UFO Tallahassee (Updated)

dear tallyufo,

thank you so much for everything. i felt so many amazing things while watching that video. you came across as such a normal/real person. i actually felt like i really got to know you watching that video. when you went quiet for a while i got this really weird feeling, and i imagined that you must have been feeling so strange. it was kind of freaky, actually.

i am so thankful for so many elements of this video. the reason for shooting video (kids skipping rope). the reaction/nonreaction of you and your family. its all so plausible, so i am just totally believing in it.

i can't quite recall if this was asked, but did the helicopter go away right away? did you see it?

also, based on your gut feeling, do you think it was man made or not? and if you believe it is not man made, did you believe in the possibility before the experience?

and, overall, do you feel it was a negative/scary vibe or a wonder(ful) vibe? how did the kids feel? in wonder or frightened? kids still have the knack for picking up on things we adults don't.

love and peace

Originally posted by MachXX
Chicago's OHare Airport on November 7 2006 (but broadcast nationalwide in the Chicago Tribune on Jan 1 2007), in which several United Airlines workers, including pilots, saw a disc hovering over a terminal (terminal C). They even radioed the control tower about it. After 20 minutes or so, the disc (estimated to be about 30 ft in diameter) shot off straight into the clouds with incredible acceleration - created a round hole in the clouds. The g-forces would easily crushed human beings inside.

Yeah that is an awesome sighting MachXX. But it could have been an unmanned ufo at Chicago O'Hare. And again it could have been an alien craft. IMO it was unmanned and was being serviced or something.

Thanks for jumping in.

I know what you mean about the "should I, or shouldnt I?" paradox. Been there done that, as has many of us here for one reason or another.

Try to read through the thread if you havent already and try to address some of the Q's that are kind of lingering. If anyone gets moronic it will be handled and its not always obvious when its done. A lot of things are dealt with outside of public view here so I personally simply have faith in those whose job it is to keep an eye on stuff like that.

One question I have is did it seem odd to you that the looping/figure eighty motions it made near the end of your vid coincided with the low overflight of what seemed like a large helo of some sort near your house. It may be mere coincidence like I said, but the timing was cherry. Makes the imagination chuckle a bit - kinda X File like eh?

Once again thanks for your trust in coming here, hopefully this will be an enlightening place for you here. There are volumes upon volumes of info and data here so soak it up!

[edit on 17-3-2007 by Lost_Mind]

My father was a truck driver and we never had access to a vid cam to be able to record all the wierd stuff we had seen, back in that day anyways, but the footage you have is quite amazing to say the least.
When the helicopter comes over, and the erradic behaviour starts, it is quite evident that you have wittnessed , caught on film/dvd, that few have ever caught and you have almost 25 min's of it!!
I had attended an Aircraft mechanical institute, I didn't get my degree, but I was one of my physists best students.. when the sighting occurred, it was obvious it was totally 'Unexpected' and with your family present it only makes for a more 'reliable' encounter. When it went bright orange, it reminded me of the space shuttle re-entries and how they would hold thier glow, the only thing different between the glow of the shuttle and the vid you have is the direction of flow. Now, I know we can blame Av or pix , but isn't it odd that , well , as far as I can tell , the UFO stayed in full view until the copter sounded off? By the way, "What kind of Copter was it?"
Any hoot, "Great video, I am sending this one to the people I know!-)"

Thanks for sharing it and I hope I get your response to the above inquiries I had.. "CHOW!!"

FROM DREXON:
Personally I only have one question that I wanted to ask you straight off the bat so to speak. How did the UFO look to you? The reason I'm asking is because the video shows some typical mechanical camera faults (not at all your fault), making it hard to get a grip on what the 'true' shape of the UFO was.

