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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 18, 2015 22:29:33 GMT 12
Craig, I understand what you're saying, and I agree. The possibility exists, but the actuality of them already being here, I reckon is bullhucky. So I think Beags was pretty safe the other night.
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Post by komata on Aug 20, 2015 11:36:02 GMT 12
FWIW:
Baronbeeza's 'helicopter' episode reminded me of a 'UFO-type' sighting I made on 10 June 2015: It was so unusual that I notated it 'just in case'.
Make of it what you will: _______________
Time: 1929-1934, Weather: Cloudy (scudding), Wind: WNW, Wind speed: Beaufort 5 (17-20 knts; variable).
Event: Bright white light (aircraft landing light brightness; white light, NOT yellow).
Distance: 3-5 miles.
Circumstances: Initially believed to be an aircraft coming towards me from Rukuhia [Hamilton Airport], so waited to identify it; listening for engine note. 'Light' remained stationary! No engine note evident. Light observed for several minutes, evidently stationary, and leading to suspicion that what was being seen was a helicopter, However no Nav' lights seen. After being observed for several minutes, light rotated on axis, then shrank before eventually fading to nothing. Nothing further seen although waiting for several minutes in the hope that the 'light' would reappear and be identified as an actual aircraft.
1936: FR24 checked to determine if any air traffic in vicinity. Nothing flying.
Note: This was definitely NOT Venus; the 'light' was too low and the cloud base was also too low. Other stars were visible well-above cloud base.
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As I said, FWIW, make of it what you will.
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Post by mumbles on Aug 22, 2015 20:31:39 GMT 12
Craig, I understand what you're saying, and I agree. The possibility exists, but the actuality of them already being here, I reckon is bullhucky. So I think Beags was pretty safe the other night. I agree with this. UFO =/= equal alien craft, tech or visitation, simply because while it may not be explainable (yet) that in itself is not evidence to support the "aliens" conclusion. I'm curious about UFO's, have seen something that arguably falls into that definition myself, and think there are genuine examples of true UFO's (e.g. Kaikoura) rather than mis-idented IFO's, but I don't think we are being visited by ET. I would be amazed if there isn't life out there somewhere, especially as we are now discovering exo-planets by the hundreds (something that was only theory not very many years ago at all), but there are a whole lot of not insignificant odds against that life ever getting to the point where it even knows we exist, or vice versa.
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Post by mumbles on Aug 22, 2015 20:35:29 GMT 12
FWIW: 1936: FR24 checked to determine if any air traffic in vicinity. Nothing flying. Just bear in mind that FR24 does not display everything flying, only aircraft that have the particular ADS-B transponder signals it collates. Those transponders aren't universally equipped or required to be, so a non-appearance on FR24 doesn't automatically mean there is no traffic
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Post by komata on Aug 22, 2015 22:03:09 GMT 12
mumbles: Thanks. I didn't realise that, and now have an explanation as to why (on several occasions) an aircraft flying directly overhead didn't show on FR24. The things we learn.
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Post by haughtney1 on Aug 23, 2015 2:38:45 GMT 12
In light of the rather dubious attitude displayed on here by some, all I will contribute to the subject is this, I'll describe the the last thing that I saw. My Altitude 37000ft Size of object, unknown, but it was a suspicious shade of grey. Said object was travelling very very quickly north to South (we plotted its course based on our observation, and the track took it directly over Diego Garcia) Objects altitude estimated to be in excess of 80000ft (based upon the rising sun illuminating it, before the sun illuminated us) Description, a convex boomerang type shape, a bit like a mini B2 but no visible straight edges. Sighted with the naked eye, then through stabilised binoculars. Interestingly we enquired of the radar controller about any high flying traffic, to which he cryptically replied "my military liaison tells me there is nothing there...I do have an intermittent primary return crossing from your 2 o'clock position and I estimate its groundspeed at about 2500 knots or so"
Little green men? I think not....but I do think this kind of kit is often mistaken for UFO's whatever type of kit it is.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 23, 2015 21:31:27 GMT 12
I'm currently in Levin. During the car trip down here with my friend Steve, who I've known well since school, we got onto the topic of unexplained and unidentified things in the sky.He told me his father Colin had spoken often about something he'd seen while on night guard duty in Italy during WWII. It was apparently a bright sphere moving erratically and fast all over the sky. He'd eliminated it from being an aeroplane, a parachute flare, a search light and any other known thing, and it always baffled him. I knew Colin well and he was not a man to ever make anything up or exaggerate. I found this story interesting and particularly as it happened during the war, sometime in 1943-45. I had the impression from TV that the strange light UFO's that some believe to be ET were meant to have been a post-atomic age thing?
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