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She also 'liked' a tweet of mine, addressed to her. Then, while I was still basking in contentment, she also liked a tweet by someone else which violently disagreed with mine. I guess she has her account automated with a default setting to 'like' all tweets addressed to her. I'm not sure how...

Could Sophons elaborate on the point about wind direction? I'm not familiar with this weather tool, but if the arrow in the 6th column shows wind direction, then at 20:30, the nearest time to 8 pm, the arrow seems to show the wind blowing from south-east to north-west. By 21:00 (9 pm) the wind...

OK, I'll try linking it. Description is as in my #9 above. Let's see if this works... Source: https://twitter.com/5X5_NEWS/status/1414496994828161024

Twitter user @5x5_NEWS (Mike Turber) recently (July 12) posted a short video which reminded me of this Moscow 'UAP'. I'm not going to attempt a link in view of recent issues over Twitter links, but anyone who is interested should be able to find it easily enough. The video shows an object in a...

I think I've seen extracts from this video before. My first reaction was 'obvious bird'. My second reaction is 'obvious bird'. If the object is actually following the Warthog, it doesn't seem to be doing a great job of it. The object and the plane are only briefly in shot together, and...

This recent photo, deriving from Hillary Clinton's Instagram account, shows ex-President Clinton with ex-President Carter and their respective wives. If anything it shows even more extreme perspective effects than the Biden-Carter one. The linear size of Clinton's head appears at least twice...

We thought it was amazingly good luck that someone else took photos of the moon at almost exactly the same time and place as the original UFO claimant. Surely nothing could be better, except maybe a video showing the whole transition from weird-looking lights to obvious moon. Well...

Just a small point about timing: the angular diameter of the moon is about half a degree, so that can be used as a 'yardstick' to measure the angular distance of the moon above the horizon. On that basis, at the critical moment the Moon was not more than 2 degrees above the horizon. As the...

Individual differences. I've had two doses of Pfizer, with no side effects either time other than a sore arm for a few days, which you would probably get if someone stuck a needle in your arm anyway. Then my doctor rang up and said 'would you like a shingles vaccine? someone just pulled out...

I'm struggling a bit with that. The Matthew Blythe photos were taken on 24 June (not 25 June as I stated earlier), shortly after moonrise, which was at 21:45 on that day at Teignmouth The sun would have set at 21:30, which seems consistent with the amount of residual daylight in the photos (by...

Wow, great work from everyone! The reflection theory is tempting, but I don't see how an external light below the window could be reflected into the room at the necessary angle (by the usual incidence/reflection rule). Maybe if the window is double-glazed there could be some odd combination of...

Update: Solved - a low quality photo of the Moon behind some clouds. Source: https://twitter.com/ufoofinterest/status/1412117603611557891 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original First Post follows...

I'll put this here because I don't see a better place for it. In today's Times (UK) there is a letter from Steuart Campbell [NB spelling], who describes himself as a science writer. On searching Metabunk I did not find any previous reference to him. His letter mentions recent reports on UFOs...

Is this supposed to be an American speaking? So far as I know, 'gobsmacked' is a uniquely British expression.

I saw a huge triangular UFO today over London, near Victoria Station, when I looked out of a train window. Then I looked again with my glasses on (which I need for distant vision, not for reading), and saw at once that it was an advertising blimp. What makes this slightly less boring is that...

According to the Worldometers table, which is based on official statistics from the various countries, Finland has so far had just under 1000 Covid-related deaths. Deaths per million population are relatively low at only 175. The politician seems to be claiming that for some reason the death...

If we are going to get forensic about the linguistics of the report, the phrase 'supports the construct' strikes me as odd. What does the noun 'construct' mean in this context? Is it just another word for 'hypothesis'? If so, why not use that word, which is more familiar and less ambiguous...

The probability of dying from Covid = A x B, where A is the probability of becoming infected, and B is the probability of dying from Covid if infected. Both A and B are difficult to estimate, and are known to vary with age and other circumstances. But from statistics in countries where testing...

It (the published unclassified version of the report) is very thin on details. Maybe the full report to Congress has more detail on specific incidents, in which case we should expect some of it to leak out. The one specific revelation is that one UAP has been identified as a 'large deflating...

The claim could be based on one or both of two ideas: a) there is a minimum angular size at which objects are normally visible to the naked eye. This is usually put at 1 arc minute, i.e. 1/60 of a degree. For comparison, the sun or moon as viewed from earth subtends about 30 arc minutes...