Maybe listen to the videos?

Do you think human vision is something that is absolutely 100% foolproof?

Why are there thousands of known optical illusions examples? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_illusions

Have you heard of spatial disorientation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_disorientation

Do you think the human eye stereo baseline is large enough to determine the depth of objects more than 15m away?

So his F-18 radar was lying. His eyes were lying. His wingman's eyes were lying. And the ship 30 miles away that picked it up on radar was also lying.

Interesting conclusion.

so any reported anomaly should be discarded as an optical illusion?

Not any no. But the 2 cases that he is describing definitely sound like the perfect description of an optical illusion / situational awareness tunneling effect.

Make a bokeh in the shape of a tic-tac.