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Looks like light pillars to me.

Jupiter would still have been a bright object in the sky, and Saturn was very close by. When Halt says .... HALT: They're both heading north. Hey, here he comes from the south, he's coming toward us now. Jupiter and Sirius are the same...

Here's Jason Colavito about the inability of 'trained observers' to identify things in the sky. https://www.jasoncolavito.com/volume-28-archive.html

Jupiter was partly concealed by moonlight IIRC, so would not have been so obvious. Having said that we can't really be sure that some of the observers, including Halt, were not misled by Jupiter at this time. All we really have as solid evidence...

Of course anyone can make such mistake. I am also a long standing amateur astronomer. But a theory invoking that has to at least be internally consistent. You can't have Halt & Co 'mistaking' Sirius whilst at the same time twice as bright...

Meant to post this on Valentine's day but the Grey's don't user our calendar anyway ...

But that is the entire basis of Ridpath's theory, quoted numerous times in this thread, that Halt and team were looking at Sirius, Deneb, Vega, etc. Those who support that theory are basically saying that Halt and team....not just one man but...

Being a silver halide process if the negatives or prints were not properly washed and fixed [1] then they can degrade over time if not stored properly - light fast and tempturate control. (Been there, done that) Each analog camera copy of a...

And yet many, many trained personnel have misidentified stars and planets in a wide variety of situations, over, and over and over and over again. As I'm sure you are aware. Anyone can make this kind of mistake. As an amateur astronomer, I have...

I agree. And this is the heart of the matter. People do fake UFO photos, and since we have no idea who took the photo, it's pointless to speculate about a potential motive. And you don't even need a motive to fake a UFO photo, do you? I've had a...

If non-human technology (or non-human intelligence) is a sort of inclusive term that allows UFOs and UFOnauts to be not human and not extraterrestrials in the conventional sense (e.g. biological creatures from a planet a certain number of light...

Yeah, I think we all still consider that a possibility. A photo of a photo. Again, any number of relatively easy ways to construct the photo in camera, no need for darkroom manipulation. I think even that may be a possibility, but I don't know...

It's a collection of stories. What you have is a collection of stories. That's why they don't need to be consistent. But they're not really linked to reality in a meaningful way.

Please cite an example where anybody here has said that witnesses have no idea what a star looks like. Please cite an example of anybody saying that witnesses would not recognize a lighthouse if they were sat on top of it. The point is undercut...

you haven't seen the movie War Games, i take it? i think the quote means that the computer itself will make narrow (ie not big-picture) decisions, and ruin everything. i dont think its really about whether the programmer gets in trouble after...