Mick West

@MickWest57k followers

Writer/Coder/Skeptic/UFO Analyst. Want to talk? Email me: mick@mickwest.com

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1	Jan 30, '25	Preliminary analysis of the crash of flight 5342 today suggests a possible factor might have been the helicopter pilot accidentally looking at AAL3130, a larger plane landing behin	121×	1.8M	3.4k	471	1.2k
2	Dec 12, '24	Finally, an official voice of reason. No drone reports have been corroborated as drones. Many drone reports have been identified as normal aircraft. There's no evidence of any thre	47.3×	695k	1.1k	119	186
3	Jun 28, '23	What happens on Skinwalker Ranch when a fly passes in front of the camera? It turns into a 3,600 mph giant frictionless craft that nobody noticed! Who, in this segment, genuinely t	43.2×	635k	2.2k	242	168
4	Dec 13, '24	Insane? No, @ericweinstein, it's just people misinterpreting what they see in the sky combined with a lazy sensationalist media and a gov that is aware that sometimes drones are us	36.6×	538k	529	37	35
5	Dec 12, '24	Bottom line: Are there any good "New Jersey Drone" videos that don't look like planes, helicopters, or consumer drones and have an exact date, time, location, and direction? Becaus	28.6×	420k	2.1k	75	100
6	Jun 25, '23	Is there a higher-resolution version of this UFO/balloon video anywhere? The one I've got is 480x848 @368 kb/s. The original must have been significantly better.	26.7×	393k	795	105	92
7	Jun 12, '23	Math estimating problem: The last fatal commercial plane crash in the US was in 2009. There are 10,000,000 passenger flights per year. UFOs crash every 5-10 years or so. How many U	22×	323k	1.5k	134	58
8	Dec 16, '24	My take on the drone situation. Drones are real. Drones are a genuine security issue. But what we are seeing with the New Jersey scare is not drones. All cases with sufficient info	20.4×	300k	1.1k	207	141
9	May 23, '23	Five flares in the same location, date, time, and configuration as a "UFO"? Coincidence? No, I think this is probably it. Found by @theblackvault	19.7×	290k	520	60	34
10	Feb 3, '25	As originally identified by @flarkey, this video (from Chris Bledsoe) of an "orb" passing in front of the Moon is actually the ISS. When recreated in Stellarium with NORAD TLE data	16.4×	241k	589	42	92
11	Nov 7, '24	"Voting is still real!" says Rogan. It always was real. It was real in 2012, 2016, and in 2020. You'd just been fed a seductive lie that it wasn't and that lie helped flip real vot	15.8×	233k	3.6k	220	207
12	Jan 9, '24	The object in this thermal camera footage isn't getting hotter and colder. It's just the exposure levels adjusting for the scene. Similar temperature objects in the background do t	14.8×	218k	519	38	85
13	Dec 8, '23	The nonsense MH370 UFO abduction hoax is finally over, as someone found the background cloud images at : @KimDotcom once offered $100,000 for these images, but has since deleted th	14.6×	215k	1.1k	133	102
14	Jan 19, '25	What if this is an actual white egg, duct-taped to some fishing line, and used as a challenge by a helicopter pilot to show off their skill in lowering stuff? Unrelated to aliens.	14.4×	212k	514	17	40
15	Aug 21, '24	What Luis Elizondo got very wrong about the UFO videos in his book "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs" And these are just the things we can actually check...	14.1×	207k	550	93	179
16	Feb 3, '25	Chris Bledsoe says you can't see the UFOs he summons if you are skeptical. They wait until you are not looking, then reveal themselves to the faithful standing next to you. How doe	13.8×	203k	650	41	204
17	Dec 13, '24	Here's where Senator-elect @AndyKimNJ was standing, and the direction he was looking in. There's a vast amount of air traffic that could explain what he was seeing. Senator-elect K	12.8×	189k	924	66	77
18	Dec 17, '24	Okay, the drone thing is over. What next?	12.4×	182k	556	19	23
19	Dec 13, '24	Dear New Jersey, Please buy some binoculars. Thanks, Mick.	11.6×	171k	2.1k	91	29
20	Dec 3, '24	A close-up of @NBCNews "car-sized drone" ...........	11.5×	170k	707	82	136
21	Aug 28, '24	@lexfridman @realDonaldTrump Ask him if he will commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses.	11.5×	169k	4.4k	54	16
22	Jan 9, '24	Jellyfish alien craft or a collection of Eid balloons?	11.4×	168k	478	40	34
