French National Assembly to host UAP seminar with true believers

[John J.]

And yet another one who speaks of energy then uses units of power

Good observation. In the 2025 Vallee, Dini, Mestchersky paper

The case, which centered on a well-defined luminous object at ground level, led to energy estimates from 500 to 1400 MW, in the range of a small modern nuclear power plant

The Condon Report provided an estimate of the source's power based on comparisons with car headlights, calculating energy outputs in the range of 500–900 MW.

"Estimates of radiative energy values in ground-level observations of an unidentified aerial phenomenon: New physical data"
https://www.3af.fr/global/gene/link...-aerial-phenomenon-new-physical-data.pdf&fg=1 "In press" copy via 3AF website.

In other places the authors use MW as a unit of power.

One wonders if he even knows they are two different things...

I'm beginning to wonder too.

 

[Eburacum]

Very bright torches exist which can throw very bright beams in a conical area forward; using comparatively low wattage.

The brightness of the beam in the visual range is measured in lumens, which is only indirectly related to either wattage or joules.

There is no proof that this light source, if it were a real one, was radiating in all directions equally, since the observers only saw it from a limited set of locations. The light source need not have been illuminating in an upwards, sideways, or downwards direction, let alone behind the emitter (away from the observers).

If this were a bright torch the power could have been measured in hundreds of watts, not millions. Poachers sometimes use very bright torches to detect and dazzle their prey. They probably love the MS32 in the picture above.

 

[Eburacum]

Note as well you can start fires with these extremely bright torches, although it takes a bit of time and effort.

Concerning the Cs-137 levels, these samples date from the 1960s, so should have contained some fallout, like everything else in that era (including me).