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"Brocken Specters are known to exist" is different to "At the time and location you took that photo (or that you reported), the image in the fog was at the antisolar point, and the known optical effect of a Brocken Specter in that position would...

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=99999999/Broken%20Spectre/20260617_170036.js Feature, crept!

Well said! There remains a body of UFO believers who do not (or refuse to) understand the evidence even when it is presented to them. Their fallback is either complete denial or "whataboutism", where other unrelated sightings are dragged out...

@JMartJr, You use the term "evidence" uncritically here, but perhaps there should be a category for "insufficient evidence for study", i.e. stuff in the LIZ. If things are going to be studied in the future with, possibly, a few researchers and a...

I think the color of meteorites burning up in earth's atmosphere would vary depending on the elemental composition of the particular meteorite. Copper gives an intense green, Barium a lighter green, and many less common materials may also do so.

@Gaspa well the most robust empirical result of ~80 years of UFO research is that under similar observing conditions, individual humans have a high propensity to make the same errors of observation, interpretation, and attribution that humans...

As much a fan of recognizing our biases and blind spots as I am. I really have to ask. Is it really biased if it tracks with reality? How many times has this story played out? Am I being biased by siding with the skeptic, here? Not saying...

Comment on Bluesky from noted astrobiologist David Grinspoon, who previously served on NASA's 16-member UAP independent study team:

Prompted by this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/a-way-of-simulating-the-effect-of-a-camera-bump-on-night-sky-images-of-flaring-starlinks.14940/ I implemented a reasonably physically accurate long exposure simulation. The issue with...

Searching for UFO related events triggers the “UFO BS / AI slop” invasion, been there!

No, I searched for Ariel School. Most of these new videos are probably created using AI tools like Google NotebooLM. All the "creator" has to do is feed it the websites of some researchers and click "make me a script" or "make me an AI voiced...

@Gaspa well the most robust empirical result of ~80 years of UFO research is that under similar observing conditions, individual humans have a high propensity to make the same errors of observation, interpretation, and attribution that humans...

Has there been any official announcement ? Not that I think Mr Loeb would get trolled like the community with alien.gov but who knows with the social media Presidents.

As much a fan of recognizing our biases and blind spots as I am. I really have to ask. Is it really biased if it tracks with reality? How many times has this story played out? Am I being biased by siding with the skeptic, here? Not saying...

As much a fan of recognizing our biases and blind spots as I am. I really have to ask. Is it really biased if it tracks with reality? How many times has this story played out? Am I being biased by siding with the skeptic, here? Not saying...