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it's called synchronicity. :) the theory has its own thread. yea im ok with that theory too. because he wasnt using an instamatic. allegedly. esp if you have to take a shot quickly you dont always have time to change your fstops or take your...

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...

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

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...

Well Sirius is significantly further away from the Moon than Jupiter and Saturn on this date, so would have been more clearly visible. When one of the witnesses on the tape (no one knows who) says "Colours!" I'd give about even odds that he...

Well. it's Ridpath's theory about the "other lights" seen by Halt and co. Most of Ian Ridpath's proposed explanation on his website concerns the lighthouse. It isn't necessary to establish what specific stars/ planets were being seen to theorise...

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...

But there was no baseline. The AN/PDR-27 is not designed for monitoring such low levels of radiation. It was designed to monitor fallout and for use where there are strong sources of ionizing radiation. Had it been used in the same way elsewhere...

4) all of the above The possibilities are not exclusive.

I guess there's a third, that the CNN report is inaccurate.

Milestone in my POSS‑I / VASCO replication project. All MNRAS‑compatible filters from Solano+Villarroel+Rodrigo (2022) are now implemented in my open‑source pipeline (two‑pass SExtractor/PSFEx, morphology gates, USNO‑B spike rules...

Well Sirius is significantly further away from the Moon than Jupiter and Saturn on this date, so would have been more clearly visible. When one of the witnesses on the tape (no one knows who) says "Colours!" I'd give about even odds that he...

Yeah, we just don't have enough information in this case. The photo is an old, low-quality copy; we don't know who the photographer is; we have no way of knowing for sure where or when the photo was taken; and the "missing five" additional photos...

it's called synchronicity. :) the theory has its own thread. yea im ok with that theory too. because he wasnt using an instamatic. allegedly. esp if you have to take a shot quickly you dont always have time to change your fstops or take your...

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