As someone who has published a lot of peer reviewed physics papers none of how this is presented feels rigorous. It’s fine to muse about the “what if” here but they don’t present this work that way, in my opinion, as they appear to be reinforcing their work with witnesses and not science.
Nothing really wrong with that in general but personally I’d rather see an attempt to dismiss as many other possibilities as possible.
I would love to see a thorough analysis and understanding of how the sensor pod works, as well as the software it runs to see if it could be contributing to anomalous measurements in the HUD. An exploration of any local environmental data, astrological, optical, and chemical reasons something may appear the way it does in the sensor data.
I’d much prefer a release of the entire data set of raw sensor information along with it.