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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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Avarice said: "You should still be able to breath while experiencing it though, your body only paralyses certain movements to keep you from running around and hurting yourself in your sleep. Which fails for people with sleep walking disorders."
nope, not an eyelid, not a single muscle, i had to mentally snap myself into being fully awake, is quite scary even looking back now. c'est la vie!
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i would assume he meant the latter.
they have done experiements in pumping the type of deep-sleep alpha waves across people's brains, and sometimes it gave them a feeling of being pulled physically from their bodies!
now i really want that machine. or at least instructions on how to make it. i'll be the first electricity addict!
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Avarice
Yes, I didn't mean aliens cause the disorders. lol
Sorry, bad phrasing.
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but what if aliens came down in prehistoric times and tweaked our brains so we'd just THINK they were abducting us the whole time?
huh? answer that, SCIENCE!
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Avarice
God would never let that happen!!!!!
/sarcasm
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