CV32 Posted June 1, 2011 Report Posted June 1, 2011 From Air Force Magazine, June 2011 issue [excerpt] USAF and the UFOs By John T. Correll The Air Force, to its lasting regret, got in on the ground floor of the UFO phenomenon. The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) era began with a bang on the afternoon of June 24, 1947, in the Cascade mountain range of Washington state. Private pilot Kenneth Arnold, bound for Yakima in his light airplane, was approaching Mount Rainier when nine disk-shaped objects, flying in formation, shot by in front of him. All similarities between the subject matter of this article and recent additions to the HCDB are purely coincidental. Quote
broncepulido Posted June 1, 2011 Report Posted June 1, 2011 I like the UFO's explanation of Ian Watson Alien Embassy/Miracle Visitors, but I don't remember it now ... Quote
Warhorse64 Posted June 2, 2011 Report Posted June 2, 2011 I have always rather liked Arthur C. Clarke's take on UFOs, which was to the effect that anybody who spent any time looking at the sky would have a very hard time *not* seeing a UFO from time to time ... Quote
broncepulido Posted June 2, 2011 Report Posted June 2, 2011 Now I also remember a very interesting documentary in Discovery Channel re-enacting the Roswell incident with nowadays eyewitness. In the documentary is clear the total failure of personal eyewitness in doing a good, coherent or representative narrative of the facts (I'm working from time on time in penal courts and that failure of the eyewitness, myself included, is ever clear for me). In the documentary "eyewitness" with helmets with recording cameras are walking near a reserved area with something "perhaps" similar to a crashed UFO incident. After the incident, the narrative of the "eyewitness" about the "incident" ( they were said about participating in a wilderness observation documentary, not in an UFO incident) was hilarious. In the incident was present one and only one security guard/undetermined uniform serviceman keeping the perimeter of the "crashed UFO", and keeping any hand weapon on his holster (not UFO remains visible, it was only ambiance, one solitary guard and a small protected perimeter). For the eyewitness, they were many guards not one solitary guard , in menacing posture (that was not the recorded by the helmet cameras) , the guards were weaving weapons on their hands pointing towards the eyewitness , and for only one of the eyewitness the "many" guards were equipped with facial masks Quote
TonyE Posted June 8, 2011 Report Posted June 8, 2011 More fodder, Hollywood this time http://io9.com/5416779/epic-alien-battlesh...s-on-the-new-et Quote
TEPonta Posted June 8, 2011 Report Posted June 8, 2011 Wasn't it Air Force aviation "Experts" who concluded that bees couldn't fly? Buddha Quote
Warhorse64 Posted June 9, 2011 Report Posted June 9, 2011 In fairness to the experts in question, according to everything known about aerodynamics at the time, bees should *not* have been able to generate enough lift to fly, and the experts were using this fact to point out that we obviously had more to learn. It is only within the last few years that we've actually figured out how the bees do it. Quote
wombat1417 Posted June 9, 2011 Report Posted June 9, 2011 More fodder, Hollywood this time http://io9.com/5416779/epic-alien-battlesh...s-on-the-new-et Can't wait to see what gets done with "Hungry Hungry Hippos". Quote
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