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John H[_2_]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:56:28 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:32 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

There is a pretty active UFO group in the north east too.

I am not a "alien encounter" believer but if you stare at the sky very
long you will see something you can't identify.

I think there are more sightings and reports in rural areas, simply
because there are more military operations there and the people are
not as well informed.
Military aircraft in the crowded airspaces around metropolitan areas
act in a very orderly manner.
When you get out in the boonies, they do strange stuff.
Back when RSW first opened (the Ft Myers airport) they only had a few
dozen flights a day and there might be an hour or more without a plane
in the pattern.
We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.

My dad was stationed at MacDill AFB in Tampa for two years when I was a kid. I later worked for two
years at Cape Canaveral. Even later, I got by BS at the University of Tampa. I've known a lot of
Floridians - home grown and imports. Even married one whose parents and grand-parents did their
growing up on Merritt Island. That is some heavy cracker country over there.

I don't know where jps and Harry get there ideas about Floridians. I'd much rather be around a bunch
of them then most of the Seattleites I've met. There are a great many folks in southern Maryland
still fighting the Civil War - as Confederates.

John H.
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