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CBS News coverage of the international FE conference in Cary, North Carolina.

Let's not forget that "Origo" may have been looking at the Pleiades, since it seems he's describing something with a noticeable angular size rather than a point source. If you're still here, Origo, let's try to determine how big it looked to you. Not it's real size, but how big it appeared in...

Alright, so I went old-school and got my Sky Atlas 2000 off the bookshelf, and within 10 minutes I found this distinctive triangle of stars. It's Aldebaran and neighbors in the constellation of Taurus. See if you agree. This is set to 5 degrees, which seems reasonable. There's one more star...

How many degrees of the sky are we looking at here?

I missed one description in the previous post. Post #1 "...the light source/unidentified object was hovering slowly from North East to South East from where I was standing ..." Post #3 "...this particular object more or less "hovered" slowly from the South West to the North West..." Post #6...

I don't know. But it is best not to get too locked into one explanation in a case with so little data.

Here's what you say about directions... Post #1 "...the light source/unidentified object was hovering slowly from North East to South East from where I was standing ..." Post #6 "... extremely slow movement towards the South of where I was standing..." "... the object was still airborne at a...

Northwest. Moving to the NE. I know that doesn't match the OP's description. But people often make mistakes with compass directions. I'm still collating. Edit: But Vega may be too low, considering the position over the roof. Planets rarely scintillate. Too big.

I've been going out in the pre-dawn lately just to look at Sirius scintillating. It's hauntingly beautiful. And I've always thought so. I promise it's been there since 1961, anyway.

It's bemusing for someone like me who has been star gazing for decades to be confronted with this kind of thing. I can remember seeing Sirius twinkling in the twilit sky in the spring of 1961. I was four years old. People suddenly start looking at the sky and see things they've been living...

Okay, I'm convinced. We're back to a scintillating star. Not just scintillation, but chromatic scintillation. The star flashes in colors, like a diamond. Also described as looking like the emergency lights on a distant cop car. The brightest stars look quite different than the hundreds of...

This looks like a rocket contrail. The winds in the upper atmosphere quickly push the trail into these strange shapes. The sun is still shining on the trail so it's bright in the night sky. The iridescent colors are from refraction in through ice crystals. Most likely a Russian rocket...

This is a flash photograph. Flash photos can show details through semi-transparent surfaces that aren't visible under less direct lighting. It's not just the intensity of the light, it's also the directionality. The light originates from the direction of the camera and bounces back to the...

But this is captioned: "Early 20th century Pierette [feminine form] with musical cats costume." https://www.pinterest.com/pin/222224562843374576/ An elaborate grown-up girl's costume. And there's that pose again. And there seemed to be some tradition of having cats on the costume.

This is interesting because this costume is identified simply as "clown's suit and cap." The costume of this 1907 "white-face" circus clown looks very similar. But this site says the white-face clown is a direct descendant of Pierrot...

People on the Internet have expressed bemusement over this old photo... Is this little girl dressed as a Nazi Witch? Neither! My best first guess was: This dates to about 1920 or so. Just intuition. It just looks like the orthochromatic film of that era. If one of the girls had blue eyes...

DeLonge was on Joe Rogan. Haven't had a chance to listen. The YT comments section is heavily negative, though.

I'd like to know what the shutter speed was.

The National Institute for Discovery Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Discovery_Science The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci) was a privately financed research organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and operated from 1995 to 2004. It was...