Hi Silverado, welcome.
The paper lists one author. It is common for academic/ research papers to have a discussion section.
Unless it is clearly stated otherwise, the reader will be under the impression that the discussion section is written by...
I agree. It is worth bearing in mind that the Hills' hypnotherapist did not believe their story to be literally true:
Because of sleep problems and anxiety, Barney began to see a psychiatrist who referred him to a colleague, Dr. Benjamin Simon...
...and there is nothing that says you have to pick sunrise -- you could pick sunset, or midnight, or moonrise, or moonset, or the time any of the planets rise or set, etc. Nor does it have to be Regulus. SOMETHING will be at pretty much the...
@MonkeeSage - beat me to it!
Another paper has been released stating that they have found "evidence of transients similar to those previously reported by the VASCO Project for POSS plates" but in other plates.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20407...
Simply put he changed the date because he made a prediction based on an easily predictable celestial event and botched the date, but the correct date is easy to find, and he chose a bright star aligning with the sphinx and that has a history of...
I noticed my first contrail shadow over San Diego Saturday morning. Would have taken a photo to document it, but I was driving. It was a translucent dark line to the west of (and shorter than) a white contrail.
There were more than the usual...
Welcome to Metabunk! It's always good to discuss with people well versed in the facts of a case.
The paper at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362866103_Empirical_Analysis_of_the_Hugh_Gray_%27Nessie%27_Photograph lists Roland Watson...
Hi Silverado, welcome.
The paper lists one author. It is common for academic/ research papers to have a discussion section.
Unless it is clearly stated otherwise, the reader will be under the impression that the discussion section is written by...
Big IFO photographed from a plane with a phone camera...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1s2db9p/tars_balloon_near_marfa_tx_at_10500_feet/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
It reminds me of one of the few successful 'UAP' identifications I have ever made. Someone wrote in to the Fortean Times forum describing a 'vertical floating cylinder' seen over the Pennines from a plane; I knew what it was, because I'd seen too...
Big IFO photographed from a plane with a phone camera...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1s2db9p/tars_balloon_near_marfa_tx_at_10500_feet/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I think that I found the original video on a Russian social network VKontakte.
It was filmed on about 24 January 2022 at Liubinskii, Omsk Oblast, Russia. Located in Western Siberia, this place can be very cold in the middle of winter. So...
Idealised? Why? I believe it is an rather exact function, calculated from the optical specifications. Or are you referring to the additional aberrations from the optics? Or atmospheric seeing conditions?