Copasetic Flow

 The Soldersmoke blog referenced a post about a really cool missile tracking helical antenna.  Soldersmoke reference to EI7GL's writeup of the antenna. The specificity of the plaque down to the Marker Number reminded that the gang, my partner, and I had visited the White Sands Missile Range outdoor missile museum back in 2017 . Glancing through my pictures to see if we'd taken a look at the antenna, I came across this doozy which had this plaque on display in front of it I'm just saying here: when you have to start out with the sentence, "Not a flying saucer" and then follow up later with "action was initiated to start the vehicle spinning for stability" and then offhandedly mention that the vehicle traveled at 1.2 times the speed of sound before firing an explosive charge at apogee... ahem... Not a flying saucer indeed, but you know, totally a flying saucer :) Here's the entire plaque text: " Balloon Launched Decelerator Test Vehicle Not a f...

Earlier this year, the 10 year old known as Tawnse in these pages, and I went on a camping trip. On our way back, I came across literal found footage of strange lights in the sky that I hadn't realized we recorded. The kid and I figured out what it was, but it took a QRP ham radio to make the call. I wrote up the whole story in an article at DesignNews .

I've recently started reading Agnew Hunter Bahnson Jr.'s "The Stars are Too High".  Given the history of physics research I've done regarding Bahnson, I can't believe I haven't read it before, but I'm reading it now.  My copy arrived a few days back, and even though I'm only about a fifth of the way through the book, it's been very intriguing! First off, I seem to have come into possession of a copy that was owned by two different sci-fi fanzine editors, one of whom became a published sci-fi author.  The name Tim Eklund by itself wouldn't have meant much, but when coupled with the name on the opposite side of the book's opening, Hank Lutrell, it began to come into focus.  Hank turns up immediately as the editor of a fanzine.  In the context of fanzines, I quickly found a link that indicated that Tim Eklund was more formally known as Gordon Eklund.  I haven't been able to confirm this is the case yet, but in any event, I learned ...

Today, we take a little break from UFO data analysis to insert a little levity. While Acrobat Reader's default reading voice may not be ideal for say Hemingway or Tolstoy, it's perfect for reading UK Ministry of Defence UFO reports! "An object fell from the sky. It had like a green halo around it." "They were totally still in the sky. They were very white."

While I've been reporting on the analysis of Ministry of Defence UFO sighting data for the last decade, UFO sightings continue to occur: read more | digg story Reporter Unemployed Amidst Stephenville UFO Controversy read more | digg story UFO spotted in skies above Grantham? read more | digg story New UFO Sighting in Sthephenville, TX Today, the year by year analysis of the data begins. In 2007 Shrewsbury reported 3 sightings while there were 8 other cities that reported two UFO sightings each. The map and data follow. View Larger Map City # Date Sigthed or Reported Details Shrewsbury 3 12-Nov-07 S A series of lights in a circle that had an inner circle. There were fifteen extra lights on the outside of the outer circle. They were moving clockwise, then anti-clockwise through the sky and then back again. 24-Sep-07 R Four orange lights were seen crossing the sky. There was a gap, and then...

Part I Part II Part III Part IV As my track coach used to say: "It's all about consistency!" Shown below are the top ten cities in the UK with the most consistent UFO sightings, year after year. Row Labels 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Grand Total Years With Sitings Leeds 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 10 8 Brighton 3 1 2 1 1 1 9 6 Cardiff 1 2 1 1 2 2 9 6 Glasgow 1 1 1 2 3 1 9 6 Hull 2 7 1 3 1 1 15 6 Liverpool 1 1 1 4 2 2 11 6 Newport/Gwent 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 6 Birmingham 1 2 2 1 1 7 5 Blairgowrie 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 ...