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Deputies investigate UFOs near Jeffrey Lake[Nebraska]
North Platte Bulletin ^ | 11 Dec 2008 | Frank Graham

Posted on 12/13/2008 10:56:22 AM PST by BGHater

Two deputies investigated the sighting of unidentified flying objects in the sky south of Brady Nov. 21, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer.

Although both deputies and the man who called to report the lights dancing in the sky observed them for more than 15 minutes, they could offer no explanation about what they were.

“One deputy, who has an extensive amount of military experience and has witnessed a lot of military maneuvers first hand, said he’d never seen anything like them,” Kramer said. “They could not explain what they were.”

A man who lives near Jeffrey Lake reported the lights in the sky to the 911 Center about 7:30 Nov. 21, according to an LCSO report. A dispatcher reported the call to on-duty deputies, who responded to the call.

Kramer said both deputies observed the lights first hand.

“The report says they first observed a blue light with a red tail fall out of the sky toward a field,” Kramer said. “It stayed stationary for a short time then disappeared.”

Kramer said the deputies observed lights that appeared to hover then take off in one direction or another. He said the deputies reported that they never saw more than three lights together at one time and that there was no sound coming from them.

Kramer said the deputies reported that the lights were “too fast to be helicopters and too agile to be jet aircraft.”

The lights were reported to be blue and white, according to Kramer.

The deputies also reported that one of the lights would occasionally drop directly down toward the earth and then suddenly rise up again into the sky.

The deputies observed the lights in the southern sky for about 15 minutes before they suddenly darted off and disappeared.

Kramer said one deputy managed to get a picture of the lights shot with a digital camera through his night vision goggles but that the pictures didn’t offer much evidence as they were too grainy and the lights appeared so small.

The man who reported the lights said he often watched military helicopters on maneuvers in the canyons during the summer but said it was nothing like the lights Nov. 21.

Others at Lake Maloney also reported seeing the unidentified lights in the eastern sky.

Dispatchers checked with Denver International Airport, which covers radar for this area, but they said the radar only monitored activity at 14,000 feet and above.

The deputies reported the lights were much lower than that in the sky.

Mike Sharkey, manager of the North Platte Regional Airport, said the dispatchers called him at home to see if he could shed any light on the mysterious lights but he said that Lee Bird Field has no radar and could offer no further information.

A spokesman for the National Weather Service office in North Platte said their radar rarely picks up any aircraft or UFOs. He said no one noticed anything unusual on their radar Nov. 21.

Kramer said he too could offer no explanation for the mysterious lights.

A deputy took digital pictures of the unworldly lights through night vision goggles but they came out badly.

UFOs sighted over area for more than 53 years

Only one in 450 UFO sightings are ever reported, according to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle Wash.

On any particular evening in the United States there are around 1,000 sightings of UFOs around the USA, including 100 close encounters with objects, 80 encounters with humanoids, and 15 reported abductions.

In the U.S. there are now living around one million people who believe they have seen saucer occupants, and over 150,000 who believe they have been abducted.

There have been 252 UFO sightings reported in Nebraska, according to NUFORC.

NUFORC was founded in 1974 by noted UFO investigator Robert J. Gribble. The Center's primary function over the past two decades has been to receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have been witness to unusual, possibly UFO-related events.

The center operates a telephone hotline that has operated almost continuously since 1974 and has processed more than 10,000 calls. Reports can also be filed on the center’s website.

The U.S. government took an interest in UFOs from 1947 to 1967 and the U.S. Air Force used its substantial base network to take reports and write them up in standardized formats. During this period there were also substantial report libraries accumulated by the private NICAP and AFPRO organizations in the United States, the researcher Jacques Vallee, and other private organizations in Canada, Europe and Australia.

The official Condon Study of 1969 ended the U.S. government program of taking reports. Researchers at the private CUFOS group managed to acquire the final government-sponsored report database on mainframe data tapes.

It is from this data and other reports that we can report West Central Nebraska area UFO sightings:

• McPherson County - In April 1916 and again in August 1917, a flying disk was observed and reported by residents.

