Re: Bogus astronomy in the news [UFOs]

john carruthers wrote:

Apparently there were some unusual lights in the sky Wednesday in the 

San Francisco Bay Area.  I didn't see them but this article about them
appeared in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle:<<

I've had enquiries like this, reporters don't want to hear "unidentified lights that could be any one of several things", it doesn't print so well.

Yeah, and as anyone in the position of being called by these reporters knows, these sightings always seem to coincide with a bright Venus in the evening sky regardless of the often fuzzy and contradictory details of the story.

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