Posted on 04/13/2009 3:26:14 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A mother ship resembling a giant football, a whirling coin-shaped disk that flashes across the sky, a diamond-shaped craft with a brilliant, mirror-like surface
These are among the most common UFO shapes, according to veteran UFO researcher Brad Steiger, author of Mysteries of Time and Space.
Here are detailed descriptions based on Steigers analysis of several thousand sightings over the past 40 years:
I thought that was later proved to be a chick warmer lamp.
While I think the possibility of life on some other planet somewhere is highly likely, it hasn't been proved yet. Some UFO sightings may be of some other worldly craft, after all fighter pilots in WWII saw foo fighters and some commercial pilots have reported UFOs. However, the pics I have seen of them have mostly been proved as faked.
UFO tips from the Weekly World News? Now there is a reliable source.
Damn it! Satan’s toe jam again!
It also strongly resembles an incubator heat light.
That's a thought. Adamski may or may not have known about the German project. In any case, he needed a prop that would look weird if photographed out of context in a clever way. It was 1952, and Photoshop didn't exist, but darkrooms and airbrushes, etc., did. Medical gadgetry would have been a possibility. E.g., here's an incubator designed by a Norwegian firm:
Parts of that thing, especially the lid, could be a start.
George Adamski was a total whackjob, by the way.
I was wrong; it wasn’t an incubator, but a “chicken brooder.”
Try having a look at these links:
https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/index.html/adamski.htm
I read that book when I was in grade school.
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