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My tentative thesis about the 'beams' coming down is that these were artifacts of the Starscope that they were using, a photomultiplier system that can create some beam-like phenomena (as shown in my earlier .gif.) Halt and company were not...

The Starscope might explain this. It does create strange artifacts that resemble 'beams coming down to the ground'. Most likely caused by internally refracted or reflected moonlight, but a very striking effect. I should perhaps point out that...

It is surely totally relevant that Ridpath mentions Sirius, Vega, and Deneb.....three stars most amateur astronomers know are in the winter sky, yet completely fails to mention the elephant in the room....a very close conjunction of Saturn and...

Nice. You may have something there. Jupiter and Saturn in a conjunction would have been quite remarkable objects. They may have been too close to the Moon to be easily visible, but that may just make them stranger objects to the untrained eye...

There's a thread on Reddit about Mass UFO sighting in Central/Sourhern California where the (skeptical) consensus seems to be there was a SpaceX second stage rocket de-orbiting last night that was widely seen. The initial poster said he saw it...

There are more witnesses in a documentary by Lynne Kitei. Of course, I'd expect James Fox and Lynne Kitei to select the 'best' witnesses in terms of massive size and so on....so we really have very little on what the other 780 or so witnesses...

Oops; Sirius, not Venus (in the Rendlesham sky). I'm sure Ridpath knows the difference; he is an astronomer, after all.

We should move discussion of the Rendlesham event to another thread, although that may result in yet another prolonged fruitless discussion. But Ridpath discusses the later part of Halt's tape in some detail, and it seems quite obvious that...

No, you totally misunderstand why Stanley's observation is more reliable as a way of estimating the height. Stanley was the only observer who positively identified the formation as small, distant planes, thereby ruling out the estimates of height...

Ian Ridpath's analysis of the event does not ignore any of the features; you are correct to say that the lighthouse does not explain everything, but there are good explanations for every aspect of the case. Some events appear to have a sequence...

I'm fairly sure that both events (the 8:00 event and the 10:00 event) have now successfully been 'busted'. Planes and flares.

My suggestion is that Stanley's statement is just as reliable as the others, when it comes to angular size. Since there were apparently eight planes in this formation, and Stanley only reported five, then the larger estimates of angular size can...

I have encountered the 'lure UFOs' trope before; I'm sure Steven Greer's Disclosure Project is intended 'summon' UFOs to provide evidence for their existence...

Grusch seems to be saying that (while he was at the NRO) they found a way to 'track UAPs'. There is another, (probably more accurate) interpretation of the same sequence of events; while Grusch was at the NRO they detected a number of sensor...

Yes. I suggest this because those two letters have a wide range of angles where they would not display any other features - most of the other letters and numbers are only featureless when seen from a very limited range of angles. Also the number...