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From: "George Fergus" <fergus@mail.ccrl.mot.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:41:09 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 05:15:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Kenneth Arnold's testimony

> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 06:42:01 -0500
> From: James Easton <pulsar@compuserve.com>
> Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: Kenneth Arnold's testimony
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

> If we could summarise, what remain the major problems with this
> theoretical explanation?

David Rudiak made a very good point about the spacing between the
objects being too great for them to be birds.  According to my
Pelican Scenario, when Arnold observed the objects crossing a
ridge straight ahead of him (roughly at my timepoint 6), they
would still have been about a mile away.  Since he estimated
there was about 5 miles between the first and last objects at a
distance of maybe 25 miles, this would still translate to about
1000 feet at a distance of one mile, making the distance between
individual objects about 100 feet.  Is this conceivable for
pelicans flying in formation?

The flashing of white underwings looking like reflections from a
metallic surface is problematic also, but since there is no
quantitative info given by Arnold, the brightness must be
considered relative and thus within the realm of possibility.

Oh, and by the way I gave the wrong distance for timepoint 1 in
my scenario.  It should be 2 1/2 miles, not 1 1/4.

-George Fergus