• North Platte, Aug. 23, 1955 – A woman reported that she had a close encounter with an unidentified craft and its occupants.

• Rural West Central Nebraska, Jan. 1, 1953 – A woman told her child, who was only 4-years old the night the incident happened, that they were traveling by car when a light came from the sky and lit up the area so bright that she could see every blade of grass if it were daylight. She told her daughter that the car stopped and they just sat there. She said she didn’t know how long but that the light left and she started the car again and drove them home. She remembered the incident and all the details at age 82.

• North Platte, April 25, 1964 – A meteor-like object was reported by numerous people. It was later determined to be an actual meteor.

• North Platte, June 17, 1978 – Numerous witnesses reported an object hovering in the sky for more than one hour at approximately 11 p.m. The witnesses made numerous police reports about the encounter.

• North Platte, Aug. 25, 1979 – Two friends were star gazing at 10:30 p.m. when one suddenly saw an object flying through the northern Milky Way. He reported it was nearly 60,000 feet in altitude and traveling due south. He said the object was dark with jagged edges and appeared to be the size of three football fields. Two other similarly shaped objects were traveling in a split formation behind the lead craft and four more followed those, the report said. All were traveling extremely fast. They bolted from the far northern view of the Milky to the south under 10 seconds. The friend pointed them out to his buddy who then saw them too. The report said they could distinguish them as separate because they could see the stars between objects.

• North Platte, July 17, 1980 – Two people who were attending a party at the skating rink were walking home a little after 10 p.m. and looked up about 30 degrees at the corner of Custer Avenue and West 13th Street. They reported spotting several rock-shaped objects with jagged edges flying across the sky. The objects went north to south and passed overhead silently, the report said. The pair watched the objects for about eight seconds until they vanished into a puffy white cloud. The report said one of the boys went home and told his parents what he saw but they were not the least but interested because they were watching Ronald Reagan giving his acceptance speech for nomination of the Republican Party for President that Thursday evening, which also happened to be the boy’s fathers birth date. He said he highly doubted anyone believed his story because he was only fourteen years old when it happened.

• North Platte, Oct. 19, 1981 – Objects were tracked by radar and sighted visually. Three multi-colored discs were observed by five witnesses.

• Sutherland, Nov. 15, 1983 – A Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy was on patrol in the Sutherland area when he found some kids drinking beer. As the kids were dumping the beer at the deputy’s direction, one of them yelled, “Hey, what is that?” The deputy reported he looked toward the northwest and observed a craft floating above the ground. He reported the dark metallic craft was about 2,000 feet above the ground and about 1,200 feet away from him. He said the craft was moving slowly toward the south. The deputy reported the craft had rows of square objects that looked like windows but were dark. The deputy watched the craft move to the south and over the Village of Sutherland. He reported he called another deputy in the Wallace area and asked him to start heading north and see if he could catch it. Just then, the deputy said, three circles at the rear of the craft flashed a bright white and the craft sped up in the direction of the Gerald Gentleman Power Plant then veered to the southeast. The second deputy then reported he could see the craft and estimated it was going about 400 miles per hour towards Dickens. The craft was reported to be as long as a C5 Galaxy aircraft and twice as wide. He observed it for an estimated 15 minutes. He said he and the teens all felt the hair on their arms and legs stand up when they saw it.

• Maxwell, Nov. 15, 1984 – The man who reported this UFO said he was driving east down Hwy. 30 toward Maxwell taking a friend home at 6 p.m. on a cold, misty, rainy day. He said he did not like driving on that road as the trains on the track perpendicular to the road often had their front lights on bright. The man said he saw a light that he first thought was a train but quickly realized it was twice as high as it should have been. He said he and his friend went silent as they got closer and observed the light was coming from a football shaped craft floating above the railroad tracks. The light was on the front of the craft was pointing straight ahead and there was another he said he could not see at first pointing directly down onto the tracks. It also had several small colored lights at different areas on it. They stopped the car and got out, walking towards the craft as it approached. The passenger got back in the car and yelled for the driver to get in and drive off. But the driver stayed outside and observed the craft as it passed. He said there was no sound coming from the craft and it just glided over the tracks. They watched as it passed by and disappeared from sight into the mist. The man reported that he and his friend never could make sense of what they saw. He said the sighting took about five minutes but after dropping his friend off and driving back home, he learned he had been gone six hours. They reported the sighting to the Nebraska State Patrol.

