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UFOs: The Research, the Evidence

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King of the Americas said:
"I went to bed at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2." (I think that's Willie Nelson's line)

The moral of the story is that you shouldn't relying on spotting truly attractive women OR ufo's when you are drunk in a bar after midnight.
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Make unfounded assumptions much?
The trick is to use all the available information and only that information. There was absolutely nothing involving drinking in the post you responded to.
 
Wolrab said:
Make unfounded assumptions much?
The trick is to use all the available information and only that information. There was absolutely nothing involving drinking in the post you responded to.
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I know...

I blame bad lighting as well as alcohol for 'my' & Willie's oversight.
 
I can't believe I actually read this whole thread!

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Toke said:
It is a bit of a wreck, but with lots of entertaining bits. :)
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It sure does have lots of entertainment value. Somebody should go and make a musical of it.


Akhenaten said:
Congratulations and welcome, spin0. We haven't had any quantums in the thread yet, have we?
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Thank You, oh He-of-the-Sedge-and-the-Bee. But technically, even I don't exist - haven't been discovered yet.

Akhenaten said:
HAL has control of a blimp! Ohnoes!
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HAL [in a blimp on his way to GAYRODEO 2010]:
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do.
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage.
I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a blimp built for two …

When it comes right down to it, it's always about love, innit?
 
King of the Americas said:
When I had my sighting, neither me nor my co-witness were on anything, either.

I saw something that wasn't us, or ours.
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non sequiteur, you saw something that you have been unable to identify, not something that you can now make any assertion about at all
after the amount of times this has been demonstrated why are you still making the same 5th grade mistake

and as your co witness has also been unidentified what you have is 1 unsupported eyewitness claim from someone who by his own admission is a ufo nut

credible
not
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happy new year
 
I looked at the 'last page' of this topic the other day and, coincidentally, I have today had a phone call from a friend, sceptic to the core who saw an interestng phenomenon in the early hours of Jan 1.

She is a 'night owl', so after watching the fireworks over the London Eye on TV, she turned off the TV and went into her back garden to see if there was anything to see locally (Ilminster). Three brightly lit what she thought at first were helicopters 'flew' past and then three more. Colours - red/orange/yellow. Then three more formed themselves into a triangle, a fourth one zoomed in quickly then rose to place itself in the centre of the equilateral triangle the last three had formed. She had not been drinking! She realised they could not be helicopters because there was no sound.

I asked her how big the lights (which she described as being in the cockpit of the sort of flat, diamond-shaped objects - plus some lights on each side) compared with the size of the full moon and she said quite small. Time was about 1:0 a.m. She had not said anything to anyone else in case they said things like, 'There, there dear....'! I suggested she should ring the local paper, local police etc to ask if anyone else had seen this, but she had not. 'I bet they'd ask me my age,' she said! However, I said that I would reply that that was irrelevant and deflect any such questions. She is one of my most sensible, down-to-earth friends and is several years younger.

The most obvious explanation that springs to mind is that they were sort of after-images from watching the TV fireworks display, but any ideas or suggestions posters here might have I would be most interested in hearing. Thank you.
 
They sound a lot like "Chinese lanterns", which would be launched by somebody celebrating the new year. I recall reading somewhere that these cause UFO reports over the new year.
 
AstroPhotographer and Access Denied

Many thanksfor your posts. Having watched the video, I am sure that it certainly was a display of Chinese lanterns. She found it puzzling that three of them had 'formed' a triangle, but that must have been coincidental placing and, as a very rational person, she knows how people are very likely to notice patterns.

Mystery solved!
 
A moment's through will show that any three separate objects will either be arranged in a straight line or a triangle. Even very acute angles can be percieved as being an isosceles triangle seen from some non-perpendicular orientation, and any change in the arrangement of the objects can be interpreted as tilt or rotation of whatever they're presumed to be connected to. The only error of though/perception is the way people incessantly want to fill in the featureless part between such objects with a suitably shaped nonexistent object or support structure.

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SusanB-M1 said:
AstroPhotographer and Access Denied

Many thanksfor your posts. Having watched the video, I am sure that it certainly was a display of Chinese lanterns. She found it puzzling that three of them had 'formed' a triangle, but that must have been coincidental placing and, as a very rational person, she knows how people are very likely to notice patterns.

Mystery solved!
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And I can guarantee that at least 5 chinese lanterns floated past the London Eye on NY eve in London.
We were at a party on the 19th floor of a building just south of the London Eye and a number of people noticed them floating past. By the time we noticed them they appeared to be higher in the sky than the height of the Eye itself.
 
I've been able to make ironclad guarantees in the past that certain UFO sightings were the result of box kites being flown at night with Cyalume light sticks attached to them. A strip of gaffer tape down one side and a fishing swivel for an attachment makes them flash nicely, apparently. UFOs with lights arranged in squares seem more convincing than triangles, I'm told, and multiple colours can suck in even more people induce niggling doubts in even the more skeptical witnesses, so rumour has it.

Chinese lanterns are a great idea, but unfortunately the fire risk here is too great - hence the kites. I'm glad these rascals at least have some responsiblity about them.


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It's always amazed me that these advanced alien civilizations that wish to remain hidden aren't smart enough to turn off the running lights.
 
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