OK, I note that you did not cite an instance of anybody saying that witnesses have no idea what a star looks like or any other derogatory statement about the witnesses.
Perhaps more importantly, you ably explained your position without putting...
I'd be surprised that this appeared in 1979.....11 years after an IBM...sorry...HAL computer...'incapable of error'...bumped off one of the crew of the Discovery in 2001 : Space Odyssey. I'd have thought the entire lesson, even if hypothetical...
And it takes courage for folks to come forward with these bizarre stories that they claim happened. You lose friends, alienate family and retraumatize yourself when recounting events. Just encountering something truly bizarre can have lasting...
Agreed, but that can also go down the Inter-dimensional Bigfoot path. For many, Bigfoot has gone from a relic flesh and bone hominid roaming North America to a quasi-spirit being, or at least a creature that lives in another dimension. This shift...
Just a quick chime-in to say that I found the section of the video BEFORE the Tic-Tac was discussed to be extremely useful. It is easy, for me at least, to think of a well-known UFO witness as being nothing else -- just a walking UFO advocate...
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...
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...
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...