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Good point. I could be extremely boring on the subject of Jupiter's atmosphere if necessary; there is a lot of interesting data out there now that was not available in 1973. Suffice it to say that the atmosphere of Jupiter is three thousand kilometers deep and would be completely dark at the...

Celestial weather may include solar storms and aurorae (these phenomena occur too high to be classed as meteorological, I think). UAPs caused by solar storms are rare, but not non-existent; the 'flaming red peacock's tail' seen in antiquity in Japan may have been a so-called 'blood aurora'...

Well, I'm glad you posted the links you did, @SkepticSteve, since they introduced me to Ingo Swann and his appallingly bad remote vision of the planet Jupiter. Hopefully, that one at least has been thoroughly disproven. If that is cherry-picking then I apologise; it does suggest to me that the...

I remember when Bem's experiment was first announced. He used a series of images intended to provoke 'arousal' in a subject, before that subject actually saw them. I saw some of those images online - erotic images or images intended to provoke disgust. I would be rather concerned about the...

From AR318307's link Daryl J Bem (DJB) is one of the 'eccentrics' I mentioned in my post. His 'precognition' paper has been widely criticised, for methodology and content, and has some aspects that make it somewhat curious (among other things, it involved showing erotic pictures to the subject...

Here's a rebuttal to Utt's paper, by Ray Hyman, who also examined the same data set at the same time; https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1996/03/22165045/p24.pdf In the 28 years since Utts' paper, this promise has not been fulfilled; instead the field of remote...

Just taking one example; Ingo Swann's remote viewing of Jupiter. Here is the CIA file about Swann's view of this giant planet; https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3.pdf # Swann's idea of Jupiter is very much at odds with reality; he just seems to have imagined a...

No, I don't think we do. Perhaps some first hand accounts are available in the work referenced by Gerald K. Haines (specifically Pedlow and Welzenbach, Overhead Reconnaissance, pp. 72-73.) But I'm not really very optimistic about that prospect. After all, it is only two pages.

I think in the early days spyplanes were painted silver, like a lot of 1950s experimental planes. This was presumably intended to reflect an atomic bomb flash. Later they were painted black, to be less conspicuous. During the silver phase, they might have been visible catching the sunlight at...

It is possible that half of the unexplained cases in the late 1950s were caused by manned reconnaissance flights; since the unexplained cases in 1956 totalled about 4%, this represents maybe 2% of all UFO cases at that time. This is an entirely different proposition to the statement that 'half'...

The actual study was by Gerald Haines, and can be found here. https://sgp.fas.org/library/ciaufo.html#rft45 Haines does indeed say: Note that he attributes this in the footnotes in the following fashion; Gerald Haines either misunderstood the statements by Pedlow, Welzenbach and/or Parongosky...

The article specifically said manned reconnaissance flights, not test flights, were responsible for half of all UFOs in the late 50's and 60s. This is an absurd exaggeration.

Thanks to @tobigtofool for quoting the article and @deirdre for finding the original on the Wayback Machine. One statement in that article is particularly nonsensical, and is probably due to a misunderstanding by the writer, William J. Broad. That is almost certainly not the case; most UFO...

The 'dummy' reports are supposed to have been retroactively associated with Roswell long after the 1950s. Remember that no-one in 1947 at Roswell reported any bodies, and Marcel certainly never mentioned them. All the data concerning Roswell resurfaced in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and by...

The 'anti-gravity ... using alien technology' part of that identification is sheer bunkum, even if the photo is genuine.

So the drone rotates to scan the countryside with a field of view of 70.4⁰ at any one time. I suspect it scans gradually, rather than rotating in jerky segments, but the end result would probably look the same. The mysterious part to me is why there is a green circle of lower 'reflectivity'...

That's right, it is spurious data. I'm just trying to figure out where it comes from. The operators of the drone have never seen it before, or so they say. Is that because they have never created a scan by rotating a drone in place before? Perhaps they should do it again, somewhere else?

The only situation I can think of where the albedo of a surface would decrease when seen from directly above is if the soil is very dark, and covered with a sparse covering of light-coloured vegetation. When seen from a drone, looking down, the darker soil surface would be visible and absorb...

The paper Mick references is this one. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/17/2855 Ah, yes. I dismissed that because the distances (8m v 35m) didn't match up. But if the LiDAR sensor is significantly different in behaviour to the ones tested in that paper, then the light that reaches the ground...

I've read Davis' paper, and for three-quarters of it he gives a competent summary of the various speculations and hypotheses about wormholes in the scientific literature. The last third is all pure paranormal woo.