“I don’t accept logic and reason,” he said. Riley cast doubt on the scientific explanation for this phenomenon: that atmospheric refraction allows light to travel further than the curve of Earth would otherwise allow. The view was only possible, he said, if Earth is flat.

Riley explained the landmass was the Isle of Man, 34 miles away from the camera’s vantage point on the British mainland. This was the evidence for which everyone had been waiting. The camera panned from left to right, capturing a blurry image of the sea and an unidentifiable landmass on the horizon. There’s people on the beach wondering, what the hell is he doing? I’m wondering, can I see it? Is it there?”Īn enlarged version of his laptop screen was projected onto a big screen behind him and the audience watched intently as the cursor navigated to a file named “wow3.mpf”. “The water was there 20 minutes ago and I’m now lying on the wet sand, and I’m walking the dog at the same time. “I lay, on the beach, on my belly,” he said.

Riley told the audience that the footage they were about to see had not been easy to obtain. The stocky 37-year-old law graduate from Manchester wore a blazer over his T-shirt, which lent him a professorial air of authority, and held a pint of Stella Artois in his left hand, which did not. The audience shifted in the tightly packed chairs and the room was filled with the buzz of conversation, which hushed as Anthony Riley began his presentation.

On a Friday evening in late April, around 70 people gathered in a brightly lit conference room at the Jurys Inn Birmingham to hear news of an important discovery.

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