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Witnesses, drone expert react to mysterious lights captured in Texas sky

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32 pointslatchkey16 comments

A bit sad this rubbish reaches Hacker News frontpage :(

Let's flag it together, until it's gone.

One of the best cases I've seen in a while for using the flagging functionality.

and the word "rubbish"

This reminds me, what ever happened to that jet pack guy that multiple airline pilots spotted near a major airport in California?

The closest thing to a credible explanation I’ve seen is that at least one of the sightings (and photos) appears to be of a Jack Skellington balloon

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/pictures-jet-pa...

Balloons and dummies? Same as in Roswell.

A weather balloon reflected some swamp gas off Venus and please look here for the eye exam.

Roswell was not a balloon. It was the radar flight test of the Lockheed A12 [1]

[1] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lockheed_A12_radar...

What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul

There was a guy that literally flew a flying wing attached to his back and some model jet engines... That was years back.

How are lights "mysterious"? I mean, it's not like "lights" is something just invented.

And, while I'm not dispariging the expert credentials, it doesn't take an "expert" to say, "yeah, drones." Drones haven't just been invented either.

Ohh "mysterious lights", must be aliens... That's like going to a sci-fi movie set, seeing someone in costume and writing an article "aliens spotted, makeup expert consulted."

"I'll be honest, kind of. I don't know if I believe in all that, but, I don't know. Maybe, I hear a lot of it in like America that that kind of things happens. I think it's just because of like it didn't make any noise at all, which I just thought was really odd. But, yeah, definitely, definitely felt like it was like the alien invasion or something on the way," said White.

I want to believe, but, like.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all. I guess most of the UFO sightings are either fake or mistaken. But should we flag this without analysing it at all? I saw the video and I was hoping to find some explanation of it in the comments section. The drone swarm theory is quite plausible. I was hoping to read what others thought about the fast disappearance of those. Was it a camera trick?

Pretty sure is a color switching laser (cheap at ebay) over clouds/fog. 0. both footages movement resembles a trembling/random hand moving laser 1. in first footage almost no stars. when laser is reaching "clear area" near a visible star, footage is cut. why? I think is because laser will disappear at that moment. 2. second footage laser is over clouds clearly.

Thank you for the explanation.

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