Chris Lehto: Fighter pilot and UAP debunker debunker
Back in June I saw a tweet from Christopher Mellon, who needs no introduction for those who follow UAP, an abbreviation that replaced UFO (for me, officially) on December 16, 2017, when the New York Times published an article on the subject. And the abbreviation UAP wasn’t even in the article. Hillary Clinton had used it the year before, during the presidential campaign, on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. The article made it official because it made the government’s involvement with UAP official.
And Christopher Mellon was the government. Or ex-government. But that’s another story.
Chris Mellon’s tweet of June 6, 2021, said: “This colorful video makes a serious and critical point: The FLIR1, GOFAST, and GIMBAL videos have not been ‘debunked’ to show mundane objects. On the contrary, actually. Hear it from an experienced USAF pilot:” With a link to Chris Lehto’s video, uploaded June 4.
I immediately subscribed to Lehto’s channel, obviously, because his analysis was fact-based and spellbinding. I was around the 5000th subscriber. Since then I’ve watched a slew of videos he made prior to that time and another slew he published since that time, and as of today, he has around 6400 subscribers.
It looks like Lehto, who lives with his family in Portugal, launched the channel about 9 months ago for the purpose of providing financial advice to those who, like him, may have retired early and wished to make a million dollars (or two or three). Back in those good old days, 9 months ago, he was talking about cryptocurrency, NFTs, and a wealthy mindset. But at some point earlier this year, as he’s recounted in a number of his videos, he discovered UAP. And the three videos featured in that 2017 New York Times article. The first video he posted, titled “3 Reasons You Should Track Your Net Worth,” has 187 views. His most recent, titled “F16 Pilot Reaction to Lt Ryan Graves presentation! The F18 pilot who flew during the Gimbal video,” has over 8000 views.
Now, these figures might not qualify him as a viral YouTube star. But his credentials in tracking net worth are probably significantly eclipsed by his ability to assess the tracking of UAP.
Lehto knows whereof he speaks when addressing the information shown in those three videos (hereafter called: “those three videos”) authenticated by DoD. He flew F-16s, trained other pilots to fly them, and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2020 after 18 years in the USAF. Lehto’s last position was as commander of the U.S. Detachment at the Tactical Leadership Programme in Albacete, Spain. He oversaw the execution of three flying courses with no safety incidents, he says. Prior to his final assignment, he was Training Systems Assistant Director of Operations for the 56th Training Squadron at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, where he directed the development, procurement, and sustainment of F-16 simulator training.
He uses simulator programs to demonstrate his points as he analyzes those three videos. But he also uses a sketch pad, pencil, ruler, compass (made from string tied to a pencil), a plastic model of a fighter jet, and the size of his floor tiles or other handy household items to map out the action. He says all fighter pilots know how to do this. And, importantly, he translates “fighter-speak” into plain English. What he accomplishes, with infectious giddiness, is a rational estimate of the size, speed, and distance of the things captured in those three videos.
Since going UAP, Lehto has invited a number of guests to his channel, including FLIR expert Dave Falch, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, and UAP skeptic Mick West. That’s all well and good. But Lehto now is in the process of analyzing the presentations given at the Aug. 6 conference of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, and his first video from that conference, on Ryan Graves’ presentation, is Lehto’s sweet spot. I hope that he stays there.
Christopher Mellon. Luis Elizondo. David Fravor. Alex Dietrich. Chad Underwood. Ryan Graves. Kevin Day. A lot of people are household names now, if your house never missed an episode of Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation on History Channel. We know a lot of people thanks to those three videos. Chris Lehto should be one of them.
Originally published at http://kcroes.wordpress.com on August 30, 2021.
