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jagman
8th October 2011, 15:46
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The strange, glowing object that put Missouri on "UFO alert" this week
This is the only picture available of a UFO that has been terrorizing residents in the state of Missouri for the past few days. Apparently the brightly-lit vehicle has been flying low over cars on the highway, and appears to break up into smaller craft. Dozens of witnesses have reported seeing it, boosting Missouri to a "UFO Alert" level 3. The state had the 8th highest number of UFO reports in the U.S. last month. What's going on?
A woman who saw the UFO earlier this week in a car with her family near Kansas City reported to MUFON:
We saw this object that had shape of stealth bomber that had green and white lights hovering over the highway. At first I told my husband and children that I thought it was a blimp, but as we got closer it was doing weird maneuvers."
We turned around to get closer, and by the time we got close enough it shot if like a rocket. There was another object in sky that it flew over and the light on it was a white, very bright light. I then called my father - retired navy - to ask him if stealth bombers hover and have green and white lights - and he said 'no.' He said that it might be a Harrin. So I looked it up and it didn't look like it either. So what was it that I saw?
Apparently there have been so many reports of this "triangle" or "boomerang" UFO because it flew right over a traffic jam on the highway. Another family who saw the UFO reported:
The closer we got, we realized the object was just hovering very low over the cars moving extremely slow," the reporting witness stated. "There were hundreds of huge, extremely bright lights completely covering the front of the craft. These lights were almost blinding, and resembled stadium lights. As we were trying to take pictures out of the window, the craft was over our car and began to turn south, no sound whatsoever was coming from it - dead silence other than the passing cars on the highway. The underneath and back of the craft didn't have as many lights as the front head on. It was gigantic. The front seemed rounded, then boomerang or arc-shaped as it turned. Not sure if it changed shape, but for sure two different shapes compared with head on to the back side of it. It took off a little bit faster, but still at fairly low speed compared with airliners or even stealth bombers which would both be very loud, this again, was silent. After it turned away, my husband thought it broke into three separate pieces. I thought it was just so big, it expanded and the three brightest lights appeared to be separate.
I think my favorite thing about this UFO is that the picture of it looks so much like one of the aliens from Space Invaders. The Earth is being invaded by 8-bit monsters!
DNA
9th October 2011, 01:31
Here are two different cell phone video recordings of the same thing.
Looks legit to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmd54vSoJS8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L9N5pZinA4
Calz
9th October 2011, 01:46
Linda Moulton Howe's site suggests 40 new witnesses for this.
Her site has somehow disabled copying text so have to take the link if interested.
http://www.earthfiles.com/
the trojan
9th October 2011, 02:28
heres footage from a news broadcast of the ufos,with a claim from those responsible at the end...be warned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kROw6MC1uEE
but then the same poster has more footage and has posted it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhLdlAK57k
and if you ask me...the explanation in the first is debunked the girl explains another interesting phenomenon.
Does anyone here know if a biplane/stuntplane can hover?
witchy1
9th October 2011, 03:22
Thanks for these. I wonder how they snuck past the military?????
DNA
9th October 2011, 03:28
Thanks for these. I wonder how they snuck past the military?????
It could be the millitary for all we know.
It could be halograms.
Personally when I say legit, I just mean it isn't some jack wagon fooling around with CGI.
daledo
9th October 2011, 03:47
Linda Moulton Howe's site suggests 40 new witnesses for this.
Her site has somehow disabled copying text so have to take the link if interested.
http://www.earthfiles.com/
You can right click on an open space on the page and then view page source. Copy the text from there.
I am on my cell phone or I would try it.
KiwiElf
9th October 2011, 03:51
Linda Moulton Howe's site suggests 40 new witnesses for this.
Her site has somehow disabled copying text so have to take the link if interested.
http://www.earthfiles.com/
Hi Calz - I can copy the text from her site OK - just place cursor & drag to highlight selected text (or "select all" Ctrl+A) - copy/paste into Word Pad or similar?
Calz
9th October 2011, 05:05
Linda Moulton Howe's site suggests 40 new witnesses for this.
Her site has somehow disabled copying text so have to take the link if interested.
http://www.earthfiles.com/
Hi Calz - I can copy the text from her site OK - just place cursor & drag to highlight selected text (or "select all" Ctrl+A) - copy/paste into Word Pad or similar?
If I select some text and right click it says "function disabled" and I have never experienced that anywhere else.
Perhaps a difference in browser or operating systems???
You can right click on an open space on the page and then view page source.
If I right click on any portion of the site (open or otherwise ... text selected or not) is says "function disabled".
No idea.
KiwiElf
9th October 2011, 05:24
Linda Moulton Howe's site suggests 40 new witnesses for this.
Her site has somehow disabled copying text so have to take the link if interested.
http://www.earthfiles.com/
Hi Calz - I can copy the text from her site OK - just place cursor & drag to highlight selected text (or "select all" Ctrl+A) - copy/paste into Word Pad or similar?
If I select some text and right click it says "function disabled" and I have never experienced that anywhere else.
Perhaps a difference in browser or operating systems???
