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There's No Law Against Flying a Super-Double-Secret, Gyroscoptic UFO

Posted October 12, 2007 11:38 AM

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51-year-old Irvine man named Linn Murphy has a strange hobby: the hoaxster likes to fly a homemade radio-controlled "UFO" over parks and public events which caused hundreds if not thousands of calls to the police! Now, the jig is up: [The UFO inventor, Steve Zingali] built one anyway. It flew, but couldn't handle the wind. So he tweaked a few things and doubled its span from 18 to 36 inches. A phenomenon was born. Soon, Orange County motorists were chasing strange lights in the sky. Orange County's Mutual UFO Network was taking calls about erratic, flying objects. And the Web site UFOinfo.com was posting reports of "glowing orbs" in south Orange County. One 53-year-old man reported a large glowing ball that "appeared to drip fire." It traveled about five miles in a few seconds, he said, and left an "acrid type odor" in the air. Where? Right here. Right where Zingali is now connecting a 7.4-volt lithium battery to a foam toy with flashing lights that make it appear to spin. He starts the propeller and sends it into the night sky above the Aliso Viejo Town Center.

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10/12/2007 1:32 PM

I'm glad he's having fun, but all those calls to the police result in a big ol' waste of taxpayer dollars.

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10/13/2007 1:56 PM

Are you suggesting that the police are dumb enough to follow up these calls?

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10/12/2007 4:55 PM

Meet my newest hero.

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10/12/2007 11:53 PM

Who says there's no such thing as UFOs.

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10/13/2007 1:54 PM

ME! At least, the extraterrestrial type...

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10/13/2007 12:27 AM

Reminds me of the guy who hooked a bunch of garbage bags to a lawn chair!

Would YOU want to be the pilot who radioed That info to the tower?!!

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10/13/2007 10:58 AM

In Thailand they have a device they fly on holidays, they take a bag, plastic shopping bag will do, and tie strings to a small platform on which they mount a candle. I their case they soak a bamboo piece in kerosene. They light it hold it until the heat fills the bag and let it go. The night sky is lit up with these on holidays and it is a beautiful sight, just like all of Thailand is to me. They fly high enough that when the candle goes out they fall to the earth with not heat to start a fire.

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10/15/2007 12:00 AM

When I was young and in love I found a place for us to live that was in a cabin where a meteor had hit making good acoustics for a music camp which is why there was a cabin for us to live in while I wrote for the small town newspapers of the cheap editor.

Fireflys to the stars on vodka with the graceful girl were better than dreams.

Later I sent Estes rockets over Manhattan and Brooklyn with messages of peace.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to send clusters of image encoded photons made of darkmatter and matter through wormholes.

The lights in the dark lead us to joy.

My daughter in the airplane looked out the night window of the jet.

Beauty and fun are good.

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