UFO's

AdrianF (Adrian) · #1 28-07-2010, 10:20 PM

ABC 2 right now 10:20 a show about ufo sightings

Adrian

OneOfOne (Trevor) · #2 29-07-2010, 07:33 AM

PVR'ed it last night. So little on TV lately, it may prove amusing...if I don't get abducted in the mean time....

AdrianF (Adrian) · #3 29-07-2010, 07:38 AM

I got bored and fell asleep during the show.

Adrian

OneOfOne (Trevor) · #4 29-07-2010, 07:40 AM

Are you sure you fell asleep? You weren't transported to a higher vibration of another dimension?

AdrianF (Adrian) · #5 29-07-2010, 08:46 AM

Could be but I dont feel violated at all.

Adrian

Ric · #6 29-07-2010, 10:21 AM

It was quite an entertaining show.

But someone should teach these people how to focus a camera before taking the photo.

Blimey if you are watching something flying around for five minutes then surely 30 seconds to focus and get a good shot wont hurt.

Cheers

astroron (Ron) · #7 29-07-2010, 11:45 AM

As Carl Sagen and many others have said, there has never been a UFO photo that is clear and proven not to be a fake

I have taken a photo of two fighter jets at Brisbane airport passing each other in approach at a combined speed of about 1000kph and both are in focus, just a fluke mind you

And yet sometimes these things hang around for half an hour or more and no one can get a photo in FOCUS

TrevorW · #8 29-07-2010, 12:46 PM

Why would they bother, we are not that interesting

renormalised (Carl) · #9 29-07-2010, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Why would they bother, we are not that interesting

I wouldn't say that....why do we study ants, atoms, societies. They're all interesting. So are we, and so are they.

leon · #10 29-07-2010, 07:51 PM

UFO's just don't exist, if they did why has not one been photographed with clarity, considering the technology of today, and every day, month, year, we hear of these sightings, but still not a shred of evidence, total rubbish

Leon

AdrianF (Adrian) · #11 29-07-2010, 08:00 PM

Still makes a good story tho... sometimes

Adrian

OneOfOne (Trevor) · #12 30-07-2010, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astroron

As Carl Sagen and many others have said, there has never been a UFO photo that is clear and proven not to be a fake

I have taken a photo of two fighter jets at Brisbane airport passing each other in approach at a combined speed of about 1000kph and both are in focus, just a fluke mind you

And yet sometimes these things hang around for half an hour or more and no one can get a photo in FOCUS

Maybe they emit a signal designed to fool auto focus systems, so you can't get one in focus. Or maybe people are forgetting to turn the flash on when they shoot....of course it won't turn out

AdrianF (Adrian) · #13 30-07-2010, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneOfOne

Maybe they emit a signal designed to fool auto focus systems, so you can't get one in focus. Or maybe people are forgetting to turn the flash on when they shoot....of course it won't turn out

Well they do interupt electronics on cars etc including power grids so maybe they do and dont want their pictures on FaceBook.......

Adrian

Davekyn (David) · #14 30-07-2010, 10:42 AM

Lol

TrevorW · #15 30-07-2010, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by renormalised

I wouldn't say that....why do we study ants, atoms, societies. They're all interesting. So are we, and so are they.

A race that lets there own kind die of starvation when there is no need
A race that persists in killing each other out of greed, religious differences or arrogance
A race that holds sportsman regardless of their misdeeds in high esteem over more righteous people
A race that is destroying their own worlds ecology in pursuit of that greed

Maybe you are right we should be studied so that others don't make the same mistakes

bkm2304 (Richard Brown) · #16 30-07-2010, 02:32 PM

Yes, it's sad but true that there aren't any aliens floating around our neighbourhood. I have been looking up for 43 year now - got my first Tasco in 1967 - and have the pattern recognition skills to know what most things are - planes, satellites, swamp gas reflected off Venus - but there are two or three times in all those years when I've stopped and looked and had absolutely no idea what it was that was hovering - gliding - floating up above me. THe first one like that was when I was about 15 - red, luminous disc-ovoid, transparent travelling very fast east - west and instantly disappearing after about three seconds. I promptly pack up my 50mm and headed indoors!

Anyone got other stories???

Yours Sincerely,

Cariothelian 231.2 from star system Weithlarion.

Ric · #17 31-07-2010, 10:40 PM

Sorry Richard, no stories from me but I'm always watching and the camera is ready to go. My photos will also be in focus.

Cheers

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #18 31-07-2010, 10:59 PM

Thousands of sightings every year, hundreds of blurry out-of-focus photos and videos every year, and all by mere bystanders whom happened to be looking up.

No wonder us Astronomers never see or photograph UFO's. We only have several thousands eyes, telescopes, or cameras covering the whole sky 24/7, 365 days a year around the whole world. We are looking at the sky somewhere sometime all the time.
No wonder WE never see them. We are too busy studying the sky

Aren't we lucky that non astronomical folk accidentally find them for us

Ric · #19 31-07-2010, 11:33 PM

I've also got a perfect demographic as well.

A quiet out of the way farm with dark skies, the buggers should be swarming like flies around me.

bokglob (Darrell) · #20 01-08-2010, 05:16 PM

In the summer of 1974, while camping with my father and some friends on the bank of the Clyde river at Batemans bay N.S.W, I was lying on my sleepingbag amazed at how bright with stars the sky looked, compared to my home in Canberra. As I lay there, I noticed a bright "spotlight" coming towards us from up the river, my dad said it must be a helicopter. As we watched, the light kept coming down the river toward us at a hieght of about 200 ft, untill it stopped directly over the bridge in front of us. What I, my father, and maybe a dozen fishermen saw then, was to this day, the most incredible, amazing, and totally AWSOME thing I have seen in my 46 years of life. Hovering motionless and totally silent above us was a perfectly symetrical luminous triangle about 100ft long, with a small "nipple" on it's front (which I remember thinking at the time "thats it's spotlight). The object sat motionless for 2 or 3 mins above the river, scaring my father and Co into a locked car, and sending fishermen running off the bridge. I sat up and stared, I couldn't take my eyes off it, I was mesmorized, and even at the age of 10, I knew what we were seeing,shouldn't be actually happening...apparently... What happened next was even more jawdropping. It began to move forward slowly, and then suddenly,and silently accelerated impossibly quickly,climbing with a beautiful right hand banking manouver, and dissapeared amongst the stars. When I say quickly, I mean fast, like 10kmh to 5000kmh in 1sec,the whole leaving thing was over in under 3 secs, and I watched it to a starpoint. I've no rational explanation as to what we wittnessed that night, but it was not of this world,either advanced alian technology, or future human technology,thats all I can think of. Either way, it was the start of a 35 year obsession with the universe, and I'm thankful for that