TALLYUFO:
First off, thanks to you and others for being so patient in my responses, for I am a very slow typist! The "blog" or "chat" deal is all new to me as well (I'm still trying to figure out how to post a picture to the side like you guys!)... and the "smile faces" I think I'll try that next! So thanks for hanging in there with me on this!
Now your question, I was putting away a ping pong table (rolling it back into the garage) when my daughter asked about shooting stars, while still in the garage I told her what they looked like and also explained a bit about "Jet trails" and thought to myself, here the kid is ## years old and has never seen a falling star! What a poor father I'm being! Well coming back out of the garage to "pick up" other yard toys with my girls, the oldest asked if "that" was a falling star. Now looking up for the first time I saw over our home what looked just like a very bright star. I said, "No sweetie, that's just the first "star" of the evening, maybe a planet." Carrying an arm full of toys, houla-hoops, ping pong paddles, tennis balls and such back into the garage, she asked again, "What are falling stars again... because this one is moved across the sky." Stepping back out into the driveway I looked back up to where the "star" was just moments before and it was not there. I looked over to my daughter in the yard and she was pointing way over to the far side of the sky and there was the "star" again. Now this made me stop for a moment, there was NOTHING but blue sky above the garage where the "star" was and now it looked like it was miles across the sky in a different spot. I asked #####, "Did you see that star move?" and she said, "Yes, it moved over here daddy." That's about the time I saw it move at an awesome speed, almost to fast to see, across the sky at an angle of about 30 degrees, coming to a momentary stop and headed right back to what would have been the "middle" of the path between the points my daughter saw it move. It paused there for a few seconds, long enough for me to tell my other daughter, "Go in the house and tell Mom to bring me the video camera!" A moment passed and the object returned quickly to the place I first saw it over our garage. This whole sky pattern looked like the number "4" except mirrored vertically. I saw it over the garage at the bottom of the "4", my daughter saw it move to the top (across the sky, "4" parallel with the earth, you know what I mean), and I saw it move from the top to the outer point, back to the middle and back to the bottom. My daughter came back out minutes later, maybe five or so, and I asked, "Where is your Mom with the CAMERA!!!" (I regret speaking in the tone I used, but I just couldn't believe what I was seeing). She said, "Mom said she's busy right now and will be out later." Well I about blew it at that moment and said, "You go tell your Mom to get the video camera NOW!" What happens next is all on video. I'm guessing I missed about ten minutes or so before getting the camera on the object. I wish I could have caught the "high speed" parts my daughters and I saw, but it just didn't turn out that way. From over our garage at what I would guess was 40k or more maybe, it drifted out to the north-north/east for awhile. Those are the shots where it looked very far away, and about the time I figure out you CAN hold still and focus on this thing, it started heading back towards our home again, but not quite right over the garage where I first saw it. From there unto the end it drifted north for the most part, then it looked like it closed into a sphere shape and turned RED and did the crazy flight of to the north-north/west. It really looked like a bright white star it was so far up. I saw a show once on what the iris of your camera can do when shot into light and such, so the scenes where it's focusing in and out and it "looks" like a "stretching white diamond on it's side", is all internal camera junk. There was a time when it was lower and closer, and to the naked eye it looked just like an old time derby hat in shape, with a white "milky-opaic" color. Another strange thing was the way the red lights whirled "inside" the craft. The only way to describe it is that it looked like (this is going sound crazy!) one of those spinning deals with lights mounted on them that you see on an old "disco" dance floor. ALL RED with different shades of red, some bright and others not so bright, all swirling around "up inside" the craft. I could see this with my naked eye, through the milky-opaic "sides" of this craft. This whirling, spinning ball of red lights would appear to "drop" slowly to the bottom and be seen much brighter. At first I thought these lights were "doing something" to my camera, but now after watching the video I see that the object was just "moving" when the lights dropped, causing my camera to go "berserk" (out of focus!). These red lights are the same ones that "inside" the craft, appear to get super bright, so much so that the "white" of the object is no longer "seen" and again to the naked eye, it looked just like a bright red sphere. Rambling again! Sorry! :O)

Welcome TallyUFO, you seem to have grabbed our attention with your quite remarkable footage.

