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Mirage Men, directed by John Lundberg, Roland Denning, and Kypros Kyprianou (UK: Perception Management, 2013), film

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Knuth, Powell, and Reali, "Estimating Flight Characteristics," sec. 2.4.2.

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Knapp and Corbell, Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO, at 53:2655:32 Fravor, interview by Fridman, at 1:32:171:32:55; AAV/UAP, 9; Underwood, Navy Aviator Who Recorded Tic Tac Video, Mystery Wire, archived August 3, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20210803090857/https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/chad-underwood-tic-tac-pilot/. See also West, Nimitz FLIR1.

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AAV/UAP, 9

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Knuth, Powell, and Reali, “Estimating Flight Characteristics,” secs. 2.4.12.4.3; AAV/UAP, 710; Knapp and Corbell, “Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO”; Whitaker, “Navy Pilots”; Finley, “Navy Confirms Videos.”

Knuth, Powell, and Reali, “Estimating Flight Characteristics,” secs. 2.4.12.4.3; AAV/UAP, 710; Knapp and Corbell, “Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO”; Whitaker, “Navy Pilots”; Finley, “Navy Confirms Videos.”

Knuth, Powell, and Reali, “Estimating Flight Characteristics,” secs. 2.4.12.4.3; AAV/UAP, 710; Knapp and Corbell, “Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO”; Whitaker, “Navy Pilots”; Finley, “Navy Confirms Videos.”

Knuth, Powell, and Reali, “Estimating Flight Characteristics,” secs. 2.4.12.4.3; AAV/UAP, 710; Knapp and Corbell, “Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO”; Whitaker, “Navy Pilots”; Finley, “Navy Confirms Videos.”

Knuth, Powell, and Reali, “Estimating Flight Characteristics,” secs. 2.4.12.4.3; AAV/UAP, 710; Knapp and Corbell, “Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO”; Whitaker, “Navy Pilots”; Finley, “Navy Confirms Videos.”

Knuth, Powell, and Reali, “Estimating Flight Characteristics,” secs. 2.4.12.4.3; AAV/UAP, 710; Knapp and Corbell, “Man Who Filmed the Tic Tac UFO”; Whitaker, “Navy Pilots”; Finley, “Navy Confirms Videos.”

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Knuth, Powell, and Reali, "Estimating Flight Characteristics," secs. 2.4.1, 3; The Sol Foundation, "Kevin Knuth on the Physics of UAP," at 7:377:50 (F-35 g-limit) and 8:228:30 (U.S. nuclear comparison).

Knuth, Powell, and Reali, "Estimating Flight Characteristics," secs. 2.4.1, 3; The Sol Foundation, "Kevin Knuth on the Physics of UAP," at 7:377:50 (F-35 g-limit) and 8:228:30 (U.S. nuclear comparison).

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