• Gothenburg, July 15, 1996 – A man reported that he saw a red round flashing light similar to a taillight on an old car cross the night sky from the west horizon to the east horizon five to 10 times faster than any jet he had ever seen. He said it went from horizon to horizon in about 30 to 45 seconds and made absolutely no sound. The object was observed at 11:30 p.m. The same object was reportedly reported to a Denver radio station.

• Cozad, Sept. 18, 1998 – A licensed practical nurse reported a triangular shaped object, whose margins were unspecific, at 1:45 a.m. The night was clear and the star field exceptionally sharp. The trajectory was from north to south and there were no visible lights. “I am a trained observer by profession,” the nurse wrote in the report.

• Ogallala, July 22, 2000 – Three friends reported an enormous craft with multi-illuminated panels giving off shapes and colors “unlike anything they had ever seen.” They reported it rose on the western horizon and traveled to the eastern horizon. They observed it for about 25 minutes.

• Mullen, Nov. 19, 2002 – A couple reported that they observed brilliant lights moving at incredible speeds and doing strange maneuvers for four nights in a row. They reported that they got scared and observed the lights appearing to follow them until they reached town then shoot straight up into the sky about 11 p.m. They observed them for several hours one night and even videotaped the event.

• North Platte, Oct. 17, 2003 – A woman reported that he observed an aircraft apparently chasing a formation of yellowish and orange lights quite a bit bigger than the aircraft. The eastbound formation of lights accelerated and left the aircraft far behind, according to the woman. She observed the chase for about three minutes, she reported.

• Sutherland, July 26, 2004 – A man was cutting cross-country from Tryon and was on his way to Sutherland at 11:40 p.m. when he observed a needle nosed, triangular-shaped object in the sky. It appeared to be hovering halfway between Sutherland and Hershey. It soon began moving to the south very slowly. “I would say the object was about 300 yards long and 100 wide at the triangular front end. I continued to the south until I came onto the two-mile road north of Sutherland and turned to the east. I stopped and got out to get a better look. I heard a low-pitched hum, which seemed to be coming from the object which was heading south towards I-80 and Hwy. 30. It seemed to be moving about 3-5 miles per hour at about 1,000-foot altitude or so. It seemed to me it was about a mile or two away to the east. I watched this object for several minutes until it disappeared to the south and the lights of the rest area on I-80 interfered. I came on home and reported what I saw.” He reported that he observed the craft for 25 minutes.

• Hershey, Dec. 3, 2004 – A man was driving on Hwy. 30 when he noticed lights in the sky just south of the highway and east of Hershey. It appeared to be a rectangle that spun slowly counter clockwise and took about 10 seconds to make a complete revolution. It was drifting west. Suddenly, the rotation stopped and the craft began moving directly to the north. “At this point I had pulled off to the side of the road and got out of my truck. The lights were shaped in a Trapezoid formation with a spot light in the center that would come on intermittently. What ever this craft was it did not make the sounds that a helicopter makes. The only thing I heard was a low continued whooshing sound heavy on the osh part. I stood there for about four minutes watching this object light up the country side with a bright white circle until it was about a mile or so north then the craft shot straight up and out of site. The whole time I watched this craft it was about 700 feet above the ground and I also saw the normal passenger jet aircraft in the sky but they were traveling at their normal altitudes – 20,000 feet or so.”

• North Platte, June 29, 2007 – A man reported that as he walked toward his pickup truck, he looked up in the sky and saw three very bright lights moving in a triangular shape at 11:30 p.m. He reported the triangle moved to the north slowly. He said he then observed a fast moving plane fly under the lighted triangle. The UFO then shot straight up and disappeared, the man reported.

