Mistaken as UFOs

The Truth Revealed

Jesse Ferrell / AccuWeather.com

August 15, 2014

Lenticular Clouds (1)

Google/Public Domain

Lenticular Clouds (2)

Google/PR NewsFoto

Lenticular Clouds (3)

Google/Getty Images

Mothership Clouds

Google/Valentina Abinanti

Hole-Punch Clouds (1)

Google/Keptelensig.Hu

Hole-Punch Clouds (2)

YouTube/@thaitvnews

Rocket Trails

Google/vietgiaitri.com

Lightning (Sprites & Jets)

Google/NOAA

Ball Lightning

Google/US Air Force Academy

St. Elmos Fire

Google/Fly For Fun

Lens Reflections (1)

Google Maps / Google Earth

Lens Reflections (2)

Google / Mike Wu

Atmospheric Optics

AccuWeather.com / JWWalter

Weather Balloons

Google/Kay Brooks

Quadcopters & Chinese Lanterns

Flickr/Ars Electronica

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

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

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

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:

-A known flying object 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?

There are 70,000 UFO reports per year

Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather Meteorologist

http://WeatherMatrix.AccuWeather.com

http://Facebook.com/WeatherMatrix

Thank You