execute sharp turns-depending on the winds.
It can even appear to change shape and color.
Depending on how sunlight strikes its surface,
the balloon can appear to be white, metallic,
red, glowing, and so on.
At a distance, a balloon loses entirely its
three-dimensional spherical aspect. It takes
on the appearance of a disc. From beneath,
instruments hanging below the balloon’s centre,
can easily be mistaken for a “hole,” giving the
disc the shape of a doughnut. If viewed from
the side, the disc seems to be flying on edge,
like a rolling wheel.
Others
While stars, aircraft, and meteors account for
the greatest proportion of UFO reports, other
phenomena also represent significant UFO
impostors. These include those “nocturnal
lights” UFOs subsequently identified as
satellites, searchlights (playing on clouds), prank
balloons, and others, including flares. Flares
are not reported often as UFOs, but when they
are they prompt some of the more sensational
cases. “Daylight disc” UFOs that subsequently
become identified include weather balloons,
aircraft, meteors, Venus (again), certain cloud
effects, and even birds.
Radar anomalies were once common but
of little evidential value due to the number
of known natural causes for them. Such
anomalous radar targets-called “angels”-have
been eliminated by modern radar. However,
they are still cited in older cases where they may
be attributed to birds, smoke, dust clouds, areas
of atmospheric turbulence-even reflecting
layers in the atmosphere returning echoes of
fixed or moving objects on the ground Radar-
visuals represent the supposed matching of a
radar return and a sighting of a UFO, but once
again investigation converts some of these
UFOs to IFOs – prank balloons in some cases.
False correlations have occurred in other
instances, such as a supposed match between
a scintillating star and a supposed radar return
that was instead attributable to ground clutter.
Source : Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 42, No. 6The hear say news about UFO (Unidentified
Flying Objects) or Flying Saucers are
prevailing in India without any concrete
evidence as proof from the Government;
not even any initiative taken in that line. The
potential threat of UFO is invariably known
by the governments in the West in order to
avoid the unnecessary misunderstanding
between the countries for which the most
likely factor is UFO. This is more so on the
potential threat of nuclear war in between the
big powers. There are enough proof to show
that UFOs are technologically advanced than
the dwellers of the Earth. Peaceful life is the
ultimate purpose of Humanity.
For the first time the petition has been filed
in the Supreme Court, praying for a direction
to the Government of India to bestow its
attention and to form some study panel
about UFOs and the likely advantage of
avoiding the misunderstanding with the
neighbouring countries on the prospective
threat of nuclear war. The petition has
been filed by Mr. Sabeer Hussain Hassan
Mohammed, the Director of Indian Society
for the UFO Studies, a nonprofit organization
based at Chennai. The petition has many
enclosures of statements and appeals by
the persons who were at the helm of affairs
connected to the security of the counties- United States of America, France, Great
Britain, Chile, Peru etc. The appeals made
by them were based on the official studies
conducted in those countries.
The initiative captures the attention for
public debate on the dangers posed by UFO
ignorance pertaining to potential nuclear
war.
Let peace prevail everywhere!
The Modern RationalistJuly 2019