• Hershey, Nov. 2, 2007 – A man reported that he was walking to his truck when he looked into the sky and noticed an airplane flying from west to east. He said then he noticed a very bright light in the sky further “toward Zenith” from the plane. He said he quickly checked the Constellations to orient himself. He reported the light four times the size of Venus. He observed it for about 20 seconds when its intensity began dissipating. He said he could see a round ball in the center of the light. He said he went back into his house, saw it was 10:34 p.m. and filed his report.


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To: freedumb2003

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, “Are we alone?” The answer is probably not, he says.

21 posted on 12/13/2008 11:37:44 AM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: mysterio

“Why would an alien with wormhole traveling technology need a brightly lighted ship?”

Are you kidding?! It’s DARK in those wormholes (..)


22 posted on 12/13/2008 11:40:57 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: BGHater

More deadbeats, no doubt looking for a bail out and free health care.


23 posted on 12/13/2008 11:42:37 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: JoeProBono; Quix

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/UFORC/page62.html

THE CONDON REPORT:
RE-EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE**
By Christopher Montgomery
The McMinnville UFO photographs are amongst the few that have survived the rigors of UFO photograph analysis. We wanted to get these photographs online right away so that you could check them out. A couple of things to note: the image in photo #5 is not asymmetrical, in other words, this UFO is somewhere between our dimensions and the next. The second is that the zig-zag pattern in photo #3 indicates that this object is tacking against the angular velocity of the earth. This is a classic characteristic of UFO maneuvers. “This is one of the few UFO reports in which all factors investigated, geometric, psychological and physical appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object…flew within sight of two witnesses."- HARTMAN

DATE/TIME: May 11, 1950; 7:45 PM (PST)
LOCATION: McMinnville, Oregon; 0.2 miles S of the Salmon Run Hiway; Approximately 10 miles SW of McMinnville, Oregon on or near the farm of the eyewitnesses; Coordinates 123 19’50” W longitude, 45 06’ 15” N latitude;
ELEVATION: 210 feet above sea level.
TERRAIN: “Rolling farm country.”

INVESTIGATOR: Hartmann
WEATHER CONDITIONS: “Dull with overcast at about 5,000 feet” ABSTRACT: Farmer’s wife initially saw object, she called her husband who took a look also. A camera was located and several photos were taken. (Extrapolation on this case study and photo analysis to follow).

UFO DESCRIPTION:
1. The UFO was described as "'very bright…almost silvery.'" Also described as "'brightly metallic, silver or aluminum colored, with a touch of bronze…appeared to have a sort of super structure…like a good-sized parachute canopy without the strings only silvery-bright mixed with bronze.'" 2. "'Silvery on top but with more bronze on the bottom, the bottom being different.'" The estimated diameter was approximately 20-30 feet diameter. The primary witness (farmer’s wife) compared the object to the size of an open parachute canopy.
3. Also added…There wasn’t any noise nor was there any flames, smoke or exhaust visible.

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS:
"’There was a breeze as it flew overhead…which died down later’" according to the two eyewitnesses. "They felt a gust of wind, which they thought may have come from the UFO" when the object "tipped up, exposing its underside."
The primary witness stated that "the wind almost knocked him over;"
The secondary witness stated that it had "made only a little breeze."
There were some discrepancies between the testimony of the primary witness (the farmer’s wife) and the secondary witness (the farmer). Hartman did not explore the reasons for this. After the object had changed its attitude, it made some sophisticated attitude adjustments before it flew off to the west (see photo #3 above) reference Condon files; plate #25.(Hartmann, page 398)***

McMinnvile UFO Photo #2
PHOTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS:
The majority of the investigation probably involved locating the negatives and examining the photos for any sign of a hoax. Later, Hartmann would make this statement in his report: "The negatives had not been tampered with," and it was "unlikely that a sophisticated optical fabrication was performed." This was the one case that would have given any serious researcher the drive to continue investigating UFOs. Unless one can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that UFOs don't exist, then the investigation should've remained open. If not for the McMinnville UFO photographs, I would have probably agreed with the Condon committee's conclusions to close the book on UFOs. These photographs remain the best evidence that's ever existed to support the belief that UFOs are real. Is a matter of fact, these photographs have withstood all attempts to debunk them using the most advance photo analysis currently available in the 1990s. The only person that I've ever heard of that has tried to discredit the McMinnville UFO photographs was Phillip Klass. He would discredit anything concerning the subject of UFOs, whether the evidence was genuine or not.

