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From: Martin Shough <parcellular.nul> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:48:23 +0100 Archived: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:09:09 -0400 Subject: April 2007 Channel Islands Sighting Dear List Those who would like to read a concise summary of the investigation into this sighting can find an article in the new issue of Journal of Scientific Exploration: Jean-Francois Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller & Martin Shough, 'Unusual Atmospheric Phenomena Observed Near Channel Islands, UK, 23 April 2007', JSE, Vol 22, No 3, pp. 291-308, 2008. A version of the article will in due course be available alongside the complete report which is still available at: www.guernsey.uk-ufo.org The bottom line for those who haven't read it is that we tried very hard to explain the observations in as conservative a way as possible, putting a number of different conventional hypotheses under the microscope. Many were eliminated quickly as impossible or highly implausible. We narrowed the remaining options down to two, neither of which was very compelling despite our best efforts. We acknowledge that there are several features of the main sighting which, taken alone, would seem suggestive of an atmospheric-optical mechanism, but we failed to make this work convincingly. Other features, again taken alone, would seem suggestive of objective phenomena in the air at the location triangulated by two lines of sight, but we were unable to find a convincing explanation of this type either (no radar evidence was uncovered to confirm this interpretation and some simultaneous visual observers in other aircraft failed to observe anything when they "ought" to have been able to). We found no internal reason to discount the problematic features of the observation (that is, the only argument for doing so would be the ad hoc one that they make explanation problematic). In short, the phenomena remain unidentified. It was not our purpose to speculate further. Martin Shough Listen to 'Strange Days... Indeed' - The PodCast See: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/subscribers/
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