Explaining UFOs
You ask "Could they be watching? Is someone out there? Who knows" (your report, 18 February). Someone may be "out there" but a long way off and unable to visit. They are certainly not responsible for UFO reports, which are stimulated by sight of all sorts of different phenomena (planets and stars, aircraft lights, satellites, etc). In about 30 years of investigation, I always found a rational explanation for a UFO report, provided I had sufficient information abo
Nick Pope thinks a few reports are "genuinely unexplained". He has not tried hard enough. The more information one was about a report, the more likely it is to be explained. In the limit, all reports are explicable, though sometimes only with good knowledge of meteorological optics.
STEUART CAMPBELL
Dovecot Loan