The point isn't to provide alternative explanations for alien technology,
This is tired old stuff debunked long ago. It could have been a helicopter. At 4000 or 5000 feet AGL they can be very quiet, and your "assume it was the sun" light could have been just a light on the object. No evidence means the best answer is "I don't know", and unexplained to you does not mean unexplainable or even unexplained to anyone else.
Around here you're always at fault for that, cause you're supposed to be able to stop in time even when the guy in front of you, for example, has just had his car unexpectedly stopped by an entire deer.
It's generally the case that a rear-end collision is strictly the fault of the following driver. However, when it comes down to a jury award for damages, such things factor in. "I was following ten car lengths behind," is seen as less negligible than, "I was drinking tea off his trunk/boot lid."
Are you privy to all approved flight plans, plus military flights and also the paths of overhead satellites, in your area? I assume not, in which case I have to ask, how do you know there was 'not supposed to be anything else up there'?
Surely the point is, at least as far as this forum is concerned, is to comment on other claims that refer to alien technology as a first resort, and which my post was addressing, and not pedantry stating the obvious.
Kean has been a regular guest on Coast to Coast since the 2000s. She's also the idiot that brought David "people I can't reveal told me that other people have told them" Grusch to prominence.
The thing is, for sightings like this one, there are many mundane explanations that are far more probable than "aliensdidit", up to and including the pilot made a horrifically bad guess because he's far more confident of his abilities to judge distance and size than he should be.
No blindly accepting the least likely explanation of an event isn't the point. This is not a UFO truther site after all.
On paper, Kean is a "UFO agnostic." Her jury may be out on what UFOs could be, but she's clearly a UFO capitalist. Grusch is just one of her latest efforts to fleece the flock according to the tried-and-true, "Reliable observers can't be easily dismissed," ploy.
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Plus about 18,000 meteorological observing stations around the world that report on what is seen in the sky every hour, 24 hours a day. At one time the stations were all manned with a physical human being but some are now automated.
If the issue were really this important, what with the future of the planet a sake, do the brave thing and just tell us for God's sake. Surely every minute of our ignorance leads us deeper into peril?
What meteorological observing stations are you referring to?
The ones where meteorological technicians go outside every hour and look at the sky to report cloud type, heights, and coverage of sky. And a whole bunch of other weather parameters. Plus any other atmospheric phenomena such as sun dogs etc.
I can't remember details of seeing the silver disk when I was a boy, it is too long ago. But what looked like a moving star that I saw in my teens was no insect and as I said, it was in the time of sputnik one. I don't think there were any satellites.
If it was in the time of Sputnik, it could have been any of a dozen or more satellites, assuming your memory is accurate to within a couple of years.
Yes, you already told us about the light in the sky you once saw and couldn't identify. In the absence of further information, no one here is going to be able to identify it either. There's any number of things it could have been, but if we start to list them you'll just manufacture a reason to dismiss each one. It's a worthless, useless anecdote.
Yet you used this story to support the idea that aliens are here. You can't have it both ways, old chap.
Are you a 'trained observer'? If not, on what grounds are you dismissing the idea that what you saw was an insect? Remember, misjudgement of size and distance is at the heart of many so-called UFO sightings.
So what is the point, you omitted to tell us? If this was a UFO "truther" site, I wouldn't be posting on it.
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Satellites do not stop and hover in the same place for a minute or two before moving off again. The object I saw did do this several times before disappearing from view, and that told me it was not just another star, which is what it appeared to be.
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I did a search on Fife Symington's account before posting it. But I have not gone back over the other sightings yet.
Have you also considered it might be she who, deliberately or not, is spreading misinformation?
If you'd properly researched this incident, rather than just looking for reasons to believe it, you would have found, for example, this:
Names and dates? Then we have all the facts we need …
Why would that make quality high?
Why can accounts from “ordinary” people be easily dismissed?
What makes this account convincing for you in the light of all the confounding factors that have been mentioned here?
