Chinese lantern. In wind.Scout wrote:It's not the most exciting story. It was about 20 years ago when I still lived with my parents. I was a secret smoker. Every night I'd sneak on to the roof of the house to smoke and star-gaze. It was my favourite thing to do. We lived a little out of the city so on clear nights we always had a fantastically dark sky. I was used to seeing shooting stars and satellites. One night there was a single point of light moving around in an unusual fashion. Stopping and starting, up and down, left and right. Totally silent. I sat there watching it for a while wondering if it might be a distant helicopter. But then it suddenly - and silently - shot right over my head at an impossible speed. I stood up and watched as it continued on its way before disappearing over the horizon in a couple of seconds. I was so thrilled I did a little dance on the roof.bad_hair_day wrote:Do tell Scout.Scout wrote:I'm on Team Hair. I believe. But I'm biased as I saw a UFO once and no-one's gonna convince me I didn't.
Ha!bad_hair_day wrote:It's exciting to me. How do you know it wasn't a radar glitch?
Scout wrote:I remember it like it was yesterday.
The lack of sound, erratic initial motion, then sudden acceleration *very* strongly suggests something unpowered that was bobbing around in the breeze as it rose up then hit a fast moving airstream higher up and got carried off.Scout wrote:... Whatever it was shot right over my head and continued in a straight line until it disappeared over the horizon.
djchump wrote:The lack of sound, erratic initial motion, then sudden acceleration *very* strongly suggests something unpowered that was bobbing around in the breeze as it rose up then hit a fast moving airstream higher up and got carried off.Scout wrote:... Whatever it was shot right over my head and continued in a straight line until it disappeared over the horizon.
Classic chinese lantern motion.
Sure, I'm open to any possibilities. But the initial movement did not seem like a Chinese lantern. It wasn't moving around in an odd pattern then it blasted off. It was moving quickly in straight lines, stopping, then moving off again in a different direction. It did this for around a minute before shooting off over my head and disappearing over the horizon. Unless it was a lantern getting caught in the jet stream it doesn't seem likely.bad_hair_day wrote:Scout, why couldn't it have been a Chinese lantern?djchump wrote:The lack of sound, erratic initial motion, then sudden acceleration *very* strongly suggests something unpowered that was bobbing around in the breeze as it rose up then hit a fast moving airstream higher up and got carried off. Classic chinese lantern motion.Scout wrote:... Whatever it was shot right over my head and continued in a straight line until it disappeared over the horizon.
Jane's Defence Weekly Magazine
superflyninja wrote:Why is the video officially released by the military?
superflyninja wrote:What I'm more concerned with is this surfacing at all and his motives, why come out at all and give his story?
bad_hair_day wrote:This scoop by The Washington Post in December 2017 explains how and why the clips leaked.
Elizondo, in an internal Pentagon memo requesting that the videos be cleared for public viewing
The existence of the program, known as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was confirmed officially for the first time Saturday by a Pentagon spokesman. The acknowledgment came in response to media inquiries, which were generated in part by a start-up company Elizondo has joined since retirement.
bad_hair_day wrote:Context.
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