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Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG



Wacky

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D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006


That's a good bird video

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

some sort of light orbs

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Yeah that is a good one

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



*extremely mick west voice* dust on lens

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Yeah that is a good one

it is a good one but i dont trust the soundtrack and narration

depending what sort of sattelite that was i think incident reports etc should be around somewhere

papersack
Jul 27, 2003


I was thinking it'd be crazy if it had the red light / beam like a lot of triangle reports have, then boom, there it was.

gileadexile
Jul 20, 2012

Very considerate for it to have red and green markers on the edges..

If real, that's local poo poo.

:rolleyes:

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

wobbling disk zips over witness

NUFORC posted:

I was walking down a dirt road with grandfather and other family checking pecan trees, which may make this october and not september, but, I climbed pasture to go over and check a single tree out in ten acre hayfield.

As I was looking up at the tree, facing to the east, while the others were walking on down the road to the west I saw something break the horizon over a treeline about 1/2 mile away. It passed somewhat over me and as quickly as I could turn to watch it, it was gone.

It was like brushed stainless steel, shaped like two pie pans put together with no lip and as it passed over it was tipping from side to side.

I asked the others if they saw it go over, and my grandfather's response was "I didn't hear anything", which is when I realized that I had not either, no sound.

It was a clear Sunday afternoon, blue sky, no clouds. I can visualize it as clearly as if it were yesterday. I know it was not like any aircraft that I had ever seen.

It was approximately 200-300 feet up and would have measured 30-40 feet in diameter based on the perspective from the tree in the field. The speed was such that it traversed the 3/4 mile total sighting in a matter of less than 10 seconds.

golden egg "ejecting" red beams. choosing to interpret this as spent fuel or similar lol

NUFORC posted:

I have never reported this but have seen anything like it before... It was just before dusk and I looked up and saw this golden oval object in the sky.. fairy low..

A small airplane flew by and this object then ejected 3 bright red beams from the bottom of it,,moved over to the right and disappeared before our eyes.. My father, mother and brother saw it... My dad phoned somewhere to report it but noone seemed to have seen it..

diamond-shaped craft emitting strange sheets of light

NUFORC posted:

(This was a long time ago - but I happened to notice on Jeff Rense's sight that around the same time there were sightings at the Minot, ND USAF base - so this info may be another piece in the puzzle...) The object was on the eastern horizon in the early evening. It appeared to be a few miles away. However, by far the most salient feature was the light coming off the craft. It came in long rays - just like you might see in the movies or on X-files. We could see these rays come from the craft to us - kind of like we were being scanned somehow. The rays were very long and surprisingly s-l-o-w. This continued for 10-15 seconds. The rays were transparent but slightly dark - kind of like long veils of silk.

The craft kind of dissolved into space after this "apparent" scan. Over the time it was in our sight it covered about 10-15 degrees of arc. It was probably at a height of several hunder feet but not above the clouds. This experience was shared by myself and a friend. We were shooting baskets in the schoolyard. It was unforgettable. Make of it what you can!

cigar changes orientation prior to zooming upward; inflicts sunburn

NUFORC posted:

as i woke up in the early morning a bright redish orange light bathed the living room,at first i thought it was a fire but the light was in the kitchen as well. as i loooked out the living room window i noticed a cigar shaped object over the harbor in dorchester bay [u mass]i watched the object several minutes when it turned end to end and shot straight up. i seem to recall news paper clippings the next day,when i awoke i had a sunburn

huge disk over park in lima

NUFORC posted:

I have never told this to anyone until now except for close relatives. This happened when I was 14 years old, but I remember it vividly to this day.

I was visiting my aunt and uncle who lived in Lima, Peru in South America at the time. I had gone up to the balcony of their home. Across the street was a large park about 4 city square blocks. I had climbed on to the balcony to look down at the park to see if I could spot any of my friends playing there.

As I did so I saw that everyone in the park, and there were many people, were all looking up, so I looked up as well. As I did I was so startled that at first I thought the sun was crashing down upon us, but in that split second I realized that what I was looking at was stationary and was not going to crash on top of us. Then I realized I was seeing a circular material object that was very huge and bright white. It was hovoring over the trees at very close range. It was at least the size of the park itself.

