I have some critiques of Villarroel's paper Use of machine learning to enhance detection of transient astronomical phenomena in historical observatory images. (For convenience, I will refer to Dr. Villarroel as BV, the convention she uses in the...
I agree, with the proviso that a lack of provenance can arise from other causes -- for one thing, AI is not the only way to make a fake video, one can always fall back on using game engines, Blender et al or even the Very Old School "hold a...
The problem I have with statements like that is they are vague and unsupported.
Where did he see them? (was he blindfolded and driven/flown around for days before he entered the location. So he has no idea where it was?)
When did he see them...
Good question. We previously had second hand accounts of Stratton's alleged experiences in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp, 2021), but in his new book, Out of the Shadows (2026), Stratton provides a direct account of...
When Stratton says "his own eyes" what we suppose it means; does he mean he's been in the same room as alien bodies/craft (a very strong claim) or he's just seen videos/photos which could be of dubious quality or provinence?
Well, if you want to go there, there's this:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russia's foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation, two U.S. officials said on Monday, plunging...
Metabunk has a tag for optical illusions, https://www.metabunk.org/tags/optical-illusion/ , but all 4 threads in it are rather specific.
Optical illusions are interesting for us because they demonstrate how "normal people" (aka all of us) can be...
Some seagull ufos
St Austell, UK
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Vancouver, Canada
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Dorchester UK
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Spain
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Seagulls are a relatively rare source of UAP reports, but not vanishingly rare.
Veering slightly more off-topic, but in his new UAP-hunting memoir Out of the Shadows, Jay Stratton apparently contends that the white froth reported on the ocean surface under the Nimitz Tic-Tac was the seawater boiling from the unknown energy...