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Post by beagle on Aug 17, 2015 20:38:03 GMT 12
Saturday morning, 1.30am, just went outside to start the car ready to go to work. Heard this noise which I first thought it sounded like the bumble bee noise that local drones have been making, then it turned into a scream noise. I looked up and saw this green light, not flashing but reasonable bright, streaking across the sky. I reckon only about 1000feet. It was heading south from Rolleston then turned towards the alps then went skywards real fast then disappeared.
I could feel the hairs on my arms and back raise up, my blood pressure rose too I reckon.
I wasn't hanging around to get "probed" if they saw me, so quickly jumped in the car and went to work.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 17, 2015 21:29:03 GMT 12
How big was the light you saw?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 17, 2015 21:29:39 GMT 12
I don't think the USAF wants to probe you Beags.
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Post by saratoga on Aug 17, 2015 21:50:22 GMT 12
Sounds like a meteor.(like a meteor sounds?)
I saw one in Aus a couple of years ago,2am in the outback. Orange,green and blue ,like made of coloured glass and difficult to get an idea of how far away as it was so clear.sure it landed in the next paddock,but probably the next state!
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Post by TS on Aug 17, 2015 21:58:26 GMT 12
It was aeromedia having a quick sortie in the Meteor..... It has a bright green nose.....
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Post by beagle on Aug 18, 2015 4:51:31 GMT 12
it definitely wasn't a meteor
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Post by craig on Aug 18, 2015 7:12:34 GMT 12
Funny how everyone is a doubter until they actually see something they can't logically explain... And even then I suspect 90% of those people stick there heads in the sand and convince themselves it didn't happen. Good on you Beagle for speaking up.
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Post by komata on Aug 18, 2015 8:05:21 GMT 12
Beagle
Thanks for sharing your experience. Rest assured you are not alone; I would suspect that many of us have seen similar 'things' over the years but have dismissed them as being of no consequence - 'abberations' if you will.
In respect of the 'Green Thing'. FWIW, I saw something similar approximately 10 years ago, (although at 2330 rather than your 'early hours'), on still, starlit night and on a South-North track. it was certainly 'travelling', but without 'sound' (so must have still been 'above atmosphere'), and was last seen departing at speed down range towards the Pacific.
At the time, and because I had seen 'white' meteorite showers several times before, I presumed that what I saw was a meteorite, although the 'emerald green' colour was different from past observations. as was the fact that it was a 'solo' unit, with no others in the vicinity. it certainly seemed to have all the attributes of a meteor as I understood the - genre : it was travelling in straight lines, and at high speed, and with no sound; things which no 'manned' vehicle would tend to do. but, then again....?
As I said, FWIW; you are not alone in what you have seen.
DH: Perhaps a 'UFO' thread could be of interest (although on the strict understanding that whatever is reported is not in any way derided, but posted as 'observations' that might be of interest to the membership).
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Post by scrooge on Aug 18, 2015 10:46:15 GMT 12
komata- green is actually pretty common, in fact I'd say the majority that I have seen have been single event green ones. Last one I saw (last Wednesday approximately 0230) was green. It was relatively slow and long lived as far as they go and covered a fair bit of the viewing arc we had available.
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Post by lumpy on Aug 18, 2015 12:37:53 GMT 12
Not long ago I was biking on the hills near Blenheim just after dark . A meteor came into sight that appeared to be over towards Woodbourne , and not a lot higher than the hills . ( I could have made good money by taking bets on the fact that it was much further away - but it did actually look close ) Turns out it was seem by most of the country and was heading out across the Tasman ! Distance can be VERY decieving without something to use as a rererence for size .
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Post by Bruce on Aug 18, 2015 13:00:57 GMT 12
Its actually meteor shower "season" with the Perseid showers last week. I was out a Lake Karapiro last night and saw two in the space of 10 minutes. Beagle's description doesn't sound meteoric though. Its an object that is flying and unidentified, so definitely a UFO by definition. (The Army arent playing with UAVs by any chance?)
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Post by suthg on Aug 18, 2015 13:06:45 GMT 12
I believe it was back in 2000 around August when I saw a rock and debris meteor glowing as it passed through the low sky at a reasonably slow pace - no sonic boom but it was low and under cloud cover and so was also within 10 miles of home due to local hills in the distance covered in cloud. No-one believed me but another local had also witnessed the same event. Further out on its approach it would have been above cloud and unseen. It is likely in the Kinleith forest south of Tokoroa.
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Post by baronbeeza on Aug 18, 2015 13:12:31 GMT 12
I have seen a meteor and very clearly. I was in the middle of Arthur's Pass coming down one of the long straights when it flashed over in front of us on a very dark night.
I also saw a light in the sky near Nelson that still has me baffled to this day. It was in late 1976 and coincidentally just before the Kaikoura sightings. When a light that looks very much like a helicopter coming in from over Wakefield does something completely unexpected then it gets your attention. Two of us were in the car looking over the airfield after the AeroClub bar closed Sunday night. We spoke about the helicopter and how we were about to have visitors in about 10 minutes time. (HNZ was next door).
Both of us were gazing at the light and could see it slowly making it's way directly toward us for what seemed a minute or two. We were imagining it was on slow descent and possibly about Brightwater (if it was a helicopter). What happened next had us both dumbfounded. All of a sudden the light moved to the left (our right) at what seemed like 5 miles in a split second. It just shot directly sideways at an amazing rate but clearly visible. It then accelerated at a similar pace in the original heading, ie, towards us. This time it seemed to go from a standing start to an enormous speed again within a fraction of a second. It was possible to sense the acceleration and direction from what little we saw of it on that heading. I wound the window down and there was no sound whatsoever, it had appeared to just accelerate out of sight. It would have been hard to determine whether it had gone up or over us in that final glimpse. It was only visible for a very short time on that new track but was going so fast it had disappeared while still over the back of Rabbit Island.
