Those Darn UFOs Are On Again
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An Irish airline pilot and another from a different airline, plus two pilots from Virgin Airlines reported a high-speed light off the Irish coast in 2018, all reporting that it turned right and moved off twice the speed of sound, which is within the capabilities of military jets. Experimental aircraft are known to be able to fly at 10 times the speed of sound, or 6,000 MPH. The top speed for the SR-71 Blackbird was 2.193MPH.
Here’s that story: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mgyp/multiple-airline-pilots-report-seeing-ufos-off-irish-coast
Following that, and with the continuing appearances of odd-looking aircraft flying near US military basis and aircraft, especially fighter jets during at-sea aerial exercises, the Navy has reopened the reporting system to all observers, with no more consequences to it. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290
Since the military sightings are accompanied by the plane’s gun camera videos, which locate, target and track these flying objects, and they are recorded in other than visible light spectrum (e.g., infrared), they aren’t exactly just ‘I saw something weird’ reports. It’s not that the sightings haven’t been reported. The Navy just shut the thing down in 2012, but they’ve had so many reports since then that they decided that a) they have to go on collecting date, and b) there’s probably no point in keeping it classified any more. Some previous reports were dumped because they were moving too fast to be missiles and didn’t fit the profile.
Having read a great deal of stuff about UFOs by some serious researchers (and some nutballs, too), I find that the one thing being ignored is the possibility that they are not mechanical, but rather, may be biological. The peregrine falcon can fly at 242 mph, dive at 200 MPH and come to a halt on a dime, or pull out like there is no gravity at all. The male goldfinch chasing another male over nesting rights moves at high speed (36MPH) and can make a 90° turn, cornering like he’s on rails, simply by fanning out his tailfeathers. They evolved this way.
And despite what the author says in Politico, the Russians don’t have anything close to our stuff unless they stole it, and neither do the Chinese. We’re still ahead of them, aren’t we?
After all, we didn’t know about sprites and jets, which are electrical discharges from the Earth during severe storms, until the astronauts recorded them from the International Space Station. Nor did we know that Jupiter’s atmosphere regularly discharges lightning until Voyager recorded it as radio transmissions.
There’s a huge lot of stuff we still don’t know about this planet, but we want to go to Mars and investigate Marsquakes that have finally been recorded. Well, while we at it, let’s solve this UFO problem – is it mechanical or organic? And what to do when we find out what it is: it is a stand-up fight or a bug hunt?
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Cold War, Military issues
Is that an “oil platform” in the photo above?–and what are those planes and helicopters doing on it?— What’s the smoke about?
That is, unfortunately, Russia’s one and only aircraft carrier Kuznetsov. It runs on burning used tires.
BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHaha!!!!breathBWA-HAHAHAHAHAHaha!!!!
High 5, Ex!
Heehee! It’s what NHSparky says now and then.
When the inevitable Russiaphile says “it doesn’t run on tires!”
We can say “Correct. It doesn’t run.”
OUR Aircraft Carriers don’t require Escort Tug Boats in anticipation of the next breakdown!
Pretty sure if our carriers breakdown the plan is to toss the Marines into the water, give them a rope, and tell them there’s a port with cheap hookers and free booze just over the horizon.
The ship will break speed records. Air speed records.
Me too. Ask NHSparky if that shot was taken through the periscope of a US submarine in trail.
Oh, wait. Never mind. Didn’t happen, wasn’t there, was somewhere else. And if I was I was mistaken for someone else.
My story and I’m sticking to it.
“I tot I taw a puddy tat” !!!
How about the 1980 incident in Rendleshem forest outside woodbridge RAF/USAF base where the small lit up UFO landed and danced around and one member actually touched it, but some shitbird scientist says that it was reflected light from a light house a number of miles that they were seeing. Air force retired base commander actually was out there but there was the usual cover up he said a few years ago in an interview. I’m suprised that he wasn’t arrested for revealing this to the public.
Men in Black
Or perhaps Uranus? I’ve seen some mighty strange things on those long flights, the worst of which was during DS/DS where my Ordie, unhappy with the oppressively hot conditions* in the back of the mighty P-3 Orion, marched up to the relative comfort of the flight station wearing helmet, SVP (personal survival gear vest), and flight boots, to complain.
Brrrr, the image still burns…
*#2 Engine Driven Compressor, the air conditioner for the rest of the aircraft, was down. #1 was working fine but just serviced the flight station. This is flying around 200 ft over the Red Sea, photo-rigging ships. Good times.