23	Jan 19, '25	Jake Barber, the UFO crash retrieval whistleblower, bonded with a loving non-human intelligence. Unfortunately, this isn't really the type of whistleblowing that is needed to prove	11×	161k	559	33	92
24	Jul 26, '23	This A380, flying from San Francisco to London flew over my house just now, and gave a great example of the destabilized parallax illusion.	10.7×	157k	558	48	61
25	Jul 22, '24	UFO disclosure advocate Luis Elizondo describes how the Pentagon trained him to use ESP to "remote view" adversaries and how he once, while having lunch, psychically appeared as an	10.6×	157k	545	66	399
26	Dec 14, '24	We are fucked because posts like this get 4 million views. What people are seeing in the sky is almost entirely planes. They transform from balls of light into planes WHEN THEY SWI	10.6×	157k	3.5k	338	164
27	Jun 12, '23	Humans have one aircraft on another planet, operating semi-autonomously. It has not crashed in two years. We've only been flying for 120 years. Aliens, vastly more advanced than us	10.6×	156k	923	95	24
28	May 20, '23	The best UFO videos in the last 10 years have been terrible.	10.4×	154k	467	43	35
29	Dec 18, '24	After my clip on CNN, a reporter uses ADS-B exchange to identify everything he sees in the sky. What's left is stars and Jupiter, which he also correctly identifies. Things are loo	10.3×	151k	876	122	107
30	Dec 14, '24	This is an out of focus point of light with atmospheric distortion. Probably Venus, Jupiter, or a bright star.	10.2×	150k	1.5k	86	70
31	Jan 19, '25	Whistleblow Barber ran an operation where a psychic team member meditated and took control of an alien craft with his mind. Then, the aliens got angry and started a UFO dogfight to	9.5×	140k	530	39	139
32	Dec 14, '24	Congressman Chris Smith wants to give local cops the authority to shoot at planes if they think they might be drones that just look like planes.	⚡ 9.5×	6.7M	1.6k	291	450
33	Jun 11, '23	Let me be very clear. I want Congress to investigate Dave Grusch's (and others') claims that the US has alien craft I think it's false, but that indicates a systemic failing, an en	9.1×	134k	652	62	10
34	Dec 11, '24	Please don’t shoot at drones. Because, based on the last few days, it’s 99% sure you’d be shooting a normal plane or a helicopter. You might kill someone. Or lots of people. So don	9.1×	133k	1.4k	94	42
35	Nov 23, '23	The idea that "the US Govt has 24/7 high resolution video from any location on earth" is simply false. Literally impossible. To cover just the US at a relatively low resolution of	8.9×	130k	538	60	34
36	Dec 15, '24	The problem with people being stupid is that people don’t like other people to think they are stupid, so when it’s pointed out they are being stupid they get upset and start to den	8.8×	129k	1.8k	193	65
37	Jun 5, '23	Never mind flying saucers, whistleblower David Grusch says we have "dead pilots" of alien craft. Unfortunately, he's not seen them or any photos of them, the craft, or the technolo	8.8×	129k	556	64	29
38	Jan 22, '25	Go on, then, disclose. What are you waiting for? This is the usual suspects saying the same things they have been saying for years, sometimes decades. Quit with the cool stories an	8.5×	126k	1.2k	73	78
39	May 1, '25	This UFO photo shows two irrigation circles. The roads are perfectly aligned, and the "shadow" is in the wrong direction. It makes you wonder why Elizondo gets fooled by things lik	8.4×	124k	890	64	107
40	Jul 9, '25	As I foretold!	8.3×	123k	648	34	66
41	Nov 10, '25	"Chemtrails" are not real. They are misidentified contrails. Geoengineering is a real but largely theoretical field that investigates how we might deliberately change the climate t	8.3×	122k	966	155	146
42	Jul 15, '25	In Jamie Maussan's latest "Buga Sphere" video, the fishing line suspending the silver ball is clearly visible, reflecting the sun. (view full screen)	8.2×	121k	637	58	76
43	Feb 21, '25	Musk lies, deceives, distorts, disinforms, and otherwise dissembles, according to his own pet robot.	8.0×	118k	823	147	59
44	Dec 8, '23	A fake video and a stock photo that was used in its creation. Is anyone going to claim "the pixels don't match"?	8.0×	118k	755	40	41
45	Dec 19, '22	@BenHansen00 Obviously human-made ground based lights. It IS enough to say it must be spotlights, because that's exactly what it looks like.	8.0×	118k	481	3	0
