"how are these interacting with our fighters if they are how are they interacting with the weather and their environment how are they interacting with each other so can we look at these and how they're..."

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"scenario where we have to operate in that type of environment and we don't know exactly where we're going to strike or we're going to be adapting to real-time targets and so in that scenario you would..."

"got it and so they were flying low to the ground and then there's a surface-to-air missiles that forced them to have to fly low is that a realistic thing it is realistic so driving those aircraft in t..."

"that way you mean the the surface-to-air missiles if you like it's a it's a distributed system and that if you take out one they're still able to sort of integrate information about your location and ..."

"cases and also a lot of those systems might be a little bit more ghetto if i can use that technical term like um i've gotten uh ad hoc maybe is the uh i don't know but you know having uh just recently..."

"what they call manned unmanned teaming uh we see tactical aircraft or you know some type of aircraft or platform that's being uh automated and it's not being on made in traditional sense uh where peop..."

"i want to get i want to get to that but i i don't want to forget the point that you made about increased randomness being a tactical advantage you know as we as you mentioned you know you can introduc..."

"uh that are part of your expertise your your journey you're also working on autonomous and semi-autonomous systems the use of ai and machine learning and uh man-to-man teaming all that kind of stuff w..."

"size and the ranges and the turn radiuses make it so it's not very theatrical right the aircraft looks small and while it's intense with the systems i have and the sensors and what i'm feeling and all..."

"certainly is yeah in the movie they have tom cruise flied over mach 10. so maybe can you say what are the different speeds accelerations feel like mach 1 2 3 or hypersonic have you ever flown hyperson..."

"bear is much like crossing the speed limit on the highway you don't really notice anything um to cross that at least an f-18 because we have a lot more weight than most fighters is typically we'll do ..."

"chain right it's it's from um locating a target and identifying it and you know essentially authorizing its destruction by whatever means uh employing and then actually following up to ensure that you..."

"um in an actual attack i wonder i mean i guess one assumption there would be that these hypersonic missiles would only be launched and the case would attack um it'd be interesting if there were other ..."

"this or is this just uh because it's a low probability event there's no real solution for it i would say it's not a little probably develop event i mean this is happening a lot i mean although the hit..."

"turkey vultures um in that movie who was the enemy nation was it uh i mean i think i guess they were implying it's iran or or is it russia i didn't think they were implying any particular nation state..."

"of things um well you were a navy pilot let's let's talk a little bit more uh seriously about this and you were twice deployed in the middle east flying the fa-18f super hornet can you briefly tell th..."

"what was that like was that the first time you were sort of really getting into it yeah that was really interesting because before that it was a 600 horsepower prop plane and going from that to the t4..."

"haven't haven't seen those things um that yeah like how often does that kind of thing happen decent more than you would think more than you would think there was no significant panic this is like misu..."

"does it feel like to get ejected thankfully i don't know i could describe it to you i can tell you what it's like from what i've heard but i truly think it's one of those things that you just don't un..."

"that's how science used to be done um so how did your training continue so how did take me and take me farther through your career uh as you work towards graduating towards the f-18s so in vt9 where i..."

"checkpoints that form like a triangle right like an equal out triangle essentially and then as that triangle you know is no longer equal i can tell my relative position against that aircraft right tha..."

"three position and then you have dash four the last one and if you are all lined up on one side like fingertip one two three four that dash four guy is going to be at the end of that whip so if you're..."

"do you do you think about that or is this um yeah i guess how stressful is it from a psychology perspective it's very stressful uh when so i taught students how to do this as well and so at our feet w..."

"and your whole concept of where you are in the world starts getting very confused and you immediately get this this sense of it it's weird like i look at the hud and it it feels all my sensor telling ..."

"we fly in one particular position so that all of all of the flight crew can look down the line and see the flight lead so everything is based everything has to do with the two air crew visually mainta..."

"fascinating application of artificial intelligence is when it's human ai collaboration that that semi-autonomous dance that you see in these semi-autonomous vehicle systems in terms of cars being driv..."

"me towards that was just a desire to really be operating as close to what i thought was the edge of technology or science and that's the path that i chose to try to get close to that i thought that be..."

"maybe without war if we look at human history we would not build some of the incredible things we built so in order to win wars to stop wars we build these incredible systems that perhaps propagate wa..."

"maybe recklessness i don't know but the the willingness to have a conversation about uap while i was you know i that led me to the decision to get out once i went there and it it kind of enabled me to..."