At the moment I have it safely in the "inconclusive" section of my thoughts, which is as high as any footage gets.

I have yet to hear of any ideas that explain what we are seeing on your video, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I was swaying toward an airship, but after the rapid movement at the end, well logic prevailed.

I think one of the questions people may ask is why you didn't shoot the chopper?

Did you not believe it to be connected with the sighting?

Do you have any recollection as to the type of choppper it was?

Do you have any footage of the chopper?

I see you were asked already about describing what you saw with the naked eye, I got the gist from your video commentary that you were seeing a great deal more detail than the video was able to capture.

Maybe at some point you would like to do some sketches?

I look forward to your responses, and thank you for taking the time to come and explain this experience.

p.s. I loved the comment made by one of your kids about it possibly being an angel, made me smile.

This is a truly incredible encounter of the "Mass" factor. I am Allred5923, I don't think you understand that I was upholding the video of it's authenticity.
I don't have the soft ware to project the stills in certain shots, but there is definately something 'structural' there. Even watching it on the vid you provided, I could see it.
As for the copter, was it military or civilian?

TallyUFO did you say that you had a contact at what use to be FTD where Project Blue Book was? Do they still have some contacts at NASIC that do photo interpretation? If so have you given them a copy of the tape? If not I have some contacts that may be similar to yours. I do not want you to mention names in the open, but unfortunately have not accrued enough postings to send you a U2U to discuss.

I could use some assistance from an admin or moderator to help me with this block. It is important.

Thanks

Wow. Very, very intriguing stuff. I have to tell you I got a lump of regret in my gut when you said the stuff about the rapid movement. The thing about rapid moving UFOs are that they're widely reported but has not once been recorded. Oh, and they also more or less prove UFOs to be a real-life phenomenon definitely.... to think that you came so close.

I realize you're getting a lot of questions now TallyUFO. If you feel your typing is slow, just try to take your time and get substance in your replies. You could (should) also choose to disregard certain irrelevant questions and focus on the ones you feel you can give a clearer answer to.

My immediate follow-up question is; Did the object seem at all transparent to you? Also, I didn't quite get the 'falling down' part that made your camera go out of focus, mind explaining that again?

As for you being a beginner at these kinds of things, I'd like to offer my help. I'm in the business of helping my family with these kinds of things as the general tech support and I have a way around explaining things in a manner that is understandable. If you'd like that you can contact me on MSN using my e-mail adress [email protected] . Oh, and sorry, you'll have to figure out how to get MSN started yourself.

ACTUALLYNOTHING: *** i can't quite recall if this was asked, but did the helicopter go away right away? did you see it?

TALLYUFO:Thanks for you kind words actuallynothing :O) The "helicopter" thing to be quite honest didn't mean much to me at the time and I'll tell you why. This is really zeroing on where we once lived in Tallahassee... the hospital's (Tallahassee Memorial Hospital) or a company that "provides" medical helicopter service, would constantly (ok once a month or so) do "practice and non-practice" landings in a park (baseball field) very near our home. This sometimes involved the ambulance guys on the ground and the whole works. The night time runs were always cool to go watch with all the lights and such. So when this helicopter would come in to land and take off again, it would almost go right over our house! So I don't know if this was the TMH helicopter doing a "run" or what. It might have been a military helicopter, but I don't remember ever seeing a military helicopter the whole time we lived in Tallahassee. I didn't "see" the helicopter that was heard on the video either. I can tell you that if it was the TMH helicopter, it didn't land in the park that day! I stayed outside into the night, waiting to see the U.F.O. again with no luck.

***also, based on your gut feeling, do you think it was man made or not? and if you believe it is not man made, did you believe in the possibility before the experience?

