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Originally posted by TheIrishJihad
reply to post by intrptr
Personally I don't give a damn how long you have been a member. Whoop de friggin doo. I have been lurking on this site long enough to know that ANY UFO or ET experience posted on here will be ridiculed and debunked ad nauseum. It's really quite ridiculous.
It's always the same crap with debunkers. CGI, Chinese lanterns, flares, missile launch blah blah blah. The people who actually have genuine experiences are so ridiculed and looked down on by you know it all debunkers I'm surprised anyone posts their experiences on here.
Go try to lord the "seniority" card over someone else. Cuz I personally don't care. I do my research and unlike you try to keep my mind receptive and open. Good day.
Originally posted by TheIrishJihad
reply to post by intrptr
Personally I don't give a damn how long you have been a member. Whoop de friggin doo. I have been lurking on this site long enough to know that ANY UFO or ET experience posted on here will be ridiculed and debunked ad nauseum. It's really quite ridiculous.
It's always the same crap with debunkers. CGI, Chinese lanterns, flares, missile launch blah blah blah. The people who actually have genuine experiences are so ridiculed and looked down on by you know it all debunkers I'm surprised anyone posts their experiences on here.
Go try to lord the "seniority" card over someone else. Cuz I personally don't care. I do my research and unlike you try to keep my mind receptive and open. Good day.
Agreed, and since all these know it all debunkers know that everything in the sky is CGI, Chinese lanterns, flares, or missile launches i guess all the ones who care to look up for them selves once in awhile can pretty much stop looking.
Originally posted by miniatus
This is a better video by Neil that explains UFO sightings in a way that we all see here ..
for those who don't know who he is.. Neil Degrasse Tyson is a very respected astrophysicist who has sort of become the modern day Carl Sagan .. only his delivery is much different, he's very funny and energetic..
He does come off as a standup comic in this video, but he's a scientist .. he can often be found doing Nova specials
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Lichter daraus
Agreed, and since all these know it all debunkers know that everything in the sky is CGI, Chinese lanterns, flares, or missile launches i guess all the ones who care to look up for them selves once in awhile can pretty much stop looking.
You guys forgot camera lens flare, blimps, headlights, airplane landing patterns, blimps, venus, Rc craft with led's, balloons from the fair floating overhead, para jumpers, meteors, blimps, reentry vehicles, the freaking moon, reflections, bugs, out of focus streetlights or stars and planets, fireworks, ordinary stuff viewed thru IR, starlight and thermal imaging equipment. Oh and blimps at night with jumbo trons on the side. Oh and blimps.
Did I miss any? I wouldn't want to be unfair and leave anything out. If you see something other than these let me know. It might be a while. (95 out of a 100 are misunderstood, fake, rumor mill, etc). Not my calculation. Mufons...
Now, show me your best one...
So i guess we can stop looking now we know what everything in the sky is. Yes your right 95 out of 100 are misunderstood, fake, rumor mill, etc. But i would like to imagine that we keep looking up for that 1% that could actually be something.
I have seen for sure one that i couldn't explain away with anything you posted. I saw a white ball shaped one at high noon and not cloud in site, that i immediately thought was a balloon but as i kept watching that thought quickly left my head because it stopped moving like a balloon and did what could have been controlled maneuvers. im always willing to hear any ideas about what it could have been. Its not gonna hurt my feelings if it turns out to be something mundane and logical.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Lichter daraus
So i guess we can stop looking now we know what everything in the sky is. Yes your right 95 out of 100 are misunderstood, fake, rumor mill, etc. But i would like to imagine that we keep looking up for that 1% that could actually be something.
I look up every time I go outside. I have seen one too. Thats why I keep looking outside and here. I know what they look like and how they move. I can't say about your experience. I respect here say because there is no way to analyze that. I'm known and hated for "debunking" but really I believe in the unknown too, just don't see much of it on the Internet. You may have seen a real one, I don't know. Thing is and I say this carefully, when you see them you will know it. They have this way of removing all doubt. Maybe once in a life time. And just a glimpse. But man, what a glimpse.
I have seen for sure one that i couldn't explain away with anything you posted. I saw a white ball shaped one at high noon and not cloud in site, that i immediately thought was a balloon but as i kept watching that thought quickly left my head because it stopped moving like a balloon and did what could have been controlled maneuvers. im always willing to hear any ideas about what it could have been. Its not gonna hurt my feelings if it turns out to be something mundane and logical.
Okay. I believe you. Thats why they call them "unknown" flying objects.
I believe what i saw was a real one, but i cant say it was ours or theirs. I mean it was a ball it was that clear. could have been bright white or creating its own light. It came into my view really fast then slowed down to about the pace of an airplane(like the speed of a cessna) did some zig zags, straightened out did to loops then took off up out at a high rate of speed, fast enough to leave a light trail.
Also to add i dont have a problem with all debunkers, just the ones that claim what they think it is without really looking into it.
P.S. thanks for the friendly debate its much appreciated.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Lichter daraus
You said it left a "streak" or "trail" when it split. I was wondering if it disappeared from sight "over the horizon" like or just "disappear"? Was it sudden like acceleration or gradual? Like from slow to ziinnng?
Thanx for sharing.
Originally posted by artnut
This does look unusual to me. I don't know a lot about the ufo community, debunking,etc., but I do believe in them, especially the "zig-zag" stories.
About 27 years ago I was out in Magnolia, Texas, on a cul-de-sac, parking with my boyfriend. We were sitting on the hood of his car talking and looking up at the sky. It was a subdivision development project, there were no houses yet, and no street lights, and deserted at 1am in the morning. Since it was so dark, we could see an enormous amount of stars. As we were looking up, one of the stars started moving. It was very high up in the sky, and basically a bright orange blob. The thing is, is that it had to have been huge, because it was literally the same size as the stars that were up really, really high. They were also densely packed that high up. It was orange, and it stood out. At one point, this thing zig-zagged at an incredible speed, definitely NOT a meteorite, etc. After doing this, it shot off to one side, and basically disappeared. We just looked at each and said "What the hell was that?" Later on, when we were on our way home, we had the radio on, and someone called the station very excited, to say they had seen this object as well (I guess we were not the only kids parking on a Fri. night, imagine that).
What is different about what I saw when I read about the sightings, is just how far up this object was, it was never close to earth at all, but is must have been massive. I have not talked to many people about this, because, well frankly, they look at you like you are some sort of idiot. But I do think about it sometimes, and I think given all the mysteries of the universe it would be very arrogant to believe we are so important as to be the only life forms that exist.
Later on, when we were on our way home, we had the radio on, and someone called the station very excited, to say they had seen this object as well