"why do you keep calling things you find beautiful, inexplicable, and unsettling angels" i'm just doing what british wartime radar technicians did first
it was birds btw
β angel
ID one from alt text: "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, from 1947 the term βangelsβ was commonly used to describe βunexplainable echoesβ seen not only on radar pictures in Britain, but across the world." (from https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/radar-uaps/radar-angels/)
ID two from alt text: "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)
ID three from alt text: a murmuration of starlings against a grey dusk sky and silhouettes of power lines / end IDs












