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  1. Z.W. Wolf

    Claim: Distant Objects Being Obscured Is Due To the "Mirror Blocking" Effect of Inferior Mirages

    The mirror is on a ramp. It's a classic example of Flerspective. FE Believers are incapable of mentally converting the side view to the line of sight view. What do I mean? There's an apparent rise of the land/seascape toward the horizon in the line of sight view. This effect is entirely...
  2. Z.W. Wolf

    Do Polls and Google Trends show Chemtrail Belief Declining?

    250,000,000 adults (18 years or older) in the U.S. Chemtrail Believers (7%) = 17,500,000 FE Believers (2.3%) = 5,750,000 This is a poorly constructed poll. "If any, which of the following unproven ideas, paranormal phenomena or general beliefs do you believe to be credible?" Should be...
  3. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    I made an incorrect assumption. The lights illuminating the engine nacelles are not cosmetic, they are a type of inspection light: the "wing and engine scan lights." This explains everything: What lights are on an Airbus...
  4. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    So it seems that they fly the Airbus with these lights permanently on. They're not landing lights. They're purely cosmetic, or for style... whatever you'd call it.
  5. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    A low resolution photo of an Airbus A321 with the lights on.
  6. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    This is what an Airbus A321 looks like at night, with the lights on. The engine nacelles are illuminated by lights on the side of the fuselage, there are some other lights that illuminate the underside of the fuselage, and logo lights on the tail.
  7. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    If I'm doing this right, you may be right. But if so, why the bright lights? They just forgot to turn off the landing lights?
  8. Z.W. Wolf

    Strange Row of Lights Under a Plane?

    Update: Pilot Director Lights http://cormusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Visual_signaling_Aerial_Refueling_Tanker_s_PDL__Pilot_Director_Lights__Improvement_for_Pilot_s_Visual_Acuity.pdf The Pilot Director Lights (PDL) are an array of signal lights located forward of the wing-body joint and...
  9. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    I see what you're saying. Perhaps make a diagram.
  10. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    Passed almost overhead but to the north. It wouldn't have been visible to the camera.
  11. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    In this scenario a possible candidate would be an air/ground tour from Phoenix. Something like this https://www.westwindairservice.com/tours-from-phoenix-scottsdale From Phoenix - Flight Code: (ADV) Rates Adult (Ages 13+): $699.00 Child (Ages 2-12): $630.00 Minimum 2 passengers with...
  12. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    This puts a different face on this. This is in the so-called West Rim Grand Canyon area. This is on private land (Hualapai Indian Reservation) and is far to the west of the national park. The aircraft is heading to the southeast, in the general direction of Phoenix. But Phoenix is 190 miles...
  13. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    Yes there is, but I don't know what would cause it. Some kind of diffraction effect? Your idea of chromatic aberration causing the phantom red and green navigation lights seems sensible to me. I'm still convinced it's an aircraft with a white strobe, a red rotating beacon and steady white...
  14. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    I don't know how vignetting would distort the shape of multiple point sources of light. That makes no sense to me at all. Vignetting is a reduction in brightness toward the edge of the frame in a circular pattern.
  15. Z.W. Wolf

    Unusual Light Track in Long Exposures, Grand Canyon

    It's not unusual for landing lights to illuminate the underside of an aircraft. This mysterious object is a 737. (My own photo.) However in the OP photo: -Lights are illuminating the wings from wingtip to wingtip -The reflected strobe is also illuminating the wings from wingtip to wingtip...
  16. Z.W. Wolf

    UFO video in Arizona from Reddit

    This is a good one. The best view starts around 0:50. For more than 30 minutes, nearly 20 large orange fireballs, slightly smaller than a hot air baloon could be seen travelling from west to east across Casselberry, FL from 10-10:30pm on January 20, 2016. at a high rate of speed. The objects...
  17. Z.W. Wolf

    UFO video in Arizona from Reddit

    More sky lantern videos. This is a good one. Multiple lanterns launched from the neighborhood to the left and below. Bad language because the camera guy is apparently cursing a camera malfunction. This is a helicopter chasing a sky lantern. It's a clip from a TV show. That music at the...
  18. Z.W. Wolf

    Strange Row of Lights Under a Plane?

    It would have to be very close to match the reported angular size. Which means the apparent speed would be much faster than reported, which is rather slow. I'm leaning toward in-flight refueling of another large aircraft. The reported angular size was golf ball at arms length, which would be...
  19. Z.W. Wolf

    Strange Row of Lights Under a Plane?

    I should respond directly to you. Sorry, the best I can do is to guess you saw not a single aircraft but more than one aircraft. They were flying in a row and were higher than you thought. A kind of optical illusion. Connect the dots. The high altitude would explain the relatively slow...
  20. Z.W. Wolf

    Strange Row of Lights Under a Plane?

    I didn't realize you can't get historical records on that site. Doesn't matter. The Starlink sats are too spread out now to be a viable candidate. Here they are on the Heavens Above site: https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx
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