Former Obama Pentagon appointee Marik von Rennenkampff publishes new analysis falsifying every Mick West debunk of the 2015 Gimbal UFO video  
  
Marik von Rennenkampff served as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretaries Panetta and Hagel, then as an analyst at the State Department's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. He co-authored AIAA 2023-4101 / arXiv 2306.08773 on the Gimbal video with Yannick Peings (UC Irvine).  
  
This week he released a 20-minute analysis that methodically dismantles every prosaic explanation Mick West has offered for Gimbal:  
  
\- The Gimbal object was 6 to 8 nautical miles from the F-18 that recorded it (close, not the 30+ miles claimed by Mick West).  
\- Stabilized footage shows the targeting pod camera panning downward as the jet closes in.  
\- The 3D flight path reconstruction matches Lt. Ryan Graves' radar memory to the second, including a vertical U-turn with altitude climb at the end.  
\- Object size: \~15-20 feet across. No wings, no engine, no exhaust plume. Moving against 120-knot winds.  
\- The ATFLIR patent holder told Marik in phone calls and emails that the camera does NOT operate the way Mick West's distant-jet theory claims.  
\- Top academic experts in indium antimonide infrared sensors agree.  
\- Confronted with the analysis on his own MetaBunk forum, Mick West dismissed it while admitting in the same post that he had not watched it in full.  
\- Sean Kirkpatrick, former AARO director, told Marik twice that the video shows a balloon reflecting the sun. It was recorded at night.  
  
Full episode (premiering Sunday April 26 at 1:00 PM PT):  
[https://youtu.be/LbFkhJ8aNfw](https://youtu.be/LbFkhJ8aNfw)  
  
Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08773](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08773)

Today 1pm:  Former Obama Pentagon appointee Marik von Rennenkampff publishes new analysis falsifying every Mick West debunk of the 2015 Gimbal UFO video