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Start free trial →Into the Impossible With Brian Keating · Ideas & Essays · November 2026
Physicist Kevin Knuth turns to objects reported moving between air and water as another class of UAP evidence. He compares them with the best human equivalent.
…Reticuli in less than two days. You know, this is the amount of time it'll take you to drive from New York to Florida. You could get to the nearest stars, right, within 40 light years. And there's what, there's probably 80 sun-like stars in the 40-light-year range. I don't know the exact number.
Way more than that. I think a thousand.
…acceleration. You're looking at something way, way orders of magnitude beyond that. All right, so underwater objects, this is the Aguadilla object, and Doug Betner gave a talk at SCU and argued that a lot of the strangeness of this object was actually due to the fact that you had a lot of video compression going on. This isn't my good power example, it was just an example of transmedium travel. UFOs have been observed going from air into water and from water into air pretty seamlessly. Humans can't do that very well. The craft that we have that does this is a seaplane. A seaplane, I love that example, because a seaplane is neither a good plane nor a good boat. Now, of course, there's new drones that can probably go in and out of water more easily after we're working on things like this. The one encounter that I find fascinating is from February of 1987, where the New Zealand frigate, the HMNZS Southland, was involved in daily exercises from November to February, where they were basically trying to lure USOs in from the Pacific Ocean into the Hiroki…
Kennedy assassination. It's worse than
the Kennedy assassination. What are they doing in the Kermetic Trench? It's a good question. All right. So let's go back to the points of energy and power, right? So we've got speeds and accelerations. How do you move at 3,700 miles an hour underwater? And this isn't a small object.
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