WorldNetDaily: Earthly answer to UFO mystery

Specifically, this article discusses a big UFO scare in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. Observers spotted a large triangular object that made several swooping motions in the night sky and also appeared to light up and then darken, before finally disappearing from sight.

The object turned out to be an oversized triangular kite! The light going on and off was the reflected light from the flashlight that the kite fliers trained on the kite at different times, trying to spot the kite as it flew.

More generally, this is another example of a misinterpretation of an earthly event. In fact, Peter Jennings' "large triangular object" could also have been a kite, even if it wasn't a secret Air Force prototype of a blended-wing-body aircraft ("flying wing").

So I ask again: Why didn't Peter Jennings predict that a lot of UFO sightings would have just such a prosaic explanation?

Decades ago, another big scare arose over a region of the Caribbean Sea, called the "Bermuda Triangle," where ships and planes had allegedly vanished over the years. Except that the vanishings turned out to be associated with the violent storms for which the sea in general is famous. A TV special devoted to the Triangle mystery did what a good report should do--assure everyone that the so-called disappearances were perfectly reasonable under the specific circumstances. If Peter Jennings had done that kind of reporting on his UFO special, he'd be a lot better journalist than he seems to be.