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Via a reference in the UK Times today, I found an article in the magazine/website Politico , dated November 17 2023, credited to Garrett M. Graff, with the headline "Which Presidents have seen UFOs? Yep, it's more than one." This is not to be confused with another article in the same journal...

Twitter/X today is awash with gleeful posts from UFO enthusiasts claiming that Sean Kirkpatrick will be fired (or 'persuaded' to resign) as head of AARO by the end of this year. It is said that four possible replacements for Kirkpatrick have already been interviewed by the Pentagon. These...

This may not be the best thread for what follows, but it does arise from discussions of the recent House committee hearing. Mick West and Art Levine have both retweeted a comment on Twitter (X?) by a Dr Phil Metzger, who describes himself as a planetary scientist who has previously worked on...

There may be a relevant thread for this already, but on a quick search for keywords I couldn't find one, and the story has some amusement value. While searching the online news for something completely different, I came across this news report about a UFO sighting in Mississauga, Canada...

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...

Several media sources in the last few days have publicised video footage stated to be filmed from the ISS, showing a 'fleet' of bright lights moving steadily across the field of view. The publicity seems to have started with a Reddit post here, which includes an embedded video: Source...

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

In the UK today many newspapers carry photographs of Boris Johnson in his office speaking on the telephone to President Biden. Various people on social media, including a normally sane, if over-excitable, TV commentator called Robert Peston, have noticed that in the photographs the spiral...

Looking at that remarkable curve for Hubei (China) in post #101 above, I think we should note that even inside China doubts have been publicly expressed about the official figures. Today's UK Sunday Times (sorry, paywalled), page 19, reports that [Mod add]...

This post may be unpopular, but I think it falls within the stated goal of Metabunk 'to find and expose bunk.' The BBC TV series The Planets, presented by Professor Brian Cox, was recently shown in the UK, and will presumably be shown world-wide in due course. The series gives an overview of...

I recently came across a flat earth argument about stars that was new to me, so it may be worth recording here. I will try to present the argument as convincingly as I can. According to standard scientific doctrine, the following points are true: 1. The sun is a star, and a fairly ordinary...