You mean — it wasn’t a sprite, after all? Gee, and that happened just ahead of a thunderstorm 35 miles away, boiling clouds upward into the stratosphere. Looked just like a nuclear bomb had gone off.
So it really was a nuke, wasn’t it?
I’m familiar enough with star formations, and civil aviation flight patterns and behaviors, to be able to determine that what I’m looking at is a UFO. I’ve seen them during my predawn distance runs. My impression of what I’m seeing split seconds after I see them? “That doesn’t belong there…”
I saw one that was cylindrical in shape one pre-dawn morning, based on how it was lighted, and another that was triangular in shape and looked like it had a 100% mirror looking surface. Both glided and neither made noises. Both were closer in distance than both fixed winged aircraft that I’ve heard. The triangular one was closer in distance than the helicopters that I’ve heard. I saw one during a predawn run, and the other one in broad daylight. The others looked like misplaced stars.
These weren’t weather phenomena or meteor showers either.
I think the best argument for intelligent life in the multiverse is that none have tried to contact us.
To be fair, if you watched the signals we radiate out, would you want to talk to us? 😉
My point exactly. Nope.
Just a few minutes on say, MTV and the space aliens would say “NOPE, we’re gonna leave them alone, on to Zygorp 6!”.
After watching the political and religious cat fights all over this planet, would any intelligent being?
When ET flies past Earth, they lock the doors to the craft, keep their eyes straight ahead, and don’t slow down.
Not worried about ’em. We have a secret weapon in the form of a ‘waskaly wabbit. That makes them very angry.
How about the Betty and Barney Hill incident where the couple were abducted and one of the Hills drew a map of the star system that were given to them by the abductor and years later after they passed away, A star system was discovered and the Hill’s drawing was used as an overlay over the system which matched the system from where the abductor’s were from. If I remember, the Hills were abducted around 1963 or 1964. Can be googled. Mr Hill worked as a post office employee.
Oh pleez.
That story was debunked a long time ago.
If you believe the UFO phenomena are aliens, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I am selling at an affordable price.
“The universe grows smaller every day and the threat of aggression by any group anywhere can no longer be tolerated. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet. But if you threaten to extend your violence, this earth of yours will be reduced to a burned out cinder. Your choice is simple. Join us and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.”
~ Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951 sci fi film
Nigh time at sea is amazing. You can see ALL of the stars. You soon notice that some of those stars are moving pretty quick and that more than likely they’re nothing but satellites zipping along overhead.
I always assumed that they were spy satellites (ours and Russia’s) and would flip them off while looking directly at them. I like to imagine that the CIA and KGB have a folder marked “This f’n guy…” and it’s jammed full of pictures of me in various parts of the world, on land and at sea, flipping them off.
I and my Deputy used to do the same thing at the beginning of each alert tour.
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/92709dd33b1b.jpg
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I always figured it was that highly selective military organization that recruits from the entire world, testing their new equipment!
Those who believe that we are alone in this universe should acquaint themselves with the beliefs of several of the most remote tribes of primitives here on earth before they were “discovered” by civilized explorers.
Because they had never encountered humans from outside their own immediate tribes and territories, they invariably believed with a religious fervor that they were alone in this world.
Ponder that…
Considering the number of stars that are identical or nearly so to our Sun, how many solar systems have been discovered, and the “wow” signal from 1970, and how much our knowledge base has expanded since the first Voyager was launched, if anyone thinks we’re really alone – well, we’re not.
Given an almost infinite number of stars in a practically unlimited universe(s) it is almost inconceivable that there not be viable functioning life elsewhere of at least our level of development. It is also most likely that they could be so far away from us that each species could grow, expand, and die off without ever coming within hailing distance of the other. Our biggest conceit is that a) we are as highly developed as any species would be and b) that any other species would communicate in the exact same way we do… all our vaunted electronics could be merely background noise to someone who is searching for other species who communicate like they do, say via thought, mu-mesons, or other means.
Doesn’t take a math or physics professor to conclude that what we know plus what we think we know is exceeded greatly by what we do not know. That principle applies to the universe, to the neighborhood and every possible subdivision thereof.
It’s a good thing “Space Force”is up and running to protect us. If I join up, I wonder what MOS would get me close to the chicks with purple hair?
I’m betting that there are Military Aircraft that our Government denies the existence of like what they did with the F-117 Nighthawk, first built in the early eighties and revealed during DS/DS, it’s possible that we already have something that could easily outrun the SR71, but why let anyone know about it?
So the Air Force MPs wouldn’t let you and your buddies inside the perimeter at Groom Lake, right? You have to stand outside the fence and watch from about a mile and a half away. That’s just so sad.