Posted on 05/22/2007 10:45:45 AM PDT by Sundog
"This week I was visting my fiance's parents in Capitola [and] we were eating dinner on the back porch when we noticed this "object" sort of hovering in the sky. The camera was still out from earlier so I grabbed it and tried to get some clear shots of it. It took off over the roof shortly after, so I ran into the street in front of the house to follow, trying to get more shots without wobbling around too much (which was harder than it sounds). It then came in lower over a telephone pole, where I was able to get a few more pictures, before it finally took off into the distance pretty fast. I thought it was gone but noticed it was still visible, so I grabbed a few more pictures.
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It’s no toy - it looks like some Silicon Valley engineer’s very cool garage project.
It’s no toy - it looks like some Silicon Valley engineer’s very cool garage project.
***Yup. Possibly electrogravitics or ion propulsion.
Red, there is probably a tutorial on Phun with Photoshop Phor Phlying Photographers out there then, because we have 4 different photographers, 4 different dates, 4 different locations, and some different configurations of it. No wind evident from photographers directly underneath it tho.
Scout ship?
It’s really quite easy.
You mix and match parts from another model to create the “body” that you want.
It’s baaaaack....
Check out the set of photographs from the 4 different photographers. The original post (1st viewing) showed the thing clear enough to make out the lettering on it.
Okay, so I say again...what kind of flying toy or toys did they start with to build this thing? If you were going to build one, how would you go about it?
It has markings.
In Klingon...
LOL! I took my daughter back to UCSC the l-o-o-o-n-n-g-g-g way arround. We just happened to pass through Capitola...
“Okay, so I say again...what kind of flying toy or toys did they start with to build this thing? If you were going to build one, how would you go about it?”
GEESH!
Just go to a hobby store. Look at the models you can assemble. Pick one out. Got to a toy store and get a remote controlled plane or something. Remove the outer body of the toy and build the model around the body of the toy. Truly, it’s a no brainer.
Now, no more questions!
OK so Lockheed Martin is having a little fun with the yokels......
Besides which, as I said before, I don't see a propeller on that thing...and RC model airplanes have propellers.
So far your theory isn't working out so well, but I'm willing to listen to further explanations.
I have read the sources at the link you provided.
My daughter made something like this with her friends, using an original Macintosh and the voltage provided to the picture tube. She did it with wire and tinfoil, and it flew.
I’m still trying to figure out the dimension to this craft, but the vertical wires are very interesting. You might be onto something. Given the 4 different dates and locations, and at least 2 configurations of the thing, it might be self-contained.
Thanks.
Quite a variety of different shots with this batch—including interesting foregrounds and backgrounds.
Should be easy to tell if it’s been photoshopped. I don’t think it has.
It's merely a demonstrator for the advanced rotor technology used on the Hind helicopter.
They also seem to have added crenelations to the bottom of the center ring, they could be antenna as well, or thrust vectoring?
I suspect it’s a prototype sigint drone/test bed.
My thought too. Suspended from a high-altitude blimp, positioned over various & sundry communication EM-sources, I bet.
Of course, if this is the case, this means whomever is supposed to be in charge of OpSec has seriously screwed the pooch!
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