illusion

In the interview with Fred Baker (associate of Jake Barber), Fred describes two sightings from his CE5 experience: Source: https://youtu.be/o72BBZYXm9c?si=5XQMJ-qsF1tfXueC&t=828 "It fell like, if you imagine putting a really small pebble in the water, and it flutters down, that's what it was...

I orginally saw this on social media and am surprised to see it repeated on the mainstream BBC News website without any further analysis. It seems to be an obvious perspective trick. Surely we know exactly which two aircraft are being filmed here and their actual distance apart? In fact i'm...

Tabloid media love to invoke the cool sounding "fata morgana" or "superior mirage" to explain images of things floating in the sky. The problem is that a real fata morgana superior mirage (above the boat) looks like this: An inferior mirage (under the boat) looks like this: In both cases...

Something that often happens when looking at contrails (or when people are looking for what they consider "chemtrails") is that a trail will pass though a thin region of cloud, and it's not clear if the trail is in front of the cloud (at a lower altitude), or if it is behind it (at a higher...