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About 35 years ago I suffered a concussion when I was halfway up a cliff and some idiot kid threw a large rock off the top. Since then I get lots of auditory effects, including what I think they refer to as exploding head syndrome. Another thing...

@Andreas in any of your tests with physical models were you able to get matching shadows on the object and the model aircraft? i.e. where the "top" wing is darker than the bottom one while at the same time having your model UFO lit in a way that...

I'm almost finished with my fully analog recreation. The film has been developed and printed, and high-resolution scans have been made of the negatives. I'll present the material and my conclusions as soon as I've compiled my report. But here's a...

@Andreas in any of your tests with physical models were you able to get matching shadows on the object and the model aircraft? i.e. where the "top" wing is darker than the bottom one while at the same time having your model UFO lit in a way that...

Fascinating video -- the slow speed and fracturing into a bunch of bits make me wonder of that was a meteor at all, or if it was another space debris incident. Not that it CAN'T be a meteor, but if'n I was guessing I'd have gone with something...

Also, it looks like it was predicted Reentry Prediction Predicted Reentry Time 15 Sep 2026 13:17 UTC...

The problem is again that witness statements are trumped by extant sound recordings. Recollection of sound levels is unreliable and faulty, verbal descriptions are imprecise and subjective. There is simply no way that an "incredibly loud"...

I polished this one a bit with the new Star tracker feature https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=11433/Bat%20full%20timelapse/20260916_103934_1c2ba91e3a1846185f38ef4074223a11.js

To me having not looked at these papers in 2 years nothing seems to have moved on. Like you said all the assumptions made around why these may not be plate artifacts seem flawed either, 1-address the issues the authors themselves highlighted in...

Yeah, I mean, the thing is that it's always more difficult to recreate a photo than to create the original. When recreating it, you have to find something that looks like the strange diamond, a suitable jet, a suitable location, etc. The original...

This looks like it's reading the top of the current page, but doesn't scroll? Do you have the same problem on short (1-page) threads? Do you have the same problem on https://xenforo.com/community/ , i.e. the developers' own forum?

I polished this one a bit with the new Star tracker feature https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=11433/Bat%20full%20timelapse/20260916_103934_1c2ba91e3a1846185f38ef4074223a11.js

After spending time with Claude discussing this, we agreed that the object seen in all these videos was CZ-2C R/B(2). While I knew the final orbits of a re-entering satellite would "mess up" the TLE, I didn't know how badly the SGP4 model breaks...

Yeah, I mean, the thing is that it's always more difficult to recreate a photo than to create the original. When recreating it, you have to find something that looks like the strange diamond, a suitable jet, a suitable location, etc. The original...

I polished this one a bit with the new Star tracker feature https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=11433/Bat%20full%20timelapse/20260916_103934_1c2ba91e3a1846185f38ef4074223a11.js