"Atmospheric extinction and scattering, combined, serve to reduce contrast as distance increases, an effect perhaps best appreciated by artists...The shadowed bottom of the UFO in plate 23 [McMinnville UFO photo #1, above]has a particularly pale look, suggestive of scattering between the observer and the object, and if such scattering is detectable, it may be possible to make some estimate of the distance involved." –[Insert mine] (IBID 402) One thing the Condon Committee didn’t take into account was that this thing generated a field of energy, which dopplerized the particles of reflective and refractive light that was caught by the observer's camera. This affect is really obvious in genuine UFO photographs, where the field is clearly differentiated and visible in an aura surrounding the UFO. This is especially true in cases where UFOs appear in photographs after their developement, which were not visible while the pictures were being taken. I have a theory, that this is due to the fact that the field generation is especially active when the UFO object is traveling at thousands of miles per hour. When something is traveling that fast, the naked eye would not perceive of the event. The unerring eye of the camera would, however, in that it freezes the image in a fraction of the time.

McMinnvile UFO Photo #3
Tacking Maneuvers
ASSYMETRY AS EVIDENCE OF TIME/SPACE DISTORTION
Analysis from plate 26 reveals that "the UFO is distinctly asymmetric…and there appears to be a difference in the profiles of the right and left sides (plate 24), the left having a more pronounced notch defining the flange." These were judged to be "physical properties" of the object itself. "The pole is also off center and inclined," Hartmann concluded. It appears for all intents and purposes that this UFO investigator was not seeing the forest for the trees. The study of UFOs was really in its infancy in the 1960s. Modern advances in technology have given us more tools by which to compare this alien technology to. They didn’t have anything to really compare it with at the time...or did they? What this indicates is that the UFO is somewhere between our dimension and the next. It was probably out of phase with respect to our time and space parameters. Bob Lazar, a former employee of Area 51, has popularized the concept of warping, or bending space/time to cross-vast distances in a relatively short amount of time. This equates to very low fuel expenditures, especially if the fuel is renewable.

I theorize that fusion power could use deuterium fuel, which is readily available in ordinary tap water. Through the process of nucleosynthesis, for example, the UFO exhaust would be gamma radiation. We would then see these kinds of environmental affects in the environement, which we do. Gamma radiation counts would be slightly elevated above background levels and this is the norm for most UFO landing sites. But no more than so than what one would expect from the Pons and Fleischman electrochemical cells on a grand scale. Gamma is a common byproduct of UFOs interacting within our environment. If my memory serves me correctly, Los Alamos was also involved in fusion research and I believe that they got the initial concept from back-engineering UFOs.

McMinnville UFO Photo #4
THE ULTRADIMENSIONAL PARADIGM
The evidence suggests that the UFO has the ability to warp time and space by bringing its frictionless engines to specific, determined levels of nucleosynthetic reaction. This would also generate the tremendous gravitational fields required to warp space and time.
It also appears from my analysis that the McMinnville UFO emitted a very faint luminescence. Was Hartmann alluding to the low-level radiance that a UFO emits? This low-level radiation is practically invisible to the naked eye during the daytime, but gives the UFO its dynamic glow at night.
I would speculate that the Condon boys were privy to some highly classified material, and that they were told what to look for. They debunked UFOs as they studied them, carefully gleaning whatever information they could for the Air Force…all the while keeping a really tight lid on it. They probably did not understand why military intelligence was asking very specific questions about a subject they were supposed to know very little about.
In an article that I published in Uncensored UFO Reports, the black and white reproductions that were published with the article would tell all. Much to our pleasant surprise, the transition to B&W created an affect that was just enough to bring out the UFO’s faint luminescence. The subtle glow bathed the surrounding foliage with illumination. This was an affect, which was not visible in the color photos. It certainly was not one that I had expected.
I have often suspected John Keel may have had something to do with it. He is an associate editor for the magazine, and very knowledgeable about the types of radiation that a UFO is capable of emitting. This is further evidence that the UFO is definitely displaying the capability to warp space/time.
In the McMinnville UFO photographs, one must also consider the refraction and reflection values of that object. The photographs indicate that the UFO object may be warping space/time due to the fact that it was said that the object did not rotate or spin; One side of the "asymmetrical" object was shaped differently than the other, and indication of the space/time affect.
“The true r is about 0.32 km, and out error is a factor of 4. One can resolve the discrepancy by assuming the barn roof was slightly (7%) darker than the garage roof. (IBID p 403)
"The witnesses referred to a slightly different hue of the bottom side of the UFO: they said it was more bronze than the silvery top side.” – HARTMANN (IBID page 406). See also Condon, photometric analysis, page 402.