It cast a huge shadow over the park. It hovered there for what seemed several minutes. It seemed to be spinning quite rapidly.

Then, suddenly out of the blue it took off at incredible speed and disappeared. I was stunned I was not sure what I had just witnessed, but eventually I came to the realization that it must have been some type of space ship.

When I looked back down at the park no one was looking up, and everyone seemed to be going about there business as if nothing had happened. This was something that impressed me a great deal, because at that age I was hardly interested in UFO's or any such thing. I was a typical 14 year old kid. UFO's were the last thing on my mind. It left me completely dumb founded for quite some time.

disk shuts down dig site; causes radio/electrical interference; possibly interested in excavator(?)

NUFORC posted:

I was working at the Mecco mine near London Mills, IL on 10/05/68. Fall was dry so need for pumps in the strip mine after a rain was nill, but pumps needed to be maintained. My detail from the shop of 6 men including me went towed in 3 pumps that needed to be oiled and lubed up. We were driving down the pit when one of the guys noticed the german wheel excavator had stopped digging, its lights got real dim as we appeared over the rim. Our two way radio did notwork, all there was static. Another man noticed a disc with an orange halo around it. It was moving real slow. Me and my crew was scared and tried to call the whhel shovel but all we got was static, 4 hours would be the shift change. At shift change, the drivrr noticed an unusual lighted object that came closer to the german wheel excavator. it was disc about 50-100 ft across and domed tounded on top. Very creepy, it then disappeared. We drove by a relay station (pwer booster station). Something had blown out, could smell it.

later we saw on Route 116 a police car travelling extremely fast.

I am a retrired coalminer, Koean war veteran , and college grad. This no joke.

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
Maybe space debris, but kinda cool

https://twitter.com/ce_groom/status/1611572336032993282?s=20

goochtit
Nov 2, 2021



ISS poo pellet

AndyElusive
Jan 7, 2007


https://twitter.com/ce_groom/status/1611746608068141058?t=PDApFdJT5Ol6zjqtJdr-Uw&s=19

They got to her.

mr_jolly
Aug 20, 2003

Not so jolly now

At the point the white lights appear in a triangular formation, some of them appear to be in front of the tree but the brightest seems to be behind so I'm guessing it's a bright light being reflected multiple times by her window. They also seem too regularly spaced and identical to be multiple genuine lights.

Would like to know whether she has triple or double glazing.

Going to go with helicopter with a spotlight for this one.

Rickshaw
Apr 11, 2004

just a coconut going for a stroll

mr_jolly posted:

At the point the white lights appear in a triangular formation, some of them appear to be in front of the tree but the brightest seems to be behind so I'm guessing it's a bright light being reflected multiple times by her window.

Very good spotting


Here's Bob Oeschler talking to / about Admiral Inman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCsiSWJFoM

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)
Here's a Spooky Scottish Bird Story for your Sunday

https://www.donkeyjunk.com/post/a70-ufo-incident-scotlands-alien-abduction

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

lights zigzagging and duplicating

lights; OBE?

military aircraft crew witnesses green light emerge from ocean; 90 deg movement

Mysterious cloud zapping forest causes tv interference; digs hole(?)

silo report

irish report; falling leaf action not usually associated w/ rectangles

report of possible crash retrival; bonus silent helicopter sighting

twin disks connected by bars w/ visible "aliens" inside terrify witness

detailed report of fast triangle leaving "perfect" semicircular vapor trail

maybe they just wanted hamburgers

disk emits weird lights prior to disappearing; 90 deg movement

interesting preliminary report to read between the lines on, but i dont think ever got submitted in full

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.




