Posted on 10/20/2025 7:22:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Everybody knows (or is) the one person in the friend group who could generously be described as an unreliable narrator.
You know the type; tall tales, stories that never quite match up, and a weird fixation on arbitrary details are all telltale signs of such a friend.
For one Texas woman, she’s going to have to work overtime to convince her friends that she does not fit that archetype after she tells them about what landed in her yard a couple of weeks ago.
According to KHOU-TV, Ann Vincent Walter was at her Hale County farm north of Lubbock when her son burst into the house yelling, “Hurry and come here!”
When she went to see what had happened, it was a shock, to say the least.
A giant, unidentified object attached to a parachute was sitting on Walter’s farm.
As she should have, Walter contacted local authorities to report the bizarre heap of stuff on her farm — and what a coincidence, police had just spoken to someone who happened to be missing something that fit the description of what was in Walter’s field.
When Walter contacted the Hale County Sheriff’s Department to report the bizarre find, she learned that NASA representatives had just contacted them to say they had been looking for wayward equipment.
“I was blown away by the comment,” Walter said.
When it comes time to tell her friends, Walter at least has those above Facebook photos and this KHOU video to prove she’s a reliable narrator:
VIDEO AT LINK......................
But even if nobody believes her, Walter seemed to take plenty away from this experience regardless.
“She said a researcher working for NASA called and told her that the tool was launched from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, but the West Texas wind blew it off course,” KHOU reported. “He explained that he’s with the Columbia Scientific Balloon Team and they launch, track and recover experiments for NASA and universities around the world.
“He said this tool helps guide telescopes to more accurately and clearly capture the stars, galaxies and black holes.”
Walter, training for a new job, wasn’t about to miss the clean-up crew. She asked her superiors if it would be OK if she were late that day.
“They gladly let me go so I could see the equipment and experience this once-in-a-lifetime situation,” she said. “What a cool memory and experience.”
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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I thought that maybe the Lunar Rover had fallen off the moon and landed in her back yard.
Looks like it’s mostly aluminum........What’s SCRAP aluminum going for nowadays?............
“It eeeesss balooooon”
Love, Crazy Cat
I hear ya! Bringing out all them vehicles and scientists and what-not tearing up the field to recover their project. Yet if so much as a piece of tinfoil wound up in the farmer’s possession, NASA would threaten them with fines and send out a team to get it back.
Wow, they’re lucky it didn’t land on their house. Pretty cool.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of the SkyREALITY IMITATES ARTWhoa, it came out of the sky
Landed just a little south of Moline
Jody fell out of his tractor
Couldn't b'lieve what he seen, ohLaid on the ground shook
Fearin' for his life
Then he ran all the way to town
Screamin', "It came out of the sky"Well, a crowd gathered 'round
And a scientist said it was marsh gas
Spiro came to make a speech
About raisin' the Mars taxVatican said, "Woe, the Lord has come"
Hollywood rushed out an epic film
Ronnie the Populist said
It was a communist plotWhoa-oh
Oh, the newspapers came
And made Jody a national hero
Walter and Eric said they'd put him
On a network TV showWhite House said, "Put the thing in the Blue Room"
The Vatican said, "No, it belongs in Rome"
Jody said, "It's mine
But you can have it for $17 million"Whoa, it came out of the sky
Landed just a little south of Moline
Jody fell out of his tractor
Couldn't b'lieve what he seen, ohLaid on the ground a-shakin'
Fearin' for his life
And then he ran all the way to town
Screamin', "It came out of the sky"
“The Andromeda Strain”
Nope, not getting near it!😅🤣😅🤣
Here’s a sad reminder for those who forgot.
The federal government has put citizens at risk and killed some.
Late 1940-1960’s.
Known cases of SD-T’s (syphilis) were diagnosed and not treated so government doctors gather data, they also did the same thing in south America. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, the Guatemala studies, internment camps.
Mental challenged children were fed radio active material in their corn flakes for research. In the 1940s and 1950s, US government-sponsored experiments involving radioactive oatmeal were conducted on institutionalized children at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts.
The children, who were often mentally disabled or orphaned, were not told about the radioactive materials and were enticed to participate with perks like trips to baseball games.
The government with out informed consent sprayed insecticide on children.
More recently.
Ruby Ridge.....
Brack Obama ordered airstrikes that resulted in the death of Americans on a foreign soil, Brack Obama was the drone child kill king while he was in office.
Oddly enough if you look it up you will see that the ones in charge, the administrations who allowed these privations, these crimes were democrat.
Lastly I am reluctant to say it but there is more then likely more that we do as of this time know of.
Folks would be stunned if they knew the minute details of MK Ultra (CIA project).
The Wikipedia article is long but ignores a lot of details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
There are dozens of separate projects that went on for two decades (that we know of...).
Imho variations of these projects continue on to the present day.
What the Wikipedia minimizes is the use of universities and doctors on a large scale in these horrific experiments on humans.
It was clear that these professionals had zero ethics and would do anything if it got them government grants.
Many of these scientists and doctors and psychiatrists were among the most prominent in their field.
Yard sale. Five bucks.
Here is the robot they found
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0588079/mediaviewer/rm2039003649/?ref_=ttmi_mi_16_4
Finders keepers.
Just a weather balloon with a side of swamp gas.
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