Popular debunker Mick West admits he is paid by an undisclosed organisation to develop his UFO analysis software

This may have already been posted, apologies if so. I just stumbled upon this checking out Mick West’s dubunking analysis site – Metabunk.

Mick West:

“For the past five months, I’ve been working with an organization to add functionality, increase usability, and improve the documentation of my UAP/UFO analysis tool, Sitrec. Part of this process included making Sitrec open-source so that anyone can examine the code and so that other individuals and organizations can install Sitrec on their own systems and use it for their own work.”

“I’m paid for this work at a reasonable hourly rate. So, any external contributions to the codebase don’t make me money (if anything, that’s less work for me, so fewer hours). But the contributions benefit the UAP investigation community, as do the contributions I make on my own time, and the contributions from Metabunk members.”

“I’m not paid by the organization to do anything other than write code and documentation. Besides this one project involving Sitrec, the only paid work I’ve had in the last couple of years has been writing a few magazine articles (e.g., Skeptical Inquirer) and a few TV appearances (e.g., The Proof is Out There). Nobody has ever told me what to say or write (let alone paid me for a particular spin.) I’m not paid to spread disinformation, propaganda, or a particular narrative.”

“I keep getting questions about if I get paid. I didn’t want to have to craft convoluted answers, so I thought it best to explain what the situation is. I’m in favor of full transparency, but the org wants to be anonymous. I asked them what I could say.“”

“I cannot. Giving any information about who they are or ar not would be like 20 questions, allowing people to narrow in on who it might be (and probably get it wrong).”

Any idea what organisation would pay Mick an hourly rate to develop a tool for people to debunk analyse UAP’s on the condition he kept their name secret? Presumably a “reasonable” hourly rate for a computer programmer and Youtube personality is not peanuts.

Source:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sitrec-development-is-open-source-and-partially-funded-by-an-anonymous-organization.13488/