Mistaken as UFOs

The Truth Revealed

Jesse Ferrell / AccuWeather.com

August 15, 2014

Many Phenomena Are Not UFOs

• Clouds

• Reflection Phenomena

•  Atmospheric Electricity

• Man-made Objects

Lenticular Clouds • Often formed by air flowing over mountains.

• Because these clouds continually reform as air flows through them, they appear to "hover" and have a saucer shape. 

aerospaceweb.org

Lenticular Cloud Photos • “Jellyfish” Lenticular by Ron in Altoona,

2008

Lenticular Cloud Photos • Photo by Jesse in State College, 2010

More Lenticular Cloud Photos

Google/Public Domain

More Lenticular Cloud Photos

Google/PR NewsFoto

More Lenticular Cloud Photos

Google/Getty Images

Mothership Clouds

Facebook/WGAL/Matt Moore

Mothership Clouds. Extremely severe thunderstorms take on a saucerlike shape before they drop high winds, hail and tornadoes.

Photo in Harrisburg, PA by Matt Moore:

A Mothership Cloud in Tornado Alley

Google/Valentina Abinanti

Hole-Punch CloudsHole-punch clouds are formed when a jet (or jet vapor trail) goes through a deck of clouds, forcing them to “rain out.” Photo by Jesse in State College (2009)

More Hole-Punch Cloud Photos

Google/Keptelensig.Hu

More Hole-Punch Cloud Photos

YouTube/@thaitvnews

Lightning Sprites & Jets

Google/NOAA

Sprites and Jets occur miles above thunderstorms, but are rarely photographed.

Ball Lightning

Google/US Air Force Academy

Never photographed until recently in the lab. Orbs of light can slide down from power poles or out of electric outlets.

St. Elmos Fire

Google/Fly For Fun

Rarely photographed, electrical sparks on objects (shown here on a plane’s windshield).

Rocket & Missile Vapor Trails

Google/vietgiaitri.com

Noctilucent Clouds

AccuWeather.com/ Clauslr

Noctilucent clouds are rare, extremely high clouds that refract light at dusk when the Sun has already set, illuminating the sky with seemingly no light source.

Lens & Light Reflections

Google Maps / Google Earth

Every camera lens reflects the sun and indoor/outdoor lights. Here a reflection of the sun shows up on Google Maps “Street View”

Lens Reflections (2)

Google / Mike Wu

The orange lights below have been enlarged and proven mathematically to be lens reflections from lights on the ground:

Atmospheric Optics: Ice Halos

YouTube/Ken Rotberg

Iridescence on ice halo clouds can appear above thunderstorms; partial halos (circumhorizontal arcs) can appear as rainbows in the sky.

USAToday

Atmospheric Optics: Ice Halos

AccuWeather.com / JWWalter

Bright spots or rainbows on either side of the sun are called “Sun Dogs” and are caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere reflecting the sun’s light.

Atmospheric Optics: Light Pillars

AccuWeather.com / ervol57

Street lights reflecting off of ice crystals or ice fog can produce “Pillars” in the sky. This was taken in Pennsylvania in 2008:

Non-Rain Objects Falling from Sky

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Tornadoes can sometimes pick up objects and “rain” them down. Some examples are:

•FISH (Australia, 2010)

•FROGS (Missouri, 1873)

•COAL (England, 1983)

•Airplanes often shed ice from their wings which hit the ground and are called “cryometeors”

Man-Made Objects: Weather Balloons

Google/Kay Brooks

Man-Made Objects: Quadcopters

Flickr/Ars Electronica

Man-Made Objects: Chinese Lanterns

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100,000,000,000 Earth-like planets in the Milky Way Galaxy

20,000,000,000,000,000 Earth-like planets in the Universe

I think Life is likely out there, but there’s no concrete evidence YET.

Is Life Out There?“NASA Earth-Like Planets Study”:

“A principle of economy, or succinctness used in problem-solving”

“Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better.”

Which is more likely:

-One of these many known flying objects was mistaken for a UFO?

OR

- An extraterrestrial life-form has made a long journey to appear in our skies but leave no evidence?

Occam’s Razor

Wild Estimate: 30,000 of them are probably atmospheric phenomena

Let’s say another 30,000 are known aircraft

Let’s assume another 9,999 are camera reflections

What if there is

JUST 1 THAT CAN’T BE EXPLAINED?

So there are 70,000 UFO reports per year…

Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather Meteorologist

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