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Originally posted by hypervigilant
You said that it was moving from the south to north. There were a few scattered clouds, and the wind direction changed from out of the north, to out of the south.. If near Love Field it could have been a corporate jet, they take off and land at much steeper angles than commercial flights, and create a now you see me now you don't scenario. Thinking about it, there has always been a tremendous amount of air traffic in that area. I moved and don't miss the noise .
Originally posted by asmeone2
I put the glass on there because I thought that an airplane is a pretty big thing to have "invisible" in the sense that you wanted to define it as... I wondered if, after going thorugh all that invisible material, the light might start to cast a shadow as it does sometimes with an invisible glass.
Well the problem with transparent materials is that you would have to make the entire aircraft and everything it carries out of it to make it totally invisible. Otherwise its skin is invisible, so you get to see all its guts and the pilot. That would be basically impossible since you absolutely, positively need different materials in the aircraft for it to work: somethings that resist heat, some particularly strong, some to insulate, some to conduct. So the device in question would have to cover only the skin or bend light by using some sort of a field. If it were something embedded in the skin, though, it would also have to be able to survive high temperatures at leading edges and the nose cone.
Originally posted by hypervigilant
I have seen what you have described every summer since the mid 1950s. I am not trying to mock you because I have had the same reaction at least a few times. We have had scattered showers and thunder storms for the last several days. Scattered clouds are present when these conditions exist. In the metroplex as crowded it is with structures nowadays it is hard to visually follow a shadow made by a small thundercloud. If you were at an elevated location, you would be able to see shadows from clouds more easily, and you probably have. It has been very windy as well and lots of intermittent clouds in the sky.
Originally posted by Level X
reply to post by asmeone2
I had the exact experience 6 months ago driving down a two lane country road. It was about 2 pm or so, sun high in a cloudless sky. Ten seconds from leaving a stop sign with no cars on the road a strange "whoosh" sound followed by a shadow appeared 100 feet before me. It sounded like a huge glider no more than 1000 feet above the road. It was so strange I pulled over to do panoramic scan the sky... but nothing was there. The shadow was as you described, going perpendicular to the road, at what looked to be around 100 to 150 miles per hour. The fact that I saw the whole outline let me know what ever it was, was close to the gound. The weird feeling of it gave me the chills.
It was no millitary hardware... no engine sound... it was unearthly.
Originally posted by Darkpr0
If the aircraft was invisible it could not have cast a shadow due to the physics of light.
If you saw a shadow, you could have seen the plane. If you didn't see it, then either the shadow was from something else, or you merely weren't looking in the right direction.
It is possible that if the aircraft existed, the second it flew over you it activated its cloaking mechanism, but why would such a valuable technology be used in plain sight?
Originally posted by Level X
reply to post by asmeone2
At the time I was on high ground, with a good view over the trees lining the road. It was about 5 seconds before I got out of the car. I was fast to react because it was so so strange. I heard the whoosh because the sun roof was open. My first instinct was to follow the flight path of the shadow in the lower altitude. Nothing! Secondly, I traced the pattern in relation to the sun in the upper atmosphere... and nothing was in the sky. I've seen commercial jets leave shadows but their altitude makes a mile wide trail. The outline of this shadow was crisp, not defused as it was real real close to the ground. It left a solid wide delta type imprint, no thin fuselage and was much smaller than a commercial jet. And for those skepics... the damn thing was no hawk... no kite... cloud... weather ballon... and definitely not a figment of my imagination --- it was a real phenomenon, I could feel the air pressure!
Originally posted by calcoastseeker
From the date of your post and the location of your encounter it is possible that the shadow was cast by a high flying 747. One that comes to mind that was known to be in the vicinity would be Air Force One.
Bush was in Crawford,Texas this past week. Air Force One is notorious for not being seen from the ground because of its light blue painted underbelly which blends in with the sky when looking up from the ground.It also has specially design engines that are quieter than a normal jet engine, for comfort I suppose.
Even a plane flying very high will still cast a shadow when it passes between the sun and the earth. Depending on the time of day and the angle of the sun in the sky it may not be directly above you when the shadow passes over you.
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Originally posted by tyranny22
I don't pretend to be an expert, but I thought the whole theory behind cloaking is to bend light around objects. If the plane in question had used some sort of cloaking device, I don't think it could have cast a shadow.
It should have BENT the light around the plane using current theories of cloaking. It would have to BLOCK the light in order to create a shadow.