Mike, I find your posts always interesting.
Gave you a star.

Granted, alien tech may be able to shield occupants - if any - and instruments from the tremendous heat emitted from the sun.

I'm thinking the geometric forms - call em ships - can be a lot further from the sun than it appears and closer to our viewpoint than we realize.
There's a possibility they are using the backdrop of the sun to disguise their presence or it's just a coincidence.

"Beware of the Hun in the Sun" ring a bell?:

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It's not just heat you have to shield yourself from. The entire spectrum of radiation is pumping out of its nuclear fueled core. The only way we know of to shield ourselves from solar radiation is with mass. A lot of mass.

Maybe that's why their ship is so big.

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Just think about it: If aliens can build craft that are thousands of miles long and hundreds of miles wide..that can traverse the universe and contain perhaps an entire civilization, I am SURE that they have figured out the right amount of insulation and ways to cool their ships that go far beyond ' air conditioning '. These beasts may actually ' receive ' energy from the sun and translate it into the power they use..The outer shell of one of those mosters must be so thick and so resistant to meteoric impact and heat that it is no wonder that they can get close to the sun.

Those massive gigantic ships near the rings of Saturn could no doubt take any amount of heat..and would not get too close to the sun...just close enough. Imagine the ability to change heat to another usable source of power just by swining close to the sun and soaking up the rays!! Whatever these things are, they are intelligently piloted, too big for us to comprehend on earth scale, and no doubt quite capable of providing protection to the crew and power for all systems. Think of a ship wider than the earth..that would block the sun from the whole planet just by geting close...far out!!

Double post, sorry.

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i think this thread illustrates how bereft of material the ufo community is.

Originally posted by internos
The one about which you stated that "the photo was a long exposure time" but you didn't know its exposure time (by the way, Cassini's cameras have 63 different exposure settings, from 5 milliseconds to 20 minutes, i wonder HOW did you know its exposure time since it doesn't appear in the caption of the photo).

Oh I never claimed knowing the exact exposure time. In fact I didnt care very much. But I know what a long exposure photograph look like. Yes, sometimes a picture is that easy to try to explain. No numbers, no facts, nothing to back it up, other than the fact you've seen similar things before and its called long exposure.

Originally posted by internos
And please, be kind, add me to your ignore list, now you're becoming ANNOYING with your quotes of my posts.

NEVAR!!! If I annoy you, add me to your ignore list. I will NEVER add ANYONE to my ignore list, that is not the purpose of my visits here. Shock me, annoy me, make me bored, I'll still read what you write even if I dont like it. And I'll respond with quotes too, because that is proper forum practice.

Anyway, are the photos the actual original? No bigger in size, like 2x2k res at least? Because the ACTUAL IMAGE DATA is pretty diffuse in comparison to the shape the original article discovered...

Originally posted by merka
NEVAR!!! If I annoy you, add me to your ignore list. I will NEVER add ANYONE to my ignore list, that is not the purpose of my visits here. Shock me, annoy me, make me bored, I'll still read what you write even if I dont like it. And I'll respond with quotes too, because that is proper forum practice.

Discuss it with the OP, since i still have stated NOTHING about this stuff: i've just gathered the SOURCES, so why you quote me instead of the OP?
Simple question.
Ah, by the way, i've asked to you (kindly) to add me to your ignore list, because YOU ARE TROLLING ME, not visa-versa.

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SOHO has like a dozen different sensors, most of which do not really "see" anything, they measure things like variations in the mass density and charge of the solar wind. Things like hydrogen ion charge density and solar wind temprature. Most of the images availabe to the public are data compositions of several experiments and are really false color visual representations of the data for several different experiment.
The only real "imaging" camera on board is the EIT whick looks at the corona in extreme UV wave lengths. So unless their ships have surface tempuratures in the million degree range they wouldnt show up as bright spots in the images.

And if they advanced enough to build ships that huge and that had the ability to hide within the atmosphere of a star, THEN WHY ARE THEY HIDING FROM US?
We can pose no threat of any kind to them and they would be so advanced, that the things they did would be as if " done by magic", because we couldnt even begin to concieve of their understanding of physics.
It would make absolutely no difference to them whether we knew of their existance or not, they would be "godlike", and have no reason to sneak around.
If they wanted our planet or us then they could just have it, there is nothing we could do about it and they would know that.

I've got to hand it to you Mr. Singh, for your diligence and perseverance,
and your posts are always an entertaing read.

I think comet Holmes could be one of the large "mother ships" people want to find.
Here's my reasoning,
If you are not using worm holes or some sort of extra dimensional travel, and you are moving through real space, it will take time for you to slow the ship down, maybe generations worth of time to shed enough speed.
The recent ejecting of matter and brightening was the object braking in some fashion. Each time it does it it slows down a little. It will eventually
come to rest and pull into to an earth orbit.
The occupants, who have spent countless genterations getting here, expecting to find a planet perfect for colonization will find us, and themselves. DOH
You see their culture will have evolved greatly in the thousands of years
since they left their home world. And they will find their own race here already here since they discovered how to manipulate wormholes and travel outside of the universe.
It would be just a if a wagon train from the 1840's pulled into a ultra-modern city. They would be politely kept from reaching their destination by their more evolved and advanced descendants, to be put on the next ships back home for re-education.

Originally posted by Solarskye
That would have to be a very BIG object compared with the size of the sun. Wouldn't that be like the size of our earth?. And it would have to have one hell of an air condtioner inside that.
What if it could actually be some kind of instrument that's montering the sun? Cause that is bery close to the sun and all it's fury.
Good post Mike.

If this were a ship capable of traveling intergalactic distances, than it would necessarily be of a type III civilization, one capable of harnessing the energy from entire galaxies.
One rung down, in the type II category of the Kardashev scale is the civilization with the ability to harness the energy of an entire star.
We wouldn't be looking at a ship with a need to shield itself from heat or radiation, but rather one that would be harnessing and using that energy.
Perhaps it would be "refueling" at our solar system's equivalent of a Shell station

Very interesting photograph, but is it possible that these craft are much nearer to the camera than we think and that these craft are simply the familiar White Triangular Craft seen in the Clementine shots along with the smaller spheres/orbs/globes. that also feature in the same pictures?
Looking at this photograph, Iwas very much reminded of a similar picture posted recently, showin the ISS and the Shuttle against the sun.
Just a thought,
Horsegiver.

Great find. I think some people severely underestimate alien tech. Personally, I think the way we view physics could be much different than the way an alien race might.

In any case, I won't say it's not possible to get that close to a star, but I do think that patterns can be found anywhere.

Mike,
Right when I am starting to get bored you wow me again. Nice find. Yes it raises questions.. I wonder what the distance to the sun is there and what the temp would be. Those would probabley pale in comparison to threat of cosmic radiation there.
BP

Currently we humans are speeding towards becoming a tier 1 civilization but at this point we have not yet acquired all the necessary goals. As of now we're safely sitting at the 0.7 mark according to the current scaling method.

I think we're already there but the general public of the various countries around the world, know little to nothing about it. I personally believe this is because, in the event of a forecasted global disaster, there will already be a safe haven for the leaders of the world and their chosen few to escape to. It's a posterity thing. In addition, they are using up the resources of the solar system, already, so by the time the rest of us even knew it was going on, there'd be nothing left to create a competitive market.