yep..intelligent life in a far off corner of the universe discovers the secret of intergallactic travel and uses this knowledge to pass boring Saturday nights by scooting down to somewhere in England on good ol' planet Earth and fart about in a corn field.
I was working late on our farm one night,I know the area well , the night was cystal clear,no houses or lights or people around for many kms.
Coming to the crest of a hill in the tractor I stopped dead .
across a small dam in front of me (300mtres away).. was a huge ball of fog sittiing on the ground .. about 4 metres off the ground were three bright lights buried deep within it..I remember looking for several seconds trying to rationalise what I'm seeing somehow .. and just couldn't .. I laughed
shaking my head at what I'm seeing .. and said "NO WAY".. still staring at whats in front of me ..Then a suited human like form half emerged from the fog ..siloueted against the lights in the fog I couldn't get a good look at it but it looked to have some sort of square helmet on its head..
yep..intelligent life in a far off corner of the universe discovers the secret of intergallactic travel and uses this knowledge to pass boring Saturday nights by scooting down to somewhere in England on good ol' planet Earth and fart about in a corn field.
Hmmmm you know in a Hitchhikers Universe..this kinda craziness makes a perverse sorta sense! I bet THEY know where their towels at!
You may have mistaken my opinion on crop circles. I was merely suggesting that like the confessions of the drunken yorkshiremen who made the circles, someone may one day say "yep it was me, I launched the plastic bags".
BTW the Min Min Lights phenomena were explained by some outback geologists.
They proved that car headlights from beyond a mountain range were visible infront of the range. Using 2way radio, and stopping and starting driving, it was found that some form of reflection and atmospherics caused the lights to be visible over the range.
those flying bags are very easy to make and a lot of fun. I have made a lot of them and even shown my boys! (but they can cause bushfires, so not a hot weather activity).
Don't use a large Garbage Bag. Use the ones they give you in supermarkets for your groceries. And you only use a small 'Tea Candle'. If you can't get Tea candles small enough, a cotton ball soaked in metho works even better!
They float up extremely high until you can't see them any more, or get carried away by the wind.
How do you suspend the tealight below the bag? I would like to give this ago this coming winter.
BTW the Min Min Lights phenomena were explained by some outback geologists.
They proved that car headlights from beyond a mountain range were visible infront of the range. Using 2way radio, and stopping and starting driving, it was found that some form of reflection and atmospherics caused the lights to be visible over the range.
Yep, seen it a hundred times. The atmospheric effect that is, not the Min Min's!
Inversion layers are what cause mirages.
The horizon, standing at sea-level is approx 4.4km away.
Here in Rockingham we can only just see, on a good day, across the ocean to the tallest buildings in Mandurah, which is 25km away.
With an Inversion layer, we can see pretty clearly much of Mandurah's sea frontage, but upside down, stretched and a bit heat-warped.
I want to believe that there is intelligent life elsewhere in our Galaxy.
I don't believe in UFO's though. There is always a perfectly reasonable explanation for these sightings.
In over 25 years observing I have only seen one thing I could not explain at the time I saw it. So at that time it was a UFO.
In 1983 in late August or early September I was observing in the back yard and I heard from my brothers room in the house "UFO". I looked up from the scope and saw what looked like a large flying chunky arrow. Long swept back wings and a thin body. I don't remember any sound but that is just my crap memory. I do remember it was flying LOW over the neighbourhood almost overhead and I estimated that if I threw a rock I would have hit it. My family went out front of the house, while I was out the back their report is similar to mine regard to shape they estimated the size to be about a football field. I thought it about the size of a large plane. It passed overhead and dissapeared toward Gosford. (I live at Umina). AT the time I was 16 and seriously though it a UFO. The in the early 90's the US released a photo of the Stealth Bomber and I said straight away THAT IS THE UFO.
Mystery explained.
Don't forget that just because people have a strange report to tell you, (and they will when they find out your into astronomy) what they tell you is real for them. Don't scoff and tell them they are idiots, just explain that they may not understand what they have seen. (sorry for preaching)
Most people who report UFO's are unreliable and even the credible witness's have NO real experience with the sky at its phenomenon. Credible reports from an inexperienced witness is NOT CREDIBLE.
How do you suspend the tealight below the bag? I would like to give this ago this coming winter.
Sorry Terry, I only just noticed your question
Ther are several ways. I have seen people do it with fine wire from flyscreens, string, etc. The way I do it is to tie the shopping bag handles colse togther and lay a thin peice of cardboard across them. Then put the candle on top of that.
Terry, here is the working model. Took me 1 minute to make it
1. a shopping bag
2. tie the handles about 2" apart
3. lay thin cardboard across the handles. This one is a tag (the ones with the hole in them)
4. Cottonball and metho. Then light it.
In over 25 years observing I have only seen one thing I could not explain at the time I saw it. So at that time it was a UFO.
In 1983 in late August or early September I was observing in the back yard and I heard from my brothers room in the house "UFO". I looked up from the scope and saw what looked like a large flying chunky arrow. Long swept back wings and a thin body. I don't remember any sound but that is just my crap memory. I do remember it was flying LOW over the neighbourhood almost overhead and I estimated that if I threw a rock I would have hit it. My family went out front of the house, while I was out the back their report is similar to mine regard to shape they estimated the size to be about a football field. I thought it about the size of a large plane. It passed overhead and dissapeared toward Gosford. (I live at Umina). AT the time I was 16 and seriously though it a UFO. The in the early 90's the US released a photo of the Stealth Bomber and I said straight away THAT IS THE UFO.
Mystery explained.
Don't forget that just because people have a strange report to tell you, (and they will when they find out your into astronomy) what they tell you is real for them. Don't scoff and tell them they are idiots, just explain that they may not understand what they have seen. (sorry for preaching)
Most people who report UFO's are unreliable and even the credible witness's have NO real experience with the sky at its phenomenon. Credible reports from an inexperienced witness is NOT CREDIBLE.
err, jet engines are realy realy loud, if you could throw a rock at it your head would probably explode. and why are the us flying aircraft over the central coast for at this time of the day, piss off!
and it must of been quite high to see it head to gosford
err, jet engines are realy realy loud, if you could throw a rock at it your head would probably explode. and why are the us flying aircraft over the central coast for at this time of the day, piss off!
and it must of been quite high to see it head to gosford
You should try living in Coombell the RAAF do runs over us at just above
above trees. Sometime they scare the living bejeezus out of you, they come
in so fast you only hear them leaving. Sometimes slow enough you can look
up and see the pilot. Those F18's sure look cool flying across the top of the
forest.
Reminds me of the time Hubby and I were walking on Red Beach at Bribie Island. We were the only people there, no boats on the water, no houses in sight. Just the beach, sand and trees.
I commented to Greg how prehistoric it all was. This must be what it was like for countless millenium before man came here. The peace and serenity of it all.
Then an FI11 came flying by so very low over the water, about 50mt, only a couple of hundred metres away from us. And the noise was deafening.
Talk about breaking the mood with the irony of it all.
