Originally Posted by MolaKule
Originally Posted by buster
"You could literally plot the entire course of the object, you could extract the densities, the speeds, the way it moved, the way it displaced the air, its radar cross-section, how much of the radar itself was reflected off its surface. I mean you could pretty much recreate the entire event with the CEC data."
We can all sit back from our chairs and play internet experts trying to debunk these things.
My gut tells me there is more to this....but I can't prove it. I'd love to see one myself.
Don't assume those attempting to study these phenomena are debunkers. Many are just trying to figure out the physics of these objects with respect to the frequency spectra, kinematics, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, etc.
I fall into the Skeptic column with respect to the known laws of physics.
Personal Observation: Last summer late at night I was observing a large convective cell moving NW to SE across our area since there was a good possibility we Storm Spotters might be activated that evening by our local EMA.
To the east (well, slightly ESE) and at the cloud base I spotted a very bright object sweeping from South to North and North to South which lasted about 5 minutes and moving very fast. For the last sweep of this object it moved south and then it appeared to descend back toward the North at about an angle of 30 degrees and "poof" it disappeared.
From my vantage point it made an angle of about 15 degrees of arc and after some
crude calculations, the velocity 'sweep' of this object was on the order of about 300 miles per hour.
I called in to our radar operator at the EMA who has a 3.5 GHz high resolution radar available to them and he was sweeping the quadrant at the time. I relayed to him what I had seen and he said no hard radar returns of any aircraft or anything else had been seen or recorded, only this 55,000 foot high-top cell moving NW to SE.
This sighting later generated some discussion at the EMA and after some investigation, it was determined to be a very powerful searchlight at a vehicle dealership that was sweeping the skies at a high rate for advertising purposes. The low cloud base combined with the high output and sweep rate of this searchlight produced a bright spot that according to my viewing position, appeared to be an object moving at high velocities, reversing itself very quickly.
Okay, but what about the apparent angled descent of this object? The dealership finally turned off the searchlight as this convective cell moved over the dealership's area since Cloud-to-Ground lightning had increased.
Can anyone guess as to why this light appeared to descend from South to North at an angle?