Mick West
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PersonResearcherMick West is a software developer and skeptical investigator known for geometric and sensor-based analyses of prominent military UAP videos.
Mick West is a software developer and skeptical investigator known for geometric and sensor-based analyses of prominent military UAP videos.
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.
Where's the description from Newhouse? "The film falls far short of showing what I saw with the naked eye. Like two saucers, one inverted over the other. It ap [Quoted] 74 years ago, there was a UFO case. Many analysts thought it was seagulls. Some were convinced it was not. Today, for some reason, the US Government released a new digitization of the film from that event. It looks exactly like the seagulls that sometimes fly above my house. https://t.co/jIyjWErZtH
This recent release from PERSUE highlights why getting the DTLDs is so important. Date, Time, Location, Direction = The DTLDs, the details. Here, a cop saw [Quoted] The LLE-UAP-PR002 "UAP" video released today shows stars. Watch the power lines and the blurred background in this stabilized video. They move down and to the left. Hence, they are looking east at two rising stars. (The dancing dots are destabilized sensor reflections. Ignore. )
"And boy, the story sounded real fine," said Captain Edward J. Ruppelt in 1952, when they thought they had finally gotten some good observations of UFOs. Then, as now, it was stories that sound real fine, but break down "when we get enough facts."
74 years ago, there was a UFO case. Many analysts thought it was seagulls. Some were convinced it was not. Today, for some reason, the US Government released a new digitization of the film from that event. It looks exactly like the seagulls that sometimes fly above my house. https://t.co/jIyjWErZtH
The LLE-UAP-PR002 "UAP" video released today shows stars. Watch the power lines and the blurred background in this stabilized video. They move down and to the left. Hence, they are looking east at two rising stars. (The dancing dots are destabilized sensor reflections. Ignore. )
This UAP video of what looks like one or two balloons, complete with string (or payload tether), is auto-tracked, so we can more clearly see that the motion is consistent with parallax. Of course, we can't say for sure what it is. https://t.co/MFbc4hMXTc
More UAP motion illusions. Here, the operator's inaccurate manual tracking makes it look like the object suddenly changes direction. Instead, it just moves in an (apparent) smooth curve, probably reflecting the motion of the drone camera platform via parallax. Or NHI. https://t.co/J1bKG0mcd0
This UAP video shows motion illusions from parallax (a turning and moving platform) and manual tracking. In the unstabilized (2nd) video, the motion illusion looks quite convincing! Consistent with a balloon or an antigravity non-human craft. You be the judge. https://t.co/B5dvEJLruj
This UAP is consistent with a balloon. That does not mean it IS a balloon, just that it quite possibly could be one. It could also be an anti-gravity drone from an alien spaceship or undersea base. But we know there are lots of balloons. https://t.co/J2a0rTVZuE
I recorded this video last night September 11th between 9:30pm and 11:00pm looking Northwest from Paradise California using my siOnyx color night vision camera. There was a slight haze in the sky which was obscuring a lot of stars that I would normally see but many of these were quite bright to the naked eye and some even appeared to hover at times. They appeared to be quite close and low. I compare for that observation to the similar ones I recorded to the Northeast later that night at 3am....
