Posted on 03/06/2013 9:31:29 PM PST by albionin
What you saw sounds a lot like what we saw and your reaction sounds the same. When I first saw it on Wednesday night my brain just couldn’t process what I was seeing. It just appeared as this blob of bright orange light. It was so strange that I just kept asking myself if I was really seeing what I was seeing. I don’t blame people for suggesting things like afterburners and military flares but if they had seen it those things wouldn’t even enter their minds. It is something that shouldn’t be there but it is and it is doing things it shouldn’t be able to do.
I know what you mean about the size. The last time I saw it it was just over the tops of the mountains but I could tell it was behind them because one corner was obscured by a jagged peak. I don’t know how far it was behind it but even if it was right up against it would have been huge. That mountain is 40 miles away as the crow flies. Yesterday in daylight I looked over there and tried to judge the size of what I had seen and I figured that a 747 placed on that peak would almost disappear. That thing had to have been at least 3 times as long.
Horse crap. Pictures would be derided as fakes. You know it, I know it.
To really understand how full of crap your friend is, go spend some time with folks who fly model planes and model helicopters. By all means, they can mimic UFOs in startlingly convincing ways, but not the way your friend says. If you cover an RC model with tinfoil, it will be too heavy to fly.
I'd say your co-worker STILL has you going.
They’ve been spotted all over it seems...
Report on Fox News:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b67_1362837501
Those look very similar to what I saw. I didn’t see one like the big one that we saw in the video but the little single ones are exactly the same and the color is the same. The way they just seem to appear is the same. It was cloudy and snowing last night and today but if it clears up my neighbors and we are going to do a stake out this evening. I got a video camera and I am just going to set it up on the tripod with a wide view of the sky pointing east and south and just let it run. I just want to get them on video once before I try to zoom in for a closer shot.
PART 1
https://vimeo.com/35731065
PART 2
https://vimeo.com/35732824
PART 3
https://vimeo.com/35737011
Technology and art collide as 16 quadcopters give a light and sound show
You saw an object that you could not identify, and it was flying.
So long as you keep yourself grounded in that, you’ll have no problems.
It’s the speculation that will get you tinfoiled.
In fact, while doing some lunar observations with a telescope, I saw a very small point of light travel towards the moons limb.
My first impression I thought it was an earth orbiting satellite but moving slower in the field of view than a satellite would normally travel across the eyepiece field of view. Then the tiny point of light disappeared behind the lunar limb. The incident lasted just several seconds.
Seeing that made me recoil...
There are a few crazy ones from here, too. I clearly recall the local NBC affiliate, channel 12, then known as WSJS, breaking into regularly scheduled broadcast to report that a UFO had landed on US 52 near Mt. Airy, and that there were creatures that had what looked like lobster claws. They broke in on programs several times, once to report that the highway had been shut down, it was a four lane road then, still is. This would have to have been early seventies, I doubt I’d remember all that much from before then.
My only experience that was UFO-like occurred along about then, it was fall, chilly, crystal clear night sky out in the country. My folks were building a house at the foot of a mountain. My dad was up there with a stonemason laying the fireplace, my mom and I went to bring them dinner. Once we got outside of town, I noticed an unusually bright star, we had a telescope at home and I was somewhat familiar with the positions of planets and constellations, this one was out of place. It started moving slowly and steadily, and it seemed to me that it was following us. It got closer and brighter, very evidently following us to the point that my mom took note, sort of rattled her. We turned off the hard surface road onto the gravel lane going up to the foot of the mountain, still following. Turned into the construction site and it just blipped out, gone.
That's why they are called UFO's, and not UFS's, or unidentified flying saucers.
BTW, if one can't ID them, all that's left would seem to be speculation followed by investigation, but many times the investigation does not provide or reveal specifically what the object was. So I guess my point is it's OK to speculate based on what was seen etc.
In addition, many times if someone just says they saw a UFO, it's enough to make the ignorant surface with comments about tin foil hats etc. It's also the reason why pilots and other professionals, many times just keep their mouths shut after seeing an unidentified object.
Oct. 24, 1973; Mt. Airy, NC
Rash of UFO sightings by citizens and police. Round, red-orange objects, rapid flight, erratic maneuvers. (UFOE II, Section V)
Oct. 24, 1973; Dobson, NC
Motorist experienced E-M effects as oval object landed near his car. Encounter with frightening being. (UFOE II, Section V)
I have no idea if this site is credible or not, but the location, season and year sounds right.
As a matter of fact, I’m good, longtime friends with several guys — “nerds” — who DO the kind of thing at your link. As I said in my original post, RCs can mimic UFOs in very startlng ways. One friend of mine has built a round thing that hovers and tilts, and it is very tricky to fly. It’s amazing watching him do it. However, they don’t do it by just “adding lights or tinfoil” to the RCs, as if it’s that simple. It’s not, and if your friend told you that’s all it was that upset the military base, I know he’s full of crap even if you don’t.
and if your friend told you that’s all it was that upset the military base,
I didn't quote any 'friend'. You might have me mixed up with another poster.
On the contrary, all kinds of RC aircraft are covered with TIN FOIL.
Here is a company that makes the adhesive backed foil.
Here is a plane covered in tin foil.
A friend of mine who lives in a suburb north of Detroit told me about an event that happened to him. He was sitting on his back deck one summer day when he was mesmorized by a silver object high in the sky that never moved for about twenty minutes.
The really weird thing for him is that he said he had no recollection of this event until about two weeks later when he finally remembered it happening. It was like being hypnotized for 20 minutes and not being aware of what is happening.
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