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UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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Post by boomboomsubban »

dmix wrote: post #117
jonhohle wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been developing a theory about abduction stories overlapping with MK Ultra-type experimentation. There seem to be a fair number of parallels in the type of activities done to subjects of the MK projects (allegedly) and casting the alien abduction story on the victims makes deniability straight forward. I haven't thought much about UFO sightings. I always find the ones with video, especially from arial sources in…

It wouldn't be a conspiracy talk without someone bringing up MK Ultra...

For good reason. We know that the CIA dosed people with LSD without their knowledge, which alone would explain most bizarre phenomena, and we know that the CIA claim to have destroyed most of their records of what they did in the program. Pretty easy to link anything to the program, and it's often one of the least strange options.

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Post by egfx »

Well this lends some credibility to a comment I posted just about a week ago. It got a lot of push-back understandably but being an eye witness myself. I know the phenomenon is true. It was in no way a meteor because it moved in erratic directions, up, down, left, right, and figure 8's. Is this from outer space though? It's been happening for at least 25 years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198

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Post by inawarminister »

yesenadam wrote: post #106
madeuptempacct wrote: post #105

I am guessing most people browsing this are suddenly intrigued by the topic. This is the most interesting incident ever, by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident

What makes it so interesting?

Probably because of >During the incident, two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communications as they approached the object. These were restored upon withdrawal.

>One of the aircraft also reported a temporary weapons systems failure while the crew was preparing to open fire.

These were explained away in the wikipedia article, but who knows the truth... Hidden away in another language.

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Post by flukus »

jonhohle wrote: post #111
evilturnip wrote: post #23

I'll also put my tinfoil hat on, since I've had a long fascination with anamolous phenomenon. I still think the jury's out on what exactly is going on, but one thing that's consistent worldwide is that balls of light are associated with UFOs, bigfoot, poltergeists, etc. My rational mind doesn't really believe in all of this, but if it did, I think I'd take Jacques Vallee's theory seriously. Jacques Vallee is an astro…

I've been developing a theory about abduction stories overlapping with MK Ultra-type experimentation. There seem to be a fair number of parallels in the type of activities done to subjects of the MK projects (allegedly) and casting the alien abduction story on the victims makes deniability straight forward. I haven't thought much about UFO sightings. I always find the ones with video, especially from arial sources in…

Abduction stories fit very well within suggestibility + sleep paralysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis), before aliens it was demons or other things. When I've suffered from it I've had my dog ripping my face off and intruders entering the house, no alien probes yet but apart from that the experience sounds identical.

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Post by eof »

smaili wrote: post #66
minota wrote: post #33

Transcribing the interesting bits from 18:15 Man A (ATC?): There's nothing showing on either primary or secondary Woman A: Ok, it was moving so fast. [Inaudible] Man A: Alongside you? Woman A: Yes, it was rapidly [inaudible] bright light and then it just disappeared at a very high speed. I am still wondering. Didn't think it was likely collision course. Wondering what sort it could be. Man B: Meteor or another object…

I know meteors seems to be a common theory, but do they normally travel that fast?

What I want to know is, do they tend to "bank and climb away"

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Post by sockgrant »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #125
sockgrant wrote: post #47

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Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadows, no source of light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no thunder. It wasn't lightning. Pretty scared, I kept watching the jumping light on the horizon. A few minutes later the wh…

Check out "Iridium flares" - they sound a lot like you've described, including coming in pairs.

Got a good video of one? I watched one and it wasn't similar to what I saw.

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Post by sockgrant »

chris1993 wrote: post #84
sockgrant wrote: post #47

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Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadows, no source of light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no thunder. It wasn't lightning. Pretty scared, I kept watching the jumping light on the horizon. A few minutes later the wh…

Similar lights in the Australian desert appear related to inversion layers refracting headlights over the horizon ( http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm )

Interesting. I suppose that's possible. It was a single light and it was changing colors. Its movement tended to stay within a specific range.

Do you have any thoughts on the white flashes? They were the scary part. Everything was perfectly daytime for a split second, and there was no fading of the light like with lightning. It was immediately all white then immediately dark again. It creeps me out thinking about it.

The light on the horizon seemed 50 miles away, but the flash was right on us, extremely bright, and blanketed everything evenly.

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Post by rladd »

hughes wrote: post #17
Fuzzwah wrote: post #2

Actual link to the tweet that has all the actual content: https://twitter.com/IrishAero/status/1061669444093730820 Direct link to the audio: http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018... Side note; including a screenshot of a tweet with out a link to it, is pretty lame.

Relevant portion of the audio is within the 18-21 minute range.

Starts at 17:51

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Post by sockgrant »

mrleinad wrote: post #57
sockgrant wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadows, no source of light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no thunder. It wasn't lightning. Pretty scared, I kept watching the jumping light on the horizon. A few minutes later the wh…

Saw a similar light when I was a child, my brothers saw it too. But this one was right above our heads in the sky, and there was no flash when it disappeared. Bounced from one place to another, and it was really far away, so we are talking hundreds of kilometers in a second. Never forgot about it.

Dang. That's scary.

While I was watching I started out in awe feeling like "holy crap, I'm looking at a UFO!" But after staring at it for a long time and then having the white flashes I quickly changed to "oh fuck, I'm near a UFO".

I was with someone, they were very scared, too.

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