All Hype, No Aliens

There’s enormous media pressure to publish whenever anything “alien” comes out. Yet the best explanation of the phenomena is never aliens. The first tranche of Defense Department videos released today offer up looks at strange lights in the sky across the world, but they contain no credible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Digging into the releases, I find no evidence of space invaders but plenty of highly obvious lens flare, bad lighting, and color-correction flaws. There are no crash-recovery details, reverse-engineering data, biological autopsy reports, or official analyses concluding anything beyond “unidentified.” After such immense hype, the released photos show little.