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Not sure which of the two examples you are referring to, but if it's the second it would be expecially nice for me, with a net gain of 10000$ :)

Obviously, it's impossible to tell exactly what Arnold saw. It could have been alien spacecraft, it could have been geese, or he could have made it all up. But what we do know is that there's no evidence of strange crescent-shaped craft flying...

I have no idea what they saw. But all we have is the unsupported testimony of witnesses as to what they saw* and no way of evaluating which bits of that testimony are accurate, if any, and which are in error, if any. I'd be comfortable with...

The key point that we can take from @Harabeck 's post is that both pilots and non-pilots find it difficult to identify and describe airborne things that they have never seen before. Clearly the pilots will be more familiar with things in the sky...

As noted in the old comment I linked to, there have been reports that looked into this, including Hynek's 1978 report. His conclusion, which seems consistent with the many examples we have discussed here and elsewhere, is that pilots are good at...

Actually the explanation put forward by my colleague James Easton many years ago was that he saw pelicans, and it made good sense. So either Shermer mis-remembered what Easton said, or you mis-remembered what Shermer said.

Well, no; that is just a supposition on his part. I expect that if Shermer had been in the cockpit with Arnold he would have probably reported the same subjective experience, or maybe one with a few minor differences; this is common for cases...

Not sure which of the two examples you are referring to, but if it's the second it would be expecially nice for me, with a net gain of 10000$ :)

There is indeed a pattern of pilots seeing stuff they either can't identify, or that they attribute to something erroneously. However, on further post-flight analysis the things that can be identified have turned out to be entirely prosaic albeit...

NIST Releases Technical Findings on What Caused the 2021 Partial Collapse of Champlain Towers South June 22, 2026 https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/06/nist-releases-technical-findings-what-caused-2021-partial-collapse Today the...

The release comes in the form of an hour-long video on the NIST website, under the link provided by @derwoodii , and a shorter 6:30 summary video on Youtube. Source: https://youtu.be/derKcYl1-Hk The long video has some debunking in section 5:

Don't get me wrong: I know that all the fanatics & grifters will still yell: "THEY DIDN'T RELEASE THE BEST, SECRET ONES!!" but I can't help but feel that--overall--this chapter of UFO history will turn out to be a good thing. Sure, the...

Obviously, it's impossible to tell exactly what Arnold saw. It could have been alien spacecraft, it could have been geese, or he could have made it all up. But what we do know is that there's no evidence of strange crescent-shaped craft flying...

The release comes in the form of an hour-long video on the NIST website, under the link provided by @derwoodii , and a shorter 6:30 summary video on Youtube. Source: https://youtu.be/derKcYl1-Hk The long video has some debunking in section 5:

I always find it grimly interesting that Kevin Day (of tictact fame) was onboard during one of the most tragic events of US military mis id's when the US Navy shot down an Iranian airliner.