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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...

The 'balloon' appears to be cylindrical and featureless, unlike most letter balloons, which tend to have some detail at each end suggesting a 'serif' of some sort. However a circular balloon - a letter O or a number 0 - could look both...

The photo looks quite blurry. I wonder if the 'blurry air' is a simple example of confabulation between what the pilot saw at the time and what they may have seen later when looking at the photos. I am fairly sure this happens a lot in witness...

I have read the Mufon report, several years ago. The lack of videos and photos is suggestive, and it could easily be just another flight of terrestrial jets flying over an unsuspecting town. Here's Tim Printy with another detailed analysis...

The string is clearly visible, I used software written +25 years ago to enhance the first "3x" frame:

If the 8:00 phenomenon was caused by a flight of separate aircraft, (as seems likely) then the wide range of estimates of angular size could be caused by at least two factors. 1/ the witness may not have seen, or noticed, all the different...

Naturally occurring meteors don't enter the atmosphere at less than 11km/s, because they are attracted by the Earth's gravity as they approach so are falling at that speed (at least) when they hit the top of the atmosphere. Some re-entering...

I dont like people pushing drugs on Metabunk. Not medical drugs, or alternative drugs. I've done enough psychedelics in my day, and been around enough peers, to know not everyone can handle them (that's why the psychiatrists keep saying "under...

A little exercise - use this thought pattern to prove that confirmation bias doesn't exist.

Not at all! However, the idea that the sound of a previous meteor might be confused with the sound of the current meteor only really works in meteor showers, and since meteors arrive at random intervals, even this explanation doesn't work very...