Comments on: UFOs

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:19:56 +0000

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.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:04:36 +0000

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”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:56:02 +0000

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. 😈

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:32:43 +0000

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.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:21:43 +0000

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.

By: whig

whig — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:19:41 +0000

I saw ball lightning in a storm in Pennsylvania before such phenomena were accepted by scientists as real.