[archepyx]

The wag who dubbed various false alarms of room temperature superconductivity in the 1990s as USOs (Unidentified Superconducting Objects) got it quite right.

First there is the condensed-matter equivalent of blurry photos of floating saucers (or small disks like here) and lots of excitement, followed by investigations either not seeing anything or identifying the objects as weather ballons. The social media reaction is also similar.

This preprint identifies a weather balloon that was conspicuously close the site of the original photographs.

[klysm]

Doesn’t Uso also mean “lie” in Japanese or something like that?