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The Cleveland UFO: What on Earth?
theweek ^ | March 12, 2010

Posted on 03/13/2010 6:00:33 AM PST by JoeProBono

For more than a week, a mysterious pulsating light has been appearing nightly over Lake Erie east of downtown Cleveland — showing up at approximately 7:30 pm and zipping around in the darkness for about two hours before disappearing — reports MSNBC. Captured on film from various angles, it's now drawing nightly crowds at the lakefront. While Nick Pope, former chief UFO investigator at the British defense ministry, calls it a "significant sighting," some of the UFO's fans do not exactly inspire faith: "I have absolutely no expertise in this field, but I can guarantee you that it is not human!" says Eugene Erlich, a local college student who has been videotaping the lights. Watch MSNBC's report:


TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cleveland; jpb; lakeerie; ohio; ufo
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To: Dallas59
Some sort of RC was my first thought.

Here are a couple of similar items...

Helicopter drone controlled with iPhone

HexaKopter - MikroKopter

Even an ordinary RC winged aircraft with a light could do the trick as long as the craft is in line of sight of the controller.

21 posted on 03/13/2010 6:31:39 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: AlexW

22 posted on 03/13/2010 6:32:47 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
When they land and vaporize all the liberals, I will believe.
23 posted on 03/13/2010 6:33:37 AM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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To: JoeProBono

The mothership has finally come back for Kucinich?


24 posted on 03/13/2010 6:33:40 AM PST by defconw (I'll keep my guns, religion and money. You keep the change.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

I should try this....really....I’m series...


25 posted on 03/13/2010 6:33:42 AM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Sarajevo
When will Jimmy Dimora self-combust?
26 posted on 03/13/2010 6:34:35 AM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: Dallas59

See post # 9


27 posted on 03/13/2010 6:35:00 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: JoeProBono

Intergalactic travel tours- and they pick-Cleveland?
Lets assume for a minute that UFOs are real, extra-terrestrial visitors from the far reaches of space. What we see is proof of a culture that has achieved real space travel and yet they just do flyovers.
They don’t seem interested in any of the spots WE consider important, but spend all that time and fuel checking out mundane areas. It’s like going to Paris and touring gas stations and backyard vegetable gardens.
If the UFO’s are really tourists checking out weird planets like we go through a zoo, they seem rather low-end tourists at that.
Even real economical tourists eventually get off the bus, or want to feed the giraffes or something.
What a glaring waste of technology to have the ability to go to other planets and never do more than gawk out the window. Maybe they’re repulsed and afraid- but keep coming back, or recommend friends : “ Gort, you gotta see this place!”
I don’t have much respect for any alien who picks THIS planet- in a universe full of them- to spend time and nuclear fuel visiting.


28 posted on 03/13/2010 6:36:09 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: JoeProBono

Dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas.


29 posted on 03/13/2010 6:36:15 AM PST by jaz.357 ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I wonder what kind of light to use? Batteries? It maybe to heavy...*looks at plans*...


30 posted on 03/13/2010 6:36:36 AM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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31 posted on 03/13/2010 6:38:56 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: RegulatorCountry

That could be it! Alien toupees looking for a lost brother.
Or - more likely- it’s Wookiees, searching for the colony they left hear ages ago( Bigfoot/Yeti to us.)
There - I’ve explained UFO’s and Bigfoot!


32 posted on 03/13/2010 6:39:45 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: Dallas59
If I had an RC, I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to scare the h$ll out of my town.;-)

When I was a kid, my brother and I built a kind of Chinese lantern (candles, plastic dry cleaning bag, kite sticks) and eventually got it to fly.

But after a huge effort, not a d@mn soul noticed.

33 posted on 03/13/2010 6:40:47 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Eeek- left HERE not hear.


34 posted on 03/13/2010 6:41:31 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: ClearBlueSky
Interesting comments. That would be a great premise for a short story / novella - the dull aliens - booking corn-field and remote lake tours of earth, double-booking seating, and promising only glimpses of the most advanced species on the planet. Maybe they are advanced in technology, but socially retarded - The Return of the Timidoids! Would need to stay away from that highbrow, 'Do not interfere,' prime-directive stuff and stick with the xenophobic space wussy theme.
35 posted on 03/13/2010 6:48:56 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

That’s a pretty nifty kite!


36 posted on 03/13/2010 6:49:36 AM PST by mylife (Opinions...$1 Halfbaked...50c)
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To: JoeProBono

why would alien life (except for Dennis Kucinich) be so interested in Cleveland?

Imagine traveling between galaxies and ending up in Cleveland


37 posted on 03/13/2010 6:58:32 AM PST by silverleaf ("Congress is America's only native criminal class."- Mark Twain)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Even an ordinary RC winged aircraft with a light could do the trick

I agree with you but there is one thing that puzzles me. The light/lights have been observed for up to 2 hours which is an incredibly long time for something powered by batteries.....

Generally speaking, they're only capable of approx. 20 minutes flight time before they have to be replaced.

Here's another thought, if it was a winged RC aircraft, it would have to be visually observed by the controller, they can't be flown in the dark or they would crash.

So my guess is that its probably something like that HexaKopter

38 posted on 03/13/2010 6:59:11 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My boomerang won't come back)
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To: silverleaf

39 posted on 03/13/2010 6:59:51 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

40 posted on 03/13/2010 7:01:53 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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