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Mathematical term for things that can "convince the believers" = "null set."

Maybe it's in free fall. It'll turn over by the time it gets to land.

Am I not enough for you?! /me comfort eats...

Maybe it's in free fall. It'll turn over by the time it gets to land.

Mais c'est aussi un chat.

I imagine that it was fun & hilarious, for Patrick Maréchal for over 20 years (~1990-2011). That he came clean, admitted the hoax & even explained how it was done, is a level of closure rarely seen in this arena. :)

You're assuming an even distribution among the pilots, but that may not be the case. I'd be asking if some pilots reported these anomalies more than once. We are familiar with earthbound viewers who have reported multiple UFO sightings, so if the...

If I'm not mistaken the downward angle varies between -32° and +14° : I matched the view in blender the same way ThomasH did, and found the downward angle to be around -5° for a level drone during most of the video. I think the drone doesn't...

This went pretty much perfectly for the true believers : sociologist saying we should mock ufology because you can study UAP seriously to illustrate the previous point : some explained cases by GEIPAN and sigma2 pleas for more data GEIPAN and...

Ah, thank you. Maybe @Baptiste Fr could clarify? (I guess you might be busy at the moment, though :) -whatever we might disagree about, hope you have a good time and feel that you get to have your say).

As best as I remember it was presented as real, debunked, and then its creator switched to "well, it's a recreation of what some witnesses described". To think it could have been presented this way from the start, just like FBI renders of UFOs...

The LiPos, and most other things, are behind the aerodynamic elements. Also, I've seen footage of a LiPo destroyed so quickly by an impact that it simply unravelled like a couple of streamers. (By a weapon whose tip speed was probably comparable...

On the other hand... The battery(s) are a hard little dense packet of mass. A glancing blow might not leave a noticeable mark, but I'd think a direct hit would be a problem. Pictures of bird strikes on planes show noticeable damage pretty...

Yeah, I think a lot of people were just mistaken, or caught up in the fun, and not judging things critically. That said, it seems telling that the "best" evidence of the "Belgian wave" is known to be 100% faked.

I'm only familiar with motorsports where they try to punch as small a hole through the air as possible, but large passenger aeroplanes travelling at about the same speed (low 300s km/h) don't have that luxury. The report I read implied that the...