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Z.W. Wolf replied to the thread Three lights maintaining triangular formation – Wolverhampton, UK – 23 Aug 2026, 22:01 BST.This witness explains what he saw. He also uploaded the original video. Gives us another chance to compare witness description versus what the video evidence shows. -
FatPhil reacted to MapperGuy's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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And some of the people involved are, I believe, not native English speakers. What terms they use for various things may be influenced by what language the grew up speaking and reading. Not an issue that needs much attention, in my opinion. -
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@flarkey This paper provides an assessment of indicators associated with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) reports included in the SCU Pattern Recognition Study (Hancock et al., 2023a). The Pattern Recognition study analyzed UAP incidents... -
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The paper invokes UFO lore in an "it is known" assertion and references Robert Hasting's book of UFO sightings at nuclear facilities as a reason to check for correlations between transients and nuclear tests. Hastings' approach, however, is... -
Ann K replied to the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.@flarkey This paper provides an assessment of indicators associated with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) reports included in the SCU Pattern Recognition Study (Hancock et al., 2023a). The Pattern Recognition study analyzed UAP incidents...
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MMapperGuy replied to the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.And some of the people involved are, I believe, not native English speakers. What terms they use for various things may be influenced by what language the grew up speaking and reading. Not an issue that needs much attention, in my opinion.
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MMapperGuy reacted to jdog's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
The paper invokes UFO lore in an "it is known" assertion and references Robert Hasting's book of UFO sightings at nuclear facilities as a reason to check for correlations between transients and nuclear tests. Hastings' approach, however, is...
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Ann K reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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Does the paper give any reasoning as to why they attempted to correlate them with nuclear tests and not for example Liverpool FC scores, or whale sightings off the Canadian coast etc? -
Ann K reacted to Eburacum's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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Because the Earth rotates, an object in geosynchronous orbit would show up as a streak if it lasted longer than about a second. If these 'transients' lasted longer than that they would need to be stationary in space with respect to the fixed... -
Ann K reacted to Gary C's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
While nuclear weapons certainly capture the human imagination and figure prominently in human geopolitics, it is hard to conceive of them as being of much interest to an interstellar civilization. Other than as evidence that we have discovered...
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MMapperGuy reacted to Gary C's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Agree.
While nuclear weapons certainly capture the human imagination and figure prominently in human geopolitics, it is hard to conceive of them as being of much interest to an interstellar civilization. Other than as evidence that we have discovered...
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FatPhil replied to the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.Firstly, remember who wrote that wikipedia page: some rando on the internet. Don't confuse "can be used with more precision" with "is always used with more precision". Atomic energy is the source of nuclear power...
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FatPhil reacted to Gary C's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
From memory, lay people, at least in the US, routinely referred to nuclear weapons as A-Bombs or H-Bombs or generally as "the atomic bomb" from the 1940s to as late as the `60s and `70s . "Atomic power plants" was also fairly normal and creation...
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Alien Chess Fiend reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
Does the paper give any reasoning as to why they attempted to correlate them with nuclear tests and not for example Liverpool FC scores, or whale sightings off the Canadian coast etc? -
Alien Chess Fiend reacted to John J.'s post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
Informative.
Yes, I think you're right. We clearly aren't any threat whatsoever to any starfaring civilisation, and are very unlikely to be anytime soon. If hypothetical visitors are concerned that we might do ourselves harm, I guess that''s sort of nice but...