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A planet or star would appear to move through 15 degrees in an hour, which ought to be noticeable, but might not be noticed if there was no fixed point for comparison. I wouldn't rule out a high altitude balloon, as it might also be moving too slowly (when seen from a great distance) to be...

I agree that Mike Turber's claims need to be scrutinised and backed up with evidence. Not much supporting data has yet been revealed. On Twitter on 8 September he (in his Twitter account as @5X5_NEWS) did show an extract from what looks like a genuine letter from NASA in response to an FOIA...

Yes, it is one of several taken by Elliot & Fry There is a very similar one, probably taken in the same session, which shows Darwin turned slightly more turned to his left. That one seems to be more often reproduced. And there is another one taken by the same firm in the 1870s, when Darwin...

Embarrassingly, I seem to have misquoted the quote! As shown in the images above, it should be 'was going to outrage society', and not 'would outrage society' as I originally posted it. I haven't checked how it appeared in the Netflix episode, but I haven't found any online appearances of...

I recently started watching a Netflix documentary series on genetic engineering, Unnatural Selection. I'm not going to comment on the series, just on an alleged quotation which appeared prominently on screen at the beginning of Episode 1: Many quotations have been wrongly attributed to...

I mentioned somewhere else that in the UK the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the official advisory body on vaccination policy, was resisting pressure to recommend general Covid vaccination for otherwise healthy children below the age of 16, i.e. those without serious...

In the video he keeps saying there will be more details later. I don't recall that any new documents were shown in the video itself, but I was doing other things while listening and only looked at the screen when he seemed to be getting into detail on the 3 Navy videos. I would like to think it...

Just a quick heads-up for people interested in the FLIR1, Gofast, and Gimbal videos; the Nimitz TicTac incident; and Kevin Day's radar observations, among other things. There is a new video from 5x5 News (Mike Turber) here: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3LBeb4dl3k It's a long...

If I remember rightly, quantum mechanics makes some use of negative probability, which is strange even to mathematicians.

For a comparison with the UK, where for several months the Delta variant has been predominant, by the end of June 60% of people dying with the Delta variant had had at least one dose of vaccine, and 43% had had two. There is a useful article from the Guardian here, summarising and explaining...

Never mind: in 30 years' time we will be making plenty of helium in fusion reactors! ;)

Traditional furnaces did indeed use 'blown air' from bellows. The fuel needed a constant supply of oxygen to keep it burning at maximum intensity. I don't know whether the updraft of air in a chimney-like space (like the WTC Towers?) would be a sufficient substitute. I didn't mean to imply...

The idea that iron cannot be melted by hydrocarbon fuels seems to fall foul of the major historical fact that cast iron or pig iron was traditionally produced by pouring liquid iron into molds, and the fuel used was charcoal, coal, or coke - all hydrocarbons. How was this possible if the...

There are a lot of military and naval facilities within about 30 miles of Winchester: Farnborough (air force research), Aldershot (army), Portsmouth (naval dockyard), Salisbury Plain (army exercises), Andover (army and RAF), Porton Down (chemical and biological warfare research), and Warminster...

I wondered about the original source of the video. From the claims in the video the interview with the 'witnesses' must have been taken around 1977. That's nearly 50 years ago. It looks like it was originally on British TV (either the BBC or ITV, the only alternative at that time), but IMDB...

Just a small point about the 'glare' hypothesis. A common argument against it is that other FLIR videos of jets don't show such large or messy 'glare'. But these comparisons are heavily reliant on the FLIR videos from Dave Falch's YouTube channel, which I believe are filmed by Dave Falch...

How do you know that the people on the soundtrack were 'sitting in aircraft'? It sounds to me more like they are sitting together somewhere, maybe in the operations room on the Nimitz (or was it the Princeton?) reviewing what is shown on display screens. They do seem to have evidence from...

UFO enthusiasts are fond of arguing that eye-witness evidence is acceptable in courts of law, therefore we should accept it too, but courts (in most jurisdictions, anyway) have rules about hearsay. In the case of Lehto it is double hearsay, and the second source is anonymous, so it is...

I think we may have different views on the burden and/or standard of proof appropriate in case like the Gimbal video. The original claim, by people like TTSA, is that the video shows phenomena not explicable by any known human technology: maybe alien, maybe not alien - but what else could it...

I'm not hugely interested in conspiracy theories or pseudoscience, but recently I've read a couple of books I highly recommend: David Aaronovitch: Voodoo Histories: How conspiracy theory has shaped modern history, 2009. David Clarke: The UFO Files: The inside story of real-life sightings...