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Originally posted by tom.farnhill
a typical reaction from americans , shoot first ask questions last .
Very dumb!
Originally posted by quedup
That sounds really scary if it's true WOW! But shooting at it sound pretty dumb and what did they expect a gun to do - that would have been like using a water pistol against something like that.
Ah well guess the Aliens now know we're not very nice people.
Can't be a UFO ship with any protection ray working or the bullets would have exploded in their guns so the ship suspension forces pulled the bullets past the ship to some unknown altitude and captured above the ship to come down when the ship lands. The bullets might be returned if the anti Tesla agents desire such action.
Originally posted by truthseeker2045
its a pity it didnt shoot back at them
Originally posted by DissonantOne
How reckless and stupid!
How did they know if what they were firing at wasn't someones personal property, military equipment, or even manned by a human being?
Why on earth would they do this and then go admit it to the public? How horrifyingly torpid.
Originally posted by Illustronic
reply to post by sugarcookie1
Yeah it's pretty stupid to shoot at aircraft, even with a 30.06, because if your aim was impeccable the only aircraft you could expect to hit would be a private Cessna or something, and unless you hit the pilot or gas tank it would have no effect on the aircraft, with a shotgun, don't make me laugh.
According the Mythbusters, a 30.06 bullet fired straight up would go 10,000 feet and take 58 seconds to land. But their experiment model is flawed, and didn't mention if the muzzle velocity was 880 m/sec, or 760 m/sec, so you have that. Of a 58 second flight, about 50 of those seconds would be the bullet's return trip to the ground, which is all they can realistically claim, because they couldn't find the bullets actually fired, so did a drop instead, the bullets penetrated the ground about 2 inches after dropped from 10,000 feet, at terminal velocity of about 100 mph, or 44.7 m/sec.
Better mathematical models suggest a 50 second flight accounting for all possible known factors, and a maximum altitude expected at just over 3,000 meters, which is about 10,000 feet, achieved in ~8 seconds.
The X-47B's normal operating altitude is >40,000 feet, as illustrated in the video.
So stupid yes, to think shots would have any effect, even stupider if you think you will hear anything, stupidest yet is to expect anything from a shotgun shot.
Originally posted by simples
Why would people do this ? It's beyond me!
If the craft wasnt stating any obvious signs of threat why shoot at it you uneducated redneck fools , if there is any reason why aliens don't want there presence known is because they are probably scared of public reaction like these two fools shooting at it!
Personal owned fire arms should be banned full stop! But that another issue all together.
I'm so angry I can't explain it!!!!!!! Stupid fools!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by simples
Why would people do this ? It's beyond me ! If the craft wasnt stating any obvious signs of threat why shoot at it you uneducated redneck fools , if there is any reason why aliens don't want there presence known is because they are probably scared of public reaction like these two fools shooting at it!
Personal owned fire arms should be banned full stop! But that another issue all together.
I'm so angry I can't explain it!!!!!!! Stupid fools!!!!!!!!
"I am not a pterodactyl".... A conversation to be soon overheard in the great pacific northwest of the continental "these united states" in north america. The conversation will take place between representatives of officialdom, sub set, 'department of homeland supression', and a local northwestern archetype, the 'woods man'. There are a lot of them around here so we cannot be specific as to which expression of the archetype will actually be involved in the incident, but we are certain it will occur. The cause of the conversation is the (soon to be in the future) recent downing of a 'national suppresion predator drone' on its 'officially designated patrol'. Apparently, as the agents of the DHS are able to determine, 'suspect Able Baker', located in somewhere in the heavily wooded southwest interior of Washington State brought down a predator drone by means unknown and it crashed into a very expensive pile of trash in woods so deep as to be unreceachable in our lifetimes.... Upon interviewing the primary suspect (last house prior to the last reported position of the predator), the agents of officialdom discovered that they had entered a place of deep dark shadows under old growth cedar trees dripping not only moss several yards long, but also a rich moist coating of woo-woo. The following will be soon taken from the to-exist-in-the-future, past official records transcripts. Agent Fred: "Sir, am i to understand you correctly? You are admiting that you shot down the very expensive government drone? Are you certain you understand what crime you are confessing to?". Suspect Able Baker: "Yep, son, I know what I am saying....are you hard of hearing? But no way is this a crime." Agent Fred: "No sir. I hear you just fine..but i just can't believe you admitted to a federal crime..." Suspect Able Baker: "Oh, no son, I didn't commit a crime. Now I grant you that you have reason to see it that way, but was not the case. I have me a batch of that cancer you know." Agent Fred: "ok?? so..." Suspect Able Baker: "so, this being a dispensary state, I been smok'n some righteous weed. In fact, I had been smoking that whole day as the chemo had been the day before. (long wait as suspect exhales) That was the day I shot down the pterodactyl. And I want you, right now, to show me any damn law that says a man can't shoot down a pterodactyl if he has to." Agent Fred: "Sir, you mean the drone, right? You shot down the drone, correct? That is what you are admitting to..." Suspect Able Baker: "Well, sonny, if you want to call that big, white pterodactyl that flew over my house and was gonna # on my property or worse, a drone, you go right ahead. But when I saw it, it was a pterodactyl. That is my story and I am sticking to it. (another long pause as suspect exhales) And I don't think that you boys will be prosecuting me, an old man living out his last days dying of cancer who happens to hallucinate pterodactyls from the damn chemo. So, in my way of thinking, as I send you boys on your way, is that you get back to drone central, and tell them to paint " I am not a pterodactyl, do not shoot me." on them drones...just to be safe. You never can tell what people may see out here in these woods. And the rain and constrant drip makes us all a bit mad, so don't be surprised when occassionally one of us takes out an annoying pterodactyl." Agent Bob (as the agents are leaving): "Sir, just what was it that you used to take down the dro.., er, pterodactyl." Suspect Able Baker (grinning): "Why this slingshot, a Mark 5 SuperSling with wrist protector, (extending the weapon) and these......(suspect holds out a cluster of metal balls)...highly magnetized ball bearings. They work on cupracapras as well as pterodactyls. And you never can tell when I may be seeing a couple of them bastards so you boys better get along now, and don't forget to tell them...." "I am not a pterodactyl..." Status of investigation: Temporarily suspended....
Originally posted by eyeseaewe
It is ridiculous that they tried to shoot it but I wasn't there so maybe they felt threatened.
So either the thing resists human weapons or the hunters need a larger target.
Maybe when the mothership shows up they can try to shoot that one down.....