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He specifically claims to have seen that what other children thought was a spacecraft was just a rock. From other discussions here (e.g. #41 above) we know that there were rocks in the surroundings of the school. On the general question of credibility, it may be important that Vico was (if his...

There is a long new interview with Dallyn Vico here: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsxjeBU02gI&t=617s Vico is the guy who claims he was at Ariel at the time and the 'aliens' story was a childish fabrication. Without detailed comparison, which I don't have time for, I don't know...

A lot of people on Twitter/X try to counter Mick's analysis by asking 'how do you know the object is static'? The short answer is that we don't know this, but Mick doesn't claim otherwise. The point is that if the object is a balloon, or something else just drifting with the wind, certain...

Ah, but they only promise up to 100% effectiveness, which is quite compatible with no effectiveness at all!

If I understand correctly, on the assumption that the object is a balloon, its distance from the plane is almost irrelevant to the calculation of its size. We also need to assume that wind speed can be ignored (or that the plane's speed is measured relative to the air), and that the camera does...

Someone on Twitter/X (@SwinkMcCloud) pointed out that there are different kinds of lighting balloon. Some of them have a built in 'hat'; others have a detachable one: Source: https://twitter.com/SwinkMcCloud/status/1783406327882297800 One can imagine that the detachable type might shift...

How do they deal with Newton's Third Law?

This was at night (22.30) and he saw it (and not just the light) with his naked eyes? More likely with the 'eye of faith'.

I yield to no-one in my suspicion of Putin's Russia, but do the new 'revelations' show anything specific about Russian use of directed energy weapons against US embassies, etc? If I understand it correctly, Russian intelligence agents have been identified in the vicinity of various US and...

Re rudders: I thought I read somewhere that rudders (or equivalent devices such as steering oars) don't work at all if a boat is just drifting with the current. They need water to be flowing over them. But I guess if the power cuts out on a large moving vessel it would take a long time before...

I noticed a few people mentioning the following on Twitter/X. A video of the disaster aftermath appears to show two birds (not seagulls!) flying in front of the wrecked bridge but simply disappearing in mid air. Note that the whole bodies of both birds disappear simultaneously, so it's not...

Things may have changed since I was in the UK civil service, but in those days security classifications, going upwards from 'Restricted' to 'Top Secret', were supposed to be based on consideration of the national interest , not (e.g.) commercial harm to businesses or embarrassment to...

'huge public interest' is an ambiguous phrase. It may mean something that is of great importance to the public, but not necessarily that many people know or care about (say, the details of corporate law), or it may mean something that a lot of people find very interesting (say, Taylor Swift's...

There is a longish (3/4 page) report in yesterday's (UK) Times ( paywalled). Fairly straightforward account of the report, plus some quotes from Sean Kirkpatrick and Tim Phillips, the new (acting) director of AARO. I'm not sure if Phillips's comments are taken straight from a press release or...

Sorry - I made a double error. Your post said I entered the 105.3 meters altitude into the calculator (which gives refracted horizon of 39.56 km) but somehow I had a 'senior moment' and put 53 m for the altitude in my post. You are right also to point out that take off point is not the same...

Just to point out that if the altitude of the camera is 53 meters above ground, the horizon would be about 40 km away. It doesn't look to me like there is 45 km of dry land in view, so anything beyond it has to be water. But I'm not experienced in this kind of thing, and I don't know what a...

I think this issue has come up before, in some context or other. It's a tricky point. The perceived brightness of a point source of light (whether reflected or radiated) does diminish with the square of the distance from the observer, which is why astronomers can estimate the distance of some...

Well, it wasn't exactly an elephant, but I recall there was some similar trickery at Troy!

The people's heads, presumably uncovered, are also darker than the bodies.

In isolation, that 'letter g' looks to me more like the number 9 (or 6). We do after all call them Arabic numerals! The number might be part of a birthday balloon assembly. Though I must say I don't see the symbol as clearly as Deirdre does.