Dry- cleaner bags, balsa wood, and small candles on a foggy night = widespread panic in 1960’s Fayetteville, Arkansas. No demons involved.
And lots of other places as well. One I heard about (ahem) had a small firecracker attached to the balsa wood. Timing the flash to the sound allowed a rough estimate of elevation. Way over 1,000 feet!
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view--William F. Buckley Jr.
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