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Posted on 08/17/2014 7:52:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Social media was buzzing on the night of August 11th when several people managed to snap photographs of what appeared to be an oval-shaped craft in the sky over Houston during stormy weather.
Some of the images showed the object, which seemed to have a single point of light in its center, situated in the foreground with dark storm clouds looming menacingly behind it. The disc was pictured from several angles by different witnesses and seemed to change position in the air multiple times.
"The more people who see it in different directions, the more likely we are to figure out where it is, what it is and see if we can explain it," said Dr. Carolyn Sumners of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. "All the way back to recorded history, there are going to be things we can't explain. That's what makes it exciting."
(Excerpt) Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com ...
So you’ve got two sightings. One with one adult and two children. In the second sighting, we have five adults and multiple kids between the ages of 7 and 13. In the second sighting, the ‘whatever’ flew directly over the house. Five adults stood stunned, and all of them would swear that they just saw a freaking pterodactyl.
Considering that it happened in the desert, not a place that one would typically expect to find a water bird, and the angle of the sun made a perfect silhouette and (in both cases) we only had two - maybe three seconds - to get a look before it was gone - the whole situation made identification difficult.
This is very close to what we saw.
Put the legs together so that it creates the illusion of a tail, change the angle slightly so that the feathers aren’t discernible and it made the picture complete.
Now, I ask you, which assumption is more reasonable? That we saw a migrating heron that was attracted to our pool or that multiple witnesses saw a pterodactyl?
All I’m saying is that our eyes and our brains play tricks on us. The only reason that I dug so deep into our experience is that, by all accounts, we saw a freaking pterodactyl flying around the desert. It made no damn sense. The heron is the most logical explanation. I’ve found much better photos than the one I posted and everyone who was there accepts this as the reality.
(Here’s a laugh for you. I just googled heron and pterodactyl and found numerous photographs and accounts of others making the same mistake. Even an article about how much a heron resembles the prehistoric bird. Another article explaining that the two aren’t related. There’s a couple of good pictures where a heron does indeed resemble a pterodactyl.)
Interesting theory. It certainly fits in with the facts.
now that’s a nice bit of photoshop work
Especially in southeast by God Texas. :-)
pretty much
wouldn’t that be something...
Here's the front of a coin from 1680. OPPORTVNVS ADEST translated as
"It is here at an opportune time"
Thanks for the Ping. The object looks just like what I described seeing in 2009, I beleive, in a post here on FR, but there was no light in the center. I live near Stephenville, TX, however that event was in 2008.
All I’m saying is that our eyes and our brains play tricks on us.
That's very true. Deeply ingrained expectations also make us vulnerable to illusion and deception.
I've never seen anything I thought (for long, anyway!) was a UFO machine of other-planetary origin, and hope I live to ripe old age that way.
People are smart enough, as you were, to understand and figure out when there is a logical explanation for what they saw. You're not the only one.
There are times when people see things that flatly, plainly, fall outside the purview of optical or psychological tricks. They know it, they experienced it, and they know others are secretly thinking, "Well, that's just because he/she isn't smart enough, like I have been, to figure out what it really was. Depend upon it, it was very much like my experience."
In many ways, it is insulting and arrogant. But not quite so bad as the condescending, "Well, I believe that the person really believes that's what she saw," which is just passive-aggressive for, "I think the person is too nutty to comprehend what he/she actually saw because there's no such thing as a flying saucer."
It isn't really about whether one "believes" in flying saucers and UFOs and extra-terrestrials.
It's about what one believes about his fellow humans. It's deductive reasoning that some very material manifestation of "flying saucers" exists if only because so many through the ages have described it.
Now you can choose to believe that your fellow humans are much beneath you in that they either lie, or are too simple to perceive that the sophisticated looking, nimble craft they saw, was really just a trick of the mind.
Or you can choose to believe the more frightening alternative.
Which one is more reasonable?
Scary.
Just beautiful stuff.
A UFO thread, I remember back when there would be no such post. Times change or people start waking up slowly.
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Because they are using a Bigfoot Camera.
The creators just checking a flare up on the petri dish.
White House just issued press statement, that the Aliens in the UFO are refugees. They will be meeting soon with Acorn to facilitate their voters registration, and then released among the public at large.
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