Physicists estimate UAP accelerations in the journal Entropy

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Front view of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz
The carrier USS Nimitz; the 2004 Nimitz case was among those the paper analyzed United States Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Kevin Knuth, Robert Powell and Peter Reali published a peer-reviewed paper estimating accelerations implied by witness and sensor accounts, including the 2004 Nimitz case, from roughly 70 g to over 5,000 g. Critics argued some figures rested on doubtful readings of the data.

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  1. OtherEstimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles, Entropy 21(10):939 (opens in a new tab)MDPI Entropy / 2019-09-25
  2. OtherEstimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles (PMC7514271) (opens in a new tab)PubMed Central (NIH) / 2019-09-25

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