Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by druadh 1562 days ago
"Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles"

"Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) partially identified as being unknown anomalous aircraft, referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Vehicles (UAVs) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)"

Are you referring to the use of a commonly accepted initialism, 'UAV', as them 'begging the question'? Otherwise, it took about 33% of the paper for them to use the word "vehicles".

Don't be that guy.
2 comments
mullingitover 1562 days ago
> Are you referring to the use of a commonly accepted initialism, 'UAV', as them 'begging the question'?

I've heard 'UFO' in the common vernacular in this context, but UAV isn't one I'm familiar with. UAV is the common term for a drone, not a UFO.

Meanwhile regardless of how long it takes them to use 'vehicles' a second time in the paper, it's right there in the title.

link
hugh-avherald 1562 days ago
When I google this term, the only site on the first page of results that uses 'Unidentified Anomalous Vehicles' is this paper.

Even if UAV were an actually common term, it is still question-begging to use this term as opposed to the far, far more common 'UFO'.

link