46	Jul 27, '23	Is one good video of a UFO really too much to ask for? And saying, "You won't believe it if you see it," isn't an excuse for those videos not actually existing. Try me.	7.8×	115k	564	28	7
47	Dec 12, '24	Fox News reporter's kids film a plane in portrait mode and she thinks it's a drone. Fox News displays it in landscape mode, so it looks really weird. But it's just a plane flying o	7.7×	113k	662	52	34
48	Jul 26, '23	Reports of my ontological shock have been greatly exaggerated.	7.6×	112k	555	17	8
49	Dec 14, '24	About 20 people have suggested I go to NJ to investigate the huge drones. I'm not going, because there's no evidence of huge drones. I can take videos of planes here. You want to p	7.1×	104k	1.7k	83	24
50	Dec 14, '24	Planes that are far away (like 30+ miles away) can seem like they are not moving. In this video, the guy is adamant in saying that some lights are not planes because they are not m	6.9×	102k	524	53	29
51	Jun 24, '23	You can't just extract a few words from an interview, add some more words, and then pass it off as a quote.	6.9×	101k	681	19	5
52	Aug 19, '23	The MH370 Alien hoax should have been laid to rest when it was discovered it used 1990s era stock footage. But people said that was fake! However, the footage was also used in the	6.8×	100k	480	36	48
53	Jun 9, '23	The US is about 6% of the world's land area. Given the supposed 90-year rain of UFOs crashing and landing all around the world, in a LOT of countries. It would take an unprecedente	6.5×	96k	470	59	32
54	Jun 14, '25	I went to a No Kings protest that was on a freeway overpass, expecting maybe 50 people. There was nearly a thousand, both sides of the road, for several blocks. And massive support	6.3×	92k	546	27	20
55	Dec 14, '24	This is indeed complete madness. No drone invasion is going to be revealed. All investigations point towards misidentified planes. (And a few stars and satellites) But politicians	5.6×	82k	876	125	42
56	Aug 12, '24	Trump is not a Christian. So why do evangelical Christians vote for him?	5.5×	82k	690	99	24
57	Apr 1, '24	UFOs are real.	5.5×	81k	563	32	15
58	Jun 27, '23	Contrails stop forming for the same reason clouds have edges. The plane has flown into a region of air (warmer, or less humid) where contrail formation is not possible. This is esp	5.3×	78k	488	51	9
59	Aug 12, '24	Synchronized video of Harris and Walz arriving in Detroit to a large and very real crowd. Donald Trump claims this is fake. He's lying, or he's been fooled. Keep pushing back. Peop	5.3×	78k	685	128	56
60	Jan 21, '24	These balloons are moving along pretty fast but are not bouncing around in the wind. Is this another example of a Jellyfish UFO, @JeremyCorbell? If not, then what's the difference?	5.3×	78k	524	46	34
61	May 21, '24	There's been zero real evidence for UFOs being aliens since the inconclusive videos six years ago. Karl Nell, Dave Grusch, Chris Mellon, Lue Elizondo, Garry Nolan, Hal Puthoff, Pau	5.2×	77k	705	56	35
62	May 27, '25	Joe says that I'm a "Professional Debunker." I am not. I'm just someone who enjoys figuring things out, particularly UFOs. I think it would be great if we discovered some UFOs were	5.1×	75k	558	23	50
63	Dec 14, '24	Still waiting.	5.1×	75k	753	36	17
64	Dec 13, '24	This drone flap has very clearly illustrated that eyewitness accounts of UFOs are highly unreliable. There are endless cases of "car-sized drones" and "not a plane," and they were	5.0×	74k	796	50	35
65	May 2, '25	Elizondo’s UFO identified.	5.0×	73k	1k	82	95
66	Dec 13, '24	A local aviation expert in NJ told me he was seeing things that were 100% not drones. He gave me some photos and the DTLs (Data Time Location), and I found the plane. He was confus	4.6×	68k	1.1k	87	102
67	Dec 15, '24	This is both wrong and stupid.	4.6×	67k	880	50	17
68	Sep 13, '23	I'm done with the ridiculous alien bodies nonsense. They are fake. Some real boring science tomorrow 7AM PT, 10AM ET, it's the NASA briefing on how there's no evidence of ET visits	4.6×	67k	527	38	14
69	Feb 6, '25	Some conspiracies are real	4.5×	67k	680	169	206
70	Jul 2, '21	26 years ago, Carl Sagan wrote this.	4.5×	0	1.8k	512	143
71	Jan 22, '25	My investigation of the Gimbal video (and how the rotation comes from the camera's gimbal motion) on NOVA. NOVA’s one-hour film “What Are UFOs?” premieres today, at 9 pm ET/8 p.m.	4.4×	64k	521	58	95
