Dr. Eric Haseltine

Yes, it would from a kinematic point of view.

But the visuals don't line up.

Those are tic-tacs.

And the plasmas

actually can look like a tic-tac because they're not actual balls normally the way you do them unless you really are good with adaptive optics.

But generally what happens with these plasmas, it's a laser beam coming to a focus.

And what happens is instead of just a ball, you tend to get...

the actual caustic of the energy coming in like this.

So you'll see kind of a rope of energy like this.

And that could look like a tic-tac.

And then when you take into account atmospheric scattering and stuff, I would say possibly.

It wouldn't be my first hypothesis because they define it.

It looks like it's made of white plastic or something.

Under normal conditions, these plasmas wouldn't look that way.

Okay.

But they also are louder than hell.

In fact, when Mike Leisner, the CEO of Disney, I first showed him these things.

He said, oh, we're not going to do this.

It's really impressive, but we're not doing this.

And I said, why?