In 'The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files' (2010, University Press of Kentucky), Joe Nickell applies principles of optics and meteorology to explain the 1952 Flatwoods monster sighting in West Virginia as a meteor or falling star, which was misinterpreted by frightened witnesses and led to a misidentified barn owl being perceived as an alien creature.

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