This strikes me as poor science.
" The Main Astronomical Observatory of NAS of Ukraine conducts a study of UAP. We used two meteor stations installed in Kyiv and in the Vinarivka village in the south of the Kyiv region. 7 8 Observations were performed with colour video cameras in the daytime sky. A special observation technique had developed for detecting and evaluating UAP characteristics.
Why was it necessary to use a specially-developed observation technique? What's wrong with tried and true cameras etc.?
There are two types of UAP, conventionally called Cosmics, and Phantoms. Cosmics are luminous objects, brighter than the background of the sky. Phantoms are dark objects, with contrast from several to about 50 per cent.
What does "contrast" mean, here?
We observed a broad range of UAPs everywhere.
Sounds very vague indeed. Problem in translation, perhaps?
We state a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear. Flights of single, group and squadrons of the ships were detected, moving at speeds from 3 to 15 degrees per second.
Wait!
Ships? What ships?
Is there some kind of evidence of
ships? Where is
that evidence?
Squadrons????
It looks like somebody is jumping to conclusions. Or had a preferred conclusion in mind right from the start, before any data was collected.
A speed in "degrees per second" doesn't tell us much. That's just a measure of how fast an object appears to cross the field of view of the camera. To find the object's linear speed, we'd need to know how far away from the camera it was, in addition. Was that determined by this researcher? How?
Some bright objects exhibit regular brightness variability in the range of 10 - 20 Hz.
Just bright objects in general, or is this what was detected in this study?
Two-site observations of UAPs at a base of 120 km with two synchronised cameras allowed the detection of a variable object, at an altitude of 1170 km.
The objects were in space, then? Not in the atmophere?
It flashes for one hundredth of a second at an average of 20 Hz. Phantom shows the colour characteristics inherent in an object with zero albedos.
What method was used to measure albedo? Was there some kind of active detection used?
We see an object because it shields radiation due to Rayleigh scattering.
??
An object contrast made it possible to estimate the distance using colorimetric methods.
What are these methods? Does the paper explain them?
Phantoms are observed in the troposphere at distances up to 10 - 12 km.
Distances from what?
We estimate their size from 3 to 12 meters and speeds up to 15 km/s."
How were these estimates made?
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I look forward to your detailed answers, Magical Realist, since I'm sure you've read the article. You have, haven't you?