There's an audio version of this story as well

D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

It's tik tok so maybe this is a fake clip but if it is real what the hell is that?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRgN1n72/

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


D-Pad posted:

It's tik tok so maybe this is a fake clip but if it is real what the hell is that?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRgN1n72/

space fish

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

seagulls probably, camera just has a weird framerate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lezmuwq4g_g

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


it cant be seagulls becvcause thats not a mcdonalds parking lot at lunch time

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


OTOH, it is a dump

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

When my mom was sick we saw part of Groundog Day and that sparked a discussion of reincarnation. We agreed on a post-death signal of "groundhog".

I just had Groundhog Day appear unbidden in my youtube recs, and watched the whole movie and thought of her.

Tell me your theories on groundhog day.

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

obviously it's a coincidence, i'm a materialist. but

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
the key is if you can groundhog back, in the fullness of time

Polo-Rican
Jul 4, 2004

emptyquote my posts or die

D-Pad posted:

It's tik tok so maybe this is a fake clip but if it is real what the hell is that?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRgN1n72/



https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e6cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

WEH posted:

seagulls probably, camera just has a weird framerate

gulls don't fly like that at all - they're big, slow, and steady

Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 17:38 on Jan 9, 2023

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


Polo-Rican posted:



https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e6cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

gulls don't fly like that at all - they're big, slow, and steady

they also seem self-illuminated, which wouldn't be *that* strange except they seem to maintain their luminance as they get further from the camera. that would seem to exclude birds being illuminated from below. they'd get significantly dimmer as they flew away from an apparent light source

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/madsdoingthings/status/1612147468883603456

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

s'bugs

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

over exposed/wacky framerate/slightly outta focus, its got the trifecta

Sushi The Kid
Sep 10, 2005
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Looks like the eye floaters you see when looking at blue skies.

Tekne
Feb 15, 2012

It's-a me, motherfucker

new wapo video about birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4KE8La5Wo

in summary the government knows birds are real but doesn't know what they are they definitely know if it's some non-human intelligence but I can buy them not knowing the exact particulars

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Comes shortly after Mellon's blog post bitching about the news not picking this up

perhaps this is the first of many to come

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

i want that cow abduction toy

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Silurian hypothesis confirmed, birds are birds

quote:

T. rex, with even more telencephalic neurons than modern tool-using and tool-making corvids, had the biological capability to use and craft tools, and develop a culture, like modern birds and primates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUgdfXlBK0


alternately, birds are squid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CZ6quPyls


As time goes on there's increasing evidence that animals are much smarter than was previously thought and everything in the past was far more sophisticated than the old era dudes expected.

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



We've created a hell on earth for all other life.
I can't even express the existential weight of it all.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
They're saying the Cambrian explosion might just be an artifact of how fossils were formed and the timeline of the evolution of complex traits needs to be pushed back for almost everything, even that there may have been "advanced" human cultures that left almost no trace.

The old idea of humans showing up and wrecking the joint is in many cases wrong or more nuanced and there are examples of humans and really exotic seeming megafauna coexisting totally fine and reasonably... until habitat change because of humans started loving poo poo up bad. Seems like us modifying the environment is as major or even more important than direct hunting and things like that.

It's pretty amazing that they have been able to gene sequence the elephant bird and it could possibly have been alive even 500 or 1k years ago, and there are a lot of examples like that. Really seems like unchecked greed was a real fuckup and might have kicked in and become dominant only recently on the timeline of human cultures. We just don't know what the past was like with anything remotely similar to the certainty we thought we did.

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

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ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol

SniperWoreConverse posted:

They're saying the Cambrian explosion might just be an artifact of how fossils were formed and the timeline of the evolution of complex traits needs to be pushed back for almost everything,

If u got a article on this I'd be super happy and grateful forever

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



The Demilich posted:

We've created a hell on earth for all other life.
I can't even express the existential weight of it all.

its dusk here and while i was having a cig outside there was a procession of bats, all going north, and i lost track after about 50 but have some hope

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



The Demilich posted:

We've created a hell on earth for all other life.
I can't even express the existential weight of it all.

the vast majority of trouble is directly aimed at us anyways once we are out the planet and ecosystem will be ok

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endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

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ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
I think we should be kinder to bird birds in general and meaner to space birds in particular

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