Commercial Pilot Describes Maine Rectangle UFO

a reply to: Phage

Groucho Marx. One of my all time favorites.

a reply to: Cosmic911


Excerpt: ""The witness continues, “I have many hours flying in such aircraft in the Air Force with over 400 in the last of the B29’s.""


I think the witness may be E.T.. He said he has "many hours flying in such (alien) aircraft" in the Air Force.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: abe froman

Thank you, very much, for the compliment.

Who was it who said something about "any club that would have me as a member...?"

"I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member" [and variations] --- Groucho Marx.

originally posted by: Cosmic911
They were able to visualize an object the size of pencil eraser at 800 to 1000 AGL?

I assumed they were talking about the perspective-based appearance of the size and not the actual estimated size.

a reply to: Abysha
Probably.
But that in itself presents a problem. How could the altitude of the object be estimated without knowing; a) its actual size and/or b) its distance?

Amazing story, they should place dash cams in commercial planes these days..

a reply to: 0bserver1

Amazing story, they should place dash cams in commercial planes these days..

How well did you read it?
He wasn't in a plane. Commercial or otherwise.

originally posted by: 0bserver1
Amazing story, they should place dash cams in commercial planes these days..

Glance at the story again. It has nothing to do with planes.

The person even being a pilot is not a fact.

a reply to: Cosmic911

It sounds similar to what i witnessed last year. Here is my thread from that time.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Cosmic911

Yeah. I know. I read that.
With what I've seen about MUFON, being "investigated" does not amount to much of anything. Nor does being an investigator.

It must depend on the person. From my experience, they were very easy to communicate with and actually did some real investigating.

a reply to: IridiumFlareMadness

The problem needn't be about the quality of the investigator. We've got a lightform of unknown size and mass at an unknown distance from the witnesses.

What element of this can be investigated? I'm thinking the best 'conclusion' will tend to be 'unexplained' in reports similar to this one.

A report in Blue Book had around ten scientists seeing a flat, white rectangle descend into the car park of somewhere like Northropp or Skunkworks in the 1960s. They went on record with it. What can we investigate there? It was at close quarters in daylight. Has to be a hoax on their part or they actually saw this thing, right? The investigatory aspect is a dead end because the stimulus behind the report was no longer there.

All that was left was the testimony of men and whatever memories lingered.

a reply to: Kandinsky

You can investigate the witness to add or remove credibility.

a reply to: OccamsRazor04

Yeah I know. What I was aiming at are those reports that involve decent witnesses and reported lights and objects that just can't be investigated.

Top of my head, Zamora springs to mind. Nobody thought he was lying and what are we left with? The investigations could only go so far. Same for the ~1600 unknowns in Blue Book.

Even if investigators 100% took reports at face value, the best that could be said for some was,'Yep, you saw an object and we don't know what it was, what its purpose was or where it came from.'

a reply to: Kandinsky

I completely agree.

a reply to: Phage


Oh sorry was under the assumption that it was seen from an airplane.

Anyway they still should install dashcams. ..

a reply to: OccamsRazor04
Damn I should stop playing with that dashcam while reading a thread, then I should have known that it all was science fiction. .

originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: Cosmic911

It sounds similar to what i witnessed last year. Here is my thread from that time.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Ever find out what they were? Someone noted...Meteorite light-trails can be parallel .. Possible cause? As repeatedly noted, mother nature rarely designs in straight lines. Contrary to what I just stated, there are great examples of mother nature building with straight lines, graphite being one, consisting of stacked sheets of carbon. Carbon atoms, sometimes bond themselves and other atoms in lines and planes.

originally posted by: Abysha

originally posted by: Cosmic911
They were able to visualize an object the size of pencil eraser at 800 to 1000 AGL?

I assumed they were talking about the perspective-based appearance of the size and not the actual estimated size.

I've been doing some research on perspective, since you mentioned it in your post. I've been reading quite a bit on 'forced perspective,' not entirely sure it's applicable to the thread. Forced perspective was utilized by film makers of the LOTR trilogies and Harry Potter films.

I think it's generalizing greatly to suggest
all MUFON investigators are terrible at their volunteer jobs.

Also, I don't believe in goblins or faries and
because of this, have never been to a goblin fairie thread
to tell believers they do not exist.
What's the point? Why would I care ?