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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by bsder on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:46PM (#34671729)
How long did it take until we confrimed ball lightning and the weird things it does? And then how much longer until we have an explanation?

Weird shit exists. Shrug.

However, eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable. We know and have proved this over and over and over.

The "problem" with pilots is that getting marked as "mentally unstable" can get you grounded. So, do you report every strange thing you think you see or not?

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by naasking on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:47AM (#34677204)
> How long did it take until we confrimed ball lightning and the weird things it does?

We still don't have direct evidence of ball lightning, but it's taken seriously nonetheless. The comparison is apt here.

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by bsder on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:50PM (#34685648)
I thought we finally captured real pictures of lightning doing weird "ball lightning-like" things given how many scientific monitoring cameras there now are.

I could be wrong, though, as I don't follow it scientifically.

Perhaps I should have chosen "rogue waves" instead as something weird that we had lots of eyewitness testimony of yet took us ages to finally confirm.

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Re:As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anom... by naasking on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:46PM (#34686301)
Wikipedia page lists one possible direct detection a few years ago, but that's still being debated. We have lab generated plasma phenomena that are similar to ball lightning but those conditions seem unlikely to exist in our natural environment.
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