[extropy-chat] UFO - Mexico Scare!

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:44 AM 5/17/2004 -0400, Natasha wrote:


>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/17/mexico.ufos.reut/index.html
>
>I love this type of real life scare because it helps educate the public and
>brings to the news explanations other than the mystical that cause
>otherwordly type events such as the "ball lightning" effect.

I started a thread on this a couple of days ago. Ball lightning seems an 
unlikely explanation, as does weather balloons. (These things were said to 
be invisible to the eye but radar painted three of them and 11 were 
detected by FLIR infrared detectors.) They are imaged going behind clouds 
and coming out again, moving at a fair clip, hence unlikely to be blown by 
wind.

Damien Broderick