We compared notes and obviously saw exactly the same. One thing we both knew, - helicopters (and DB for that matter) just don't do that. I think we both imagined it was the speed that had caused us to lose sight of it. Faster than a tracer round for sure.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 18, 2015 13:19:28 GMT 12
Funny how everyone is a doubter until they actually see something they can't logically explain... And even then I suspect 90% of those people stick there heads in the sand and convince themselves it didn't happen. Good on you Beagle for speaking up. I don't doubt for a second that Beagle saw a strange light in the sky. I do doubt that anyone wants to probe him. I also recall not that long ago when my sister and I saw a very strange light hovering and changing colours in the night sky over Cambridge, and I mentioned it on Facebook to see if any other locals had also seen it or had an explanation, Mr Beagle was one of the first to jump in and take the wee-wee. I do not believe in little green men, or grey men, from outer space supposedly buzzing around capturing and probing people - that's false flag nonsense spread by the US Defence industry to mask their real activities and divert the gaze of joe public, and embraced and perpetuated by Hollywood. Despite this view I have seen, in two separate incidents, strange unidentifiable lights in the night sky in my lifetime which are definitely unidentified flying objects.
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Post by craig on Aug 18, 2015 14:08:00 GMT 12
We humans are very arrogant to assume that not only are we the only the intelligent life throughout the universe but also the MOST intelligent. From a purely logical, scientific point of view, neither of these assumptions are likely.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 18, 2015 15:56:34 GMT 12
Or you can take the very scientific view Craig, that if there is life in some form out there in the universe it's very unlikely to know about and ever come to earth. It's even much less likely to be a bipedal humanoid as most of the Sci-fi films and shows will have you believe. And even if anything is out there and is exploring other galaxies and stumbles onto earth to examine, it will be very unlikely to be any life form itself visiting in a space craft, but instead a machine, a probe, like we are doing sending probes to other planets. Have a listen to what a load of scientists who actually know a bit about sending probes to other planets think, and you might be surprised. Only yesterday I listened to a good show on the topic in the excellent Infinite Monkey Cage series: (the San Francisco episode) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/episodes/downloadsThe chances are so slim that any aliens from outer space are regularly visiting earth, contacting people and studying them using butt probes are so damned slim, and so damned illogical, I personally find it almost arrogant when people suggest it happens, especially if they suggest it has happened to them. Mental illness has a lot to answer for with many who 'believe' but the US Government is also very much to blame for the alien sightings and visitation stories that are diverting the gaze of the dulled masses away from what they are really doing.
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Post by Ian Warren on Aug 18, 2015 16:27:37 GMT 12
There are many un-explainable doo dackys that do happen .. more like debris from the Tianjin explosion , I have heard off some weird things from a good friend , Steve is very Straight Up .. things you cannot explain , I'm all for the open mind and ET just as long as I don't have to sneeze on them to get rid off them .
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Post by shorty on Aug 18, 2015 18:01:04 GMT 12
the US Government is also very much to blame for the alien sightings and visitation stories that are diverting the gaze of the dulled masses away from what they are really doing. And what are they really doing Dave?
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Post by craig on Aug 18, 2015 19:33:13 GMT 12
Or you can take the very scientific view Craig, that if there is life in some form out there in the universe it's very unlikely to know about and ever come to earth. It's even much less likely to be a bipedal humanoid as most of the Sci-fi films and shows will have you believe. And even if anything is out there and is exploring other galaxies and stumbles onto earth to examine, it will be very unlikely to be any life form itself visiting in a space craft, but instead a machine, a probe, like we are doing sending probes to other planets. Have a listen to what a load of scientists who actually know a bit about sending probes to other planets think, and you might be surprised. Only yesterday I listened to a good show on the topic in the excellent Infinite Monkey Cage series: (the San Francisco episode) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/episodes/downloadsThe chances are so slim that any aliens from outer space are regularly visiting earth, contacting people and studying them using butt probes are so damned slim, and so damned illogical, I personally find it almost arrogant when people suggest it happens, especially if they suggest it has happened to them. Mental illness has a lot to answer for with many who 'believe' but the US Government is also very much to blame for the alien sightings and visitation stories that are diverting the gaze of the dulled masses away from what they are really doing. You seem to be deliberately focusing on the 'nutter element" and in particular those with anal fixations? All I am saying is there is likely more to this universe that we currently comprehend. Lets not forget it was only a few hundred years ago our best minds were convinced the earth was flat. If you take our own tech advances in the last 100 years and extrapolate at the same rate for another million years, I am sure you would agree, there will be technologies we currently can't even imagine. So to judge the feasibility of space travel from our current perspective, is a bit like monkeys trying to build an atomic bomb. (ie just a bit above their pay grade )
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 18, 2015 22:27:40 GMT 12
the US Government is also very much to blame for the alien sightings and visitation stories that are diverting the gaze of the dulled masses away from what they are really doing. And what are they really doing Dave? In my opinion they spread the rumours of alien visitations with their false flag USAF "Project Blue Book" team planting enough seeds in the minds of people to follow the completely wrong tangent from what was rally going on, which was secret testing of aircraft, helicopters and weapons. It was all part of the Cold War secrecy surrounding their massive arms race and weapons programme. These days without the Cold War they are no longer actively spreading the misinformation so much,Blue Book is long gone - but they happily let the History Channel run with spreading the misinformation nowadays.
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