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As someone who was working in imaging tech back in the 90s, I wouldn't go as far as "IR is not a photograph". If you had to push me to an extreme, I might even support "IR is about equivalent to a grainy b/w photograph", but imaging tech has...

Thanks, that's a very useful point. I think I found the limitations of my approach the hard way The more I tried to narrow the tracks, the clearer it became that the uncertainties—especially at low altitude—quickly overwhelm any attempt at a...

Yes. Typically, having a track of sorts narrows the search area to include (or exclude) potential events the lights could have come from, so an in investigation would typically * establish an approximate track * identify candidate events along...

Yes. Typically, having a track of sorts narrows the search area to include (or exclude) potential events the lights could have come from, so an in investigation would typically * establish an approximate track * identify candidate events along...

Thanks, useful suggestions. I've now checked Earth Nullschool at 21:00 UTC on 23 August. GFS gives about 55° at 10 km/h at the surface and 65° at 16 km/h at 1000 hPa near the observation location. That's broadly consistent with the Open-Meteo...

Indeed, and unfortunately, it can easily verge into perception management. I've had this issue ("it's the way that you said it!") from everyone from TV scientists to real scientists and tenured professors. I try to avoid playing the game. The...

I have become convinced that one of the main efforts necessary to improve public an policy discussions is a "UAP Keys" document. This would be aimed at non-technical viewers of PURSUE material, especially the FMV video (maybe a bit late, but...

Agreed, interest seems to wax and wane depending on publicity surrounding claims. Mark Graves, now based in Britain after 18 years as an elite wildlife guide in South Africa, is confident about the evidence shown to him. "I've seen several...

That's a fair criticism, particularly the distinction between "more evidence" in the loose sense often used in UFO discussions and evidence that genuinely increases the probability of the claim. I think the attached report probably gives a bit...

I have become convinced that one of the main efforts necessary to improve public an policy discussions is a "UAP Keys" document. This would be aimed at non-technical viewers of PURSUE material, especially the FMV video (maybe a bit late, but...

Thanks, that's a very useful point. I think I found the limitations of my approach the hard way The more I tried to narrow the tracks, the clearer it became that the uncertainties—especially at low altitude—quickly overwhelm any attempt at a...

Agreed, interest seems to wax and wane depending on publicity surrounding claims. Mark Graves, now based in Britain after 18 years as an elite wildlife guide in South Africa, is confident about the evidence shown to him. "I've seen several...

It's happened several times in the US. There was nutria, imported for fur and now endemic to a lot of wetland areas: According to the U.S. Geological Survey, nutria were first introduced to the United States in California, in 1899. They were...

My concern is the Open-Meteo data is an extrapolation of others' data, e.g. for the UK it might use data primarily from the Met Office. The Met Office uses a supercomputer, but it doesn't make hyper-local predictions, so it might be unlikely that...

Over in the thylacine thread, the delicate subject of solid waste excretions was raised... https://www.metabunk.org/threads/thylacines-in-tasmania-new-photos-from-1st-march-2021.11635/#post-246229 by DavidB66. In essence, if there are big...