@Sativa Lung You seem to be misreading my response to your post. You explained "being a navy pilot not only demands
an exceptional level of education, they only take the absolute best of those exceptionally well educated folks and they hold them to exceptionally high standards."
I'm not sure we have the same definition of exceptional education. The requirement to get in is a 4 year degree from an accredited institution.
A group of people with bachelors degrees from an accredited institutions are not exactly "exceptional." Nearly 40% of America has at least a bachelors degree. Moreover, over 40% of jobs require a 4 year degree. Requiring a 4-year degree for a job is not exceptional, instead it is very common. Moreover, I'm assuming--unless you have evidence to the contrary--like me, most of these pilots went to state schools. A degree from a state school is not exceptional. It is in fact the most common way to get a degree. 63% of college grads have degrees from public institutions. None of this jumps out as "exceptional" to me. If you have more information that will help me understand why their education is "exceptional" I am open to it, but I haven't found it yet.
As for the post-college naval aviation training, I'm sure they become solid pilots as America is entrusting them with a 70 million dollar machine and it takes a few years of training. I'm sure they learn all sorts of stuff unlike police officers who bullshit their way through 12 months of training and learn almost nothing by the end. However, unless you can show me otherwise, I don't see any evidence of them becoming camera engineers or cinematographers. Using an instrument well and knowing how to build it/explaining every single weird thing it could do are two different things.
My doubt in their camera engineering training and cinematography training is only furthered by the pilots in these UFO videos who don't seem to understand the information in front of them. Or maybe the training is that good and this is why the Nimitz UFO pilots were made fun of by everyone else that they worked with, because their peers might have known how to read the signals on theirs instruments properly.
I'll concede that my initial framing was a bit flippant and didn't frame all the training/time that goes into being a navy pilot appropriately, but I'm going to hold steady on the part that proclaims aliens aren't doing arial shows over isolated areas of water for the sake of a few navy pilots while no scientists are finding any evidence of intelligent life being anywhere near us. No aliens are coming here to turn our cows inside out and the Russian Soviets, Chinese Communists, Iranians, the Taliban (pick whichever boogeyman is most appropriate for today) has anti-gravity super teleporting flying saucers.
Sources:
Demographics of Navy Pilots:
https://www.zippia.com/military-pilot-jobs/demographics/ <-- a good enough source for a discussion about UFOs.
Flight School Info:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853840/#:~:text=Flight%20school%20has%20a%2025,sets%20in%20a%20supporting%20role.
Police Training being mostly bullshit:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691143866/cop-in-the-hoodEducation obtainment of the USA:
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/educational-attainment.htmlPercent of degree public, private, or for-profit:
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40Percent of jobs requiring 4 year degree:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/business/hiring-without-college-degree.html