Originally posted by CaptainBeno
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Second video.........I'm hearing what ya saying buddy.
Coming over to the dark side on this one! Booooooo! Thanks for finding that other vid. Matches explanation much better..........Pains me to say it
Oh well, on with the next.
Hey, got any good UFO vids that you can't explain? Hmmmm?
Why does it pain you to say it? The truth is the truth. And that backlit video
really does give a better picture of what's going on, doesn't it? The first video left one with the impression everything was horizontal, but the
backlit video shows that's not the case, so that really cleared it up for me.
Regarding good UFO sightings, I posted about a video documentary of a multiple witness UFO sighting for which I have no explanation in
this thread in response to a policeman who explained what terrible
eyewitnessees we all are, and of course he's right. But these 5 witnesses definitely saw a UFO that I consider to be one of the most confirmed
sightings on record, though the picture they took is pretty bad, but at least they took a photo.
I also have no explanation for the two sightings you mentioned. However I'd refer you to that thread I just linked to regarding the unreliability of
the size estimate. But regardless of the size, it sure sounds like they saw something.
I can explain several of these pilot UFO sightings however. If you want to test your skills and you have some time to kill, see if you can explain any
of them.
Official FAA cockpit recordings of pilot UFO sightings
It's not really that hard to do with the first two when the pilots are actually provided with the explanations for what they are seeing which are
astronomical objects, and due to some type of brain farts or misunderstandings, they reject the obviously correct explanations.
Perhaps this lends some credence to the following observation by UFO researcher Allen Hynek :
www.msnbc.msn.com...
One of the world’s first genuine UFO investigators, Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, came to believe that some encounters really could
have otherworldly causes. But he was much more skeptical about the reliability of pilot testimony. "Surprisingly, commercial and military pilots
appear to make relatively poor witnesses," he wrote in "The Hynek UFO Report."
Hynek found that the best class of witnesses had a 50 percent misperception rate, but that pilots had a much higher rate: 88 percent for military
pilots, 89 percent for commercial pilots, the worst of all categories listed. Pilots could be counted on for an accurate identification of familiar
objects — such as aircraft and ground structures — but Hynek said "it should come as no surprise that the majority of pilot misidentifications
were of astronomical objects."
Here's to hoping you're part of the 11 percent who won't fail to recognize astronomical objects, like some of the
pilots in those FAA recordings of UFO sightings.
I must say the two sightings you mentioned sound very interesting, and sure don't sound like any astronomical objects I ever heard of!

edit on 17-12-2011 by Arbitrageur because: clarification