Posts Tagged ufo
Our Strange Sky: New Yorkers Want to Believe. Spies a UFO, Balloon.
Posted by mistergroonk in Marketing, USA, Video on October 15, 2010
New Yorkers were dazzled and amazed by a floating bit of shiny in their skies just the other day. They gazed upwards in wonder at what looked to us like a reprise of Balloon Boy. Remember him?
You see this screen cap below? We’re not even going to bother to photoshop a pointer for this.
A retired US Air Force officer prophesied the mysterious objects coming back in September 13.
Mr Fulham stated the extraterrestrials would neither land nor make any communication with Earth on Wednesday.
But their presence would be “the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere dangerously approaching a ‘critical mass’. (…) They are aware from eons of experience with other planets in similar conditions their sudden intervention would cause fear and panic.”
He says their contact with Earth is part of their process of leading mankind into accepting the “alien reality and technologies for the removal of poisonous gases from the earth’s atmosphere in 2015, if not sooner”.
Mr Fulham, we would love for this to be a Spielbergian CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, a Roddenberryesque FIRST CONTACT, or, hell, even an ALF moment. But why would a space-faring civilization be that on-point about humanity cleaning up the atmosphere by 2015? Instead of choosing to “meet our leaders” they buzz Chelsea like a gang of college stoners looking for the only Piggly Wiggly that carries their flavor of cornettos. We won’t even mention that in a town of millions were half the citizens have futurephones or HD cameras, not a damn one of them could get a clear shot of a stationary object in broad daylight.
To say that we are skeptical would be an understatement.
Now look at what happened in China back in July.
There are streaks and flares and general military grade weirdness going on in that photo.
China is outdoing us in UFO encounters. China.
We remember a time when there wasn’t a cow left not butchered, a field left standing tall or a farm hand questioning his sexual determination after that night he once saw “fire in the sky.”
Come on America. We can do this. We can’t let China beat us to the strange-ness.
Art-Out Moment: Betwixt Heaven and Hell
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Dinosaurs on August 11, 2010
Dropped below the cut is a comics mural so long that it encompasses Heaven, Hell, and all that lie inbetween.
Including graboids, strangely placed remote control(Neglectful Precursors, maybe?) and a fish wearing a fez.
Pity the artist didn’t sign his/her work.
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Our Strange Sky: UFO Buzzes Chinese Airport, Let the Mass Speculations Begin
Posted by mistergroonk in Video, World on July 16, 2010
Of course this happened last week(July 9). We suppose it takes this long for weirdness to escape from China.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang CHINA — An unidentified flying object forced an airport in a major Chinese city to shut down operations for an hour, various reports said.
According to state media outlet China Daily, the incident happened at Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan Airport on July 7, when the UFO was spotted around 8:30 p.m. According to the report, the object did not show up on radar.
The HuffPost says another sighting has been reported by Shanghai Daily.
A second China UFO sighting has residents on edge, just seven days after an unidentified flying object shut down a Chinese airport.
The new UFO sighting took place in Chongqing in eastern China on July 15. Witnesses said they saw the same thing: “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape that hovered over the city’s Shaping Park for over an hour.”
Like the one before it, there has been no official explanation to date for this latest incident.
Curious that the turnaround on this sighting was so short.
We’ve found videos on the July 9 incident and placed them under the cut.
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The Future of Aircraft Design, Flying Saucers
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Technology, The Future on June 24, 2008
WEAV will use magnetohydrodynamics. You know, what the russian sub in The Hunt for Red October used in the water, WEAV will do that but in the skies.
Subrata Roy, a scientist at the University of Florida, calls his aircraft a “wingless electromagnetic air vehicle,” or WEAV, and if it flies he says it could usher in a new age of aircraft design.
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In Roy’s WEAV there will be two different sets of electrodes placed on a thin ceramic plate. One set will be located on the top and bottom of the craft to move ionized air down, providing lift, and another set along the sides to propel the aircraft forward. The electrodes create a conducting fluid by ionizing the surrounding air into plasma.
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The new aircraft does need air or at least a magnetic field in order to operate; it wouldn’t work in outer space or fly between planets, although Roy says it could fly missions on other planets. And don’t expect the WEAV to zoom away from Earth like the flying saucers in the movies.
So jump ships, shuttlecraft, puddle jumpers and the like. That’s what you’re telling me, scientists?
(via discovery, chris pirillo)




