Skeptics love to brush UFO encounters off as Starlink satellites or space junk. But those explanations fall apart under basic physics. That’s because Starlink satellites travel in predictable orbital paths across the sky at a constant speed. They also don’t trip collision alerts. But the UFO that veteran Oregon LifeFlight helicopter pilot Joe Buley observed was performing rapid maneuvers and making sharp turns with a corkscrew pattern.

Plus, Starlink satellites orbit hundreds of miles above the earth. They don’t trigger proximity warnings for helicopters flying a mile or two up. So it’s no surprise that when ‘experts’ are trotted out, dismissing what professional pilots see with their own eyes, their explanations often don’t hold up and should be scrutinized.

Interestingly, at least one of the more vocal voices dismissing UFO events that night over Oregon skies in December, 2024 had direct ties both to NASA and the U.S. military. When experts with institutional loyalties rush to normalize an unexplainable event, it raises an obvious question: Are they voicing what they purport to be factual, or covering up classified operations? One key to remember is that covert operators not only will deny what’s clearly seen. They also tend to try to discredit those who do, even when those observing it have more than 6,000 flight hours, like LifeFlight’s Joe Buley. View the entire episode using the above Youtube video link.