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reply to post by Hopechest
Don't you find it very coincidental that all these lights are in the formation of geese flying? I do.
I'm skeptical of the moths explanation.
Originally posted by JayinAR
Now, considering this same professor was in on the initial calculation of said speed, I see little reason to think that this can be questioned, considering the game warden pointed out that in order for the objects to be birds they would have to be much closer to the ground to appear to move so fast. Moths?
That's one heck of a flock of moths to be flying around town spooking several folks for days never to be seen again. Heck, same with the birds.
Incidentally, it is interesting how often in the 40s and 50s, UFOs flew in flocks. Apparently they came here in great numbers, but once they started crashing...
Yes if you know the distance to the object, but how could they know the distance to the could?
Originally posted by extraterrestrialentity
reply to post by Arbitrageur
The professors calculated the speed of the lights because of the fact that they were seen close to or above a cloud that was roughly 2,000 feet.
It is not hard to calculate the distance, and speed of an object if you already know the distance of another object acting as a reference point.
They called it a "thin cloud" so how does that place it between 1000 and 5000 feet? That doesn't match your description at all. Besides that they weren't close enough to the clouds for a comparison:
Originally posted by extraterrestrialentity
reply to post by Arbitrageur
You can actually calculate the distance to a cloud, albeit to a degree, simply by the structure of the cloud. Thin, wispy clouds are almost always higher than 20,000 feet, and puffy, large clouds usually have bases at less than 5,000 feet, and more than 1,000 feet.
They had tried to measure the altitude, with no success. First they tried to compare the lights to the height of clouds but the clouds were never near the lights, or vice versa.
Over the following two weeks, hundreds of people saw the fast moving lights in and around the town of Lubbock. Most of the witnesses agreed that they first noticed the lights appear at about 45° above the horizon, pass over and disappear at about the same angle.