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Yes. I suggest this because those two letters have a wide range of angles where they would not display any other features - most of the other letters and numbers are only featureless when seen from a very limited range of angles. Also the number 0 is a very common celebratory balloon. But this...

The 'balloon' appears to be cylindrical and featureless, unlike most letter balloons, which tend to have some detail at each end suggesting a 'serif' of some sort. However a circular balloon - a letter O or a number 0 - could look both cylindrical and featureless if the balloon is tilted so we...

The photo looks quite blurry. I wonder if the 'blurry air' is a simple example of confabulation between what the pilot saw at the time and what they may have seen later when looking at the photos. I am fairly sure this happens a lot in witness statements, but I'm not sure whether this has ever...

I have read the Mufon report, several years ago. The lack of videos and photos is suggestive, and it could easily be just another flight of terrestrial jets flying over an unsuspecting town. Here's Tim Printy with another detailed analysis. http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/svilletx.htm

If the 8:00 phenomenon was caused by a flight of separate aircraft, (as seems likely) then the wide range of estimates of angular size could be caused by at least two factors. 1/ the witness may not have seen, or noticed, all the different aircraft involved, so they may have only counted the...

Naturally occurring meteors don't enter the atmosphere at less than 11km/s, because they are attracted by the Earth's gravity as they approach so are falling at that speed (at least) when they hit the top of the atmosphere. Some re-entering spacecraft (especially ones with people on board) are...

Not at all! However, the idea that the sound of a previous meteor might be confused with the sound of the current meteor only really works in meteor showers, and since meteors arrive at random intervals, even this explanation doesn't work very well. The perceived 'sound' associated with the...

Concerning the 'sound' of a bolide or meteor; most meteors or bolides are tens of kilometres away from the observer. Any sound from the meteor itself will arrive many seconds after the meteor is visible; if you hear a sound when the meteor is passing by, that sound has almost certainly not come...

I should point out that oxygen also glows green at high altitude when excited; that is why many auroras have a green tint (the green and the red glows from aurora are both caused by excitation of oxygen). I have seen a 'green' aurora, but the colour was insufficiently saturated to look...

Hmm. I'm not so sure. Betelgeuse was directly above Orion's Belt in a vertical direction, and high enough that the twinkling would have been a relatively minor effect. Betelgeuse is one of the widest stars in the sky, so it tends to display less twinkling than other stars. Seen from a helicopter...

Mars has a broad spectrum, and includes a lot of green and blue light in its reflectance. One interesting characteristic is that Mars doesn't blink or twinkle, whereas Betelgeuse and Sirius both do. From Arizona, Betelgeuse was almost directly above the middle star of Orion's Belt, so that might...

Yeah. The first part of the sighting might have been a real drone; someone said they saw a quadcopter. But the chase segment might easily be a celestial object, or maybe several.

So they could have been chasing Mars at 100mph for several minutes, then lost sight of it, then noticed Orion to the South, with Betelgeuse, Rigel or Sirius as candidates for the next two sightings of the 'object'. Then they seem to have lost it in clouds.

Sirius is between south and southwest, and is brighter than Mars, Betelgeuse or Rigel.

The magnitude of Mars that night was +0.5, which is not particularly bright, but a little brighter than its average, and brighter than it is right now. Mars can get much brighter than that at opposition. Heh; +0.5 is the same as the average brightness of Betelgeuse, which is, of course, just...

That would be slightly east of south at that time of night, which means the 'object' they were supposedly chasing was now in a completely different part of the sky. The same part of the sky where Sirius was. Up until this point they were chasing something slightly north of west and above them...

Many years ago, Phillip Klass discussed the 1973 Coyne UFO which was described as green by the occupants of a helicopter, but the apparent colour of which may have been affected by tinted green windows in the helicopter roof.

This may have started as a drone chase, but I suspect that the 100mph chase towards the west was chasing a different target. Mars was up there, towards the west, and they might have been chasing that. Towards the end of the chase they said they saw the target near the central star of Orion's...

The best attitude to this sort of case is to assume that the witnesses are all broadly correct in their descriptions. It is their interpretation which is likely to be wrong. In this case, the many witnesses report a wide range of different observations; and this almost certainly rules out a...

Also easily explained by a flight of eight planes, not all flying closely together, seen at different angles and distances. We don't need to postulate a cluster of fire lanterns, but on the other hand we can't necessarily rule them out yet (without finding out the wind direction).