Wichita UFO report draws wide attention (pics)

The Wichita Eagle/KansasCity.com ^ | 2/10/2009 | TIM POTTER

[SonOfDarkSkies]

It flew fast like a jet, made a whirling sound and left an odd glow.

That's how an amateur photographer described a flying machine he spotted in the skies near Rose Hill on Friday. The UFO world is now paying attention to his photograph.

On Monday, the photo appeared under the headline "Weird Object in Wichita," on UFO Digest, a Canadian Web site.

The object looks like some kind of new-technology fighter jet, possibly a prototype, said UFO Digest editor and publisher Dirk Vander Ploeg.

Jarrod Bartlett, spokesman for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems-Wichita, said in an e-mail that he checked with flight operations staff "and they were not able to identify the aircraft. We do not often get calls regarding unidentified aircraft."

[OldGuard]

er - something like this;

http://www.the-jet.com/gallery.html

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Yep...or something similar being developed by Beech.

[mysterio]

[Airwinger]

There’s one in every crowd!
Kiddin, but it’s nice to be able to get a laugh or two on this sad day in our history!

[taildragger]

ROTFLMAO !!!!

[dragonblustar]

LMAO! Great chart!

[Pontiac]

here’s one in every crowd!

Of course there is and it is usually me;)

Don’t get to discouraged. Obama is planting the seeds of his own destruction.

Obama is following the path of Carter and will be a one termer. Granted he will do great destruction to the country in that time but he too will pass.

[Tarantulas]

[Vermont Lt]

Not Cyclon, it looks more like an imperial battle cruiser. But I could be wrong.

[JRios1968]

[MahatmaGandu]

It's obviously Starbuck's resurrected Viper.

Looks more like a Raptor to me.

[Gordon Greene]

For all the folks who think UFO pics are out of focus... they are certainly not!

The aliens have blurry vision; 20/250 as a general rule, so everything they make looks like that. Of course, they don’t have to get nearly as drunk as we do before everybody at a bar looks good (see Star Wars cantina scene).

[PLMerite]

The trees are in focus which should have been closer than the object and the clouds are in focus which must be farther away. It doesn’t look like motion blur and if it was moving fast he should have been panning the camera to track it which obviously he wasn’t.

Fake.

I swear if I ever saw a UFO photo that was in focus I think I’d faint.

[Gordon Greene]

Looks like a keeper to me...

[jla]

Why are UFO photos ALWAYS out of focus?? HHmmmmmm..

LOL - Killjoy!

[EEDUDE]

“How do you make a “whirling” sound?”

Well, first you get yourself a UFO.... :)

[PLMerite]

That’s damn near a perfect match.

[Big_Monkey]

"Yeah... THAT thing travelled BILLIONS of miles just to get here, be photographed and fly home again..."

Not billions of miles, but millions of light years...just FYI. Still, that's a long way to travel just to get caught with your drawers down, so to speak.

[peggybac]

Hopefully they will stop in Topeka and take Sebelius with them.

[BenLurkin]

Good catch. Very nice!