] McMinnville UFO Photo #5
Asymmetry
A COMMON THREAD
One common thread that courses through most, if not all genuine UFO photos is the distortion effect, which is often reported and evident in UFO photographs. The George Adamski photo is one example of this warping affect recorded on film. There are at least three possible scenarios, which we should consider:
1. The UFO in these photographs was enveloped within its own time/space continuum, therefore dopplerizing its image as the refractive/reflective radii passed through the intense gravitational field surrounding the object. When we examine UFOs from this perspective, it is easier to understand its technology. That is one of the reasons why military intelligence does not want any UFO photographs floating around…if they can help it…especially those that display these types of tell tale qualities.
2. The UFO is in a state of constant flux. One thing that becomes more and more evident the longer I study UFOs is the fact that Em energy is distorted when subjected to the UFO field. It is partly of this world and partly of the next; call it a parallel universe, another dimension…whatever. The gravitational lensing that is taking place is evident by the effect that the UFO’s energy field has on cameras…and on the film. A camera stops time in its tracks and gives us a split second look at things that the naked eye might otherwise miss. In the excitement of witnessing a UFO event, the mind could easily overlook what the camera would document on its emulsion.
3. But the camera has other tales to tell. Photographs that have been taken by military personal while a UFO was buzzing their aircraft often will not turn out. The image may be so badly blurred that it is unrecognizable as anything more than a blob or a blur. The film may be way over exposed despite using the correct settings on the camera. The reason is simple. The lens of the camera can further distort the dopplerized energy being emitted by the UFO, enhancing the UFO's time/space distortion affect. The fact is that a UFO has to be in the right time and at the right place to be seen at all, let alone be photographed by a camera.
The Condon’s team of investigators had concluded that "This is one of the few UFO reports in which all factors investigated, geometric, psychological and physical appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object…flew within sight of two witnesses." (IBID pg 407)

The above object was reported by at least three FREEPERS as being similar to what they witnessed!

24 posted on 12/13/2008 11:46:37 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (Illegitimi non carborundum - "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: BGHater
On any particular evening in the United States there are around 1,000 sightings of UFOs around the USA, including 100 close encounters with objects, 80 encounters with humanoids, and 15 reported abductions.

These numbers seem a little high.

25 posted on 12/13/2008 11:47:39 AM PST by LiberConservative ("I would have looked forward to debating anybody." -Sarah Palin)
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To: BGHater

26 posted on 12/13/2008 12:00:41 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (The GOP is as anatomically correct as a Ken doll. ©)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

McMinnville photos.

http://rc.nicap.org/mcmin4.htm


27 posted on 12/13/2008 12:02:22 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave (Illegitimi non carborundum - "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: kempo
Your question is well asked. Many times we see on Youtube videos shot of events that never would have been seen. With the age of digital photography with high-tech electronics, all you do is aim and shoot: A perfect picture.

You would think that someone would have got a UFO so detailed you could see the occupants peering out their cockpit windows. Not. The people making up these stories are Narcissists trying to grab attention using an old ploy: the salad plate suspended from a string, etc.

28 posted on 12/13/2008 12:11:32 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: JoJo Gunn

That looks like a Billy Meier special. :)

On the other hand, check out this video. Impressive

UFO over Turkey this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BEM-ObMXJY&feature=related


29 posted on 12/13/2008 12:21:43 PM PST by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: jonrick46
You would think that someone would have got a UFO so detailed you could see the occupants peering out their cockpit windows

Check out the link in # 29. It's close to your requirements.

