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Touch-and-goes are performed frequently, ie landing without stopping and taking off again, to allow pilots to do multiple approaches one after another. Also, it would be very hard to determine if the small plane had actually 'touched down' from...

Touch-and-goes are performed frequently, ie landing without stopping and taking off again, to allow pilots to do multiple approaches one after another. Also, it would be very hard to determine if the small plane had actually 'touched down' from...

Yup - another (street?) light pops into view a little bit later which creates a similar-sized glare whilst it's briefly visible. The inverse square law gives us a nearer <-> much much brighter trade-off, and incredibly bright things would be...

Isn't it quite common for student pilots to do multiple approaches without actually landing simply so they can practice and perfect the approach?

I agree that it looks like a distant landing light on a fixed wing aircraft. It seems to reverse course several times, but that seems to be a parallax illusion, because the guy taking the video walks from side to side. The tree branches are...

Also https://www.aepohiowire.com/drone-powered-grid-inspections-to-enhance-reliability-efficiency/ https://www.aepohiowire.com/how-nighttime-drone-flights-will-lead-to-faster-storm-restoration/ Source...

No, that's not out of line with what an eminent scientist might earn. But it might be more complicated than that; that's the project budget, which might entail several people working for part of the time on that project while spending the rest of...

The Skeptoid episode is not accurate about the publication history and misattributed the origin of the nine transients. The nine transients were actually introduced in a June 2021 paper, "Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on...

Also https://www.aepohiowire.com/drone-powered-grid-inspections-to-enhance-reliability-efficiency/ https://www.aepohiowire.com/how-nighttime-drone-flights-will-lead-to-faster-storm-restoration/ Source...

Sadly, this isn't necessarily the case. One problem with UFO reports is that they often begin with someone claiming to have seen something extraordinary. An article is then written asking whether anyone else saw a large glowing triangular craft...

I realize that you've been here less than 6 weeks (glad to see you so engaged, though)... but I'd be willing to bet that after you've been here a year, and seen the steady stream of absurd claims the cat drags in, you'll begin to believe that...

It's too long ago for me to remember clearly. If I had to guess, it was not larger than a standard Cessna. I don't remember thinking it was absurdly large or small so I think it's a good guess.

There's a clue to the angular size of the object. In the original video, the light is completely occluded in several places by the tree branches (around 35 seconds) which indicates that the source itself is smaller than the glow it produces. The...

No, that's not out of line with what an eminent scientist might earn. But it might be more complicated than that; that's the project budget, which might entail several people working for part of the time on that project while spending the rest of...

Hello, my name is Baptiste Friscourt, I've been using Metabunk for years to gather analysis on cases. My name started to appear in conversations here, so it seems like a proper time to introduce myself. I'm based in France.