TALLYUFO: Talking with my retired connection from WPAFB, we discussed the "what ifs" (military and such) but my instinct while watching this thing in real time was it was from beyond what we have that flies that fast! I've grown up around airplanes, air shows you name it, seen the planes fly by faster than sound, sonic booms and all that, but this thing zipped across the sky faster than anything I've EVER seen. The only way I can think to explain it's speed to everyone is... hold your arm out at length with your finger pointing at a cloud, now as fast as you possibly can make a 90 degree arch up over your head to another location (cloud) in the sky... it was about two or three times faster than that. Unreal, and no, I don't care if nobody believes it, that's what it was and how fast it appeared to move. I was unsure about UFOs before this experience. By this I mean I had two "stories" told to me back when I was in High School and shortly there after by "elderly" dear friends on different occasions. The first was a "grandmother" type, and the story went back to her childhood on an Ohio Farm when she was eight years old. The second story told to me was from a true gentleman type I use to work with (he always reminded me of George Burns!). He was a WWII "bombader" and prisoner of war for almost two years. Both of these stories from long ago, not easy for them to tell, opened my mind to the possibility... but now I'm 99% sure. I doubt it to be man made or a man made drone that could moved at the speeds this thing moved.

***and, overall, do you feel it was a negative/scary vibe or a wonder(ful) vibe? how did the kids feel? in wonder or frightened?

TALLYUFO: Overall, I feel really strange about the whole thing. My family had only less than a year before made it back into the "church world" after being absent for many years. So religiously, I have mixed feelings. I mean, we were created in his "IMAGE", and the two different types of angels in the Bible are similar but not the same, so there are three "different" types of beings right there NOT TO MENTION THE DARK SIDE! Revelations talks about seeing things in the sky towards the "end of times", so personally it's really a strange feeling. Some days I feel ok with it, other times I worry more about other "people" that may actually "know" something about all of this. My kids are fine now, in "wonder at the time, for a few days they knew I had a "not Daddy face" on, but thank God that time has passed. Thanks for the great questions and God Bless You!

LOSTMIND:
One question I have is did it seem odd to you that the looping/figure eighty motions it made near the end of your vid coincided with the low overflight of what seemed like a large helo of some sort near your house. It may be mere coincidence like I said, but the timing was cherry. Makes the imagination chuckle a bit - kinda X File like eh?

TALLYUFO:
Well yeah, I guess watching it now it does seem "odd". At the time I remember thinking about catching what I could of the object on tape before it left my view. So much so that I didn't even respond to my wife telling me the helicopter was coming... until like the second time, and then I was "short" with her snapping back "I know, I know!". It does me laugh now that you mention it! :O)

Is it possible to remember the approximate direction you were facing when taking the video? I am trying to rule out the apparent color change being caused by a setting sun giving it an "alpine glow" effect that will sometimes happen late in the evening. High altitude objects getting the reddish glow from a sun shining through a reddened atmosphere. Were you facing easterly?

Did the color change coincide with dusk coming on or was this too early in the night to have had that type of atmospheric effect?

Sept. in FL I wouldnt think that night wouldnt ring in till nearly 9 pmish give or take. So I am thinking that the color change was being produced by the object itself or maybe the smaller red interior objects becoming more pronounced due to twilight coming on.

Were those smaller objects restricted to the interior of the larger object only? You mention that it was at one time closer to you - could you give a best guess as to what the closest it was to you was?

My daughter came back out minutes later, maybe five or so, and I asked, "Where is your Mom with the CAMERA!!!" (I regret speaking in the tone I used, but I just couldn't believe what I was seeing). She said, "Mom said she's busy right now and will be out later." Well I about blew it at that moment and said, "You go tell your Mom to get the video camera NOW!" What happens next is all on video.

That "mood" doesn't seem to correlate with the initial backyard frolic/happenstance atmosphere in the video. (?)

I can certainly associate with and understand such a scenario, but ... the "familial aftermath", if you will, seems non-existant in "banter" of the video.

Not necessarily a flag, more a Hmmm ...

 


Nothing more, nothing less ...



 

LOSTMIND:
Is it possible to remember the approximate direction you were facing when taking the video?

