Posted on 04/08/2015 10:45:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
People love to ask pilots questions. But my favorite, and certainly the most interesting, is "Have you ever seen a UFO while flying?"
The answer is yes. And here's how it happened.
It was April 10, 1989 and early in my career. I was still a first officer at a regional airline. It was about 8 p.m. and we had just taken off from Kansas City International Airport bound for Waterloo, Iowa. It was a beautiful evening, with a full moon, clear skies and crisp early spring temperatures. The weather forecast for Waterloo was as nice, with clear skies and unlimited visibility.
After a short taxi and take-off, Air Traffic Control (ATC) cleared us to our cruise altitude of 15,000 feet. We established a Northeasterly heading, pointed strait at Waterloo, about 200 miles ahead. There were thin wispy clouds all around us, illuminated by the light of the full moon that shone through the captain's-side window at our left. Despite the presence of these clearly visible wispy clouds everywhere, we weren't flying through any of them. There was also a white disc dimly but clearly visible through those clouds just off to our right.
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We spent 20 to 30 minutes at our cruise altitude, all the while staring at this white disc dimly visible through some clouds that we somehow never seemed to fly through. Within about 40 miles of Waterloo, ATC confirmed the weather, still clear skies and unrestricted visibility at our destination as we began to descend. We got busy with our flying duties and for a short while, maybe for a minute, both of us had looked away from the disc, but when I looked up at it again I saw something that has been burned into my memory.
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I think because a ship that reflects light is made up ultimately of atoms. Atoms moving faster than light would seem an impossibility in that the signals between the nucleus and surrounding electrons would result in those atoms being torn apart.
E=mc².
I’ll look up the book. I do like SciFi (not syfy).
Perhaps the vehicles could be from both? Who knows.
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper wrote about his own experiences with UFOs — and there were several — in his autobiography “Leap of Faith.” He stated flat-out that the government went to great lengths to hide and cover-up any and all info and evidence.
The disruption of any "signals" between the electrons and the nuclei would be the least of all problems.
But, in any event, I guess the solution to your objection would be to ensure that the ship would - during FTL flight - not consist of atoms.
Once it drops to below light-speed (e.g., when preparing for a landing), it could then revert to being made of "ordinary" matter.
Regards,
Respectfully, this is nonsense.
We have to deal with the things we know rather than speculating - with no evidence whatsoever - about the technologies of some super-ethereal “other”.
Was smoking allowed during those flights?
Actually, its stuff and nonsense.
We have to deal with the things we know rather than speculating - with no evidence whatsoever - about the technologies of some super-ethereal “other”.
We don't have to do any such thing.
We're just two admittedly armchair observers, speculating about the possibilities. No harm in that.
Regards,
You’re right, of course. It’s just that I’m more of a physics than a sci-fi buff.
FReegards.
Exactly, you file the report, you’re grounded.
I think it was Ben, uh, can’t remember his last name, anyway, colleague of Johnson’s.
I listened to J. Allen Hynek speak (he toured as a sort of follow-on to the movie CEOTTK), and he suggested “metaterrestrial” as one possibility — that is, Earthlings but from the future. The problem with that, or rather, one problem with that is, the Earth is moving, and thousands of years from now won’t be in the same place. :’)
We have to deal with the things we know rather than speculating -- with no evidence whatsoever...There's plenty of evidence, but it's not something you'll accept as evidence, because you're of the opinion that knowledge is complete and you can judge what is possible and impossible.
Well put.
Part of the nephilim saga.
Pray, tell me of this evidence. How do you know what my response will be without my having been able to evaluate it?
Your posts above refer to UFO reports, which for all practical purposes you claim don’t exist, on a priori grounds. IOW, I was describing what you’d already done. But thanks for playing dumb.
I’d be very surprised if Hynek subscribed to anything to do with nephilim.
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