From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac.nul>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:11:34 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:48:41 -0400
Subject: Re: Mexico UFO The Sceptics Counterattack -


>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:42:54 -0700
>Subject: Re: Mexico UFO The Sceptics Counterattack

>http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5152278§ion=news

>Weather May Explain Mexico UFO Stir
>Fri 14 May, 2004 23:01

>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A cluster of mysterious objects that
>surrounded a Mexican Air Force plane, alarming the pilots and
>sparking a UFO scare, could be a weather phenomenon known as
>ball lightning, a scientist said on Friday.

<snip>

>"It's a very rare atmospheric phenomenon and it would be very
>interesting to be able to analyze all the information these
>pilots obtained," he told Reuters.

This theory is "great" because it will provide a justifiable
impetus for careful investigation of the video.

Any ball lightning theorist must make some predictions about
what the ball lightning would do and these predictions can be
chacked against the actual video information. Verifiable proof
of ball lightning would be a "prize winning" event.

If scientists think this video proves the existence of ball
lightning, then they should spend time analyzing it (and not
dismiss it as secret US aircraft, balloons, meteors, or high
speed pelicans inside plasma balls... or whatever!)