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They don't look symmetric to me, in the Proctor video. At least one of the planes - the closest one - is much further away from the others. From Tim Printy's informative site; http://web.archive.org/web/20080102174259/http://members.aol.com/tprinty/azconc.html Printy communicated with Stanley...

This is an option we should explore more. The movement of the object appears to be coincident with its apparent long axis; could it be elongated by the scanning process? It might be a sphere - maybe a spherical balloon, elongated by the movement of the plane into a round-ended cylinder.

A small solar balloon might go unnoticed by aircrew so would not be reported to the ATC. But solar balloons work better when they are man-sized or larger; the lift provided by warm air is pretty small, so the ratio of volume to surface area needs to be pretty large. Alternately, this could be a...

The distance would not be identical to the height, unless the planes flew directly overhead. If they were seen at a lower angle, the front three planes would look considerably closer to each other, and be smaller fractions of a degree apart. For instance. the planes in Terry Proctor's video...

Another witness who identified these objects as planes was Rich Contry; http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/azconc.htm Two thousand witnesses who didn't know what they were looking at, versus two witnesses who did, plus a movie that seems to confirm that identification. The 'formation of planes'...

Very few video clips of the 8:00 pm event have surfaced; people were not prepared for this event, so they didn't get round to film it. This is before good cameras on smartphones. This is one reason I don't believe everybody who claimed to see it; there was no warning. In particular, I doubt Fife...

The well-known UFO proponent Bruce Maccabee did some triangulation work on the 10:00 pm event on March 13,1997, and came to the conclusion that they were flares, more than 30 miles away, perhaps more than 60 miles away...

Well, that isn't necessarily true. The account of the 'fleet' is purely a verbal recollection, and may be inaccurate in ways that can't be defined with any certainty. So until we get better information on the 'fleet' we can't really say anything much about it.

Some people really enjoy lucid dreaming, though - a cheap kind of virtual reality. But it does sound risky, if you lose control of the dream.

Curiously enough, I have had an experience of 'sleep paralysis with aliens', so I know it does happen. One afternoon, after working a night shift, I was lying on my bed and suddenly I saw an alien in the corner of the room. At first I couldn't see it very clearly, or perhaps I wasn't fully...

That's right. MgBi doesn't sound like a plausible missile part (too flammable), but I'm not a rocket scientist.

I sometimes wonder if this slag has something to do with Wilbert Smith's lump of stuff from the Ottawa River in 1960. More details here https://www.metabunk.org/threads/wilbert-b-smith-project-magnet-and-his-claims-of-ufo-debris.13011/page-2#post-293008

What do you, Senna, think? Do you recognise the parallax effect in this clip? If not, we can explain it at some length. The balloon is not moving, except with the wind.

Here's an earlier thread about the 'hovering ship' illusion. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-hovering-ship-fata-morgana-or-mirage-false-horizon.9112/

Probably not. The light path from a source 1 or 2 miles away is not really long enough for significant refraction or 'looming'. Most superior mirages and refraction effects occur over a distance of many miles. ----------------- Inferior mirages are more local, commonplace and familiar; we've...

We know for certain that fires sometimes occur on the surface of the Earth. Fires or other glowing phenomena that appear in mid-air are less likely, but we can't rule them out in this case - unless we can determine whether or not the light that Beckwith filmed for 30+ minutes was actually on...

It seems to be more complex than that. The 'fovea', which is the part of the eye where we see detail the best, is located in the centre of our field of vision. However, it contains very few 'rods' (the cells which detect dim stars and other low-light phenomena) so it is best to observe dim stars...

Interesting. Although these reports show some correlation with the zone where Starlink 'racetrack' events occur, many fall outside the zone, so the Starlink explanation can only be valid for a certain fraction of the total. The other reports, both inside and outside of that zone, must have...

Here's a previous thread on this particular sighting, and the scientific analysis. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-ufos-appeared-at-the-stadio-artemio-franchi-in-florence.11578/ The most likely explanation is spider ballooning silk contaminated with industrial particulates.

Earlier you said that it is routine for the details of a scientific report to be classified. I've asked my daughter about this, since she is a mathematical biologist PHD doing classified work for the UK plant and animal health agency; she agrees that, yes, it is entirely possible for scientific...