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The helicopter has lots of lights on the outside so that other aeroplanes and helicopters in the sky can see it and can know which way the aircraft is flying. There is a red light on the left side of the helicopter, a green light on the right side, a white light at the back, and several flashing lights on top and often underneath.
If a pilot is flying along at night and sees a red light on the right of a green light, the pilot knows that an aircraft is heading towards them!
Aircraft Lights & Beacons
Planes are equipped with a variety of lights that are used for navigation, safety, and to improve visibility during flight or when taxiing on the ground.
Originally posted by venividivici
Maybe the ET's saw the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and want to talk to Steven Speilberg about a new screenplay.
Originally posted by lightchild
UFO's do use flashing lights especially flying triangles.
They use them to disguise themselves as aircraft or low over the ocean as ships.
It either means that any night time UFO sighting that involves flashing or coloured/white lights, has to be one of two things.
1) A hoax or a human trying to light up the sky!
OR
2) A UFO piloted by beings (Human/ET or otherwise) that WANT to be seen. Want to show the world that they're here for all to see.
Originally posted by mbkennel
It either means that any night time UFO sighting that involves flashing or coloured/white lights, has to be one of two things.
1) A hoax or a human trying to light up the sky!
OR
2) A UFO piloted by beings (Human/ET or otherwise) that WANT to be seen. Want to show the world that they're here for all to see.
No, there's always the possibility of
3) Illumination is a result of natural physics.
Example, there is no general desire for military rockets to be seen upon their launch, and yet they are visible for many hundreds of miles away, especially at night. (big ones are very spectacular, and very odd looking optical things happen upon staging).
The bright light is a consequence of the physics of the rocket engine & fuel. If they could make a dark ICBM, they'd love to, but they can't.
Likewise, assuming a hypothetical ET craft with some magic warp drive propulsion, the optical effects could be an unavoidable consequence of the physics of the warp drive or the thermodynamic dump from its power reactor.
Also, on its own, radical gravitational manipulation will cause unusual optical effects since gravitation bends space-time, and light follows geodesics. (In our normal world, the distortion is so utterly minuscule we never personally perceive it in any setting.) Also, gravity can redshift or blueshift, so color changes can result as well.
Some UFO reports claim changes in brightness or color coordinated with the apparent propulsion/movement of the UFO. This phenomenon is not observed with human signal illumination---pilots turn on and off their lights in certain phases of flight, yes, but not directly correlated with their engine speed.
[edit on 5-10-2009 by mbkennel]
[edit on 5-10-2009 by mbkennel]
Originally posted by BaronVonGodzilla
reply to post by kiwifoot
Actually, I think UFOs sometimes do use lights for precisely that, they want to be seen. But I disagree with you that it isn't for anti-collision. I am reading a book called Flying Saucers - Serious Business. It's a bit older, but it has aot of information regarding airplanes and ufos colliding in midair. Some will believe, some won't, of course, but it seems there was a time when we first became capable of flight when we did alot of crashing into mysterious objects in the sky.
A few minutes later, when FOX4 and FOX5 were passing the Fox Lake campground, they passed by two vehicles that were pulled over with two men outside looking up at the sky. They turned around and pulled over to talk to them. It was FOX2 and FOX3 carrying on a lively discussion, "What the ‘heck’ was that?" After a few minutes FOX4 and FOX5 left and eventually stopped at Braeburn Lodge about 34 km (21 miles) further up the highway. FOX4 walked into the lodge and said to Steve Watson, the lodge owner "Steve, I really need a coffee!" Steve replied "Oh, you must have seen what FOX1 saw?" In fact FOX4 recalled seeing FOX1 leaving Braeburn Lodge just as they got there.
There was also a 6th witness to the Fox Lake sighting but it is unclear what time she had driven through the area. FOX6 was driving in the vicinity of Fox Lake when she noticed a glow on her dashboard that could not be accounted for by the interior illumination of her vehicle. She leaned forward to look up through her windshield and observed a large arrangement of multi colored lights. The interior lights in her car started to go dim and the music from her tape deck slowed down.
Again there was no sound at all coming from the object. A beam of light emanating from the bottom of the UFO swooped the ground once directly underneath the object. Was it a search beam? Looking for him? The UFO then drifted slowly to the right. There were other beams emanating from the craft as well; a greenish phosphorescent color beam shone horizontally out the front (right); two beams at the back (left) rotated slowly to a horizontal position. All the beams could be seen clearly as there were ice crystals in the air. PEL1 turned away from the UFO momentarily and ran across a small clearing. When he turned back to look at it, it was gone.
They pulled over at a gravel pit just south of the Village to get a better look and got out of their vehicle. PEL2 noticed that the Big Dipper was just above the row of lights and compared the length of the lights to the width of the Big Dipper. They were about the same length!
At one point the UFO was partially obscured behind a nearby hill and one witness recalls the UFO slowly reappearing on the other side of it. He remembers waiting a long time for the last light to reappear from behind the hill; that’s how slow and large the object was! The object took up about a 60 to 90 degree horizontal chunk of the sky.