WEH posted:

euphronius posted:

uh thre would be a two hundred year band of air pollution (more) . There is one from height of Rome we can still see in the ice cores

You are right if they just flew into outer space with their bodies it would be undetectable.

Endless Trash posted:

my favorite wacky theory is we’re horribly alone in an uncaring universe and there’s no one to save us from ourselves

Endless Trash posted:

my favorite wacky theory is we’re horribly alone in an uncaring universe and there’s no one to save us from ourselves

i am harry posted:

the latter can still be true without the first part being true

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I have seen this prog album cover as well

bobmarleysghost posted:

going off of the drone theory that says these are self replicating drones - what if these drones seeded the earth/enlightened our ape ancestors, which is how they replicate - the life they create/promote is coded to build the drones

aka we are the aliens

euphronius posted:

uh thre would be a two hundred year band of air pollution (more) . There is one from height of Rome we can still see in the ice cores

WEH posted:

"I saw a clear glass bubble, it was big enough for one man to sit in. And that is actually what I saw, a man in a sitting position in this glass bubble."

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these scenic islands were once the location of one of the most bizarre mass UFO sightings in history, which would be seen by thousands of witnesses from all walks of life and remains an unsolved conundrum.

It began on June 22, 1976, when people living on the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, and La Gomera began calling in to report numerous strange lights performing odd maneuvers in the sky, amongst them one that seemed to be larger than the others, described as a giant, luminous sphere. Among these reports some were more spectacular than others, and one of the first reported incidents was made by the Navy escort ship, the Atrevida, which at the time was positioned off the coast of Fuerteventura Island. On this evening at approximately 9:27 PM the crew observed an extremely bright light moving in the general direction of the ship. It was first thought to be a normal aircraft, but this turned out to not be the case, as it began rotating, pulsating, and generating a blindingly bright halo of yellow and blue, as well as various flashing strobe effects. The baffled crew watched this mysterious object for a full 40 minutes, and the official report from the ship would read in part:

"The original light went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible. Two minutes after the great halo, the light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished. None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close."

At no point was the craft picked up on radar, and a check of air traffic in the area showed no military or civilian aircraft scheduled to be in the vicinity.

One of the most intriguing reports came from a doctor Francisco Padron Leon, who at the time was in a taxi on his way to a house call at the town of Las Rosas. However, things got very odd when both he and the driver noticed an illuminated globe up in front of them, just seeming to hover over the ground. According to Leon’s report, it measured an estimated 100 feet across, and was seemingly made up of a semi-clear material like crystal. More bizarre still was that as they drew closer they could see that the bottom of the sphere was ringed by some sort of metallic platform, upon which two immense humanoid beings around 10 feet in height were standing next to large consoles of some kind. These two creatures had oversized heads, wore some kind of helmets, and seemed to be operating a giant tube that belched forth a bluish smoke, and the doctor would say of these entities and what happened next:

" At each side of the center there were two huge figures of 2.50 to 3 m. [8.5 to 10 ft.] tall, but no taller than 3 m. [10 ft.], dressed entirely in red and facing each other in such a way that I always saw their profile. Then I observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment. Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling."

This gigantic sphere would ascend and then purportedly shoot off at astounding speed along with its mysterious occupants. It would then be seen by several other witnesses directly after this, including the very patient that the doctor was on his way to see, all of who described the same translucent crystalline structure and giant beings on their catwalk. By the end of the evening there would apparently be thousands of reports from across the archipelago describing something bizarre going on in the sky, coming from a wide variety of professions and ages and making them one of the most mass witnessed UFO events ever, yet it was all mostly swept under the carpet by the Spanish Air Force.

