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UFO sighted over Houston during rain storm
.unexplained-mysteries.com ^ | Saturday, 16 August, 2014

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."

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: houston; swampgas; texas; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 08/17/2014 7:52:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Space peanut!


3 posted on 08/17/2014 7:57:23 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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4 posted on 08/17/2014 7:59:47 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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5 posted on 08/17/2014 8:01:32 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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From comments at the article:

PS - there’s a superb, if unwitting, demonstration of how this ‘anomaly’ comes about in this image : Note how the *actual* light is blown out, but the reflection of it (caused by an internal lens flare) is symmetrically placed in the opposite diagonal location in the image - just as a lot of lens flares do.. And if you shoot through a curved car side window, or get that reflection off an angled windscreen, then you can get it happening at pretty much any angle.. Busted”

Wait......WHA?!


6 posted on 08/17/2014 8:03:07 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Chode

That doesn’t look like the description, a single point
of light. One almost expects it to say, “Eat at Joe’s”
in the center...


7 posted on 08/17/2014 8:04:17 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Gee, I dunno, kinda go’n out on a limb here but the Goodyear year blimp maybe?


8 posted on 08/17/2014 8:06:00 AM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 223)
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Gee, I dunno, kinda go’n out on a limb here but the Goodyear year blimp maybe?

Not in that weather, unless the operators of the blimp wanted to go out on a limb themselves and risk getting fired.

10 posted on 08/17/2014 8:10:21 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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... not to mention KILLED.


11 posted on 08/17/2014 8:12:18 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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IT doesn't look like a blimp.


13 posted on 08/17/2014 8:18:08 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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swamp gas photo:  swamp-gas-demotivational-poster--1.jpg
14 posted on 08/17/2014 8:19:59 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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While I trust guys like Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper a lot more than I trust people who are able to write-off as liars of insane proportions people who in all other respects are honorable, good people, having perused the Twitter page linked and looked at all of the pictures there, something (I don't exactly what) tells me that the photos are a hoax.

But WAY often, WAY frequently, it takes a much more gullible and naïve person to think so many policemen, pilots, businessmen, and regular joes who've reported in detail sightings of UFOs that certainly go beyond terrestrial technology over the past FIVE DECADES at least, than a person "gullible" enough to just accept the fact that Earth is one planet in about a gazillion and that somewhere on those other gazillion planets there is at least one life form who has figured out space travel.

However, I hope all of us here live to ripe old age still in friendly argument arguing about the existence of UFOs from other planets. It is infinitely better than the alternative. I mean, I saw that Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man"!!!!!

IT WAS A COOKBOOK!!! {^)

15 posted on 08/17/2014 8:23:47 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Chode

In this day and age of every iPhone having hi-def cameras, why is it UFO pictures are still grainy and out of focus?


18 posted on 08/17/2014 8:27:52 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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LOL!! Hey, it’s a lot more believable than trying to pass it off as a blimp!


19 posted on 08/17/2014 8:28:06 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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