NASA investigates...........

[Barry Fitz-Gerald]

I am not sure why this announcement has elicited so little in the way on interest so far https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/

Another governmental body privyto a lot of relevant data, a lot of it classified, who appear consider UAP's (UFO's in old money) potentially a real phenomenon, requiring serious scientific study without the accompanying sniggering that usually attends the topic. Lets hope the trend continues and the discussion proceeds in a manner more in keeping with the principles of scientific investigation and not in a manner the Witchfinder General might have found acceptable.

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Witchfinder Sergeant is the best we can do nowadays

 

Joking aside, it is always a good idea to approach things like this from a scientific point of view.

[Ratlet]

This sort of thing is always good.  You don't know what you don't know as they say.  I think positive lightning was a bit like this.  It wasn't appreciated as a real phenomenon until a helicopter got struck by it and it peeled the main rotor like a banana.  Those rotors are designed to handle a lightning strike, but not positive lightning which has more oompf.