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Totally off topic, but interestng, I assure!
As many of you know I live in Reading, Berkshire, UK. Reading is amongst many things on the main flight path for Heatrow airport (London). At 20nm you get to see the stacks and flaps appear before the under carriage comes down for final approach. During daylight hours the Sky of Reading is the place for binocular wielding geeks hoping to spot an A380 or 747-800.
During the night is another matter. the skies are dead, bar a few high-altitude planes, and more and more often, some stranger aircraft.
During the 2003 Gulf war it was a frequent sight to see the legions of b-52's fly over from Fairford to Iraq. I remember when the Bagdhad bombings were kicking off, the pictures of the '52's' taking off gave us enough time time get outside to watch them fly over in ladder formation. The immpossible wingspan, and death-hum of the engines fascinated us. it must have been very hard to cope with the sound of those planes coming over your neighbourhood, if you were the victim.
More recently the bombing has ceased. Yet I still have a intense fascination of the aircraft that fly by at night.
Most notible is what I call the 'groaner'. I call it so as it makes a huge cavernous groan as it pases through the night sky. At an estimated 15-20,000ft my windows vibrate for about 10mins as this beast flies over once a night every night, like when a low-flying chopper does. It is often loud enough to wake my family up, we have often peered outside to watch the lights of a mystery plane fly over, the sound receding long after the sight.
When I lived in Somerset, I used to live near a US airbase. During my lunch breaks in the summer I used to be entertained by the local boys in F-16's practicing their dogfight skills in the clear summer air. The speeds and manouvers were breath-taking. the thunderous sounds of the above speed-of sound feats were reached. My own personal airshow.
Just tonight, I have seen a plane of the same size as an F16, fly 5 times as fast, making manouvers much tighter than an F16 can make in dogfight, and appear to be simply going from A to B, yet be totally silent. I mean totally silent, as I was in remote woodland at the time and this thing transversed the horizons in less than a minute! Not a flying saucer, it had its flight lights on, like a regular plane.
One during the day. I call the hairdryer. Imagine a Leerjet shaped aircraft (think pop-stars, oil tycoons, etc.) yet larger, like a passenger plane. You know, the two engines at the back, swept back wings, etc. This one was different. Whilst retaining the general shape of a Leerjet, it had a remarkable difference, as it banked it revealed a shark-fin style tail fin, in other words the tail fin went down aswell as up ( see diag if i can link it). Two followed in close formation. Maybe a test flight?
I save the best till last
Two years ago was walking back from said woodland after a picinc with my wife and son. walking up the hill into the urban area in which I live, I noticed something very odd in the white sky. It resembled a lamp post, about 30ft in length, a few inches wide, hovering about 1000ft. Maybe someone made a crazy helium balloon. we laughed about it and watched this floating black rod, when suddenly it pitched to horizontal, and darted over to another part of the sky. 'That wasn't caused by wind', I said out loud. It was now in a stationary place and started to windmill, progressivley faster, before halting totally, then it whizzed back to it's starting spot. I had already started taking photos, of this 'Rod' as I had already my analogue camera with me.We were able to se it on most of the journey home, when I got home the children of my neighbour were already in the garden yelling and screaming about the 'thingy'. Their father came out screaming about people trying to scare his children. I will never forget him pausing, half sentance to gawp, slack jawed at the sky. The stick was dancing from side to side.
Not long afterwards a cesna light-aircraft was flying over head. It was heading close to our 'pole'. From our viewpoint it eclipsed the rod and proved the scale of the thing, it was much larger than we had anticipated. The Cesna, probably not expecting such a sight banked back towards wycombe dipping its wing 3 times, an effort to say to us, 'we saw it too!'
After the plan had gone, the thing was there for no more than 5 minutes, before fading away. There was no more comercial aircraft for the rest of the day. lots of choppers in there place!. No shit!
I have many others to tell. I'm not a beleiver in Martians, etc. I just think there is some amazing technology thatis going on up there in the sky.
call me stupid, pictures are on their way
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jdg
hurry with those pix
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jdg
the other night.. i saw some UFOs.
way off above boeing field.. about 8 of them.
doing wierd circles.. silent.. i can usually hear a prop or a jet from where i live in relation to the airfield.
then the started toward the water, toward my house.. but alas, they were just helicoptors.. but 8 of them?!?! who knows why.. but it was creepy.
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ignatius
great blog. where's the pix? i think the phrase is "pics or STFU" 
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race4prize
pics pics pics!
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bleen
PICS!!!!!! i spent a childhood moving all over the place thinking i was seeing strange things in the skies. "close encounters of the third kind" did me in...
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celibacyclub
old fashoned:
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i had a sort of ufo experience except it was with sound, i was 8, sleeping in my bed when the strangest sound woke me up. it sounded like the strangest synth wank but had a defenet pattern to it. the sound gave me a sort of visual in my mind something like a pyramid made of intricatly woven glowing semi-transparent colored structures. i never saw it, by the time i got past the shock and fear to go outside and look at it the sound faded and i couldnt see anything in the sky.
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khoral
I'd love to see the pics as well
There are indeed strange things in the skies (not that I know what they are or what they aren't)
Hynek pointed at the fact that genuine UFO cases aren't objects that could be identified with better information, but objects that couldn't be identified after all usual causes have been scientifically ruled out... that is, cases of obviously artificial flying objects observed by a significant quantity of reliable persons, tracked by radars and so forth, about which you can't tell what it was but you can tell what it wasn't (known types of airplanes or other known flying objects...)
Then you're indeed facing a case of Unidentified object, and the proper scientific attitude about it is to say "I don't know what it is and could only speculate on its nature"
The rest is indeed a matter of belief... believers in the extraterrestrial nature of these objects or believers in the non-extraterrestrial nature are just making biased guesses on matters they can't ascertain scientifically
One can think it makes more sense of them being secret prototypes or being alien spaceships, these are hypothesis and nothing more
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Taxis
I think its just as likely that there are a bleeding in our quantum state that we end up perceiving, kind of like leakage from one channel to another in a cheap mixer. Some fit into our paradigm of what is normal, so they seem normal, like someone who shouldn't be here walking on the street, or a car driving by. Other things are more foreign, therefore we perceive them as ghosts/monsters/ufos/whatever. The kind of people that generally see these things are either more open minded, or less hardwired to what the standardized reality is.
Recent blogs: UBC sex study
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bsr
obligatory: pics or stfu.
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mookid
I guess I wasn't the only person to see this one. It seems to have been doing a tour of the country!
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Fredo
I used to believe that I had been abducted... I had had some very intense experiences in my sleep, experiences that were definitely not dreams, they were certainly filled with much more tangible sensations and incorporated short fat grey goblin-like creatures taking me down under the ground towards a sinister but amazing light. Of course I hadn't been abducted, but these things were so real. In fact, when I awoke from this state one of the times I saw flashes of light in my room and heard (and felt) a voice screaming into my ear "THEY WERE REAL!"
So anyway, I'm fascinated by UFOs and am so happy you have had this experience. Thanks for the links and for the marvelous blog.
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bsr
lol google ad: UFO: Software Synthesizer for Creative Electronic Musicians
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mookid
I'm sure none of what I've seen has anything to do with space aliens. If you could travel anywhere in the universe, why would you fly over my house?
Besides, most of what I'm describing are clearly human aircraft, just unusual.
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khoral
Well, why would the air force experiment new secret prototypes over your house either;)
Just kidding, you got a point
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Unknownforce
mookid said: "I guess I wasn't the only person to see this one. It seems to have been doing a tour of the country!
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ack, we don't want more text, only photos, photos, photos!
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