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The fire-heated ones tend to be made of paper, and to use a mosaic or "patchwork" approach based on the sizes of sheets of "Chinese paper" that were traditionally available. Here's some paper fire balloons from La Pintada, about 20 km from...

I made tissue paper and flame ones for my kids when they were small, but decided it was a bad idea when the neighbor's Saint Bernard broke his chain and lunged at them. (Edit to add: lunged at the balloons, not the kids. It was a very friendly...

Little to add apart from there being a few more shots of the interior in this summarised BBC news segment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c7vygmmdyr8o TBH, at the moment the only thing that interests me about this is the accountability...

In this case, the load was increased via the additional construction: sometimes the simple act of storing the construction materials in the wrong place can overload a building. In the WTC towers, there was no additional load; instead, some...

I enjoyed your analysis. If the plane indeed was an older plane than what was initially claimed, then surely the military wasn't using it to intercept a "weird target", alien ship or experimental craft. The plane could just be a coincidence, a...

In this case, the load was increased via the additional construction: sometimes the simple act of storing the construction materials in the wrong place can overload a building. In the WTC towers, there was no additional load; instead, some...

There's also survivorship bias, as bad hoaxing never gets notorious enough to be widely reported. We've talked about apps that will add UFOs to your vacation photos, and every one of these is a hoax. But most don't make it to the UFO reddit...

Yeah, it's tough because now there's so many people who also have a financial interest, such that they're especially reluctant to admit that anything is a hoax, until the evidence is overwhelming.

Or the shaded side of a hill... the ol' "Crater-Dome Illusion" is a wonderful thing... When you're looking at images of cratered worlds taken from spacecraft, do you see domes, bumps or mounds instead of craters? That's because our brains are...

I suspect it was a hoax, but as you say, certainty is not going to be possible without more evidence, which is likely not going to be forthcoming. One thing that would be interesting to know, but is probably unknowable, is how prominent hoaxing...

That's essentially the point. The "alien body" wasn't my claim—it was the viral interpretation I wanted to test against the original NARA file.

If nothing else. these pictures might be useful to show to the "jetfuel can't melt steel beams" crowd... apparently the jet fuel is not necessary if the load is sufficient...

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

Video of a so-called 'drone' abducting terrestrial-biologic-units for assumed hybridisation projects. Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/QHwsQIbpobk?si=sD6Xdu1yMGYiG1zm

They built the 60-story Hancock building in Boston. Shortly after, its huge windows started crashing down in the street on windy days, which led to it being called the "plywood palace" and required alterations to every single window. I visited a...