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'UFO' Videotaped From Airplane: What Is It?
discovery news ^ | Sat Dec 29, 2012 07:43 AM ET | Benjamin Radford

Posted on 12/30/2012 6:39:59 PM PST by BenLurkin

A home video allegedly taken just before Christmas during a late-night flight appears to show a UFO flying next to the plane. The video, posted to YouTube by a man named Mauricio Ruiz, has the Internet buzzing.

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To: who knows what evil?
Looks like a reflection of the interior ceiling lights...

Not from that angle. (Says the optical engineer after doing some quickie ray tracing in his head.) For that to be something inside the cabin, the source would have to be in the seat back in front of photographer.

21 posted on 12/30/2012 6:57:01 PM PST by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: umgud
I never saw a flying saucer until I got married.

And then the fight started...

22 posted on 12/30/2012 6:58:03 PM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: BlessingsofLiberty

"Not vessel. WESSEL!"

23 posted on 12/30/2012 6:58:44 PM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: oust the louse

It is a reflection of the panel ~ not just the lights ~ there are all sorts of designs but this is the idea http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/siwasasil/siwasasil1210/siwasasil121000022/15597385-overhead-console-in-the-passenger-aircraft.jpg


24 posted on 12/30/2012 6:58:51 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Redcloak
Old airline passenger me says there are TWO surfaces doing the reflecting ~ the inner safety screen ~ it's plastic, and has a different index of refraction than the outer window ~ it's super duper glass. Think hard and you can unbundle the two images in your mind.

You'd be able to see this from the A seat looking toward the F window seat

25 posted on 12/30/2012 7:02:30 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: deoetdoctrinae

Yes, of course, “Wessel”


26 posted on 12/30/2012 7:04:45 PM PST by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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To: muawiyah

It was a Chinese ICBM rocket with a nuke warhead which had been fired from a North Korean Submarine just off the coast of Hawaii.


27 posted on 12/30/2012 7:11:30 PM PST by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: muawiyah

If it were something within the cabin, you would see 2 images of it; one from the interior pane and one from the exterior pressure window. There are no 2nd ghost images of any of the object’s features. The clincher is when he places his hand next to the window. You see the image of the object superimposed on the image of his hand. At that moment, the source would have to be in the palm of his hand. It clearly isn’t something inside the aircraft.


28 posted on 12/30/2012 7:12:17 PM PST by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: The Cajun

That would have to be my favorite episode of Twilight Zone that I can remember. (didn’t watch it until late 80’s on reruns)


29 posted on 12/30/2012 7:12:34 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline, (it's back). 2008, the Decline of America)
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To: who knows what evil?

I already did.. He’s got one of a cloud forming and he thinks it’s a UFO. LOL Clouds can form quickly under the right conditions.


30 posted on 12/30/2012 7:18:15 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: BenLurkin

I watch CNN. It’s an AK 47.


31 posted on 12/30/2012 7:20:16 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Redcloak; muawiyah
If it were something within the cabin, you would see 2 images of it; one from the interior pane and one from the exterior pressure window. There are no 2nd ghost images of any of the object’s features. The clincher is when he places his hand next to the window. You see the image of the object superimposed on the image of his hand. At that moment, the source would have to be in the palm of his hand. It clearly isn’t something inside the aircraft.

TRUE. However, answer this. Why does it seem that in both segments, the 'object' is in a fixed position w/regards to the window ? If the 'object' were outside the plane, you would expect it to move some within the perimeter of the window.

Note also that in this video there were two different 'views' of an 'object'. The first one had the look of an artificial source. The second left me clueless.

Both seemed to actually be a gimmick to make money off YOUTUBE VIDEOS.

32 posted on 12/30/2012 7:25:10 PM PST by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: TADSLOS
No one likes a buzzing internet. It's annoying and jacks up my beeper.

I had that same problem. Found out my phone was plugged into the INTERNET jack and the DSL box was plugged into the PHONE jack on the line splitter. Reversed them and the buzz on BOTH went away.

(/S)

33 posted on 12/30/2012 7:29:16 PM PST by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: BenLurkin

It is an ice light reflecting of the engine nacelle. It is way to fixed in relation to the aircraft to not be coming from the aircraft.

Ice lights are cockpit controlled lights to see if ice is accumulating on wing or engine nacelle leading edges.


34 posted on 12/30/2012 7:33:26 PM PST by wrench (I want my country back)
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To: deoetdoctrinae
"Not vessel. WESSEL!"

I'm just glad the universal language of the known and unknown Universe is english.

35 posted on 12/30/2012 7:40:42 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: oust the louse

I thought along the same lines as you. Perhaps it’s the reflection of the light in the window from across the aisle.


36 posted on 12/30/2012 7:42:23 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: BenLurkin

Paging Louis Farrakhan, your ride has arrived.


37 posted on 12/30/2012 7:45:55 PM PST by stbdside
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To: deoetdoctrinae
Haben Sie mich gerufen?

Nein? Sehr gut, zurück in die Hölle...

38 posted on 12/30/2012 7:49:09 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'll give y'all 90 days for the wounds to heal; then we start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: machogirl
That would have to be my favorite episode of Twilight Zone that I can remember. (didn’t watch it until late 80’s on reruns)

Hard to beat the old Twilight Zones, probably saw every episode several times.
Rod Serling's intros really set the mood for each episode.

39 posted on 12/30/2012 7:54:15 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

That’s what I wondered. He just sat there, and took a picture, and didn’t tell anyone? No one else saw or noticed? Baloney.


40 posted on 12/30/2012 7:55:49 PM PST by Exit148
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