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I'd be interested in seeing current studies that are more reputable, then. I was trying to spare you the title, as it was evident. I think the full paper is available here, at Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01746-3

"real reluctance to touch the subject" ? Oh really? Seems like we have a bumper crop of people trying to 'touch the subject' these days. Far more than say five years ago.

Sorry, not very interesting, just bit of housekeeping to correct an earlier errror: Should've read The Daily Star is a stablemate of The Daily Express. The same applies, the Star hasn't been known for serious journalism in recent years.

Evidence does not work that way. Every time a purported 'UFO' stays unidentified it adds exactly zero to the probability of UFOs existing (or not existing): it's just 'no data'. While everytime a purported UFO evidence is shown to be mundane this...

The actual head line is "Nearly 20% of academics surveyed say they've seen a UFO, or know someone who has Including that last is odd since 10 - 24% (depending on the survey) of Americans claim to have seen one. That suggests academics are less...

Perhaps she means "real reluctance of prominent scientists to agree with me". Nope, prominent or not, it's seen as a scientific dead end, not a thing that would enhance one's resumé but a subject that would always follow a career: "He's into...

"real reluctance to touch the subject" ? Oh really? Seems like we have a bumper crop of people trying to 'touch the subject' these days. Far more than say five years ago.

Yep. An interesting thought. A kite is an unpowered tethered aerodyne, in the short form. With a ballooning spider, I suppose we have a tether running up from the pilot/anchor to the... well, to the nothing. The tether is also the aerodyne...

From interestingengineering.com https://interestingengineering.com/culture/academics-say-theyve-seen-ufos I don't know how the survey was carried out. <edit>. Looks like "The findings of this study were published in the peer-reviewed academic...

Perhaps she means "real reluctance of prominent scientists to agree with me". Nope, prominent or not, it's seen as a scientific dead end, not a thing that would enhance one's resumé but a subject that would always follow a career: "He's into...

"real reluctance to touch the subject" ? Oh really? Seems like we have a bumper crop of people trying to 'touch the subject' these days. Far more than say five years ago.

Quiz time! I took this on 26 Aug. Where is it? Can you identify the (two) aircraft?

It's a great example of infotainment. The pace keeps viewers sufficiently interested to keep watching while the shallow exchange with the guest will not scare off future subjects so that the interviewer gets a steady income.

When I went aurora- hunting on a night when there was no aurora, I noticed that smart phones were sensitive enough to pick up any reflected light on nearby low clouds. I expect these strange glows in the sky have a variety of different causes...

When I went aurora- hunting on a night when there was no aurora, I noticed that smart phones were sensitive enough to pick up any reflected light on nearby low clouds. I expect these strange glows in the sky have a variety of different causes...