I’ve
talked about multiple chains of evidence in the past, which is the suggestion
that we move beyond just witness testimony. I have a sighting from just about
two weeks ago, on October 24, in Hawaii that involved, not only witness
testimony, but also an interesting video. This supplies us with something that
can be analyzed and it corroborates what the witness saw. According to what
William Puckett reported, on his website at www.ufosnw.com,
the witness who hosts a podcast and lives in Honolulu, said, “I saw a possible
V-shaped craft… It had lots of lights and was very large.” You can see the original
video here:
https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/v-shaped-craft-with-lots-of-lights-over-hawaii/
KHON2
in Honolulu asked, “Did you happen to see strange bright lights Saturday night?
You may have been one of many who thought it looked like a plane, a meteor
shower or something unexplainable…. We are told since it was traveling east,
residents on the Big Island and Maui probably got a better view.”
There
were suggestions from astronomers and others that this was the re-entry of a
Chinese Rocket booster, as it broke up re-entering the atmosphere. There are
videos on YouTube of meteors falling that can be used for comparison. I’ll put
a link or two at the end of this with the compilations of meteor falls.
Puckett,
in an update on October 31, said that he had shown the witness a rocket
re-entry video. He reported that “This thing was its one thing,” meaning, of
course, that it was a single thing and not something that was breaking up.
Others
have weighed in on this. In the comments section, Jim supplied some interesting
observations. Using his equipment and watching it several times, he wrote that
there were more than eleven fixed, stationary lights with two that are larger
and pulsed randomly at the same speed. Several of the smaller lights are in
fixed positions. He concluded that they are on a single object. He believes
that one of the photos that had been posted that seemed to show burning debris
was the result of camera motion blur.
Another
commentator, Joel Wesley Small, said that when he looked at it, he thought there
was a central object and some smaller objects on its periphery. He thought that
it could have been a re-entry that was disintegrating, but thought the light
sources were too steady. He thought of it as unidentified.
I
thought the blinking lights seemed to suggest something other than burning
rocket debris. Looking at the video, I did notice the blinking lights and
haven’t seen anything quite like that on the meteor compilations that I
watched.
I
will note here that in March 1968, the re-entry of the Zond IV did fool a few
people into thinking they were looking at a cigar-shaped craft with lighted
windows along the side. However, the majority of the people who saw it,
understood what they were seeing. This was compared to the famous Chiles
Whitted sighting from 1948 that lead to the infamous “Estimate of the
Situation.” You can read about that this controversy here:
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/01/chiles-and-whitted-revisited.html
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/01/chileswhitted-and-skepticism.html
Following
are some links to other videos of meteor falls to give you an idea of what they
look like. This will provide some perspective on the Honolulu video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLM1pfgv9IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfKZsl3YgGY
As
it stands right now, the video from Hawaii is unidentified. It doesn’t look
quite like the re-entries that had been seen in the past and there is a real
possibility of additional videos out there. If those are located then a great
deal of additional information can be gathered, and that is, after all, what
science is all about.
1 comment:
It was a rocket booster re-entry. See: https://fmph.uniba.sk/en/news-detail/back_to_page/fakulta-matematiky-fyziky-a-informatiky-uk/article/vstup-do-atmosfery-a-rozpad-nosnej-rakety-nad-havajom/
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