Flights averted due to a UFO...

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With your pictures, you're looking at the front of the seat, not the rear, like in the video.

http://www.cockpits.net/website/imag...reenshot13.jpg

The above is admittedly from a flightsim (F4), but is accurate. Actually, it's a photo copy.

http://vishnufafat.files.wordpress.c...-f15-eagle.jpg

The above is the real thing.

And this is what is in the video. Notice the 3 "circles" visible on the back of the seat. Notice the analog compass on the front cockpit frame, when looking just past the right side of the front seat, etc.
It is NOT a MiG cockpit in any way, shape or form. It is the backseat of an F-15 D or E. Trust me, I've been into aviation since 15 years now.

Also, the MiGs that are taking of in the beginning of the video are single seat MiG-21. Not only is that visibly so, but double seat MiG-21 are pretty rare, since they are trainers and they would not scramble on a live intercept mission. Also, it is pretty clear to see that the camera / picture quality is totally different and from a different time period than the cockpit shots.

In addition, take a step back and ask yourself how the hell would they just happen to have a camera man at the runway to film that *scramble* flight taking of, and just happen to have fancy cameras on the planes that look backward etc? These are very obviously archive shots from a prepared and directed documentary. Probably for military purposes originally (training, aircraft familiarization / presentation, etc.) and then later they were put into all kinds of documentaries. I've seen those scenes many times, as I said.

To your other points: How the hell do they come to those hilarious conclusions re speeds and accelerations?? The F-15 is in a right hand turn. The "Object" - let's call it plane, because it damn sure looks like one - is viewed from its side, that's why you can't make out the wings. It is traveling at a roughly 90° course to the F-15, i.e. across the nose of the F15, i.e. the F-15 is about to cross its course while passing behind it, while it keeps moving forward on its own course and out of view. I actually don't see any actual acceleration going on at all. If anything, the vid is somewhat in slow motion, and can easily be sped up and down etc. It's also damn difficult to suggest any range to the object from the blurry video - especially if you *do* assume it is not a tanker / airline type plane, thus do not know its dimensions, how the hell are you measuring the range to it from that video so that you can conclude the speed at which it is moving?

In short: The video is a total hoax - or rather: The story as presented is a total hoax and the video clips have nothing to do with it and there's nothing out of the ordinary to see in them. Of course you need to darken out the "witnesses" to make it look like they're in danger for talking, to give the whole thing more credibility lol.

Really, that's what I hate about the whole UFO phenomenon: There's so much crap out there, some done extremely poor like this one - at least to the trained eye - and some other done very well, that in the end it clouds what might be actual incidents and gives a bad rep to people who are trying to figure out what is behind them.