Oolite Bulletins

There's some corkers in here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7954001.stm

My favourite's the woman who was walking her dog and was approached by a man claiming to be from another world. As she ran home ("Bloody weirdo!"), she turned back to see a large orange-white sphere rise up and fly out of sight. Whoa! Fantastic!

Why doesn't this stuff ever happen to me?

JohnnyBoy wrote:

Why doesn't this stuff ever happen to me?

The good point is, that you don't have to question your sanity I've seen some strange things in the sky in the late 90's where I really fail to understand what it could have been.

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Screet wrote:

I've seen some strange things in the sky in the late 90's where I really fail to understand what it could have been.

My uncle says that he has been fishing off the north-eastern coast of England and has seen white lights that move along the horizon before changing direction and shooting out of sight at impossible speeds.

I understand how important it is to feel that you are sane, but I can't help wishing that I could see something that might be extra-terrestrial.

JohnnyBoy wrote:

My uncle says that he has been fishing off the north-eastern coast of England and has seen white lights that move along the horizon before changing direction and shooting out of sight at impossible speeds.

I understand how important it is to feel that you are sane, but I can't help wishing that I could see something that might be extra-terrestrial.

Hehe...yes, I keep looking at the sky when it's bright.

Those lights...were they similar in size and speed to a shooting star, but without a trail and able to do instant 90 degree turns? If so...he probably saw what I did see...and when I wrote that on some other forum, a guy wrote that he once saw such things while visiting a friend at his home village...and that the people there had been seeing such things for many years now, simply becoming so used to it that they just ignore them.

Another thing I once saw was also strange: Something up in the sky, sitting still...and some other thing flying towards it at a very high speed. Then they appeared to "join" and the thing which sat still vanished with immense speed high up into the sky until I couldn't see it anymore. It appeared to have a small trail of fire, but no smoke or plane-like trail. As that was close before sunset, I did wonder if I saw some missile test or spaceship dock and fly away...especially because of the trails, but I never really could believe that theory. It was way too fast in acceleration when it went away and I cannot believe humans could manage dockings at such high speed those two things were using.

Well...maybe sometimes it turns out what I did see. My mothers aunt had once reported a ball lightning in her home, and at that time, everyone claimed she must have been hallucinating or something like that...and now the scientists can create similar things in laboratory with movements just like she told about.

The problem with modern science is, that it's so far advanced that people keep thinking that everything science could not explain cannot exist...they just forget how we got to this point, because scientists did try to solve mysteries in the past and found out about their nature.

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Screet wrote:

JohnnyBoy wrote:

Why doesn't this stuff ever happen to me?

The good point is, that you don't have to question your sanity I've seen some strange things in the sky in the late 90's where I really fail to understand what it could have been.

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Or more likely if you saw such a sphere, your first thought would probably be what could Griff do with it by applying a normal map and some interesting shader effects

Thargoid wrote:

Or more likely if you saw such a sphere, your first thought would probably be what could Griff do with it by applying a normal map and some interesting shader effects

Truly, I would just like to fly around with such a thing a little bit...must be awesome, even if some computer or alien is at the controls!

However, I've once met a woman who was *REALLY* scared because she saw something strange in the air. She was so out of her mind that they brought her to hospital for medication! However, I did wonder if someone slipped some acid in her drink and then she failed to understand what was going on...but even on her medication she was very afraid that those would come back to her. From the "if it happened the way you saw it"-point of view I tried to give her some alternate, less frightful way of interpreting that incident and it did help somewhat. It's basically from my way of seeing these things: IF there are aliens which can visit this world...I doubt that they would be hostile. If they were, they surely would not have much trouble to do what they want anyway, including annecting this planet, changing it's atmosphere to their liking and such things...but that most probably no race would ever get that far in technology while being that hostile, as they would destroy themselves long before. For metals and such...I'm sure they would prefer to mine asteroids, not the earth It's more worrying to think about how an alien visiting this planet would think of the human race.

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The other side of the coin ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh_nM4drUfQ