Talk:Lubbock Lights
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[edit] Ruppelt's final opinion on the bird hypothesis
As it stood, the summary of the plover hypothesis suggested that Ruppelt's final opinion was that the lights were birds, which based on his own book is most emphatically not the case. I have abridged his concluding remarks in the article itself for fair use purposes, but here is the full text of the concluding paragraphs of Chapter 8:
"Personally I thought that the professors' lights might have been some kind of birds reflecting the light from mercury vapor street lights, but I was wrong. They weren't birds, they weren't refracted light, but they weren't spaceships. The lights that the professors saw - the backbone of the Lubbock Light series - have been positively identified as a very commonplace and easily explainable natural phenomenon.
It is very unfortunate that I can't divulge exactly the way the answer was found because it is an interesting story of how a scientist set up complete instrumentation to track down the lights and how he spent several months testing theory after theory until he finally hit upon the answer. Telling the story would lead to his identity and, in exchange for his story, I promised the man complete anonymity. But he fully convinced me that he had the answer, and after having heard hundreds of explanations of UFO's, I don't convince easily."
Though we might lament his reticence in refusing to reveal the correct explanation, I think it is quite clear that the suggestion that Ruppelt eventually supported the bird hypothesis is quite erroneous Vremya 06:19, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