72	Dec 13, '24	"a hysterical population led by incompetent mayors, with government and media that have lost so much credibility that they cannot stop a simple mass delusion" is pretty close to wh	4.3×	63k	526	44	30
73	Apr 14, '25	A jellyfish UFO, filmed with and without zoom and focus.	4.3×	63k	592	34	64
74	Jan 14, '25	Video and audio of a meteorite hitting the ground. There are so many cameras out there that even the rarest things are getting captured now. Maybe we'll eventually get a clear shot	4.2×	62k	516	70	70
75	Jan 20, '25	Well, there goes Avi Loeb's credibility. He had a good run. Context: Forbes is a lunatic who promotes the false theory that MH370 was teleported and that there are videos of this t	4.2×	62k	517	45	61
76	Jan 20, '25	Great, problem solved. Just summon a ufo and film it from two positions on a known baseline. Hence proving psychic powers, advance tech and/or NHI. Win Nobel prize. Assuming it’s n	4.0×	59k	516	37	29
77	Dec 14, '24	@leejolle Almost entirely misidentified planes.	4.0×	58k	2.3k	19	3
78	May 1, '25	There's a whole fleet of them!	3.7×	55k	704	44	71
79	Nov 13, '24	The UFO document discussed in Congressional testimony today contains descriptions of some interesting-sounding videos. If these exist, I urge @DoD_AARO to make as many of these vid	3.7×	54k	808	92	156
80	Dec 15, '24	@Ky1eLong It’s a plane. What was your flight?	3.6×	53k	520	2	1
81	Dec 14, '24	Rich McHugh claims to have had a mind-changing evening observing things that are not planes. He then goes on to show video of things that are clearly planes. Being a reporter or a	3.6×	53k	872	113	52
82	Dec 19, '24	Stop shining lasers at things you think are drones. They are probably planes. You can go to jail for it.	3.6×	53k	696	95	27
83	Aug 14, '23	Uri Geller shares a photo of props from the X-Files and claims it's real alien corpses that he actually saw.	3.6×	53k	472	50	10
84	Sep 22, '25	This would be a bit more convincing if they could spell "Technology", and they didn't just cut and paste over a results letter for analysis of foraminifer shells.	3.2×	48k	574	48	65
85	Dec 15, '24	This is stupid There’s no actual evidence of giant drones. So we don’t need to flail around trying to explain them.	3.1×	46k	577	38	15
86	Dec 14, '24	Possibly the stupidest and most dangerous thing I’ve see on X for a while. This is a plane. They are almost all planes. Encouraging people to shoot them is encouraging murder. (Yes	3.0×	44k	867	102	27
87	Apr 7, '24	If you are afraid that something terrible will happen during tomorrow's eclipse, then remember that feeling. Then, when tomorrow afternoon rolls past and the worst that has happene	2.9×	43k	527	57	11
88	Nov 6, '24	Ironically, Trump's decisive victory reveals his biggest lie. The elections were not rigged. Our system of voting and counting votes is very secure, and fraud is limited and incons	2.9×	42k	746	72	29
89	Jan 19, '25	I knew this wouldn't take long.	2.7×	40k	501	21	16
90	Mar 18, '25	Dolphins welcome the astronauts back to Earth.	2.3×	34k	606	69	44
91	Mar 17, '21	Explaining why a dead cat appears behind Joe Biden. The video also explains why the other microphone appears both in from of and behind his hand. It's because it was. The boom oper	2.0×	0	792	138	89
92	Jun 29, '21	This is what is called a “culture-bound” phenomenon.	2.0×	0	855	154	41
93	May 11, '22	The "door" on Mars, in a much wider context. It's just a gap in a fractured rock outcrop.	1.9×	0	655	122	51
94	Nov 21, '23	A game I helped make is now in a museum. I must be getting old!	1.8×	26k	477	10	5
95	Jan 14, '22	Fact checking FTW.	1.6×	0	928	66	33
96	Feb 10, '25	"Where are all the skeptics silent huh?"	1.5×	22k	512	31	9
97	Dec 11, '22	NSM skimming over San Clemente Island, and then the Ocean. June 2011. Anyone know if the island at the end is also San Clemente, or San Nicolas? Or what?	1.2×	0	539	102	49
98	Jan 12, '21	Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc, are not censoring an ideology. Nobody is censoring talk about limited government, or abortion laws, or religion, or gun rights. They are censoring d	1.1×	0	529	104	9
99	Aug 30, '21	View post on X	1.1×	0	504	94	10
100	Jun 3, '21	PewDiePie gets it.	1.0×	0	665	18	8

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