I've already answered some of the distance discrepancy and acknowledged my mixup of the album name. I still remembered the song names and that is how I pinned the album name down on my website.
And twice here contradicted yourself on the both the album names and the song names, despite insisting that
"The three of us were sitting together on the couch in the dark looking out the picture window and listening to Led Zeppelin Two."
"I could even tell you the record that was playing while we were sitting there ... Led Zeppelin, Houses Of The Holy.".
"Heartbreaker and The Lemon Song are two songs that got etched into my brain that night, and they are indeed on Led Zeppelin Two"
To answer in more detail on the distances, particularly the vertical rise, I took into account that the object had landed on the bench overlooking the lake and that the mountain elevations were from the valley floor, therefore the distances in fractions are not from the lake, but from a spot above the lake, plus the mountain was in the background, which would make it appear smaller than it was. Taking these factors into account, I came up with the estimate on my website, which I still think is reasonably accurate.
Actually, this last embellishment makes your "calculation" of 200m even more off from the actual height that might be calculated from an apparent height 2/3 up the mountains in the background. I addressed this in
post 211.
In fact I even recognised that I had not done it correctly and added in that post,
ETA: Ack. Let's apply some trigonometry here.
Assume Four Points Mountain is 7.8km distant, then an object at 3km distant that appears to be 2/3 of the way up it would be at about a height of 480m. Still a significant variation in the height estimates from ufology...
Hint: Look up the trig method of "similar triangles".
Perhaps I'll redo the calculations with the Google Earth tools to get an even more precise number.
I'd already done it, but you repeatedly ignored that post and you continued to insist that your recollections and estimates were accurate as they were base on, "
on landmarks of discernable distance based on map measurements with a minimal margin of error for all practical purposes."
As for the number in feet I used here on the forum that don't match up, it was just a bad on the fly metric conversion or possibly I had meant to say yards, but it was just due to the haste of a forum response.
You say 200m (656ft) on your website but stated 300ft here.
Confusing 656ft with 300ft is some metric conversion error.
Then you are off by more than
five times that (see post 210) when you insist that it rose to 2/3 the height of the mountains in the background.
That's some bad on-the-fly metric converting you're doing there.
Lastly, the way it came down the mountain toward us was in three big arcs as described on my website. The graphic I included was for illustrative purposes and was not presented as the sighting itself, but as "very similar".
It wasn't even remotely similar...
I'd love to be able to work with a CGFX person sometime to get the whole thing into an animation.
He'd be hard pressed since he'd have to try to work out whether the thing rose to a height of either 200ft, 656ft or 1574ft. What point a graphic that is going to be even more inaccurate that the one you've already screwed up?
For now this is all I've got.
Which is miles away from your first post that opened so boldly with,
I believe Earth has been visited by objects of alien origin. ...I believe this because I saw a UFO that had performance charateristics beyond any Earth technology then or now. So I have firsthand experience.
The
only reason I've been getting in your face about the discrepancies in your recollections is because of this opening post.
You seem to think that your "firsthand experience" is compelling, whereas all I've been doing is pointing out that you are unable to consistently recall this firsthand experience without mixing up very pertinent details, but still, in spite of these inconsistencies being pointed out to you, persist on insisting that your every recall is exactly how it happened.
ETA: the other reason I've been getting in your face about the discrepancies in your recollections is also because of the declaration on your website that,
Our aim is to illuminate the truth by presenting accurate, objective, and verifiable information that can be enjoyed by all our visitors.
Whereas your very own recollection is shot full of holes on accuracy and objectiveness, let alone verifiable information.