While I consider myself agnostic on the subject one thing I'd like to point out.

Most cameras, esp. camcorders, don't focus well at night.
A few points of light isn't enough to allow the camera mechanism to focus.
Unless the taker had presence of mind to manually set the focus at infinity the camera will 'hunt'. Not many folks would stay calm enough to do that. I probably wouldn't.

The trouble today is photos can be photoshopped so easily that any picture has to be seen w/ a large dose of salt.

30 posted on 12/13/2008 12:31:54 PM PST by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Vinnie
UFO over Turkey....

I saw that thread. Aim at something that's stationary, zoom in and out and move the camera and claim the "UFO" is "extraordinary".

31 posted on 12/13/2008 12:32:50 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (The GOP is as anatomically correct as a Ken doll. ©)
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To: Vinnie
UFO over Turkey this year.

Well, it's out of focus, divorced from any background, zooms in and out and jiggles, so it's obviously a UFO. "Over Turkey," though? Only if there's a bird in the oven. It's a pot lid.

32 posted on 12/13/2008 12:49:39 PM PST by Grut
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To: miele man

bump flr


33 posted on 12/13/2008 12:50:13 PM PST by miele man
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To: BGHater

“On any particular evening in the United States there are around 1,000 sightings of UFOs around the USA, including 100 close encounters with objects, 80 encounters with humanoids, and 15 reported abductions.

In the U.S. there are now living around one million people who believe they have seen saucer occupants, and over 150,000 who believe they have been abducted.”

Are these numbers true????
80 encounters with humanoids, and 15 reported abductions EVERY DAY? That’s huge.
150,000 people in the US who believe they have been abducted?

I believe in UFOs but why would the aliens abduct so many people? 150,000 in the US alone? That’s crazy.


34 posted on 12/13/2008 1:23:11 PM PST by syl799
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To: JoJo Gunn

35 posted on 12/13/2008 1:29:44 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: kempo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRtYHzIw-XA


36 posted on 12/13/2008 1:37:49 PM PST by syl799
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To: BGHater
Is this the photo he took?


37 posted on 12/13/2008 2:10:47 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Vinnie

Notice in the video on #29 that each view of the object has new elements along the leading edge of the “craft.” However as you view this object, never do you see any rotation or change in aspect. You always see the object differently in each view, suggesting that this is a model made to look like a UFO suspended from a string. This is the old dinner plate on a string trick.

I also question the focus problems of the camera. Each view will focus on the object, but never come to a perfect focus. The object is always out of focus the same way in each view. This suggests that the camera is being manually focused, but never allowed to get a perfect focus. Such perfect focus would reveal the fake aspect of the model.

I have a video camera that is fifteen years old and it never had problems with focus in dark situations. When there was a total eclipse of the moon, we got wonderful videos. And, our hand held video was nearly rock solid. This jumpy bumpy stuff also makes me suspect.


38 posted on 12/13/2008 2:25:10 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: BGHater

This picture is quite intersting as it shows a bright white light on the horizon and then a series of refraction coronas converging along a sight line at about 1500-3000 feet above; the whole explanation may be as simple as the weather summary for 7-9 pm on the 21st of Nov. At 7:00pm it was clear, at 8:00 pm it was mostly cloudly and at 9:00 pm it was back to clear where it remained until midnight. I'd be looking for a sporting event nearby or a searchlight used for advertising purposes.

39 posted on 12/13/2008 2:46:20 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: BGHater

According to Carl Jung in his book about UFO’s we will start having more and more UFO sightings throughout the US in the next couple of years.

He stated in his book that whenever a country is going thru a change as we are the UFO sightings increase.

It happened during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

For some reason it takes people to a level that allows them to handle the change better.

And I think we will be having these same types of changes as we throw off the chains of socialism.


40 posted on 12/13/2008 2:49:18 PM PST by stockpirate (Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark, Ann, Malkin, Beck, - MIA re: COLB, Have lost ALL creds!)
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