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I think about this a lot. Perhaps the reason we see crafts as being scaled to us has to do with the way we perceive scale, which has been discussed in many threads recently. Basically, I think people see something weird in the sky (or on the...

@Andreas, sorry for the delay, weather has not been cooperative! I finally just decided to mess with it indoors.This limits how far away from the kite I can get, but maybe it is still useful. If weather ever is nice, I'll try it outdoors, I am...

An additional non-trivial point. The basic building blocks of the universe and its laws have turned out to be remarkably discoverable by the human cognition. If, therefore, these building blocks and laws of nature are roughly true, then human...

This is incorrect. The worker on the farm (Paul Smith) saw something entirely different: “I’ve always felt uncomfortable because my description is so totally different from what the school kids saw." Paul Smith, 2017 VUFOA conference...

Direction can also change. A balloon blowing towards the observer can seem to hover, as these planes do -- the planes are moving faster than a balloon! Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NzfMmuHnvi4?feature=share

A balloon can also get snagged by a tree or something. If there's a trailing line of anything, it could even have been entangled in long grass, perhaps causing a mashed-down space in the grass before it got free. (This is pure speculation on my...

And the last time I saw it used, it was used as a gramatical plural, but rendered in its singular - so it might just be a word perceived to be scholarly that people who don't have the linguistic capabilities they would like to pretend they have...

I think it's more to do with booting yourself into a new area of knowledge that comes with new jargon and new insights. E.g. if you've been watching religious videos and then venture into theology, suddenly theological jargon (like "exegesis")...

or an H balloon Joshua Tree National Park's annual dark sky festival (October 13–14) will also overlap with the eclipse. Night Sky Festival 2023 This annual event is a daylong celebration of the night skies of Joshua Tree National Park that...

Direction can also change. A balloon blowing towards the observer can seem to hover, as these planes do -- the planes are moving faster than a balloon! Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NzfMmuHnvi4?feature=share

I think it's more to do with booting yourself into a new area of knowledge that comes with new jargon and new insights. E.g. if you've been watching religious videos and then venture into theology, suddenly theological jargon (like "exegesis")...

On reflection, I feel I may have been getting sloppy about that. I'll keep an eye on it.

It has the look of some cellular (box)kite. It is not commercially available design that I know, but it could be a home-made. It looks similar to the ones @MonkeeSage posted, but with a central panel like a Sauls Barrage Kite, picture below...

We have one witness Terry who says she saw the landed craft in the Grange and got close enough to feel its heat. (Again I'm ignoring Victor who claims he along with many other witnesses saw two craft for two hours alongside the school - nobody...

It's lacking the "syn" in its "chron" aspects.