Mick West
"Mouse" in Space (Frozen Oxygen)
Source: https://youtu.be/l8W19r5m_GU?t=2605
At 43:24 in the above live stream of the SpaceX CRS-19 Launch, something slides around the engine. Someone remarked that this looked a bit like a mouse, and some of the more imaginative conspiracy theorists took this to be evidence that the footage was faked.
The video is shot from two sides, alternating between viewpoints, which makes it difficult to follow exactly what is going on. But it's much clearer if we take just the shots from the "mouse" side, zoom in, and speed them up 10x.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnbSMjFebPk
A real time version of this is here.
Here we see the "mouse" build up at the top...
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Mysterious drone swarms over Colorado and Nebraska - Chasing Venus?
I think there's a degree of mass hysteria going on here. Yes, there's probably some drones been spotted, but the video evidence is rather sketchy. The image above looks like nothing more than some building lights in the distance. There are a few other shots in the NBC video:External Quote:
This one (above) shows what looks like the moon and six lights. But several of them are on a low...
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"UFO" Sighting over Downtown San Diego Freeway [DARPA Balloon]
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czCfqZrWgio
I first saw the above video (dated Oct 22, 2019) via a low-resolution crop re-post on one of the UFO sites, where it looked even less identifiable.
While it was unfortunately filmed in portrait mode, it was still a 4K video, so I downloaded that and zoomed in:
Looks like an advertising blimp, but with an odd white panel below it. THe original video said "San Diego", so I did a search for tethered blimps in San Diego:
Bingo! There's a tethered blimp over San Diego, with a white panel type thing underneath it. Here's some local news video:
https://www.kusi.com/federal-agency-to-conduct-urban-drone-tracking-system-testing-through-friday/...
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Identified: Art Bell's "UFO" Aluminum Louvered Sheets - Heat Exchanger Fins
"Arts Parts" refers to a collection of objects that were supposedly anonymously sent to Art Bell.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010614020521/http://www.artbell.com/roscrash.html
The "vent" material is very interesting:
That's a much more specific look. Very similar to air-conditioning vents, but on a dollhouse scale.
UPDATE Dec 12 2019 - The following is a summary of the identification from the thread below.
It's almost 100% certain this is a sheet of louvered fins for a heat exchanger (like a radiator or air conditioner).
Here's a VERY good match.
Source...
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Debunked: The WTC 9/11 Angle Cut Column. [Not Thermite, Cut Later]
This image is famous in 9/11 conspiracy culture:
The column in the center of the photo (by Sam Hollenshead) has been cut at an angle, presumably during the cleanup process. Yet Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911) still insist it was cut before the building fell, and looks nothing like a normal cut, and hence is evidence of thermite. Here's an AE911 slide they used just a few weeks ago:
Here's Richard Gage, head of AE911, discussing this:
Source...
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Escaping the Rabbit Hole Book
In Escaping the Rabbit Hole, author Mick West shares over a decade's worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, the most successful approaches to helping individuals escape a rabbit hole aren't comprised of simply explaining why they are wrong; rather, West's tried-and-tested approach emphasizes clear communication based on mutual respect, honesty, openness, and patience.
West puts his debunking techniques and best practices to the test with four of the most popular false conspiracy theories today (Chemtrails, 9/11 Controlled...
Perhaps counter-intuitively, the most successful approaches to helping individuals escape a rabbit hole aren't comprised of simply explaining why they are wrong; rather, West's tried-and-tested approach emphasizes clear communication based on mutual respect, honesty, openness, and patience.
West puts his debunking techniques and best practices to the test with four of the most popular false conspiracy theories today (Chemtrails, 9/11 Controlled...
