools that model camera angles, motion, glare, and perspective, allowing arguments about famous clips to be demonstrated rather than left as competing verbal descriptions.

West has produced detailed analyses of military UAP videos including Gimbal, GoFast, and FLIR1. He uses camera geometry, parallax, glare, wind, platform motion, and known sensor behavior to propose conventional interpretations. Pilots and other analysts dispute some assumptions, particularly where range or classified context is unavailable. West’s work is most useful as a set of testable alternatives rather than as an official final determination.

West is a central skeptical voice in sensor evidence and military video. He does not deny that military personnel observed something; he questions what the available footage can establish about motion and origin. His analyses force UAP claims to engage with viewing geometry and instrumentation, making him an important counterweight in a field where dramatic appearance can outrun measurable data.

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@MickWest · 22h ago

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It's always amusing when the people who invoke a literal alien civilization sending ships to Earth and buzzing our military bases for 80 years without real detection are the ones who think that "possibly an insect, for part of the video" is the highly improbable hypothesis. [Quoted] @flarkey @droneologists @MrHustleMCR @RichardHanania @MattDaWhite To contend they are different objects is a massive stretch. The focal length/duration with imaging a flying insect is as unlikely as a starship eme...

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@MickWest · 1d ago

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“Angels or aliens” are not the only options for explaining UFOs There is literally zero video or sensor evidence that is unambiguously anomalous. You don’t need to pick a supernatural explanation when normal human, technical, or operational failures will suffice. https://t.co/Pf6scoalba [Quoted] "I don't have the file that says, 'Oh, this wasn't a UFO, it was actually a demon.'" ~VP JD Vance 🛸 UFOs: Apparently, VP Vance Doesn't Listen 🙉 Vance: "[Joe Rogan] thinks they're extraterrestrials."...

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@MickWest · 5d ago

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Crash retrievals are a real thing, and top secret. If you don't specify that they are retrieving alien technology, then admitting that you can't talk about them is pretty meaningless. https://t.co/HGGXn1IYm6 https://t.co/pzVq9bXGnt [Quoted] #UFOx #UAP #USOs #NHI NEW. Lue Elizondo on crash retrievals & NDAs “Clearly, you don’t sign a document to protect information if it’s not real.” Source: https://t.co/Uc42WcAeL8 https://t.co/QRqzsxkTz1

Mick West

@MickWest · Aug 27

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It is perhaps unfortunate that the catchy phrase of “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” caught on. The somewhat hyperbolic but poorly defined requirement for “extraordinary evidence” opens us up to accusations of simple prejudice against these alternative science topics. Could we perhaps come up with something better? https://t.co/0RN7vGRDaL

Mick West

@MickWest · Aug 27

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RT @MickWest: (#2) Is there a space-time wormhole at Skinwalker Ranch? Of course not. https://t.co/mYdRdc30Bf

Mick West

@MickWest · Aug 25

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Are SOME UAP adversary drones? Almost certainly. But we really need to stop with the “Are UAP X?” UAP are lots of different things. They either remain unidentified, get characterized as consistent with one or more things, or get identified. https://t.co/AIYmaWNVik [Quoted] Are UAP Orbs Adversary Drones? It is plausible that the majority of the low-speed, formation-flying, radar-quiet orbs are genuinely human-made drones, while the outlier high-speed or high-radar-cross-section cases within th...

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@MickWest · Aug 25

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Warp bubbles? This is about eyewitness accounts of lights in the sky. A perfectly plausible explanation is that those reports are inaccurate, as humans are not perfect. They make mistakes. But sure, maybe warp bubbles. https://t.co/IgN3SQj8pw [Quoted] Some reported UAP Orbs could be slow warp bubbles. The anomalous orbs reported by the Pentagon indeed move at slow speeds and could be explained by tiny spacetime bubbles on the scale of several micrometers. A subsonic warp drive would not shock...