I think a big part of that is because it's in black hot mode, essentially inverted.
Lens flares are additive, you get the brightness of the flare plus the brighness of what is behind it. If that adds up to more than the clipping value of the...
That, and bureaucracy. Probably have to get a sign-off from many different offices before they can "officially" change anything. And if one person in that chain disagrees, it stays a UFO.
I do not find it too strange. I am pretty conversant with things astronomical, I have once mistaken Venus for a plane's landing lights, though I did recognize the error eventually. (If it ever happened and I did not recognize my error, I don't...
Perhaps many people making UFO reports aren't experienced skywatchers (e.g. amateur astronomers or plane spotters).
And people who we might expect to be familiar with the skies can be deceived, in 2016 an Air Canada pilot put his plane into a...
There is another "UAP" near the end of the video that many people didn't notice at first, myself included.
It could also be another bird, possibly closer to the camera, which would make it appear faster and could also explain why it looks...
I think a big part of that is because it's in black hot mode, essentially inverted.
Lens flares are additive, you get the brightness of the flare plus the brighness of what is behind it. If that adds up to more than the clipping value of the...
You made several rather specific claims in one post. It's quite reasonable to ask what you are basing those claims on. Are you comparing it to something? Is this entirely your personal opinion? Something in between?
For example:
What flare...
If McCasland was an important person in the chain of information about (postulated) UFOs, might I suggest an alternative to the overly-dramatic action film scenario that the "bad guys" (however you define that) "disappeared" him?
Speculation on...
Not many names are mentioned in the May 2026 DoW UAP releases.
Mercury Atlas 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter is named re his reports of "fireflies" during his 24 May 1962 flight, discussed here...
But still, we're back to the same issue. He held this position for maybe 2 years:
In 2009 he was promoted to director of special programs within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.[1] Serving...
I think that's a fair point, but at the time of the Chinese balloon and subsequent balloon shootdowns there wasn't such a capability.
Perhaps the need for one wasn't anticipated or thought worthwhile.
Being able to bring the Chinese balloon down...