I find this very odd!! Just saying...

Listen,
I know the mass hysteria over the NYC occurences yesterday ramped everyone on here
and apparently on Twitter (I don't go there) up to the nth degree.

It was huge news online. There were news reports last night locally in NYC.

In NW PA, we have our local stations coming out of Buffalo, NY. At 6:45ish they broadcast an emergency broadcast signal across the news at WIVB. There was no message of storms, etc... attached, just a thing saying that they would be broadcasting another message within the next 20 minutes.

There was no further messages from the Emergency Broadcasting System on that station.

I called WIVB this morning. I got the complete runaround, transferred to different people when
I asked what the Emergency Broadcast System broadcast message was about. Nobody I asked
had an answer, and told me they would transfer me to someone else. My last transfer was to
a voicemail. I did not leave a message.

Now, this morning, I expected something on Yahoo home page when I opened it, even just
to say that people went crazy online and on Twitter especially, over balloons, saying they were UFO's.
This was huge online.

Not a word on the homepage.

I then went to the NY Times website. Surely they reported on the hysterics, if only to mock.

Not a word on the home page.

I then went to the NY Daily News website. C'mon. They had to have something on there.

Not a word on the homepage.


Now, I realize that to google it, one would come up with things.
I want to know why the NY newspapers aren't even saying a thing about this on their sites.
I want to know why when I type in NYC rooftop UFO in Youtube, I get a page with 17 results.

Do they wantpeople to think something is up?

It would seem to me there would be stories about this, if only to debunk it.

Thoughts?

Considering some of the more lame UFO encounters have gotten at least a few column inches and 30 seconds of air time. I agree it's fairly unusual that this incident didn't get more coverage. Especially when you consider the declassification of government docs has got many a mention.

reply to post by Big Raging Loner


Yes, it's almost insulting
that the "Balloon Boy"
got rampant media coverage,
and this.....well....

reply to post by thegoodearth


Hmmm...very valid points there. I have been thinking along those same lines.
I noticed a few 'odd' things going on in the past 24 hours...however i've not been able to keep up with any mainstream news to see how they were handling this situation in NYC because for some reason yesterday morn my satellite stopped receiving signal, and only two stations are coming in today.
I would love to see others' replies on this.

reply to post by pisces77


Also, and this is strange.
While I was waiting for the Emergency Broadcast to do their second message last night (that never came)
at 7pm, the show "Inside Edition" was live from San Diego.
About 10 minutes in, the anchor startled abruptly, looked off,
somebody said something off camera to her,
then the feed switched to New York.

I really was puzzled. I even thought at the time it had
something to do with the Emergency Broadcast Thing,
but nothing amiss was reported.

Mind you, I was not online last night and did not see ANY
of this mass hysteria until after 11PM.

That is why, other than ATS, I wouldn't know a darn thing about any of this.

Well there are a couple mentions with the balloon emphasis:


NBC NY

UK Mail

But you're right . . . one would expect a bit more, even if the emphasis were on 'mass hysteria' and the things so many wanted to see yesterday.

reply to post by Wonderer77


Right?

The two major NYC newspapers.
Nothing.
Yahoo (which actually usually reports crap like this)
Nothing.

Originally posted by thegoodearth

Do they wantpeople to think something is up?

It would seem to me there would be stories about this, if only to debunk it.

Thoughts?

edit on 14-10-2010 by thegoodearth because: (no reason given)

Sometimes if you dont wanna bring any attention to certain situations, the best thing is act like it never happened.

reply to post by thegoodearth


645 ish?....Same time as the "Gas Leak" in the radar facility in NYC.

Wasn't it Wernher Von Braun who warned of a staged alien invasion? I'm not sure how true that is but does get me thinking.

Originally posted by bigbomb456
reply to post by thegoodearth

 

645 ish?....Same time as the "Gas Leak" in the radar facility in NYC.

What gas leak?

I heard nothing of a gas leak.

here

reply to post by bigbomb456


Dear God...
They are going to report that,
and nothing about what millions of people
were Twittering and freaking out about last night.

I won't even go into how convenient that gas leak was
for NYC flights to be grounded at that same time.

Hmmm.... is it normal to use the Emergency Broadcast System
in such a manner?

There was a mass balloon release in NYC yesterday. There's a link to the story (even a pic showing them releasing the balloons), on around page 68 of the main NYC twitter thread.

Here it is (thanks to the member who found it, by the way)...

www.theepochtimes.com...

Originally posted by Gazrok
There was a mass balloon release in NYC yesterday. There's a link to the story (even a pic showing them releasing the balloons), on around page 69 of the main NYC twitter thread.

Thanks for posting-
I am not arguing specifically for the "UFO"'s.
I am wondering why the media has chosen to
completely ignore, today, what had millions of
people freaking out online yesterday.

They report whenever anything goes "viral" online.
Especially a juicy hoax type thing like this, it would seem.

I think it's weird they evacuated the radar control people the same time lots of balloons were let loose. Did someone in there have a panic attack and think NYC was getting invaded by aliens too? Was there a real gas leak or is this a conspiracy?

Were the balloons a false flag operation?

Originally posted by wigit
I think it's weird they evacuated the radar control people the same time lots of balloons were let loose. Did someone in there have a panic attack and think NYC was getting invaded by aliens too? Was there a real gas leak or is this a conspiracy?

Were the balloons a false flag operation?

I don't think the evacuation could have been at the same time as the balloon sightings. They were reported in the early afternoon.
Didn't consider balloons being a false flag. Hmmm...

reply to post by thegoodearth


Sorry, I thought I read that balloons were released about 6.45pm?

Anyway, just noticed the DM article someone posted above. That's a weird looking balloon.

Joseph Torres, 49, said: ‘It's been hovering there for a while. I'm just kind of baffled. How can it be ordinary? There is something going on.’
Witness Pete Bryant, 32, added: ‘I saw five or six lights shining in the sky. There was no way that thing was a balloon. ‘There was something weird about it. Light just doesn't reflect off balloons like that.’
Some blog posts linked the sighting to a book published by a retired US Air Force officer which said that October 13, the very day the sighting happened, would witness ‘a massive UFO display over the world's principal cities'.

This is the bit I like -

'It looked like a jellyfish made of lights that just hovered in the sky like it wanted to be seen,’ he said.

-because the photos they've printed look just like that.

reply to post by wigit


I just am surprised at how little is being said about this.

Not to mention the physics of helium balloons.
That really hasn't been talked about much.

Also, I expected more video of this, to be honest.

Is it that unrealistic to assume that the balloon release, and evacuation for a gas leak are unrelated? NYC is a big and busy city. I don't find that the events NEED to be related, to be plausible....do you?

My guess is that after some quick fact checking and seeing the balloon footage, they simply lost interest, and had no need to cover it. Some news outlets did cover it, but their footage shows nothing that isn't consistent with balloon releases.

Jaime Maussan must be having a field day with this....