Mick West

Claims made

• Mick West stated on-air that Metabunk grew from his chemtrail and conspiracy investigations into a forum now heavily focused on UFO video analysis.

  FACT well-supported 2025

  • 0:05:54 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    false flags and uh even the flat earth stuff. But with the with the chemtrail stuff, I got really into doing things like tracking planes and trying to figure out what people were seeing in their videos. And so after that it became kind of a natural thing for me to start looking

• Mick West explained parallax for GoFast: closer objects appear to move faster as the jet's viewpoint changes, so apparent speed can be an illusion.

  FACT well-supported 2025

  • 1:24:07 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    Yeah. Paral is just when your viewpoint changes, uh, things that are closer to you appear to move faster. So, if you're, you know, looking at the wall over there and you looking at my thumb and you move your head, my thumb appears to move that way. And you think that multiple

• Mick West reconstructed GoFast as ~60 knots (Yanick ~90), consistent with wind, and hypothesized a ~3–6 ft windblown object such as a weather balloon.

  INFERENCE well-supported 2025

  • 1:19:29 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    Uh and it turns out to be going much much slower. So definitely under 100 knots and some disput as exactly how fast it's going. Uh I've done some reconstructions where it's about 60 knots. Uh Yanick just pointed out one where he's done where it's more like 90 knots and he said

• Mick West testified that the Chilean Navy UFO video publicized by Leslie Kean was identified by him and others as a distant plane, a conclusion he treats as largely settled.

  FACT contested 2025

  • 0:06:24 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    really spectacular. It was released by Alyssa Keane, who you mentioned, uh, in the Huffington Post in 2016 or 2017, and she was very affusive about how amazing it was. And me and a few other people looked into it, and we very quickly determined that she was wrong about that. It

• Mick West stated that AARO's overall assessment, as he understands released material, is that there is no evidence of alien life among investigated UAP cases.

  FACT contested 2025

  • 0:14:12 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    didn't exist 5 years ago. The stuff that ours released obviously like people are disappointed with that and their overall assessment is, you know, there's no evidence of alien life, right? Uh we have lots of talk about things going on behind curtains and in in skiffs and uh in

• Mick West analyzed FLIR1's end-of-video departure as a loss-of-lock plus zoom change: after undoing the 2x→1x zoom, the object drifts with the camera rather than accelerating.

  INFERENCE contested 2025

  • 0:55:10 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    zoom levels kind of halfway through the movement. if you kind of undo that zoom back from two times to one time, it just basically smoothly goes off. And the analysis I did on that uh using all the angles and everything was that the drift that it moved off from left to right was

• Mick West stated that after undoing FLIR1's zoom change, the object's drift matched the camera's drift, implying the 'zip off' is not object acceleration.

  INFERENCE contested 2025

  • 0:55:43 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    but it uh it isn't actually moving. Mick, are you familiar with Yonx's analysis that it actually drifts off drifts off? It moves off four times faster at the very end than it does during the other losses of luck. Are you are you familiar with that? No, but I wouldn't be

• Mick West stated that Fravor's visual tic-tac encounter and Underwood's FLIR1 recording are two separate events hours apart and may not be the same object.

  INFERENCE contested 2025

  • 0:45:51 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶

    went through it frame by frame and I think I showed fairly conclusively that all those things are just camera So and do you really think David Fraver saw just a normal aircraft? No, I don't think so. No, these are two separate things. You know like had an encounter with a little