(01-18-2026, 12:01 AM)727Sky Wrote: While I agree Holograms would answer much of the actions by some observed craft the hologram theory does nothing to explain the radar lock-ons and the underwater tracked craft along with the observed entry and exit with no splash ....
Radar locks and underwater tracking (which I presume are done by sonar), no. Holograms can not explain those, as they require (normally) physical objects to interact with. You cannot bounce something off of nothing. Radar returns CAN be generated and sent to radar antenna to mimic contact with an object, and have been done, but that requires a host of ancillary conditions that are probably not met with generally in UFO sightings.
Entering/exiting water without splashing, well yes holograms could explain that pretty handily - water splashes are to water bodies what sound waves are to atmospheres. They are just displacements of masses of molecules by something, some object, displacing them. Holograms would not be able to displace masses of air or water molecules, so no splashing when breaching those boundaries just as there would be no sound when moving through air at high speeds.
With that said, I don't think holograms are a satisfactory explanation for the bulk of sightings, only for a small minority of cases with carefully controlled conditions. I think that particular sighting in Venezuela may meet those conditions, not the least of which would be a reason to go to the expense and trouble of generating a holographic image to begin with. That one condition alone would rule out the majority of sightings as holograms.
Holograms are not the only possible explanation for submergings of that nature, but I don't know what the other explanations might be. For example many years ago, I was down in Gray's Cave in Russell County, VA. Gray's Cave is an oponing in a vast underground cave system that runs for at least 12 miles, underground. Daugherty's Cave, 6 miles eastward from Gray;s, is another opening to that system, and there is another, pretty large opening 6 miles to the west that is also in that same cave system.
So anyhow, I was underground in Gray's Cave, and had made my way to a place where there was an underground river there. Out in the river, there was what I took to be a smooth rock, about 5 feet long and two feet wide, fairly smooth as if it had been worn down by eons of water erosion, and gray in color. It just looked like a big oval piece of water worn limestone to me... but, as I watched and my light played along it, it simply sank into the river with nary a splash nor a ripple. Granted, it wasn't a UFO, but I still don't know what it WAS, and in any event the submersion without a splash or ripple is something I cannot explain to this day, and holograms can not explain it, either - for a hologram to work, there must be an unobstructed line of sight from the projector to the hologram, and I can't think of any way that could happen a couple hundred feet underground.
So, I presented holograms as a possibility for that one narrow Venezuelan case. I don't think they, or any other explanation, is a panacea that could explain them all, nor do I think that is the only possible explanation for the Venezuela case. It's just another possibility for consideration.
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