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2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’--UFO
New York Times ^ | 12-16-2017 | HELENE COOPER, LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL

Posted on 12/16/2017 8:13:02 PM PST by HogsBreath

The following recounts an incident in 2004 that advocates of research into U.F.O.s have said is the kind of event worthy of more investigation, and that was studied by a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. Experts caution that earthly explanations often exist for such incidents, and that not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins.

Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; alaska; bigelowaerospace; danielinouye; davidfravor; fringe; harryreid; hawai; hawaii; jimslaight; navy; nevada; ohsomysteriouso; robertbigelow; tedstevens; tictac; ufo; ufos; usn; usnavy
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To: catnipman

You been checked for an implant?


101 posted on 12/17/2017 3:30:28 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: Nuc 1.1

My two cousins saw something in a field at our family farm in western NY back in the ‘60s or ‘70s. Scared the crap out of them. One has passed on, and the other won’t talk about it.

Mom still lives there so when I go to visit I keep an eye out. :)


102 posted on 12/17/2017 3:48:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Does so

The crystal on my Rado watch is designed so this happens in some sunlight. (Beveled?) My cats like to play with the flashes on the wall.


103 posted on 12/17/2017 3:51:23 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: tumblindice

Aside from meteoritics, I stand by my statement.


104 posted on 12/17/2017 6:18:39 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Kickass Conservative
As for me, I will welcome our Extraterrestrial Overlords. LOL

Why the submissive attitude? For all we know, they could be underprivileged galactic farm laborers seeking new lettuce crops to harvest...........

105 posted on 12/17/2017 6:31:56 AM PST by varon (Let the hanging games begin.............)
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To: PIF

Wow....did a bit of reading related to your post. I simply am not smart enough to grasp it, but this quote was very interesting:
‘From 1971 to 1974 Henry William Wallace, a scientist at GE Aerospace was issued with three patents.[248][249][250] Wallace used Dewitt’s theory to develop an experimental apparatus for generating and detecting a secondary gravitational field, which he named the kinemassic field....a New Scientist article in 1980 stated “Although the Wallace patents were initially ignored as cranky, observers believe that his invention is now under serious but secret investigation by the military authorities in the USA. The military may now regret that the patents have already been granted and so are available for anyone to read.”....
HERE is the creepy part:
‘A further reference to Wallace’s patents occur in an electric propulsion study study prepared for the Astronautics Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base which states: “The patents are written in a very believable style which include part numbers, sources for some components, and diagrams of data. Attempts were made to contact Wallace using patent addresses and other sources but he was not located nor is there a trace of what became of his work’
So.....the guy and his work were ‘disappeared’??


106 posted on 12/17/2017 6:41:25 AM PST by HogsBreath
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To: BenLurkin

Meteor?

Spiders on the flyback transformer.
You simply have to vacuum the dust and bugs out every now and then.


107 posted on 12/17/2017 7:27:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: 21twelve
Either monitoring the frequencies or mental telepathy I would imagine.

The article does not make clear what they were seeing with.

Multiple people "seeing" the thing with naked eyes is very different from seeing the thing on a display.

108 posted on 12/17/2017 8:40:52 AM PST by fso301
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To: StolarStorm

We are either far more advanced in our space technology or there are non-human craft interacting with us. From where, who knows, I suspect we do already if it’s not our own craft.

My brother witnessed a UFO, my great uncle a cop in the 60’s saw a classic saucer hovering over a corner of the Wright-Pat base with his partner at 2:00am. Neither reported anything.


109 posted on 12/17/2017 8:43:56 AM PST by sarge83
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To: dsc

It can explain some sightings, but simply doesn’t explain many others recorded by credible observers and analyzed by scientifically knowledgeable people.

Hynek suggested it once as a possible explanation for *some* perceived ‘ufos’; but the press ran with that and it became a ridiculous ‘meme’ to people who had seriously studied the data from many sightings.

(Another misconception is that Kenneth Arnold saw ‘saucer-shaped’ objects near Mt. Rainier. He never said that. He saw somewhat ‘wedge’-shaped objects, apparently curved on one edge, that MOVED as a saucer might, if skipped over water. But, the notion of ‘flying saucers’ became embedded in the ‘lore’.)


110 posted on 12/17/2017 8:48:39 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Nuc 1.1
I have seen two in Az and those two were beyond belief.

I saw one from a backyard in Green Valley about 15 years ago to the Southeast. Lot of noisy jet activity that night coming from the North. It was a group of different colored lights rotating around each other in an odd pattern. Was filled in on direction by a resident. I was only a visitor.

111 posted on 12/17/2017 9:10:01 AM PST by Stentor
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To: JockoManning

Did you see the multi-craft fly-over in 1957 in Farmington?

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No, I was in Abiquiu at that time and only 6 years old.

Did you see it?


112 posted on 12/17/2017 9:21:33 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 21twelve

I also enjoyed what Quix had to say.


113 posted on 12/17/2017 9:30:31 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: brooklin

Me, too.


114 posted on 12/17/2017 9:32:19 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: sarge83
We are either far more advanced in our space technology

I suspect we are.....They certainly were able to keep the A-12 secret

How they got here

115 posted on 12/17/2017 9:45:07 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Thanks for posting that, it’s very interesting and neat.

Good American ingenuity, to say the least.


116 posted on 12/17/2017 9:58:47 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

The next time you’re stuck in traffic behind a semi towing what looks like a house trailer with a “Wide Load” sign on the back, think of the A-12......LOL!


117 posted on 12/17/2017 10:02:12 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Hot Tabasco

That’s right.

Are you familiar with the underground facilities near Dulce, NM?


118 posted on 12/17/2017 10:10:50 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata
Are you familiar with the underground facilities near Dulce, NM?

No, I don't think I've ever heard of them before....

119 posted on 12/17/2017 10:22:06 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: laplata
I'm checking out the internet to see what they say......

As a side note, Detroit sits on top of a giant salt mine....

120 posted on 12/17/2017 10:25:57 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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