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I'm not sure it's a reliable source (Market Reports World website). On clicking the link I'm getting The report you are looking has been temporarily removed for updating or had its title changed. Looking through the claim (quotes?) in post #5...

I was sure I had heard a surprising comment on this topic on a podcast once so I did a little digging. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-man-captures-video-of-strange-explosion-in-the-sky-weather-balloon.1038/post-22714 Not being one to...

"Apparently behind" indeed. Personally, I just don't see it. The video is highly compressed, and I don't think it's possible to determine whether the light is actually behind the tree or not. There are simply too many other indicators...

I recently revisited David hackney's work on the use of a camera camera obscura in art and the Tim Veeners documentary which lead me to "The Eye as an Instrument: TIM'S VERMEER". This talk was given by Dr. Tim Chupp a professor of the Department...

Right clicking on google maps and selecting the lat long to put is something I do many times when investigating a sighting however I was looking into geolocating a sighting in South Korea when i went to grab lat and long it didn't work. It seems...

"Apparently behind" indeed. Personally, I just don't see it. The video is highly compressed, and I don't think it's possible to determine whether the light is actually behind the tree or not. There are simply too many other indicators...

Right clicking on google maps and selecting the lat long to put is something I do many times when investigating a sighting however I was looking into geolocating a sighting in South Korea when i went to grab lat and long it didn't work. It seems...

Ah, yes. I drew a similar illusion a while ago:

Similar to the tower illusion

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...

I recently revisited David hackney's work on the use of a camera camera obscura in art and the Tim Veeners documentary which lead me to "The Eye as an Instrument: TIM'S VERMEER". This talk was given by Dr. Tim Chupp a professor of the Department...

Released helium balloons are a menace I find them all over the landscape when I am out, I see them drift past when I am on remote moors, retrieve them from hedges and streams and bin them when I can.

I don't know how much an empty balloon weights, but were it just 1 gram it's 21 tons of plastics scattered around each day :( . Littering at its best.

Released helium balloons are a menace I find them all over the landscape when I am out, I see them drift past when I am on remote moors, retrieve them from hedges and streams and bin them when I can.

Particularly as they don't know the objects' sizes, Estimated Size: no idea https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=201555 As the "orbs" were not an identified type of object whose approximate size might be known and there are no instrumental...