Talk:Gorman dogfight

Wikipedia bias and the ODNI report

this article, as with nearly every article in wikipedia on UFO, shows POV bias and factual inaccuracy. it does this despite the recent ODNI affirmation that UFO (or UAP, same thing) are real -- so real, in fact, that they pose a "potential threat to national security." the article presents the conclusions of the notoriously biased "Blue Book" as authoritative judgments and the judgments of amateur ufo "historian" and country singer jerome clark as "the final word."

• gorman is said to have "chased jupiter" in confusion. in fact, according to the latest version of stellarium planetarium software (0.21.2), jupiter was below the horizon at the time and place of the pursuit, so gorman could not have chased it by mistake.
• gorman's actual flight documentation shows that he broke off pursuit of the object when it was accelerating vertically; he stalled out at around 14500 feet in what he documents as a vertical climb. you don't chase planets on the horizon by sticking toward zenith.
• gorman describes the light as changing both emittance frequency and luminance as it changed speed; passive balloons, even when fitted with running lights, do not show such change.
• i don't have the wikiskills to upload an image, but the drawing by gorman of his and the UFO maneuvers during the encounter has been declassified. i hope a user will link it to this article.

i am pointing to this article as an example of the pervasive and counterfactual wikipedia POV bias, despite the affirmations from ODNI that it is not "pseudoscience" or "crackpot conspiracy". i am pointing out three specific ways that the "conclusions" of the USAF misinformation program and are taken as the "final word" over the conclusions of both Ruppelt, who actually ran "blue book" for two years, and real scientists such as McDonald and Hynek. finally, separate from these substantive points: i suggest wikipedia review its editorial policies toward UFO reports and give the "skeptical" and "authoritative" viewpoints less credence, and treat both official government reports before 2019 and books with titles such as "the UFO myth" with less credence. in many cases pronouncements from such sources are misleading if not outright fabrications. Drollere (talk) 05:31, 4 October 2021 (UTC)