It is the reference “U.F.O. researchers dreamed of having,” Gordon G. Spear, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at Sonoma State University in California, writes in the foreword.
The book contains no narrative or anecdotal accounts, just 371 pages of charts and graphs that slice and dice the geography and timing of the incidents and the various shapes that witnesses reported: flying circles, spheres, triangles, discs, ovals, cigars.
Quix would have loved this thread.
Should prove useful to Russia and China as they investigate our aerospace defense projects.
I’ve witnessed several strange things here on the farm over the past few years.The one that really shook me up was a VERY bright light over our woods,about 500 yards from our house.Middle of winter,no leaves on the trees,I could see every small branch on the trees below the light.No noise either,dead silence.I watched it for maybe 2 minutes,I ran into the house to get my binoculars and when I got back it was gone.
“The authors are Cheryl Costa, 65, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and her wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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I wonder how many FReepers have seen what they believe to be a bona fide UFO and are willing to admit it?
I have, as a child, during a supposed UFO “outbreak” locally. My parents were building a house out in the country at the foot of a mountain. Dad and a few friends were laying stone on the fireplace, mom and I drove up with dinner for them, cold weather. It seemingly followed our car, I saw it first. Mom didn’t believe it but then she saw it and said yes it is following us. So, she drove the rest of the way pretty quickly, it disappeared when we turned into the drive.
No photos of them. With everyone just about having a camera, where are the photos??
So many phone cameras, so few photos now.
Why? Because it became disinformation to hide test and training flights of the U-2 and A-12 (the predecessor to the SR-71) spy planes. People forget that until the late 1950's, U-2's were finished in bare metal, and as such the glint off the Sun when the U-2 was flying at over 60,000 feet altitude made people think they were seeing a UFO.
It’s hubcap tossing tournament time.
I was coming off of Donner Pass in the 1970s when everyone had a C.B. radio. The radio was going nuts with everyone seeing a UFO, traffic was pulled over with people watching. I stopped and looked and looked and saw nothing. I was very disappointed, seemed everyone else clearly saw a UFO. It hit the newspapers and all, I cannot explain why I could not see it.
As to no decent pictures, take your cell phone out and try to take a picture of the moon and see what you get. Cell phone cameras are great for snapshots, not so great for any distance at all.
I am on the fence about UFOs, since I have never seen one it is hard for me to believe. I also wonder how often we see things that we can’t explain but are easily explainable by people who do know about things like what our military might be playing with or what certain aircraft are capable of doing. Who knows?
After reading C.S. Lewis’ space trilogy I have a more open mind about God creating life on other planets along with earth or before or during, whatever. Not important actually. I think about whether they are fallen and until watching “Fire In The Sky” I didn’t think they would be but now who knows. If I were an alien, if it wasn’t for the fact that God became a man, I would probably spend a little time here but more flying. I love to fly.
Really?
First - let us remember what “U.F.O.” stands for - Unidentified Flying Object. It does not necessarily mean space aliens (as most UFO aficionados like to think). It simply means it is something visible that the observer cannot ID. Could be an aircraft, balloon, or even today - a drone, which is my theory on the increase in sightings.
What I want to know is why they cross light years of space to give humans anal probes?
Are our rear ends really that interesting?
Maybe we are being visited by a civilization of proctologists!
When I lived in Germany, I saw a very intensely bright light in the sky, say, around 8:00PM wintertime. I was outside working on something in my garden. I’m usually pretty observant and said to myself “it was a star or planet”—then all of a sudden it occurred to me that no star or planet was there a few moments ago. The thing was about -8 magnitude at least. VERY bright. Then as I watched in wonder, it just faded out to black. The night was cloudless, clear and very dark.
I KNEW I saw a UFO.
A couple years later, say around 1997/8, we returned to the states. I was out early one evening at my farm in Alabama. I saw the same DANG THING.
By this time I was a young FReeper with Internet Fu so I was able ot look it up online. I found this:
Iridium Flares -
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/observing-iridium-flares/
And to prove it, there is a site called Heave’s Above -
http://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx
- Which will actually tell you, from your exact location, where the next flare will be, the position in the sky, and even the magnitude of its brightness.
Well, it works, and I saw the same thing—Iridium Flares—many times.
TLDR; I thought—I was convinced—I saw a UFO, in two disparate places on Earth, but did not. It was a LEO satellite reflecting the sun light off its solar panels.
I saw what i believe may have been an alien space craft or rather a landing craft in 1958, it was doing everything a helicopter could do except maybe 20 times as fast.
Also in the late seventies we were headed into Mexico and saw a green solid light cross the entire southern sky, it was like a jet but no stream and crossed the sky many times faster than a Jet could.
Answer: There are more UFOs flying over those areas.
