posted on Mar, 31 2007 @ 04:12 PM
Finally, someone else has seen this silly thing.
Hi lakewoodrealtor, I live up int the plano area near 75 and Legacy. If its the same cylinder, its been coming through here since about 2004 when I
first saw it. Actually, I saw it twice on the same day, once at around 9 in the morning, and then later in the afternoon at around 3.
I saw it moving slowly over some of the neighborhoods that morning as I was driving. This thing was real low, like a hundred feet or so, and I guess
no one saw it, which I don't see how. Then some trees and homes temporarily blocked my view for a few seconds as I rounded a curve, and then it was
gone.
Then later in the day, I saw it moving along 75, just slightly outpacing my car. I was doing about 70 at the time. Then I watched it disappear.
Another time, I experienced its shadow as it passed overhead during the day last year.
This thing is apparently not afraid of traveling during the day, it seems to prefer it.
If I had a camera with me at the time, the pics would have been clear and close. I just wish I could figure out its schedule. At least now with your
sighting, I can get a bearing on its flightpath. It seems to move along through an established corridor of some kind.
If you've seen it there once, you are guaranteed to see it again. Get your camera ready, and get something with a good lens. At least it comes out
during the day.
I'm trying to figure out what kind of camera could defeat that optical camoflage it has, because I bet when it disappeared on you, it didn't go
anywhere. It probably came in lower to the ground. I believe some sort of high speed camera might do the trick. I think the camoflage cycles a sky
image around the cylinder at a speed that would fool the human eye, similar to anti-flicker technology used on CRT screens. But I believe a high
speed camera wouldn't be fooled by that ruse.
A friend of mine has also seen the shadow of its passing up in Little Elm during the morning hours of around 9.
Up until now, I thought I was crazy.
Good spotting. Now get a camera handy, one of us is going to catch a cylinder.