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I often feel WW2 was the set of sequences that encourage our interstellar neighbours to start taking serious notice of us. Rocket technology being developed in Germany, and nuclear technology being developed in the USA, considering the murderous nature of humans it probably sent serious concerns across the galaxy
Originally posted by nineix
Inconsistency: Report details seeing lights and 'object' on starboard side of Lancaster aircraft.
The painting, unless it's been reversed shows Lancaster aircraft pointing to right of canvas, where the large lenticular cloud looking thing, if meant to be in the background further away, would then be on the Port side of the Lancaster.
Story says starboard (right hand) side. Painting says port (left hand) side.
Additionally, since that's not a photograph of a photograph, but a photograph of a painting, I can't say the thing that looks like a lenticular cloud is a lenticular cloud, but, I can say that it does indeed look like one.
Edit:
Lancaster Bomber airplane -
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Lenticular Cloud -
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edit on 31-3-2012 by nineix because: added photo references
Originally posted by xpoq47
Even though it sounds like a nice report, the painting makes it look to me like a superior mirage of a distant island, which could also produce the illusion of portholes and many lights on a giant craft of that shape, as well as the sudden departure and the sudden change in his fishpond screen. As the aircraft exits the part of the sky in which a temperature inversion makes the mirage possible, the false image can appear to quickly fly away rather than suddenly disappear. I think the possibility of superior mirage should be at least considered whenever a sighing from an aircraft is of something so large with such high ratio of length to height.
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by xpoq47
I was referring to superior mirage, which is quite different from highway mirage, for example. A typical superior mirage would be of an island beyond the horizon. The temperature inversion makes it look like it's floating in the sky. In polar regions, a superior mirage is quite stable, even though light rays are being bent around the curvature of the Earth. Such an event is rare over England, never seen by most pilots. It's better known in Iceland and Greenland. And yes, images produced are huge, unlike those of the more familiar inferior mirage. One type of superior mirage is callled Fata Morgana, in which the image looks real but is distorted to look nothing like the original but still gives the impression of great size.
Here are some examples plus diagrams explaining how this type of mirage works.
images.search.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by nineix
Additionally, since that's not a photograph of a photograph, but a photograph of a painting, I can't say the thing that looks like a lenticular cloud is a lenticular cloud, but, I can say that it does indeed look like one.
Originally posted by aardudley
Check this video out! UFO's floating around the buildings of Miami beach. Footage from a helicopter tour.
UFO's Flying Over Miami
‘the lights were circular, rather like the portholes in a ship. The colour was a very bright yellow changing to intense white. My estimate was that they were about a thousand yards from our aeroplane. The ones nearest our Lancaster were the largest and brightest; they stretched fore and aft to what seemed infinity. After thirty seconds I could see they were part of an enormous disc.’
Originally posted by xpoq47
reply to post by TeaAndStrumpets
Superior mirage is the first thing that came to mind looking at the painting. This type and Fata Morgana both create large images that look real to witnesses on the scene. It doesn't have to be an island. It can be a patch of the English countryside bathed in sunlight. So-called flying saucers are not so wide in proportion to height, but superior mirages almost always are. And the size is unusual for a disc-shaped UFO. While impossible to prove in this case, mirage should at least be on the list of things to consider for a long, thin, huge object that doesn't zip around and/or deploy shuttlecraft.
Here's the video of the first example in Yahoo! images, in which you see a mirage of a ship right above the actual ship but upside down, kind of proof that sometimes seeing is deceiving: :
www.youtube.com...