TALLYUFO:
The video starts almost straight up, goes to a north-north/east shot, comes back closer at 10:30 14:30 time line (maybe 20k high) to the north, back up high again and straight overhead around 21:40 time line, then towards the end it moves off north-north/west. Wait until you see the higher quality video! You'll know then there was no "Alpine Glow" on this thing. You will also see clearly the second object off to it's two o'clock position. It doesn't show up to well on the lower quality video. The main craft I was taping turns a bright red as it goes towards the north-north/west at 15:09 to 15:30 time line.

The problem I had was with Google. I tried to upload the high resolution, but it was over their 100k or whatever in "file size" and I didn't have the software (Windows version) to use Google's over 100kb video up link software. So I did the next best thing at that time and recompressed my video into a "good" Window Media Player format, not the "best" format.

***Were those smaller objects restricted to the interior of the larger object only? You mention that it was at one time closer to you - could you give a best guess as to what the closest it was to you was?

TALLYUFO:
I'm not sure what you mean by "smaller objects". The different shades of RED lights (smaller objects?) looked to come from up inside the craft, then they would slowly drop to the bottom (outside of the craft) to be very bright. The craft seemed to move when this happened.
There was a second white sphere at the two o'clock position(time line 20:58), but not really seen on this video. I will post a "shorten" video with the "chat & boring" parts pulled out to get the file size smaller, then upload it to another Google link in higher resolution. Cool? Ok :O) Will do tomorrow sometime... it's getting late now.

12m8keall2c:
That "mood" doesn't seem to correlate with the initial backyard frolic/happenstance atmosphere in the video. (?)

I can certainly associate with and understand such a scenario, but ... the "familial aftermath", if you will, seems non-existant in "banter" of the video.

Not necessarily a flag, more a Hmmm ...

TALLYUFO:
My "mood" changed a lot from the "front yard" frolic/happenstance at 3:00 pm (Jump rope) to the almost 8:00pm U.F.O. video. We played outside most of the day, and a lot of the video "cuts" were of me snapping at my kids and wife after 8pm! I normally don't talk in that type of tone. I was in disbelief after waiting for the wife to come out to see this thing (with the camera) and my second daughter returning with the "she's busy" deal... almost couldn't believe my luck! Here was the coolest thing I've ever seen and nothing to record it with!!! GGGRRRRRR! :O) Go Hmmmm... all ya want, I don't know what else to say.

Sorry to ask this, but did you miss my post? It's no big deal, I'm just interested in if you though the object was transparent or not and if you could elaborate on that? And, would you say that the UFO, to the naked eye, looked like it did at the 18:54-18:57 mark?

And my offer on helping you still stands, think about it!

[edit on 18-3-2007 by Drexon]

Are admins of ATS already in contact with the owner of the video? Maybe he can send the raw materials in order to get an analysis from the experts. Not necesseraliy to prove the genuinity or ingenuinity of the video, but moreover in the senso that what this thing could be..

[edit on 18-3-2007 by manastin]

LostMind and TallyUFO

Thanks to both of you! Great questions LostMind!

Also, thanks TallyUFO for coming on this board letting various people question you.

Your video is very very interesting: I think that what you filmed was spectacular - and as you have discussed; the helicopter near the end is very interesting in itself. Were you able to identify what kind of 'chopper' it was? Military of Hospital?
(if I missed that in a post somewhere I apologize)
Nevermind - you answered those questions

Thank you so much again! Great video.

[edit on 3/18/2007 by kroms33]

Howdy!

Yeah, check out the bottom 1/4 of post:

"posted on 17-3-2007 at 10:22 PM (post id: 3039740)" :O)

It was a opaic, sorta "milky-white" and the red "lights" could be seen through the object. These red lights were swirling about "inside", and would lower/drop down out of the bottom of the craft and become very visiable and bright red.

Yes, I need help figuring out how to put the "picture" to the left of the post... any "how-tos"? :O) Thanks!

Originally posted by TallyUFO
Yes, I need help figuring out how to put the "picture" to the left of the post... any "how-tos"? :O) Thanks!

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