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While looking up information about birds and body heat and IR thermal cameras and stuff, I came across info that hummingbirds can regulate their body temperature by going into torpor. Apparently, they "run colder" when asleep, and can go even...

One likely influence on the Grey alien myth is the concept of a highly evolved human race, which may exist far in our future. Here is an illustration of the 'Future Human' as imagined by H.G. Wells. Of course aliens would have a completely...

I think this seems like a step forward, albeit somewhat reluctant. Let's see what they come up with. There's maybe some strong feelings there, and there's no point fanning the flames if we don't actually know what they are going to do. I'm...

One likely influence on the Grey alien myth is the concept of a highly evolved human race, which may exist far in our future. Here is an illustration of the 'Future Human' as imagined by H.G. Wells. Of course aliens would have a completely...

Yes we had discussed hexacopters but given the geolocation we determined the drone probably loses a fair amount of altitude (because the lake gets bigger) but the position and shape of the object remains the same also we can reconstruct somewhat...

I just don't see how that's possible. We can see an almost perfectly symmetrical star. If you flip the picture, the star still has the exact same shape. For this to be a drone flying, we would need to see it directly from above, wouldn't we...

Just replicating a post here from the large Calvine thread that otherwise might get forgotten in the discussion. The Puerto Rico hoax photo by Amaury Rivera was produced a little over 2 years before Calvine; thus, it was likely one of the...

I always thought it also resembled the alien in CE3K: Obviously, not exactly, but the general shape of the head, no ears, small mouth and nose with big dark elongated eyes. This fella predates the book by 10 years and was likely a riff on...

It would be interesting if we could find a suggestion like this that pre-dates Ray Santilli's 1995 Alien Autopsy film hoax, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Autopsy_(1995_film), in which a pathologist or whatever uses tweezers to...

Anecdotes about people seeing the cover of Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987) for the first time and it triggering a reaction in them such as the shock of recognition or the sudden stirring of a memory are numerous. Some time later I was in a...

Looks like an agricultural hexacopter spraying something. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBwFRzIuU7k&pp=ygUQaGV4YSBkcm9uZSBzcHJheQ%3D%3D Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/j_GwXi2cgxQ?si=Cd4OFgKqXpoRl5Aa

Wow, great find. That is the exact spot. It shows that my suggestion in post #15 that we might be seeing the tail-booms of a drone is complete rubbish. The lines are just fields and hedges.

From the camera's service manual (p. 2-10, see attached), this is the lens orientation in context: In the disassembly footage, the component is initially held upright. Note that two stepper motors (A and B) are located on the top rear section...

The diamond bokeh is due to the shape produced by the aperture mechanism: source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYNkKLP3Vo&t=338s