DAE get a weird feeling when you realize you've spent over 100 hours researching one single event, like the 1997 Phoenix Lights?

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Man, that's just the tip of the iceberg. You start down a rabbit hole like that and suddenly you're cross-referencing old FAA bulletins with witness sketches from a forum that shut down in 2003. It stops being about the event itself and becomes this whole other thing about how information gets lost or buried. You end up knowing way too much about something that doesn't matter at all.

the_lee1mo ago

Found a 1997 NTSB report about a cargo plane that vanished off radar for 12 minutes over the Great Lakes. The official cause was instrument failure, but the archived forum posts from pilots talking about that specific air corridor tell a completely different story.

phoenix_carter1mo ago

That NTSB report is 400 pages long and mentions the instrument failure like 80 times. Honestly those old pilot forums are full of ghost stories and bad intel from guys who flew a different type of plane.