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Do crop dusters fly at night? Surprisingly, yes. Note the twin spotlights on these helicopters. Why are they there? Crop Dusting at Night Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/wmm4y/crop_dusting_at_night/

Another Bell 47. Crop dusters pull up at the end of the field.

I'm going to go in a different direction. Even today Bell 47s are operating as crop dusters. This may explain the twin spotlights. Nice red strip on tail. Maybe pesticide tanks rather than pontoons? Note the twin spotlights. A Huey. But note twin spotlights.

Witnesses often falsely think that objects are reacting to them. People are self-centered. Many witnesses claim that stars react when they shine a flashlight at them. -I've been sloppy. This wasn't a military helicopter because those Bell 47s had all been stored or sold to civilian companies...

Even by 1970's people were used to large helicopters with gas turbine engines and rotors that go wop wop for complex reasons. Noisy things. The Bell 47 is from a different age. It's light with relatively little thrust from the rotors. It has a small piston engine rather than a gas turbine...

Well... what do you know? Australian Army Bell 47s with pontoons. Note red strip on tail. This one crashed and went turtle. Any resemblance at all?

The whole thing reminds me even more of a Bell 47 with pontoons.

So far no reports on the Pending Reports board at the Meteor Society.

Bolide. I saw a daylight bolide, also as a kid, and there was a sonic boom. I had no idea what I'd just seen, though. I'd just seen an air show at Pt Magu, at which a fighter fired a missile at a parachute flare, and I thought that's probably what it was. I saw another bolide at twilight, so...

Yeah, it's still a common misconception that a sonic boom is a one-off thing like a brick hitting a window. When the aircraft "breaks the sound barrier" there's one boom. I guess we've been lucky that no one has been hurt by pieces of shattered sound barrier raining down from the sky. Growing...

Let's eliminate countermeasure flares. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_(countermeasure) Countermeasure flares are small, are free falling and only last a few seconds. Some examples of what countermeasure flares look like at night: (The author of this video presents them as a mystery)...

You'll have to show me something in the literature to back this up, otherwise this is just empty speculation. I've never seen anything like this in my 66 years, nor seen anything like it in the scientific literature. The one ground source I can think off that might be bright enough to produce...

Yes, the lights were described as just above the horizon. That was a direct specular reflection Again, that would be a direct specular reflection. This was not described as a direct specular reflection, but as something happening in the atmosphere. The UFOlogists are indeed insisting that...

Earthquake lights is a non-starter. The idea that these lights were caused by "secondary scattering, by a haze layer, of specular sunray reflections from greenhouse glass" seems naïve to me. You can see ground lights reflected off of (or scattered by) low clouds at night. But it doesn't seem...

I've just been looking at that Clarke/Shough report. Now that I have more information, I think it was more likely to be a lower tangent arc or a partial lower tangent arc. The object was described as below the sun, and as being a horizontal oval with another horizontal object appearing above(?)...

Before I make my point we have to discuss what time of day it was. The time of the sighting is reported as 14:09 GMT Several questions: -Is Guernsey time GMT +0? Yes -Does Guernsey observe British Summer Time? Yes -Was it British Summer Time at the time of the sighting? Yes -How do you...

Re: This presentation by Shell Lee. It's important to sort some things out. These photos were taken on different days, but was the photographer standing in the same place on both days? Yes, I think so. Why is that important? Because perspective distortion is caused by distance, not by the...

I think it's apropos to this thread to quote from the comments section of the YT video I linked to above - Mountain Lion Sighting In OKC? Beyond any reasonable doubt, the animal in this particular case is a kitty, not a mountain lion. And it isn't as if anyone is saying that there's no such...

I should give at least one example... Kitty reported as mountain lion in OK. https://bapp.org/updates/general/mistaken-mountain-lion-sightings-have-major-consequences

I'm convinced it's a cat. It moves like a cat. But it's a kitty cat for goodness sake. That happens all the time here in the Southwestern U.S. Reports of a mountain lion in the neighborhood often turn out to be a big orange Tom Cat. The difference is that there really are mountain lions...