They are coming to probe us all!!!

[TheNevadanStig]

Anyone want to take a stab at ID'ing this one? Seen around 8PM yesterday, it's been all over the local news, and was seen in neighboring states as well. Was (or appeared to be) VERY high up. Slightly slower than a jet, but changed course and even flashed lights a few times, so I don't believe it was a balloon.

 

[BillM]

A parachute.


Their ufo must have run out of fuel :greendev:


Did you wander off and end up in Area 52 again

 

[Dagwood56]

Seriously, I'm not joking, I saw something like this in the sky around 4:00 Sunday morning, only what I saw had a pale orange color where yours shows the white line on the edge and the overall ball was darker.....my husband said it had to have been the moon and I said it was not only too small [far away] to have been the moon, but it was also in the wrong spot for the moon at that time of the early morning.

 

[Ec1981]

I dont know still looks like a weather balloon

 

[robbins.photo]

Ok, denziens of the planet dirt. For the last and final time, we are not here to probe you. Seriously, if you had to drive for weeks to get to a zoo would you think to yourself, "Thank God, we finally made it. Let's whip out the a-probes and go find us a monkey?" No, of course not. Not unless your seriously messed up in the head. Trust me, any civilization advanced enough to master travelling at speeds faster than light and the navigational expertise to find this tiny little backwater planet in a tiny little backwater galaxy has absolutely no reason or desire to take a peek inside your bunghole.

For the record despite all Mel Gibson movies to the contrary, we wouldn't need crop circles to navigate - I mean if we can find this insignificant planet among billions in your galaxy alone why on earth would we need to stomp corn flat so we'd have some way to find out way around once we got here. Seriously? Oh, and no, we don't need a slave labor force. Do you have any idea of the level of automation required to actually achieve interstellar travel? As for using you as a food source, ick. I mean really, ick. Stop an think about how many bacteria you guys carry around, all of it would be completely "alien" from our perspective. We'd all get sick and die, assuming we could stomach the taste to begin with - which is pretty doubtful.

So, for the record, this nothing more than light from venus reflecting off swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket. You may now remove your tinfoil hats, untighten your sphincters and go about your business in an orderly fashion.

Lol

 

[480sparky]

Ok, denziens of the planet dirt. For the last and final time, we are not here to probe you. Seriously, if you had to drive for weeks to get to a zoo would you think to yourself, "Thank God, we finally made it. Let's whip out the a-probes and go find us a monkey?"............

Of course we don't. We leave that to the veterinarians at the zoo. They know all about primate's digestive tracts to begin with.

Now, if we went to a zoo........... on another planet ............. that might be a different story.




I vote weather balloon too.

 

[robbins.photo]

Ok, denziens of the planet dirt. For the last and final time, we are not here to probe you. Seriously, if you had to drive for weeks to get to a zoo would you think to yourself, "Thank God, we finally made it. Let's whip out the a-probes and go find us a monkey?"............

Of course we don't. We leave that to the veterinarians at the zoo. They know all about primate's digestive tracts to begin with.

Now, if we went to a zoo........... on another planet ............. that might be a different story.




I vote weather balloon too.

Well when you guys finally do manage space travel feel free to drop by the zoo on Kepler-62f and give it a go. Of course if your like most civilizations your first FTL drives will only be a little bit faster than light speed, so it will it will take you roughly 1,200 years to get there. Trust me, after over a millenium of listening to a bunch of snots asking "are we there yet" you will not end up using those anal probes on whatever life forms you discover on an alien world. Oh yes, they will get used - but not on those life forms.

Trust me..

lol

 

[TheNevadanStig]

Yes but how many weather balloons have a propulsion system strong enough to travel against both felt wind and the jetstream while being able to change course at the same time? That's the part that gets me. Also the lights you see at the tail end are opposite the sun, so probably not a reflection of any sorts.

