{"id":5422,"date":"2025-03-25T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/some-opinions-from-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:57:24","slug":"some-opinions-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/some-opinions-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Some opinions from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts from Africa<br \/>\nI currently live and work in a remote area with no ambient light, right by the ocean. While I was out fishing early one morning, I witnessed a strange light that shouldn\u2019t have been there, given the conditions. Curious about what I saw, I reached out to some locals for their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m familiar with things like Starlink satellites and Google\u2019s weather balloons\u2014typically lighthearted topics on Facebook. However, the Google one really unsettled some folks here.<\/p>\n<p>I felt it was worth sharing my experience. When I talked to several villagers, they casually asked which light I saw: the blue one or the white one? What struck me as odd was that even when standing together, one person could see it while the other couldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all a bit mind-boggling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSome thoughts from Africa I currently live and work in a remote area with no ambient light, right by the ocean. While I was out fishing early one morning, I witnessed a strange light that shouldn\u2019t have been there, given the conditions. Curious about what I saw, I reached out to some locals for their&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/some-opinions-from-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Some opinions from Africa&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}