The Lemon Fool

Planning a holiday?
Fancy hiring a UFO?
Well, you can't, yet.

But scientists from the University of Utah have been investigating where you are most likely to come across one.

They calculated the number of sightings per 10,000 people per county, producing a heat map of high and low numbers of reports across the mainland United States. They found that the western third of the country was surprisingly hot, while the southeast was a notable cold spot.

Their report is here

Perhaps next year.

V8

Interesting follow through from the above post:

First Spectrum of Ball Lightning
January 17, 2014• Physics 7, 5

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5

Researchers measured a spectrum of light emitted by the rare and elusive ball lightning.

When I was at (Catholic) primary school, one of the boys in my class once told me he how one evening he had seen an "angel" floating about in the air over a small river in an area adjacent to the school. I have always wondered...