 

[480sparky]

Well when you guys finally do manage space travel feel free to drop by the zoo on Kepler-62f and give it a go. Of course if your like most civilizations your first FTL drives will only be a little bit faster than light speed, so it will it will take you roughly 1,200 years to get there. Trust me, after over a millenium of listening to a bunch of snots asking "are we there yet" you will not end up using those anal probes on whatever life forms you discover on an alien world. Oh yes, they will get used - but not on those life forms.

Trust me..

lol

Oh, puh-leeze! The zoo on Kepler-62f is so yester-eon. It hasn't been the same since they got traded their entire pack of froobers for a pair nK-tzppS from Gleise 436. And that was 14,700 years ago! Where have YOU been since then? If you really want to see interstellar zooism at it's finest, go to Gamma Cephei. They have at least one self-aware life form from every habitable planet in the quadrant. I hear the Amilia Earhart Colony there is a real fun day.

 

[480sparky]

Yes but how many weather balloons have a propulsion system strong enough to travel against both felt wind and the jetstream while being able to change course at the same time? That's the part that gets me. Also the lights you see at the tail end are opposite the sun, so probably not a reflection of any sorts.

So, um, how do you know how high this thing was......... and how do you know it was anywhere near the jet stream?

The wind you feel on the ground isn't always the same direction all the way up.

 

[robbins.photo]

Well when you guys finally do manage space travel feel free to drop by the zoo on Kepler-62f and give it a go. Of course if your like most civilizations your first FTL drives will only be a little bit faster than light speed, so it will it will take you roughly 1,200 years to get there. Trust me, after over a millenium of listening to a bunch of snots asking "are we there yet" you will not end up using those anal probes on whatever life forms you discover on an alien world. Oh yes, they will get used - but not on those life forms.

Trust me..

lol

Oh, puh-leeze! The zoo on Kepler-62f is so yester-eon. It hasn't been the same since they got traded their entire pack of froobers for a pair nK-tzppS from Gleise 436. And that was 14,700 years ago! Where have YOU been since then? If you really want to see interstellar zooism at it's finest, go to Gamma Cephei. They have at least one self-aware life form from every habitable planet in the quadrant. I hear the Amilia Earhart Colony there is a real fun day.

Where have I been since then? Stuck on a backwater planet the natives insisted on calling Dirt. Landing seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to do at the time. Warm snoogleflerg, and no ice aboard. Naturally drinking snoogleflerg neat is.. well, punishable by death in all the decent galaxies. So here you've got a planet going through an ice age, bam. Problem solved. Or so we thought. We hit atmo and all hell broke loose. Seems we were carrying way too much unaccounted for weight. Computers couldn't compensate in time, and we dropped like a felvernarger in a bargwillus. Turns out our young. eager, inexperienced engineer only packed 1/3 the amount of ice we were supposed to be carrying. He used the extra space to pack spare - yes, you guessed it, anal probes. Threw our thrust to weight ratio into a cocked hat.

The result was a massive crash and no way to get in touch with our homeworld again. So we've been here ever since. So the 7 of us hung out and then started blending in to the local populace at about the same time they got bright enough to realize that cutting a guy's heart out really didn't have anything to do with whether or not their planet would rotate to face the sun again during it's standard rotational period.

We've been here ever since. Haven't been to a good zoo in ages. I lost track of most of the others, last I heard though one of us went to work in Hollywood as a TV producer. Guess he's still holding a grudge against our young idiot engineer. As to the engineer, no idea what happened to that kid. What was his name again? Gilliganius I think. Ya.. that was it.

Lol

 

[Derrel]

Do you have any other photos to show? I'd like to see more photos.

People who have never seen a UFO will usually laugh and make fun of those who have (you know, people like astronauts and airline pilots, and people who are observant, and so on).

 

[manaheim]

I dunno what it is, but it looks @#)$@#()$@# cool!

 

[CdTSnap]

Havent had a good probing in a while...

 

[Dagwood56]

It it possible this could be the international space station? Someone on another forum just mentioned getting photos of ISS last night and said it has been making several low passes near earth over the past week.