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UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
Is that really Venus?
Interesting to note that the official policy is to "ignore radar returns that don't comply with the operational characteristics" of conventional fixed wing aircraft or helicopters. Controller 1: Anything exciting happen on your shift? Controller 2: Naw, just 150 or so of those radar returns we're supposed to ignore because the government says they don't exist. Controller 1: Is that all? Sounds like you had a quiet shift. Some of his political detractors probably assert that Dennis Kucinich routinely sees things that don't exist. (Ronald Reagan, of couse *did* see one.) :-) Item: WASHINGTON (Nov. 12) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings. "Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters," they said in a statement released at a news conference. The panelists from seven countries, including former senior military officers, said they had each seen a UFO or conducted an official investigation into UFO phenomena. The subject of UFOs grabbed the spotlight in the U.S. presidential race last month when Kucinich, a member of Congress from Ohio, said during a televised debate with other Democratic candidates that he had seen one. Former presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter are both reported to have claimed UFO sightings. Most turn out to be misidentified aircraft, satellites or meteors. A panelist who once worked for Britain's Ministry of Defense said 5 percent of incidents cannot be explained. But the sightings are often dismissed by authorities without proper investigations, UFO activists say. "It's a question of who you going to believe: your lying eyes or the government?" remarked John Callahan, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, who said the CIA in 1987 tried to hush up the sighting of a huge lighted ball four times the size of a jumbo jet in Alaska. The panel, organized by a group dedicated to winning credibility for the study of UFOs, urged Washington to resume UFO investigations through the U.S. Air Force or NASA. "It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997. The Air Force investigated 12,618 UFO reports from 1947 to 1969 in what was known as Project Blue Book. Investigators concluded that the incidents posed no threat and there was no evidence of space aliens or a super technology in operation. "Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations," the Air Force said on its Web site. |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:54:19 -0800, Chuck Gould
wrote: Is that really Venus? UFO's may confound celestial navigators? Both of them? :-) There's a plausible explanation of course why some of these reports have been hushed up or glossed over. There's a good chance that at least a few of them have been sightings of secret projects of one sort or another. There's also an excellent chance that some of them have been large meteors. I've seen a few spectacular displays while on the water at night and they really get your attention. One was so bright that it lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was gone. We were all momentarily speechless, not because of supernatural forces but because it was just awesome. |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
"Wayne.B" wrote in message One was so bright that it lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was gone. We were all momentarily speechless, not because of supernatural forces but because it was just awesome. Saw one like that myself a few months back 'round midnight when I went out in the backyard for a smoke. All I could think was "holy shyt". db |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... I've seen a few spectacular displays while on the water at night and they really get your attention. One was so bright that it lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was gone. That was just Gene in his modified Cessna. Eisboch |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
Eisboch wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... I've seen a few spectacular displays while on the water at night and they really get your attention. One was so bright that it lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was gone. That was just Gene in his modified Cessna. Eisboch In the 1960s, I was returning from Junction City, Kansas, with a buddy whose dad was stationed in the Army near there. It was very late, maybe 2 am, when we both saw two very bright lights in the sky moving very rapidly. We both immediate said, "UFOs!!!" For a few minutes we were really scared, but they passed over the horizon. In those days, I don't know about now, there were very few city or town lights way out there in the middle of nowhere, so I doubt they were reflected lights. They were going much too fast to be jets. UFOs. |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:20:22 -0500, D-unit penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: | |"Wayne.B" wrote in message | | | One was so bright that it | lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while | streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing | trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was | gone. | | We were all momentarily speechless, not because of supernatural forces | but because it was just awesome. | | |Saw one like that myself a few months back 'round midnight when I went |out in the backyard for a smoke. All I could think was "holy shyt". Medicinal purposes? -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
"HK" wrote in message . .. UFOs. Time to re-tell my UFO tale. I'll try to keep it short. While in the Navy, stationed on a DE homeported in Naples, Italy, we spent an average of two weeks at sea, one in port, two weeks at sea, one in port, etc. We patrolled the Med, mostly at 7 knots, towing a passive sonar array tracking Soviet subs. Needless to say, these patrols got pretty boring. One Sunday afternoon the Captain called "Holiday Routine" which meant that anybody not standing a watch could basically chill out, sun on the fantail, helicopter deck or whatever. A few of us had prepared for this on one patrol and brought some kites with us. We flew them off the fantail and, at 7 kts, they soared perfectly. After a while one of us got the bright idea of tying a small, red flashing beacon light from a life vest to the kites. The kites carried them fine, and we let all the line we had out and tied the end to the fantail rail and eventually forgot about them. Later that evening I reported for a watch in the radioshack only to find a beehive of activity. The Captain was sending out priority position and situation messages, reporting that the "unidentified objects" continued to track behind the ship's course and are undetectable on radar. The guilty quickly beat feet to the fantail and cut the lines. Eisboch |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:34:59 -0500, Eisboch penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: | |"Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . | | I've seen a few spectacular displays while on the water at | night and they really get your attention. One was so bright that it | lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while | streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing | trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was | gone. | | | |That was just Gene in his modified Cessna. Only the ion trail...... -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
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UFO's may confound celestial navigators.
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ... On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:20:22 -0500, D-unit penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: | |"Wayne.B" wrote in message | | | One was so bright that it | lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while | streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing | trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was | gone. | | We were all momentarily speechless, not because of supernatural forces | but because it was just awesome. | | |Saw one like that myself a few months back 'round midnight when I went |out in the backyard for a smoke. All I could think was "holy shyt". Medicinal purposes? Possibly back in "the day" but Im just hooked on nicotine now. A most powerful drug it is. The wife and I tried Chantix in January and had pretty good luck with it for several months. It works as advertised. db |
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