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Soundly Proving the Curvature of the Earth at Lake Pontchartrain
A classic experiment to demonstrate the curvature of a body of water is to place markers (like flags) a fixed distance above the water in a straight line, and then view them along that line in a telescope. If the water surface is flat then the markers will appear also in a straight line. If the surface of the water is curved (as it is here on Earth) then the markers in the middle will appear higher than the markers at the ends. Here's a highly exaggerated diagram of the effect by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1870:
This is a difficult experiment to do as you need a few miles...
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Some Perspective on Perspective Foreshortening - Contrails and UFOs
The above image appears to show three different metal rods. The left rod is short and straight. The middle rod seems longer and angles sharply to the right. The right rod appears slightly curved, and has a longer segment going off the edge of the photo.
Actually the rods look like this:
Despite the left rod looking like it's just a few inches, it's actually five feet long. And even though the right rod looks like it's bent very close to the end it's actually bent in the middle, as is the center rod.
I set this up to illustrate some of the problems in visualizing both contrails and the paths of planes that don't leave contrails, especially those that are far away, and so at a shallow angle to the viewer.
In particular, look at the...
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Orbs with Dots - PDAF Focus Pixels in Sun Reflection Lens Flare
Source: (MUFON case 84702)
A variety of images reported as "UFO"zm show what looks like a glowing disk with some dots on it. These basically look like lens flares, but the dot patterns are unusual, as they vary from irregular, regular, or or semiregular patterns. However they still look very two dimensional - they don't seem to curve around the "orb". Here's a collection of similar images all claimed as "UFOs"
What we are seeing here is a reflected image of the sun with the highlighted reflections of focus pixel. ...
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Searching and Linking to MUFON cases
MUFON is a long established organization that maintains a database of "UFO" sightings which sometimes contains things we discuss here on Skydentify. Unfortunately their database system is a little fiddly to access. Often people will find cases in the "Last 20 Reports" link from the home page
https://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl?req=latest_reports
This gives you the basic info of the case, but generally the interesting stuff is in the "Long Description". You can click on this and you will get a pop-up window with the description and a direct link to the long description. For example:
https://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl?req=view_long_desc&id=82310
So people often link to the case with this "long Description" link. Unfortunately this does...
https://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl?req=latest_reports
This gives you the basic info of the case, but generally the interesting stuff is in the "Long Description". You can click on this and you will get a pop-up window with the description and a direct link to the long description. For example:
https://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl?req=view_long_desc&id=82310
So people often link to the case with this "long Description" link. Unfortunately this does...
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Quantifying Expert Consensus Against Covert Geoengineering / Chemtrails
In a paper publish in Environmental Research letters, August 2016, 77 scientists with expertise in atmospheric science and geochemistry were asked to give their expert opinions regarding the most common claims of evidence put forward by proponents of the "chemtrail" or "covert geoengineering" theory (referred to in the paper as a "secret large-scale atmospheric program (SLAP)". The evidence being photos of trails left by planes, and chemical analyses of air, soil, and water. The scientists overwhelming rejected the idea that the photos and tests were evidence of a secret spraying program. All of the atmospheric scientists and all but one of the geochemists saw nothing suspicious about the proffered evidence. The photos were all identified as contrails, and the...
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Floating Cities are Generally not Fata Morgana Mirages
A video is being widely shared on social media (and the "weird news" sections of more traditional media) claiming to show the image of an impossibly large city rising above the fog in the city of Foshan (佛山), Guangdong province, China
Here's a composite image of the Foshan video
Notice the scale of things here, there are what looks like two construction cranes on the "horizon" to the left, and the buildings seem to loom high into the sky above them.
Some have said this is...
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Debunked: UFO over Loch Ness [Reflection in Dual Pane Window]
A recent photo proports to show a UFO over Loch Ness in Scotland, however it's
UPDATE July 10, 2015:
I contacted the owner of the cottage, who graciously agreed to take a few photos and a short video from the same location. These prove conclusively that the "UFO" is simply the reflection of a light in the window:
You can see the reflection of the curtain in the window, just like with the "UFO" photo, which demonstrates that the UFO photo was taken...
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