[AIMunchkin]

And yet no gun camera footage or even pictures...

Funny that...

[pmarreck]

sort of a "moving the goalposts" fallacy, but you also can't assume that that tech was available on an F-4 in 1980, for every mission.

Anyway there's a bunch of these "pilot encounters UFO with description not matching any known aircraft" stories.

http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/mantell.htm