You were saying to topcat54 — “had a father who was a Korean War fighter pilot who had a UFO encounter”
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And that makes me wonder what those pilots in World War 2 thought when they saw the first jet planes that the Germans had, when they zipped by the Allied planes. That must have scared them half-to-death seeing those for the first time, too... LOL...
Oh, having been in intelligence I can asure you they had gotten some briefings about future technologies even if they hadn’t seen the technology in action
remember the guys who had “the right stuff” had a lot of clues about what was possible in aviation
The thing about pilots (and others in aviation like the tower personnel who witnessed a giant UFO over a dock at
O’Hare airport in November a few yaears ago)...
they can look at a craft in motion and tell you if the laws of physics (or whatever) physically “allow” a pilot or craft to do what they are seeing it do.
the universal theme of those who report UFO’s (many don’t because ridicule and intimdation are the usual responses) ) is that what they see is incompatible with the known laws of physics. That is what the JAL pilot is saying on his conversation with the Alaska tower. “Hey, they can’t DO that???”