Right, in those days no one even used the term "Schmidt telescope". The focal plane is not accessible from the outside. The Hamburg camera is almost an identical copy of the Palomar Oschin Schmidt camera.
They *are* routinely detected by large survey telescopes, to this day. And automatically thrown out as space junk. That's why it is important (from my viewpoint) to study them. If nothing else, they have to be removed so the actual astronomical...
Yeah I know. You don't need to convince me about Bob, I wrote this 5 years ago :) :
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/oyxuok/bob_lazars_story_is_it_believable_here_is_some_of/
The problem we have is this. The people pushing...
I did some shutter tests too.
At 1/500 it's pretty sharp up to 3.5 m diameter, 145 m from camera, if it stood still. After that some motion blur will start showing.
Better questions:
1. Are contrails more noticeable at any particular time of day?
a. Are contrails more noticeable in any particular part of the sky?
As @Mendel noted, it's best not to lead AI, because of its regrettable tendency to follow your...
The more I ask it the more it gives me the impression of someone who doesn't know the answer but wants to appear like they do know the answer rather than say they don't know.
One of them, at least. And note that the claim was not initially made by the Hills.
Betty's "Star Map" has now been "matched" to several different parts of space, depending on which parts of the map (or which real stars) you are willing to...
Yeah, saw that come up on Facebook. None, and I mean NONE of his claims have ever been verified. Even his claim of being a part owner in a brothel which included his pleading guilty to pandering (installing cameras) seems to be an unidentified...
Get ready for a whole new big influx of UFO believers .
The new documentary on Bob Lazar called S4: The Bob Lazar Story comes out on the 3rd of April. To kick it off, Joe Rogan will be doing another interview with Bob Lazar.
His last...
There has been a significant uptick in satellite reentries in the last couple years. More space launches than any time in history, more consistent disposal of top stages, a large number of temporary smallsat rideshares, and mega constellations...
Ran across this data analysis piece by Mike Hankey for the American Meteor Society:
The first quarter of 2026 has produced what appears to be a significant surge in large fireball events. The data, drawn from the AMS database going back to 2011...
Back when "chemtrails" were much more of a thing, I always used to gripe that for a conspiracy theory
that leaned so heavily on the claim of regular grid patterns of "spraying," there were remarkably few pics
of that actual phenomenon: Odd, that...