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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: LePaul on December 09, 2002, 11:46:52 AM
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...and seriously...no beer induced or N1K related ones :)
Just wondering...we had that famous one up in the Allagash of Maine years ago and there are still many sightings reported by very reputable people...not your easy-to-dismiss swamp gas kinda thing.
I read a book a while back and there seemed to be a great deal of sightings near military bases that had nuclear arms. Were the aliens wondering if we would do ourselves in?
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...this is the Allagash incident I refer to...
http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa052900a.htm
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LePaul, nuclear radiation is fairly easy to see on a certain type of scan... I forget which...
Which would go along the same train of thought as to why "UFO sightings" started cropping up more in the '40s and '50s...
In the '40s due to the many, many nuclear tests that the US was doing with nuclear bombs, and because of the two above ground explosions of Fat Man and Little Boy.. supposedly radiation (at that levels) would make a pretty good blip on intergalactic radar (according to guys who work(ed) in the military)
Have I seen a UFO? No... except there was this one time I was all liqoured up and I saw lights dancing in the skies.... then I realised it was because I was completely inebriated and couldn't maintain my balance while looking up into the sky...
:)
-SW
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Yes I have - the other reason I started the ET thread - almost in my own backyard (bout 5 miles away).
The local law enforcement closed down the entire area and had it roped off for 3 weeks. I was in high school when this happened (bout 7 years ago I guess) and one of my freinds' brothers' was working as a police dispatcher. They had over 30 calls to report the "craft" in under 15 minutes (2AM). He was asked not to mention it by his superiors.
Everyone who called in reported seeing the same thing - bright multicolored lights, etc. It was spotted no more than 80-90 feet from the ground as was reported to have "disappeared into the woods."
Anyone else in Montgomery Co. remember this?
Ill see if I can find a link to anything mentioning it and post it...
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yes
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I don't really believe in UFOs. I believe in extraterrestrial civilizations and that some have star travel capabilities, but that's it, I don't trust any reports of people seing lights in the sky, and everything captured on video or film is probably fake.
I read many books on the subject and finally realized it was all crap. So I gave up on it. Untill I see one, I remain a sceptic.
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I have seen some straaaange crap that certainly falls under the definition of Unidentified Flying Object, but I wouldnt say it was Extra Terrestial.
I can tell you that I have been scared toejamless. A tropical forest with a hidden military base is not a fun place to hang around at night.
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UFO's are undoubtly USA govement airplanes ... Aliens HA!
Alot of the alien UFO BS was put out there by the US govement to throw people off the track of these "planes"
I often wonder of late why Boeing and Toshiba have invested in antigravity technology.....
Bring Foo Fighters to AH! :p
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Originally posted by Animal
I can tell you that I have been scared toejamless. A tropical forest with a hidden military base is not a fun place to hang around at night.
Should we be alarmed if this post is deleted and you disappear from the boards? ;)
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Originally posted by Animal
A tropical forest with a hidden military base is not a fun place to hang around at night.
woah! sound like a cool movie :D please more of that story!
and no, i never seen or meet an UFO ;p
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Yes, when I was ten.
This in no way means I'm convinced it was from some other star system, or that it was even the result of an intelligence (human or other).
It was simply an unidentified flying object.
My mom saw it and woke me up at four in the morning so that somebody else would see it as well. It looked like a very bright light with rays coming off of it and was hovering about two or three hundred feet above the trees a few hundred yards uphill from our house.
I was tired so I went back to bed. My mom said that it remained there until after all the stars had been hidden by the false dawn, then it rose up and left.
What was it? I have no idea.
If I was a UFO (meaning of the alien persuasion) conspiracy freak, I'd probably assume that's what it was. If I were a devoutly religious person, I'd probably think it was an angel or something. As it is, I lean towards "rare but natural atmospheric event".
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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
woah! sound like a cool movie :D please more of that story!
and no, i never seen or meet an UFO ;p
Well, a few years back some stoner friends were yakking about how trippy and awesome the 'aliens' make light-shows above El Yunque (a huge tropical forest in the east side of PR)
Its pretty common knowledge that there is a military installation hidden there, so I explained to them that it was actually flares or fighter planes doing something. After a few beers it degenerated into a bet to see if I dared to go there and check it our for myself.
Two days later I took the trip with a few friends, and camped there. At around 3:00am, the lights were there. These were not fighter planes or helicopters, or flares. There were 3 lights doing some crazy maneuvers around the forest. No sound or anything. Just what seemed like three spotlights moving around pretty fast.
We got scared and decided to pack out things and leave. When we got in the jeep, all scared and nervous, my friend drove the wrong way, up to the end of a road, with a pretty big, military style fence at the end. We turned around, and on the way back, a pickup followed us for about 30 minutes until we finally reached the highway and I guess we lost them.
I aint coming back there during the night.
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Animal tell them about the rectal probe.
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yes. 5 of us watched one for 30 minutes when I was 11 or 12
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A a friend of mine and I were fishing for snook on the spillway at Gatun, Canal Zone around 'O' dark thirty, clear night. Anyways, we both took notice of this small but really brilliant sparkling light that zoomed across the sky stopping immediately close but not directly above us and went straight down into the jungle about 5 or so miles away. It sure didn't act like those Army helicopter we've seen so many times in the past but then again who knows. My friend started reeling in his line as he made his way out seemingly willing to leave me were I stood. He took the sighting pretty serious, me, I wasn't about to be left alone in the jungle or I'd be walking quite a few miles back home since he had the car keys.
Of course all was forgotten by next week as we were back on the spillway having another go at those fish.
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Back in 1976, there had been some sightings of strange lights in the night skies around Montgomery, Alabama. On one occasion, my room mate and I went to Prattville for the weekend to visit his parents.
We decided to take the dog for a walk after dark in some nearby corn fields. As we were walking down the dirt road, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye to the right. It looked like a lit match falling to the ground among the corn stalks about 30 feet away. I didn't give it much thought, as there were two of us, and we had a large dog along. Though I was thinking I'd keep an eye out for a fire, just in case the field caught on fire.
About half an hour went by. Then we both saw it, a blue colored "star" like something moving lazily along and hovering, I'd guess, about 100 feet off the ground. It started coming our direction, and we were both scared enough to hit the deck and hold the dog down as well, trying to become part of the ground. We looked at each other and said, what the heck, let's go for a ride...as the "star" was quite close, and we figured it would find us anyway if it was looking.
We both jumped up and started yelling at the "object", waved our arms and shined the flashlight up at it.
The blue "star" immediately stopped, hovered for a second, and then went straight up into space at a fairly rapid rate of speed. We watched it for a good 20 minutes, as it's color became red and finally disappeared, blending in amongst the stars.
And yes, Maxwell Field is located not far from where this event took place. No telling what it was, but it made no sound at all. The light was constant, and didn't change in intensity or put out a beam of light, like a searchlight might do.
All I could think of after that, was the Steve Martin record where he does the "What the hell is that thing?" routine:
What the hell is that?
Oh, I know what that is.
Yes, I know what that is.
Wait a minute...what the hell is that thing?
That's a...no...what is that thing?:)
Les
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I saw a UFO once when I was a little kid. It was big and flew around. Then my brother told me it was an F-4 Phantom. Then it became an IFO, and a pretty cool one at that.