Bad Astronomy

Venus, swamp gas, sheet lightning, birds

Sigh. It won’t matter much, but the British government just released a report saying UFOs are misidentified mundane phenomena.

It won’t matter, because the usual suspects will just claim it’s a coverup, and more rational people will see this is just more of the same, which has not helped in the past. Governments have been making studies like for years, and getting the same results. Why bother? It would be far more interesting to spend that money on psychological research, trying to discover why some people see every plane, satellite, meteor, and radar blip as a ship carrying a transdimensional human from the future who wants to excoriate cow anuses and warn us about nuclear weapons.’