The Orbs Launching Orbs Bench: One Angle, Two Rulers

Evidence

fact ⇄ what kind of claim · live

The deck (Release 01, p. 2): ‘approximately 500-600 meters’, ‘small helicopter cockpit’; its footnotes: ‘* Measurements later gathered by AARO assess the object to have been ~1050 meters away from the observers.’ ‘** Measurements later gathered by AARO assess the object to have been between 12-18 meters in diameter.’

the witnesses' estimate and AARO's assessment, as printed

REPORTED

D079 p. 1, Witness 1: ‘a range finder to put the distance to the hillside at about 1100 meters’; ‘20 feet or more in diameter’

Witness 1 writes it; the 20 feet is a floor

REPORTED

D080 p. 1, Witness 2: ‘approximately 35-45 degrees above the northern/northeastern horizon’; ‘approximately 1/15 the size of the orb-like light’; ‘not dissimilar to that of a luminescent planet’

the elevation, the size ratio and the planet

REPORTED

D081 pp. 1 to 2, Witness 3: ‘the orb moved approximately 20 degrees in the sky in about three to five seconds’; ‘in about five to ten seconds covering roughly 90 degrees across the sky’

the record's two angular rates

REPORTED

D077: ‘approximately 60 percent’ and ‘the remaining 40 percent’ (§4.c, p. 3); ‘differ from those of standard illumination flares’ (§4.c.i); ‘physically incompatible with the burn-time and descent rate of any known military flare’ (§4.c.ii)

AARO's analysis update, by section

REPORTED

D078: ‘at an approximate distance of 1,000 yards’; ‘Distances are not to scale.’

the map's caption

REPORTED

NASA NSSDCA Moon Fact Sheet (last updated 11 January 2024): mean radius 1,737.4 km, semimajor axis 384,400 km, apparent diameter 1,896″ at 378,000 km, full Moon −12.74

the sheet's own figures

TABULATED

The LUU-2 (GlobalSecurity LUU-2 specs and overview; Magellan 2019): ‘Burn Time: 240 sec/300 sec’, ‘Descent Rate: 8.3 ft/sec (2.5 m/sec)’, ‘Light Output: 1,800,000 candlepower, 1,600,000 candlepower’; the M206 (MIL-F-63107C(AR), 6 January 1986): 1,480 W/sr, the average at least 2.7 s

specifications, each document named

REPORTED

ISO 9613-2:1996 Table 2, the 20 °C, 70 % row: 0.3 to 22.9 dB/km from 125 Hz to 4 kHz, 5.0 at 1 kHz

Part 2's octave bands; the table's air

TABULATED

USNO: civil twilight ends with the Sun's centre 6° below the horizon, nautical 12°, astronomical 18°

the Sun dial's marks

TABULATED

NPS, Great Sand Dunes 2008: night L50 15.0 dBA, salty shrubland; Grand Canyon 2017, desert nights 15.3 to 38.4 dB

a measured desert night, the default ambient

MEASURED

INST-99's anchors: BV-234 87 to 89 dBA at 150 m, K-MAX 118 dBA at 50 ft, Mi-8 90 dBA at 50 m

INST-99's sources, shared

MEASURED

INST-99's sound-pressure rungs, 10 to 110 dB: light leaf rustling to a two-stroke chainsaw, 1 m

INST-99's table, shared

TABULATED

INST-95's magnitudes: the planets' means from Venus −4.14 to Saturn +0.46; E0 = 2.08 × 10⁻⁶ lx at magnitude 0

INST-95's sources, shared

TABULATED

θ = 2 arctan(D / 2d); the ratios; L_p = L_W − 10 log₁₀(2πd²); A_atm = αd / 1 000; v/d, v t, h/v; m = −2.5 log₁₀(I / d² E0)

arithmetic on the record and the tables; nothing fitted

EXACT

The Sun 4° below the horizon, the cockpit width 1.5 m, the red orbs' range, the release height 300 m, L_W 100 dB; the ridge, the pinnacle, the floor and the stars

dials and staging, each named

MODELLED

Which ruler: the witnesses' 20 ft at 500 to 600 m, or AARO's 12 to 18 m at ~1,050 m, for the one angle both give

the bench prints both and does not say

READING

What the orbs were

the question this bench leaves to you

READING

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