CENTREVILLE, Va. - Some people in Centreville are talking about a bright blue light spotted moving in the sky Wednesday night. But no one seems to have an explanation for this unidentified flying object.
It was in the night sky just above Lee Highway when shoppers looked up and saw something weird in Centreville and it was all of it caught on camera.
All of a sudden, it would stop and go back like this, said Bryan Fains, using his finger to point out the direction of the blue light in the sky. At one point, it stopped and went up and up.
Fains quickly grabbed his phone, turned on the camera and recorded the erratic blue light in the night sky. It flew around for about 10 minutes.
[There] was no sound. It was a distinct blue light. It never flashed or blinked or nothing. It was just blue, said Fains. Its weird. You only see this type of stuff in movies. Just as long as we're here, I'm sure there are other things somewhere.
Fains has not seen it since. Only just the occasional airplane from Dulles Airport. He is all too familiar with those flying objects and their loud sounds. Fains says this one had no sound. The apparent UFO sighting has him baffled.
I swear one day I'm going to get a nice RC helicopter, strap a blue light to the bottom and see if I can make the news. Don't get me wrong aliens visiting and all would be cool but applying occam's razor...
I live in that area. Why didnt I hear about it?
For the second time in less than 24 hours, Southeastern North Carolina residents were rattled by a mysterious pair of loud booms that shook them awake and rattled their homes.
No one seems to know for sure what is causing the noises. But dispatchers in New Hanover and Brunswick counties said they got multiple telephone calls around 10:30 a.m. Saturday from people wanting to know why their homes were shaking.
Brooke Lasko, 29, a resident of Stoney Creek Plantation off U.S. 17 in Leland, said she was sitting on her couch in the living room about 10 a.m. when she heard the first “really loud boom.” She heard a second, smaller boom several minutes later.
Lasko used to live near Fort Bragg and said Saturday's noises reminded her of the training exercises armed military forces would conduct on the base.
“It was not like an earthquake,” she said. “It was like a bomb shook the ground. It was a big boom then a jolt.”
On the StarNews Facebook page, other readers reported booms and shaking in Monkey Junction, near the University of North Carolina Wilmington and in Carolina Beach.
Saturday's noises marked the second time in less than 24 hours that people reported loud noises and shaking. The first boom was reportedly heard about 2:20 p.m. Friday. Residents said that one also rattled people's homes and caused mild tremors.
Occam's Razor is possibly the most over-used term on this forum. It's unfortunate that so few people understand what it really means.I swear one day I'm going to get a nice RC helicopter, strap a blue light to the bottom and see if I can make the news. Don't get me wrong aliens visiting and all would be cool but applying occam's razor...
Occam's Razor is possibly the most over-used term on this forum. It's unfortunate that so few people understand what it really means.
To paraphrase: The best explanation is the simplest one.
Occam's Razor is possibly the most over-used term on this forum. It's unfortunate that so few people understand what it really means.
The principle is popularly summarized as "the simplest explanation is more likely the correct one."
Baloons are a lot cheaper and easier to 'fly'
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/video-blue-colored-ufo-in-centreville-110410
Pretty neat. No explanations yet.
By relying on Wikipedia definition of a philosophical tool, then applying it to a discrete event. This thing is or is not an alien craft. Occam's Razor doesn't really give any insight into whether it is or isn't - it simply offers a heuristic for rejection based on Aristotelian philosophy (i.e. we can arrive at the truth of the matter through pure logic in the absence of scientific observations) rather than the scientific method.
By relying on Wikipedia definition of a philosophical tool, then applying it to a discrete event. This thing is or is not an alien craft. Occam's Razor doesn't really give any insight into whether it is or isn't - it simply offers a heuristic for rejection based on Aristotelian philosophy (i.e. we can arrive at the truth of the matter through pure logic in the absence of scientific observations) rather than the scientific method.
You used it to arrive at an arbitrary conclusion with no basis in fact. What was the point?Did I state that it wasn't an alien spaceship? No.
Did I state that it was an RC helicopter with a light? No.
Did I ever use occam's razor as an irrefutable, scientific, or otherwise factual support for any factual argument? No.
I used it appropriately to conclude that the most likely scenario is the simplest one, and listed a fairly simple one off the top of my head.
You used it to arrive at an arbitrary conclusion with no basis in fact. What was the point?