By definition you need a storm (a cumiliform cloud) for it to be a tornado. The tornadoes in hurricanes are being produced by individual thunderstorm cells in the hurricane. Decaying tropical cyclones and hurricanes can and do produce tornadoes far inland, including North Texas, as it takes quite a while for the low pressure center and associated windshear to dissipate. Vortices such as gustnadoes that are induced by wind shear alone, are not tornadoes.
The article just glazed over a bunch of nuance. They probably meant, despite the lack of a tornado watch or warning, storms in a severe thunderstorm watch or warning occasionally produce tornadoes, as severe thunderstorms were referenced in the paragraph above.
It has to be said every time these stories come up: UFO != aliens. Yes, UFO = unidentified by definition. Let's not get hung up on the labels and entrenched misunderstandings such that we're dismissive of any actual news. There's a far bigger take away here I think. One that I find totally mind blowing.
I've always found the topic fascinating yet little more than a weird curiosity. UFO cases have almost always just been totally unsubstantiated claims, from sources not vetted, with bad corroborating evidence, something totally mundane, something misidentified, hoaxes, and the people "studying" them use faulty methodologies or are of questionable motives. Not good science, or something science could seriously approach.
But this is different. We have multiple first person accounts from naval aviators. We have third party corroboration from radar operators and military command. We have photographic evidence from a verified, vetted source. That video came off a military aircraft and went straight to the Pentagon presumably. Yeah, it could have been doctored somewhere in the mix. But why? And the first person accounts support the video. The sources are incredibly strong. So we know it's not a hoax. If it's a conspiracy, it's massive and would have many loose ends, which makes it highly unlikely. That the Pentagon would have a large, expensive effort to investigate its own secret spycraft, maybe to intentionally mislead, or that this program sits directly at odds with another unconnected secret program seems like an incredible stretch that creates even more problems than it explains. I don't know what the research methodology was here, but it could have been quite thorough. It sounds like Elizondo had qualified and experienced staff and an extensive tool set. If they're cataloging thousands of objects using similar sources, additional classified sources, and with powerful tools, then this being the mundane sounds unlikely as well.
The only thing that seems possibly off here are Elizondo's motives now that he's involved in a private "Academy of Art" business venture. But if you've got a legit phenomenon here you're trying to pursue and you're hitting dead ends trying to continue your work using government avenues, then it seems totally plausible and acceptable that you'd try to continue this with a private venture. Especially if there is little if any respected scientific avenue that would pick this up too. Where would you even begin? Astronomy grants? We have no idea even what the applicable field is.
So what does that mean? It's aliens? No, it seems that this is some phenomenon that is wholly unknown to science. "Duh, it's unidentified so of course it's unknown". It's way bigger than that. As far as I know, this is the most compelling case that there is a real phenomenon behind some UFO claims. A phenomenon of which we have no fundamental understanding. The most compelling case that this is not something totally mundane like a cloud, plane, camera artifact, or a hoax. Maybe you think that's boring and I'm unnecessarily geeking out, that of course science doesn't know everything that's out there. But that we can barely even begin to describe what this might be means that this may not just be some "object" we're waiting for science to describe. There could be entirely new types of science needed before it can be described. And that I find mind blowing.
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By definition you need a storm (a cumiliform cloud) for it to be a tornado. The tornadoes in hurricanes are being produced by individual thunderstorm cells in the hurricane. Decaying tropical cyclones and hurricanes can and do produce tornadoes far inland, including North Texas, as it takes quite a while for the low pressure center and associated windshear to dissipate. Vortices such as gustnadoes that are induced by wind shear alone, are not tornadoes. The article just glazed over a bunch of nuance. They probably meant, despite the lack of a tornado watch or warning, storms in a severe thunderstorm watch or warning occasionally produce tornadoes, as severe thunderstorms were referenced in the paragraph above.
It has to be said every time these stories come up: UFO != aliens. Yes, UFO = unidentified by definition. Let's not get hung up on the labels and entrenched misunderstandings such that we're dismissive of any actual news. There's a far bigger take away here I think. One that I find totally mind blowing. I've always found the topic fascinating yet little more than a weird curiosity. UFO cases have almost always just been totally unsubstantiated claims, from sources not vetted, with bad corroborating evidence, something totally mundane, something misidentified, hoaxes, and the people "studying" them use faulty methodologies or are of questionable motives. Not good science, or something science could seriously approach. But this is different. We have multiple first person accounts from naval aviators. We have third party corroboration from radar operators and military command. We have photographic evidence from a verified, vetted source. That video came off a military aircraft and went straight to the Pentagon presumably. Yeah, it could have been doctored somewhere in the mix. But why? And the first person accounts support the video. The sources are incredibly strong. So we know it's not a hoax. If it's a conspiracy, it's massive and would have many loose ends, which makes it highly unlikely. That the Pentagon would have a large, expensive effort to investigate its own secret spycraft, maybe to intentionally mislead, or that this program sits directly at odds with another unconnected secret program seems like an incredible stretch that creates even more problems than it explains. I don't know what the research methodology was here, but it could have been quite thorough. It sounds like Elizondo had qualified and experienced staff and an extensive tool set. If they're cataloging thousands of objects using similar sources, additional classified sources, and with powerful tools, then this being the mundane sounds unlikely as well. The only thing that seems possibly off here are Elizondo's motives now that he's involved in a private "Academy of Art" business venture. But if you've got a legit phenomenon here you're trying to pursue and you're hitting dead ends trying to continue your work using government avenues, then it seems totally plausible and acceptable that you'd try to continue this with a private venture. Especially if there is little if any respected scientific avenue that would pick this up too. Where would you even begin? Astronomy grants? We have no idea even what the applicable field is. So what does that mean? It's aliens? No, it seems that this is some phenomenon that is wholly unknown to science. "Duh, it's unidentified so of course it's unknown". It's way bigger than that. As far as I know, this is the most compelling case that there is a real phenomenon behind some UFO claims. A phenomenon of which we have no fundamental understanding. The most compelling case that this is not something totally mundane like a cloud, plane, camera artifact, or a hoax. Maybe you think that's boring and I'm unnecessarily geeking out, that of course science doesn't know everything that's out there. But that we can barely even begin to describe what this might be means that this may not just be some "object" we're waiting for science to describe. There could be entirely new types of science needed before it can be described. And that I find mind blowing.