Most reports ever in 2008?
Without reading the article, my answer is “Video Camera Special Effects - 101”.
Occam’s razor
Occam's razor in such cases works on the other side and
AGAINST
swamp gas, cow farts, Chinese lanterns etc.
The SIMPLEST explanations in the cases that have been screened for the usual non-strange events . . .
are
1. OTHER WORLDLY CRAFT
2. EXOTIC military technologies
or
both.
Chinese lanterns, weather balloons and blimps do NOT travel at super high mach speeds nor do right angle turns at high speeds . . . nor blink in and out of view instantly . . . nor go from stationary (!!!in a wind!!!) to moving instantly at high speeds.
Having a blimp or Chinese lantern do such things would be MORE IMPROBABLE than an alien craft explanation.
Sheesh.
Seems to me the naysayers on these threads are getting increasingly . . . silly in their cheeky, biased, uninformed assertions, if that's possible.
Naysayers have, for years, tossed out the "occam's razor" straw dog as though it shredded all the reports in a flash when the opposite has actually been the truth. Fascinating that none of them seemed awake enough to realize such realities.
Occam's razor does nothing to help explain what I saw with my own two eyes in the summer of 1967.
What looked exactly like a falling star abruptly came to a complete and instant standstill. After several seconds, the 'falling star' took off in a completely different direction.
After traversing most of the sky, it stopped again. Once more after several seconds it took off again in another direction but this time it didn't stop, just disappeared.