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Is This UFO Caught By Multiple Cameras a Real Alien Spaceship?

Posted February 03, 2011 10:59 AM

From Gizmodo:

I'm always skeptical about little green men and their flying machines. There's always one nutter/hoaxer claiming to have captured an UFO on a blurry film. This time, however, it's hard to dismiss because multiple people caught it at the same time.

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02/03/2011 11:35 AM
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02/03/2011 12:37 PM

If you listen really, really carefully you can hear the audio:

"Aaaaand the last stop on our SpaceTime tour this envening is the Earthan city of Jerusalem. Take a good look, folks - the Earthans' petty squabbling over this speck will lead to their self-extermination in just a few blarms. Sad, eh? Well now, on a lighter note we're warping back to the Malodoranian Nebula restaurant and gift shop where you can dine on some delicous nooglan sponge for half price with your coupons!"

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02/03/2011 3:28 PM

Well... Gizmodo, UFOs and religious fundamentalism = a nutball trifecta.

Looks convincing to me. Gotta be real!

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02/03/2011 5:43 PM

Why would aliens have an easier time overcoming the laws of physics than we do?

Undulating blob of light → e.t. spacecraft--what a leap!

Of course, if one of these things actually lands and disgorges Judge Crater, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, and Jimmy Hoffa....

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02/03/2011 9:10 PM

They probably have the same level of advancement in understanding of applied gravity physics that we have over those who thought of themselves as masters of applied electrical physics 500 years ago.

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02/03/2011 10:54 PM

They cannot fly without emitting a blue light. For that reason I must conclude it's a hoax.... What? It had the blue light also? Never mind.

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02/04/2011 4:17 AM

These UFO's do not land at airports. They come and land at very strange places as if they know these places much better or are point of their curiosity. They also come at night and never in day light.

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02/04/2011 9:43 AM

Don't be silly, it's obvious that alien airports look different from ours, so they don't know what they're looking for when they come here. Theirs must look like the dome in the video. Perhaps they were waiting for it to open. Or perhaps it resembles the McDonalds DriveThru on their planet.

And obviously they only come at night because they are very sensitive to light. A bit like vampires, I guess...........hmmmm.......I wonder.

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02/04/2011 10:13 AM

Do you mean they have night all thru their travel or just when they pop out of their aircraft window? How do you know? Are you from Area 51 or some similar site?

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02/04/2011 10:29 AM

They obviously have to raise their window blinds on the exit doors when they come in to land, just as we do (as per FAA regulations), so they only come at night.

This is all pure conjecture, I'm not from Area 51. I don't think sentient beings ever emerge from Area 51.

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02/07/2011 3:48 AM

"These UFO's do not land at airports. They come and land at very strange places as if they know these places much better or are point of their curiosity. They also come at night and never in day light."

Sound like the kind of folks wot hang out at 'gentlemen's clubs,' an' after dark. And you're right - most of 'em in strange places too (so's their wives and girlfriends won't find 'em, I reckon). Don't recall ever seein' any UFOs, though. Pickup trucks an' bikers, mostly.

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02/07/2011 12:59 AM

"Why would aliens have an easier time overcoming the laws of physics than we do?"

They have better lawyers than we do?

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02/07/2011 10:07 AM

Re: "Why would aliens have an easier time overcoming the laws of physics than we do?"

No offense intended, but, who says that "WE" have even the SLIGHTEST understanding of the "Laws of physics"...?

We might think that we understand that which we 'think-we-know'. In ancient times everything was made up of earth, air, water, fire, or aether. As decades slowly passed, we 'discovered' molecules and atoms ... Faraday gave us "ions".... The silly notion that mere electrons/protons/&neutrons was as far as things could be broken-down has long been dismissed...!

Nowadays, the 'great minds' collaborate (and argue) on subjects such as how many dimensions might actually exist. And, "is time actually a dimension"? Could there possibly be more than one time dimension? Where IS that elusive "graviton" particle? (it simply MUST exist!)

"Spookiness" ... "Entanglement" ... yup, we know all there is to know, and there ain't NOBODY (certainly not any such thing as an omnipotent being, who maybe just did create us to seek and to worship Him) ... there can't possibly be nobody else who knows more than WE do...

How about that "Star Spangled Banner" yesterday, huh? Who cares about 'accuracy' or 'tradition' huh(!)? Why on earth should *she* have to pass an "interview" or "audition" (as in "Don't Forget the Lyrics!") ... she be hot, an' THAT's all that matters in this day and age.

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02/04/2011 2:33 PM

This one looks pretty alien to me, but the ones that don't are the ones with something up there with running lights on. Why would aliens leave their lights on? Why would the 'stealth blimp' leave it's running lights on? Not very stealthy, there.

We don't know, but alien drives may emit light like ours emit noise and smoke. The best ufos I have seen are the little orbs that were videoed over crop circles forming. That was good.

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02/04/2011 4:38 PM

Thank all you guys - I haven't laughed this much in a long, long, long time!

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02/04/2011 11:33 PM

I don't know about this one. Most likely it's an Israeli secret aircraft. As for UFO's,

I would have to see one land in my back yard.

Although I did see a triangle houvering over the road in the early 70's about maybe 100-150 feet above the roadway, I was just behind it so I slowed and watched it for a few mins till the road turned. It was about 3 years ago on Discovery there was a special about a UFO that was spotted by police who followed it along with lots of video footage by many individuals across the river and the time frame was right on.

So who really knows. Althogh the coments here were great!

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02/07/2011 4:05 AM

"I would have to see one land in my back yard."

Begging your pardon, but what's so convincing about a UFO landing in your back yard? What's wrong with the front yard?

I'd bet 100 to 1 you live in one o' those subdivisions wot gots them Lawn Nazis. You know what I mean - those control freaks wot need to make everyone on the same street have the same color of drapes in their front windows or somethin' stupid like that - and no UFOs on the front lawn - or you'll get fined or something. Yeah, them.

Tell you what: I'll take aliens over Lawn Nazis any day - and keep my rights while I'm at it.

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02/07/2011 5:55 PM

As one who spent many hours reading books about UFO's when I was younger -- 30-40 years ago -- people who are "believers" think the disclosure about aliens, by those who have "covered it up" is just around the corner.

Do yourself a favor. Don't waste time with the subject of UFOs. I accept that there is an unexplained phenomena there. But I won't spend much time on it anymore. In the larger picture, it isn't that relevant. I know, I know. If a public landing and disclosure was to happen, it would be the biggest story of our lifetime. It has all sorts of religious implications that would unsettle many. Just don't hold your breath. You'll still die in the end. And other explanations/answers regarding life/death questions are much more relevant and approachable in one's life.

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02/09/2011 9:29 AM

In a recent BBC mini-series of a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Watson gave Holmes a hard time for not knowing that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

"It just isn't important! I have to utilize my brain for the important things!" (paraphrased)

And it's true, when you are earthbound and your life is about solving murders and other crimes, how often do planetary orbits enter into it?

(Except for perhaps contrivances like tidal motion or eclipses, thanks...)

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