It would not be until 1994 that people would really take it seriously, when the Spanish Air Force declassified its files on the events and it was clear for all to see that something very odd had indeed been documented from that evening. The declassified report was very detailed, included over 100 pages of testimony, evaluations, drawings, a full chronology of the sightings, and it also took the step of separating witnesses by their perceived level of veracity and reliability, with the reports of the crew of the Atrevida and that of doctor Leon ranking at the top. It was also explained that an investigative adjunct had been launched by the Spanish Air Force, which had found that there had been no military or civilian aircraft at the time and they officially labelled it an “unidentified aerial phenomena.” The report would conclude:

"The fact that a very strange and peculiar aerial phenomena occurred on the night of 22 June is a true and proven fact, as incredible as its behavior and conditions may seem. We should have to think seriously of the necessity of considering the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin, propelled by an equally unknown energy, is moving freely over the skies in the Canaries."

WEH posted:

Rah! posted:

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/03/the-mysterious-canary-islands-mass-ufo-sighting/

Tekne posted:

10 foot tall humanoids would be sufficiently strange/interesting imo

imagine how all the world’s shapiros would feel

Tekne posted:

10 foot tall humanoids would be sufficiently strange/interesting imo

imagine how all the world’s shapiros would feel

Shear Modulus posted:

that's just bigfoot

Shear Modulus posted:

wouldnt there be like a bunch of oil well casing pipes and stuff in the ground

Wheeee posted:

resident evil is part of the op to get us prepared for our new 3m tall overlords

PokeJoe posted:

if the aliens are huge sexy vampire women we're doomed

NUFORC posted:

Occurred : 7/4/1962 21:00
Reported: 8/22/2005 1:58:37 PM 13:58

Laying on my back looking at the stars when one shot across the sky, did a 90 degree turn without slowing and stopped...then a second one did the same manuevere.

Got witnesses outside....this was repeated four or five times.

These lights, of course, were not stars. The lights were very, very high in the sky on a night that the stars were all out. They made a pattern like a tic-tac-to pattern. The 90n degree turns without slowing is what was really impressive.

I'll never forget it, but have not told the story all this time for fear of ridicule.

Azathoth posted:

There's a bunch of stories like that from the 1977-1978 Brazil flap, including a bunch of single seat orbs being piloted by humanish figures. Don't recall any transparent globes specifically, but otherwise everything fits like a glove.

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During the great sighting outbreak of early November 1957, a number of close encounters had a disturbing consequence: burns and related injuries to witnesses. One of the most dramatic occurrences took place at an army base at Itaipu along Brazil's Atlantic coast. At 2 A.M. on November 4 two guards saw a luminous orange disc coming in over the ocean at a low altitude and an alarming rate of speed. As it passed above the soldiers, the disc came to an instant stop.

The two witnesses suddenly felt a wave of heat and a horrifying sensation as if they had burst into flame. Their screams brought other soldiers stumbling out of their barracks just in time to see the UFO streak away. At that moment the fort's entire electrical system failed. Amid great secrecy the two men were rushed to a military hospital and treated during the next few weeks for first-and second-degree burns to ten percent of their bodies.

But there were other burn cases as well. In the afternoon of the same day as the Itaipu incident, the engines of several cars along a rural highway near Orogrande, New Mexico, ceased to function as an egg-shaped object maneuvered close by. A witness who stood particularly close to it contracted a "sunburn." In the early morning hours of November 6, outside Merom, Indiana, a hovering UFO, which bathed his farm in light, also seriously burned René Gilham's face. He ended up spending two days in the hospital.

At around 1:30 A.M. on November 10 a Madison, Ohio, woman saw an acorn-shaped UFO hovering just behind her garage. She watched it for half an hour. In the days afterward she developed a body rash and vision problems that her doctor believed suggested radiation poisoning. Subsequent medical tests uncovered no apparent cause for her injuries.

Rah! posted:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/ufo-burn.htm

Wheeee posted:

Azathoth posted:

for some reason, there's a long history of deadly UFOs in Brazil

Wheeee posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/LueElizondo/status/1409519019397324803

Rah! posted:

yeah its weird

Azathoth posted:

the weirdest thing about it is also how comically ineffective the UFOs are at being harmful. i think it was vallee who remarked that as much harm as the rays they shot seemed to cause, as close as they were, someone leaning out the side with a handgun would have been markedly more deadly, let alone any of the modern weapons we currently mount on aircraft