You can right click on an open space on the page and then view page source.
If I right click on any portion of the site (open or otherwise ... text selected or not) is says "function disabled".
No idea.
Ahhh OK try this - don't right click... just select text, press CTRL+C then paste into Word pad ;)
Calz
9th October 2011, 05:42
Ahhh OK try this - don't right click... just select text, press CTRL+C then paste into Word pad ;)
By George you've got it :)
October 8, 2011 - Kansas City, Missouri UFO Flap.
40 new eyewitness cases submitted to Missouri MUFON Oct. 6 - 7,
as number of sightings has increased since August 2011.
anklebiter
9th October 2011, 11:25
Does anyone here know if a biplane/stuntplane can hover?
Actually, a Bi-plane has a very very slow stall speed, due to it's lightweight design and extra wing surface (2 main wings).
In certain windy conditions - if a plane's stall speed is lower than the current wind speed and the plane heads directly into that wind, it can appear to hover or actually fly backward. Since it's facing the wind and it's stall speed is lower than the wind speed, it's still producing lift and has no problem maintaining this position - as long as the winds hold up anyway.
This condition is actually more common with sailplanes, but not limited to them.
the trojan
9th October 2011, 12:13
Does anyone here know if a biplane/stuntplane can hover?
Actually, a Bi-plane has a very very slow stall speed, due to it's lightweight design and extra wing surface (2 main wings).
In certain windy conditions - if a plane's stall speed is lower than the current wind speed and the plane heads directly into that wind, it can appear to hover or actually fly backward. Since it's facing the wind and it's stall speed is lower than the wind speed, it's still producing lift and has no problem maintaining this position - as long as the winds hold up anyway.
This condition is actually more common with sailplanes, but not limited to them.
thanks for that anklebiter,i was looking for an explanation to see if planes could have possibly carried out that performance as claimed by the flying school/club.
I dont think the flying club were responsible,so now I am wondering why they would claim responsibility.
anklebiter
9th October 2011, 21:38
Does anyone here know if a biplane/stuntplane can hover?
Actually, a Bi-plane has a very very slow stall speed, due to it's lightweight design and extra wing surface (2 main wings).
In certain windy conditions - if a plane's stall speed is lower than the current wind speed and the plane heads directly into that wind, it can appear to hover or actually fly backward. Since it's facing the wind and it's stall speed is lower than the wind speed, it's still producing lift and has no problem maintaining this position - as long as the winds hold up anyway.
This condition is actually more common with sailplanes, but not limited to them.
thanks for that anklebiter,i was looking for an explanation to see if planes could have possibly carried out that performance as claimed by the flying school/club.
I dont think the flying club were responsible,so now I am wondering why they would claim responsibility.
Not sure why they would claim responsibility for that either. I forgot to mention in my first post - careful throttle control is also needed to pull this off. If you can feather the throttle just right and match your thrust to the wind speed, you actually are hovering over one spot. The prop is pulling you forward while the wind is pushing you. If the wind is strong enough (far enough above your stall speed) and you cut the throttle just enough, your plane will actually move backward (in reference to the ground) even though you're still flying. So yes, under certain conditions certain planes can hover and fly backward. But at the same time, you have to realize that speed changes (forward/hover/backward) happen pretty slowly as most planes that can pull this off aren't exactly overpowered.
I've done it only once, but my instructor did it a few times as a demonstration. I had my Private Pilot's license years ago, just got too expensive to maintain the yearly required flight hours with the rising fuel costs.
Billy
9th October 2011, 23:29
Looks like our pilots are having fun with us.
KiwiElf
10th October 2011, 00:05
Does anyone here know if a biplane/stuntplane can hover?
Actually, a Bi-plane has a very very slow stall speed, due to it's lightweight design and extra wing surface (2 main wings).
In certain windy conditions - if a plane's stall speed is lower than the current wind speed and the plane heads directly into that wind, it can appear to hover or actually fly backward. Since it's facing the wind and it's stall speed is lower than the wind speed, it's still producing lift and has no problem maintaining this position - as long as the winds hold up anyway.
This condition is actually more common with sailplanes, but not limited to them.
thanks for that anklebiter,i was looking for an explanation to see if planes could have possibly carried out that performance as claimed by the flying school/club.
I dont think the flying club were responsible,so now I am wondering why they would claim responsibility.
To be exact, your typical bi-plane has a stalling speed of around 40 - 55 knots (46 - 63 mph) - this is pretty similar to many light aircraft such as a Cessna 172 - soooooo you would need a wind speed of at least that for said aircraft to hover, and it goes without saying the aircraft has to be facing into the wind to achieve this. Did the location of these UFO sightings experience these high - almost gale-like - wind speeds at the time??? ;) (And if so why would an aeroclub be doing this at night in high winds? Kinda dangerous ;))
Also, many bi-planes are what we call "tail draggers", ie their main undercarriage is in front of the center of gravity/pilot and they have a small wheel or skid under the tail. This undercarriage configuration is known to be extremely tricky for take-off and landing. Anyone flying a light aircraft in that kind of wind - at night - is crazy!
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