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valtsv:

valtsv:

valtsv:

“why do you keep calling things you find beautiful, inexplicable, and unsettling angels” i’m just doing what british wartime radar technicians did first

"According to the Oxford English Dictionary, from 1947 the term “angels” was commonly used to describe “unexplainable echoes” seen not only on radar pictures in Britain, but across the world." (from https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/radar-uaps/radar-angels/)ALT
"However, the solution to the radar angel mystery was not found until the 1950s. Although highly seasonal, they were not directly related to the weather: the flights of angels coincided exactly with flocks of small migrating birds returning to Britain." (from https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/27/weatherwatch-planes-rain-and-wartime-radar-angels)ALT

it was birds btw

a murmuration of starlings against a grey dusk sky and silhouettes of power linesALT

↑ angel