UFOs
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has said that he has seen a UFO, and defines it as an object that was flying and he couldn’t identify it. Most of the planet have seen things in the sky they couldn’t identify.
The local community of Gulf Breeze has reputation as a hot spot for UFO sightings, and, not coincidentally, UFO frauds. There is a reason, and it has nothing to do with E.T.
The military tests all of its airborne weapons systems in this area. The only combat weather teams in the military are trained in the area. The headquarters of the Air Force Special Operations Command is in the area. Foreign military aircraft are tested in the area. The primary military helicopter training takes place in the area. There are a lot of things in our skies that are unidentified, and will not be identified by authorities because their presence is classified.
A lot of people talk about objects “hovering” and then taking off at high speed. We used to do that regularly with a C-130 in certain areas by finding a jet stream. Flying into the jet stream the pilot would match speed and from the ground forward motion would stop. When it was time to leave, the pilot would make a 180° turn, which from perspective of someone on the ground would be instant acceleration. This would drive ground-based radar tracking to distraction, because they often knew that we were a C-130, but C-130s can’t hover.
UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] are not new in the military inventory, but many of them have been/are classified. People expect RC aircraft to look and sound a specific way and to be a specific size. They don’t expect something like a Predator.
The weather teams release various kinds of inflatables to gather data for forecasts, and not all of them are balloon-shaped.
To this you can add the standard mix of reflection and refraction caused by the atmosphere, and, locally, bodies of water, and it’s not surprising that a lot of people see UFOs.
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I saw ball lightning in a storm in Pennsylvania before such phenomena were accepted by scientists as real.
Ah live and learn. I seriously would not have guessed that the hover/high speed phenomenon would have been caused by flying into the jetstream.
I witnessed UFO’s twice that have never been explained and I wasn’t alone. Dozens of us(all trained naval observers) saw some very strange flying behavior over the Northwest Comm Station that straddles the Virginia/North Carolina line (in the middle of the Dismal Swamp) back in 1973. Other people in the area, including police saw something as well.
While there is probably a completely normal explanation for what we saw I haven’t heard it.
Bryan, we used to do the same in our EC121’s. Does cause some consternation in radar ops.
Get above 40,000 feet in the Arctic and you will see a lot of things that haven’t made it into the books, Whig. The atmosphere is a fluid environment and when you dump in random chemicals and add electricity all kinds of strange things can happen – including life.
Hawks and seagulls have been doing it longer than man has been looking up, Jams. Pilots get most of their best ideas from birds, they just need stronger winds.
The Dismal Swamp would be a good location to see strange behavior in the atmosphere. Temperature differentials, methane, terrain change, lots of things to stir up the atmosphere that would be nearly impossible to replicate in a lab.
I thought the Navy might, FM. The guys on the ground do tend to go nuts and start banging on equipment when you do it to them. 😈
I have seen several “UFO’s”. Big balls of light that hovered then shot off at incredible speeds. Foo Fighters is how WWII pilots referred to them. They say that in areas of plate techtonic action, there are many sightings of these “balls o’ light”. Some think there is some sort of electrical energy generated within the earth’s atmosphere when plates “clunk around.”
Ask any pilot, and they will most certainly have witnessed a UFO. Whether or not they are from outer space is left open for debate, but they are most certainly “unidentifiable”
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that two plates rubbing against each other generated static electricity, or that gases were vented along fault lines. if the proper instruments were deployed to observe the occurrences we would gather the information to explain them, but we don’t have enough data to know what instruments are needed and are relying on out eyes, which can be fooled by the lens-like qualities of the atmosphere.