"wait are you getting like super ambitious beyond mars is that what you're saying well i mean like mars seems kind of boring i want to go beyond that is that we do do you mean the reach of humanity acr..."

"so there are different ways to explore the universe than the the traditional rocket systems uh if we can continue sort of your journey um you said that that you were attracted to the the incredibly ad..."

"represents a team of specially trained aviators who are responsible for helping that aviator land on the boat and uh the pilot himself and it it is a hard task to actually fly precisely enough to be g..."

"physical you know rush of like having a great pass and then like there's just the like the crash of into the boat and all that the physical sensation from it you know when everything's going great you..."

"moving not just away from you but also on an angle right because we have an angled deck and so you're constantly doing one of these to correct yourself as you go and even every time you do one of thos..."

"seen a a ramp strike which is when a part of the aircraft hits before um the landing area which is basically the round out of the boat that is before the landing area so they basically struck the back..."

"what you hear is if you hear 99 taxi lights on that's a really shitty day 99 taxi lights on what's that mean so everyone put your taxi lights on because you're about to land on the boat and you don't ..."

"have a place to divert but you know in a sense we're trained for that because we do the night landings as well and i think you'll find this interesting but i always found that the night landings where..."

"mean my not my squadron but vfa11 the red rippers uh i was a a somewhat junior pilot at the time i joined them on deployment 2012 where they had been already out there for about six months or so um op..."

"less of an uh test and more of just hey it's your turn to get the upgrade like we're all going to these better radars they were building ones off the off the line with the new radar but we were this w..."

"um what were you seeing and so what we would see are representations of the object so this is off of our radar we're not seeing a visual image here this is kind of like a what's being displayed to us ..."

"off of the data link and wherever i'm getting information from i can see that whole where page i can see all the situation so i'm going to kind of talk about this from the situational awareness page w..."

"how it puts it out and it's not used to seeing it so i'm not saying that's necessarily super weird but it was different than what we were used to seeing because we weren't used to seeing stationary ob..."

"what's interesting about this story is that there's not like the one smoking gun right you have to kind of look at everything and that's what i know i don't like about the department of defense and ju..."

"so what kind of stuff did you see yeah in the instruments we'd see them flying um in patterns uh kind of racetrack patterns or circular patterns or just going kind of straight east i occasionally see ..."

"got so how many people have seen them in the squadron uh sort of how many times were they seen how many um were there times when there's multiple objects once we started seeing on the radar enough and..."

"you know so like they would be aware of it and then of course people would want to go see what they look like right so people would try to fly by i try to fly by him i like how that's in of course of ..."

"it's difficult to tell but perhaps if his radar wasn't working he wasn't receiving energy from the jet and the jet of course didn't know that it was there and so whatever the case was they flew right ..."

"and that's actually when we start submitting hazard reports or hazard reps to the naval through the naval aviation safety kind of communication networks and it's you know it's not like a big proactive..."

"yeah i've learned a lot about the psychological warfare in ukraine this is a big part of the war in terms of when you talk about siege warfare about war wars that last for many years for many months a..."

"you know i don't think it's um controversial to say that our allies could be gathering information about us or anything of that nature but that would be an extreme case but i think it's just important..."

"don't think it's what we were seeing on the east coast and i don't think it is related to the roosevelt incident or i'll even go out and say the nimitz incident but what's the roosevelt incident the r..."

"drones in order to gather data like we had discussed and i could i could envision a clever enough adversary that could perhaps destroy or somehow remove these objects and replace them with new objects..."

"if we consider extraterrestrials or something that came from a physical place far away in space time you know that leads us to some detection assumptions that we would need to make and so i just try t..."

"american institute of aeronautics and astronautics to build you know a large resources of cross-domain expertise so that if or when that data is available or that there's additional analysis needed yo..."

"so i i applaud and i encourage their efforts on the intelligence side to help understand this but my concern is that they play a role they're not well suited for which is is doing science and the pent..."

"like an interesting guy he does yes so he he's got a um evan looked into deeply but he he seems to have sort of he's coming from like a science research perspective like uh uh background so he he migh..."

"entire careers you know working towards a goal and getting to very high positions within government and so this is very against their nature to take a stance on a topic like this and so the fact that ..."

"saying that but it didn't feel like much of a risk for me you know i didn't come out about aliens right or whatever i i had a safety problem that i started asking questions about and you know i went d..."

