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Mars is a dry planet, with an old surface (much older than Earth's) and a persistent wind loaded with tiny grains. Perfect conditions for aeolian erosion to occur; this process produces a bizarre range of rock shapes and landforms out of tiny differences in density and hardness. As well as...

Yes, it has an explanation, which involves perspective and light travel time. Although the particles 'seem' to be travelling at superluminal speeds, they actually aren't - it is an optical illusion. Remember we are not seeing the actual particles as they travel, just a different selection of...

I can provide a limited number of examples of 'faster-than-light' travel where causality cannot, in theory, be violated. For instance, it would, in theory, be possible to create a wormhole to a distant location which allows travel to that location at a speed much faster than light; but so long...

At the top of the blue beam you can see a local brightening and scattering effect - this is probably where the blue beam encounters one or two thin layers of mist. There are presumably thin layers of cloud up there; maybe the same sort of thin layers we noticed when they filmed the CSS...

I am not entirely sure, but I think the green colour and the white colour are both 'night vision' - they were only using a blue laser here.

From FatPhil's link https://www.laserpointersafety.com/aviationfacts/whybeamsseemtoend.html

The blue beam seems to be encountering a layer of mist (or probably two layers of mist, since the beam shows two distinct scattering events) which it can't penetrate. Blue light is more prone to scattering in our atmosphere, of course - that is why the sky is blue. Perhaps the laser beam is...

Yes, the gases and soot in those videos do absorb light. However there are no gases or soot in a laser beam apart from ordinary air, which is transparent.

Actually, Calvine is near the geometric centre of Scotland; not exactly remote, but not densely populated either.

I tend to think that reducing meat consumption, car ownership and aircraft use to a minimum would all be desirable goals. Disclaimer; I generally eat a vegetarian diet, but I'm not meat-free yet. I don't drive a car, and I've just come back from a rail-trip across Europe. So these reductions...

I also note that beams 2a and 2b both seem to be coming from the same box, according to this larger image, although it is difficult to be sure. It would be a lot easier to explain this phenomenon if 2a and 2b were issuing from different boxes, but that does not seem to be the case.

Well, I think we can explain almost all of the image in post#5, although it is quite involved. These is just one bit I don't understand. Here is the image from post #5. ------ Here is my recreation of this image, using @JMartJr 's excellent method. I'll talk through what I think is...

Surely you would need to watch this through a video camera to see the 'banding'.

Lots of UFOs and other phenomena could be faked using large sheets of glass directly in front of the camera. The Calvine photos, for instance. Although this is a tempting hypothesis, the practical difficulties of using a large sheet of glass to fake a photo are significant, and I tend to...

That's a paper by Rhawn Joseph. His name crops up repeatedly in pseudoscientific astrobiology, and everything he says or even suggests should be automatically suspect. A previous thread about Joseph...

I think the 'photoshopping effect' in these images is due to oversharpening after the event. The SW crew rarely seem to actually fake anything. However they often use expensive equipment in ways that are almost guaranteed to produce mysterious results. Here's Mick West's replication of their...

Perhaps they are synchronised to the local AC current supply, or to the local generator.

Here's one; the Baltic Sea anomaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea_anomaly Almost certainly a natural geological formation, and all the samples seem to indicate that, but it does look like the Millennium Falcon.

I'd guess that the apparent slant is due to the way this photo has been cropped. Here is the whole of the original picture; the slant of the objects on the ground is identical to the slant of the 'discontinuity', so I guess the whole image is tilted. A good point. The green beams and the blue...

Although a solid object might explain the dark region in the left beam, it doesn't explain the fact that blue light can shine through the gap in the right beam. So far, the only reasonable explanation for this gap I can see is a rolling shutter effect. Unless the 'solid object' is opaque to...