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I think this is from the SciFi Channel miniseries "Taken" from a few years ago.

I've run across a site that has a little calculation engine that gives the user an idea of what kind of damage can be done by what kind of object. Earth Impact Effects Program If you play with this a little, you'll see, based on the assumptions there, the object from this near miss...

Yep ... "circus" says it. No wonder the aliens don't show themselves -- we're so wrapped up in our abject stupidity that relating to us would make them look like idiots too.

My wife had that Syfy channel promotional special on yesterday, the one with Richard Hoagland pontificating on his hyperdimensional BS. I really do wish someone would put a ginormous dirty sock in that lying mouth of his. That or his "NASA Masonic conspiracy" would make him disappear without...

This wouldn't surprise me. You probably have heard the stories of horses sensing earthquakes before they can be detected by seismographic equipment, and so on. I don't think cats can really think about what they are perceiving; they respond to it on instinct and whatever training their owners...

I'm with you, Gene. The culture of the experiencer seems to color this. Whatever the mechanism is for this, it does seem as if the phenomenon "exploits" or otherwise plays to the culture context of the experiencer. This is one of the reasons I feel ETH isn't the answer. You could (or I could ...

Trajanus, I think you're presuming a bit here. There are plenty of things that can be proven without dragging some wreckage or such out of a secret hangar for everyone to see. Relativity comes to mind, and electrons. I did not state at any point that there is a linkage between being a...

I'm with you on this. I've had several cats that appeared to be chasing things around that couldn't be seen, and one that reacted something like you're describing here in a situation where nothing was obvious. It seems clear to me that cats (and probably a number of other mammals, at least)...

I would find it seriously amusing if, assuming there was a disclosure that we could believe was authentic, it proved that the UFO phenomenon had absolutely nothing to do with extraterrestrial races or nuts and bolts hardware. Charlatans like Greer and Michael Salla would have to lay low for a...

Yes, the effects are incredible today, but I disagree about original ideas. Original ideas don't see the light of day because the money people don't have any testicular fortitude ... which in turn is partly driven by the willingness of the audience to accept garbage as entertainment. The...

CapnG, I was thinking of that one, too. The closest thing in the ballpark I can think of few years prior to the Hills is the little "goblin" things from the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter. If memory serves, this was the first use by the media of the expression "Little Green Men," though the...

Stated accurately, and eloquently. Thank you.

Sorry to hear this about Dolan. He was the one reason I still kept an open mind to ETH. The only folks who give the Camelot crowd any attention are the hopelessly gullible. (Kin you say "Ser-po"? I knew you could.)

I like that. May I quote you? (Oh ... I just did.)

Just a suggestion -- I've had some pretty weird stuff happen to my browsers because of third party cookies. I usually don't permit them because of this. That probably had nothing to do with the Paracast hiccup, but it's good to get rid of your cookies regularly. Speaking of cookies, have you...

Yes ... I had the same issue. It went away pretty quickly, too. I'm guessing (guessing only -- I'm no server jock) that it was some kind of DNS hiccup that made the browsers interpret what they were seeing differently. I was concerned the site had been hacked and I was downloading some kind...

I'm all over this one. Agree 100%. 200%. Okay, 207.3%.

I saw the repost, and I also read the comments on your post discussing site policies. What a bunch of jerks! For what it's worth, it does appear that there are a lot of excellent tributes cropping up, even a surprisingly respectful one from skeptic George Dvorsky at Sentient Developments.

Gene -- Thank you for letting us know in the Paracast newsletter. Otherwise I might not have picked up on this for ... who knows how long. I didn't know and correspond with Mac for very long, but I always found him to be thoughtful, considerate, and simply a nice guy. (Frankly, one of the...

Hear, hear! ("There, there!")