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What if some of these are optical effects? Like sunlight glinting off water or windshield? The "bright spot" can move from one position in the field of view to
by SideburnsOfDoom 8y ago
What if some of these are optical effects? Like sunlight glinting off water or windshield? The "bright spot" can move from one position in the field of view to another with enormous apparent velocity, because there is no large distant physical object moving about.
- obituary_latte 8y agoWhat accounts for the radar signatures then?
- wnkrshm 8y agoI wouldn't discount atmospheric effects that we haven't seen much yet. Or at least not with high enough frequency to understand their origins and behavior. I'm thinking of some form of ball-lightning, a self-contained plasma. It's still an unexplained phenomenon with a history of observation (or multiple phenomena classified under one label). A self-contained plasma could very much be opaque/reflective for radar (depending on the plasma frequency) and also emit light. Maybe it'll even be absorptive to some of the active radars trying to paint it, making some of the involved airplane and ship radars actually stabilize and guide the phenomenon (e.g. it 'escaping' as soon as a painting radar gets closer). Lots of maybes but infrequent natural phenomena that cannot be easily observed with human senses and where humans usually don't go are still a valid hypothesis in my opinion.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8y agoIDK, but whenI hear "moves with ridiculous speeds, and angles and trajectories, with no visible means of propulsion"; then my first thought is that seems more akin to lens flare than it seems like an aeroplane. Which is more likely in Occam's razor: a new source of refracted light, or a new kind of aircraft?
- postalrat 8y agoOccam's razor only works until it doesn't.