"that they can talk about it right exactly exactly they feel at least comfortable they have a reporting mechanism and so that was one of the problems that i noticed that we have a lot of reporting mech..."

"but in terms of the actual ufo is there something anomalous and interesting to you about that particular case maybe one interesting aspect there is how much do i understand about the water surface and..."

"radar system that can track it up to 200 000 feet you know that might be a value and so we seem to be missing that right now so what about the go fast and the gimbal videos that you mentioned earlier ..."

"to stress ourselves out and to kind of do the last training block before we go on deployment essentially so it's pretty high stress uh they actually do send aircraft from like land bases to kind of tr..."

"on the sa page it continued along in a path and from the perspective that top-down view it just went another direction so no um just an instantaneous direction change from that perspective you also he..."

"formation and while that was happening the gimbal object was proceeding we'll say left to right and as as those uh the formation kind of turned up to the north and was just passing back it the gimbal ..."

"direct eyesight reports but like in terms of video evidence that we have i think so we we were seeing a lot of these but we weren't just going on recording them all day we we just kind of put them in ..."

"now is too open and their information moves too freely to to do things like that and it kind of left them in a pickle that they had to respond to so what was the role of pentagon's advanced aerospace ..."

"um which has been a very safe process for the past x years right it's been it's been like a very safe business to be in to tell people that they haven't seen aliens but uh times have changed a little ..."

"ourselves off to a lot of what the possibilities could be and the things that we could miss you beautifully put that the thing that drew you to fighter jets is the technology so if you were to think t..."

"of a very intelligent species well you're actually working on some maybe you can correct me but sort of quantum mechanical simulation to understand materials so is that do you see sort of the the earl..."

"with a perhaps a non-human based intelligence in some sense and so we may find patterns in the the processes right how does our machine learning output you know can we we match behaviors with um what ..."

"for mountain space to do analysis of different materials correct interesting yeah i was really impressed by the deep mine i got to hang out deep deepmind recently and they really impressed me the the ..."

"dumb like these it's like flintstones or something like that good at it but yeah there's a limit right like we need something good i mean that that's an interesting sort of uh trade-off how much do yo..."

"of what some strange unknown thing is um [Music] what's your sense if such a thing happened would uh with this kind of information leak with this kind of information be released by the government i me..."

"some degree since you think there's aliens out there and you're somebody that's thought about war quite a bit do you think alien civilizations when we meet them would want war would would they be a da..."

"that approached us planted the planet instead of person to person because that's how they've evolved and they've assumed any intelligent species would understand that working together is better than n..."

"what about manned and unmanned teaming so uh man and machine working together is there interesting ideas there i approach it from the um position that the human should be commanding from the highest l..."

"the the human mind is it's able to do some of these strategic calculations but also ethical calculations all that kind of stuff exactly that's what humans are good at does it worry you a future will h..."

"so there's something distinctly unethical about the the murder of civilians in a time of war and i think technology helps lessen that of course all death is is terrible but there's there's something a..."

"you've just seen do you have thoughts about the current war in ukraine maybe from a military perspective maybe from the air force perspective so i can just mention a few things there's the uh baraktar..."

"the proper security well there's we're now in texas and texas values its guns and sees guns as among other things a protector of individual freedom and you can see a future perhaps where and i've cert..."

"aggression well let me ask you about this do you think there will always be war in the world is this just a part of human nature i think so i think i think it is uh until we until we move past resourc..."

"for from ukraine to russia um but now that everything changed and generational hate for some people have taken over so i guess the question is um when you think about the enemy is there hate there to ..."

"that does that job and usually can spot them i guess it's the kind of respect you have for the craftsmanship of the job that's taken on certainly and that person didn't come out in his 100 million dol..."

"you're still young but you've seen some things so uh let me ask you to put on your wise sage hat and uh give advice to young people whether they're fascinated by technology or fascinated by fighter je..."

"one well if i may say you found a place in nature currently a home is there uh can you speak to that being a source of happiness for you absolutely an escape from the world certainly it very much is w..."

"which is the best of both worlds hey you can just walk outside to escape it all yes to experience life as as hundreds of generations of human species have experienced it maybe it's a dichotomy my desi..."

"philosophize on on your current situation and that same just like we weren't seeing these off or when we seen these objects off the coast we weren't necessarily you know examining them every day right..."

"somehow um i guess that that's the question i want to ask when you go out to nature family what do you think is the meaning of it all what's the meaning of life or maybe when you put on the night gogg..."