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The gnome phenomenon is real! I saw a documentary about them in the 1970s.

It would be much more productive if they engaged in a livestream, so we'd finally have some evidence that this E.T. The Extraterrestrial fever dream is real. Instead, he conjures an image of traveling Branch Davidians.

So, they got to him huh

What really chaps my hide is that news outlets are calling this a "study," and even a "Harvard University study," as if it's on par with a vaccine trial. This is actually dangerous.

Right. One assumes they mean the far side of the Moon, but this kind of thing reveals how poorly the person is thinking things through. It's like, sure it's pedantic to call out 9/11 Truthers for saying "freefall speed" instead of "freefall acceleration," but the term reveals that they aren't...

It's amazing that "psychology researchers" wouldn't prefer the far-less-complicated scenario that it's all just human psychology. Or, as Feynman famously put it:

I must say, for a hoax, these people are really committed to the bit. Critically, there is no documentation of any kind of excavation. No in situ photographs. The paper mentions (emphasis mine): Specimen M01, is impregnated with a white powder that the physical chemical analysis called...

I just meant that I didn't manually adjust the contrast, saturation, etc., to produce a picture that I liked better. (I guess people sometimes say "no filter.") However it's kind of irrelevant, because if you took a photo of a giant machine in the sky and the machine wasn't very clear in the...

I see that @JMartJr posted the video last year (comments below), but I didn't find any further discussion on it.

A Facebook video claiming to be of ball lightning (from the Facebook page Guyana, South America): This video could be fake, as some of the arcs and sounds are suspicious — but the lens flares and reflections are convincing, and it lacks the typically obvious signs of a fake video.

Your point is unclear. Do you think that a cell phone would or would not sufficiently capture a non-luminous, but clearly visible, giant triangle in the sky?

Good, because the eye has limitations. The aurora picture is essentially a long exposure that's been algorithmically stabilized, which is why it captures more information than the retina/brain. I see no reason why a giant black triangle in the night sky (which I have heard variously described...

I'm not talking about tiny dots (although we have plenty of those, too). This is related to the thread I started about major UFO experiences — life-changing encounters with things with an angular size often much larger than the Moon. We've all heard these "black triangle" stories. Meanwhile...

One of the things I ask UFO enthusiasts is, why are there no good photos of up-close encounters that so many people claim to have had with giant machines in the sky? A common response is, cell phones are bad at capturing images at night, except for highly luminous objects like meteors (of which...

These trick shots are cool, but setting up a camera for the purpose of trying to capture something unusual, and then trying very hard to make that unusual thing happen, isn't what this thread is after.

I think you're right. It's still wildly coincidental to film two baseballs from two different games almost in the same place at the same time.

As a baseball fan and player, I think this one takes the cake. I found it on Facebook and cannot guarantee that it's genuine, but it seems to be. (The slow-mo replay synced to the real-time audio was apparently edited.) A kid in a game hit two balls with one swing — one of them coming from an...

These people remember seeing much more detail than just 3 lights. I don't think that phenomenon should be dismissed. The thing is, if there are three lights in the sky, most people will see three lights and get on with their evening. A very few people see something in addition to three lights...

A Twitter user discovered that the illusion also works if you scroll the image, or watch a movie of the image being scrolled, particularly if it's shrunk down: Eyes, nose, mouth...it's all "there." For our ancestors, this would be an adaptive benefit, for example, if they were scanning...

The recent specimens are more sophisticated than the earlier little dolls made of stuff glued together (the creator of which came forward). There's a guy on Twitter named Gonzalo who keeps popping up with this stuff on every UFO thread, and he posts endless promo pictures and videos. I...