That's the point of the story. A little persistence and simple luck resolved my case, changing it from a glowing high speed elliptical object, to a landing light interacting with multiple cloud layers while the originating aircraft was itself...
In a Release 3 doc (https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+03&release=03#FBI-UAP-D013-Washington-State-UFO-Investigation-1952-1960) on pages 11 -13 there is a witness account and drawing of what was witnessed.
The reason I bring it up here...
Whether these 'transients' were caused by glints from aircraft or from satellites, it is unlikely they would all last for less than a second. Nearly every satellite glint I've seen, visually or in a photo, has been a streak.
This seems to be a thing that happens sometimes, for whatever reason. Another example is Salvatore Pais, who was paid a half million dollars by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to investigate his dubious "Pais Effect" (claimed to...
I think we're talking past each other a bit here. My fault, as I'm using the common UFO world meaning of "meta-materials". There is a a proper use of the word in material sciences:
A metamaterial (from the Greek word μετά meta, meaning "beyond"...
There are no known standard model interactions with dark matter particles, that much is true.
There are plenty of known gravitational interactions with matter that doesn't seem to engage in standard model interactions.
What was the decision...
Well the short version is, I saw a glowing ellipse moving silently thought the night sky. It was quite large and vanished after only a few seconds. I kept scanning the sky to see if it came back and finally turned far enough to spot a plane...
In a Release 3 doc (https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+03&release=03#FBI-UAP-D013-Washington-State-UFO-Investigation-1952-1960) on pages 11 -13 there is a witness account and drawing of what was witnessed.
The reason I bring it up here...
Read something I found a bit interesting. Yesterday, Avi Loeb wrote about the latest batch of UAP files released, calling them "the Most Intriguing Release Thus Far." Hm, intriguing is probably not the word I would use, but that's not something...
I'm fairly confident the redacted text after "drove the short distance over to the" is "Post Exchange", which is the right length and does - as the context suggests - face due west, walking toward the entrance. (I also suspect the redacted text...
Do any NVGs show natural colour? (They didn't in the past; usually displaying shades of green).
I was using NVGs to scan the sky when I saw red lights coming from the north, heading south...
Can't speak for others, but that is not my position; it may look like it to somebody outside looking in!
To be clear, my position is that eyewitness testimony MAY be 100% accurate, perfectly describing what the witness observed. HOWEVER, it is...
Fair, but note that there is another thread started for post release discussion:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/spielberg%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cdisclosure-day%E2%80%9D-discussion-with-spoilers.14944/