Random UFOs in the News

[NEOWatcher]

Ok; how about a thread to put mainstream news outlets, and thier UFO stories.

To start you off :
Mysterious Light In The Sky (http://www.woio.com/) (sorry, not a direct link, althought it's currently one of the top stories)

Looks like a paper bag blowing in the wind.

Tired for 3 days? That sounds like one heck of a hangover.

[eburacum45]

Thanks for that.
Unfortunately the news item you linked to is not on that page; many newspapers change their front page regularly and you need to find the actual story to make a permanenet link (this also applies to APOD and other regularly updated sites).

I would add that UFO stories are not necessarily associated with 'Life in Space' as such, although there isn't a specific section for them. They have appeared in 'Off-topic Babbling' before now, as well as in this section. I'm quite happy to have such stories in this section, myself, but others may disagree.

[NEOWatcher]

Thanks for that.
Unfortunately the news item you linked to is not on that page; many newspapers change their front page regularly and you need to find the actual story to make a permanenet link (this also applies to APOD and other regularly updated sites).
Yep, and I do that when I can; unfortunately with TV-News, they tend to put videos in a Javascript Launch instead of providing some sort of URL. I could probably get a URL if I used thier "send story in an email", but then they would have my email.

I would add that UFO stories are not necessarily associated with 'Life in Space' as such, although there isn't a specific section for them. They have appeared in 'Off-topic Babbling' before now, as well as in this section. I'm quite happy to have such stories in this section, myself, but others may disagree.
I'm still deciding on that. I firmly believe they should be babbling. But this is a site for people to come and find answers. Someone who thinks ET when it comes to UFO will probably come to this forum first because they are thinking life in space.

[NEOWatcher]

All this time, and no entries to the thread?

Ok; I'll bump it with this (headline pulled from CNN's main page)

UFO shot down over nuclear plant (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/16/israel.negev.shootdown/index.html?hpt=Sbin)
ooooh, wow, Oh my, panic mode...

Hold on a second...

The object could have been a party balloon, the IDF said, but forces have not yet found the debris to determine what it was.

[Swift]

By request of the OP and agreement by the moderators, this thread is moved from Life in Space to SML

[NEOWatcher]

Thank you;

Rarely (dare I say "never"?) does a UFO in the news actually have to do with life in space.

[NEOWatcher]

At least this one doesn't imply ET.

Did You See A U.F.O. In Vestal? (http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Did-You-See-A-UFO-In-Vestal-126521733.html)

In an email, Titus wrote, "It sat there for about ten seconds and then it shot up like a bullet and vanished."
He says at least ten people saw it happen.

[NEOWatcher]

Drone mistaken for ‘UFO,’ creates panic on DC highway (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/14/drone-mistaken-for-ufo-creates-panic-on-dc-highway/?test=latestnews)

Panic? Really? :rolleyes:

[ToSeek]

Drone mistaken for ‘UFO,’ creates panic on DC highway (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/14/drone-mistaken-for-ufo-creates-panic-on-dc-highway/?test=latestnews)

Panic? Really? :rolleyes:

We DC-area residents are tender, nervous souls who don't like surprises.

[NEOWatcher]

We DC-area residents are tender, nervous souls who don't like surprises.
They certainly seem to invoke a lot of surprises on us...

Oh wait...you said residents... not those other people in DC.

[HenrikOlsen]

Drone mistaken for ‘UFO,’ creates panic on DC highway (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/14/drone-mistaken-for-ufo-creates-panic-on-dc-highway/?test=latestnews)

Panic? Really? :rolleyes:
Since some drones are unmanned armed warplanes and actively being used for political assassinations, thinking it was a drone would really be more reason for panicking.

[NEOWatcher]

The CT's are using a new "tool" to "find" UFOs.
'Invisible UFOs' fill the skies (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48226830/ns/technology_and_science-science/)
I don't know how they can say they fill the skies when they show just one sighting.


"[We] have ruled out birds, bugs, airplanes, helicopters, and even flying drones by comparing them side by side as a point of reference," Cuellar told Life's Little Mysteries. This seems to leave just one explanation: It's a cloaked alien spaceship.
Judging by the video, they didn't exactly pick good examples for thier side by side. The plane they compared it too was fairly close, and from the side. I'd like to see a comparison to a plane farther away and almost head on.

Not only that, but if they rule out the mundane with a side by side comparison, then the cloaked alien spaceship should be deemed possible by showing it side by side with a known alien spaceship. [rhetorically] Is that too much to ask?

Oh wait, let's get a more reasonable explaination.

Not so, according to Ben McGee, a geoscientist, aerospace consultant, UFO skeptic and lead field researcher on the National Geographic series "Chasing UFOs."
Oh wait. We have an entire thread about the problems with that show.

Show me why it has to be a drone.

[publiusr]

Just another kind of camera artifact.

[tnjrp]

Cincinnatti has apparently been at the focus of the UFO proponents' gaze since mysterious lights were videoed on the sky there on September 28 (and the said video posted on U-t00b on 29th). Now the actual shooter of the video has apparently become a bit of spoilsport:
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/02/14188819-ufo-case-solved-in-cincinnati?lite

[NEOWatcher]

UFO Spotted In Southern Illinois (http://kplr11.com/2012/10/24/ufo-spotted-near-hecker-il/?hpt=us_bn9)
Well; Venus (et al) was not in that direction at that time... Could be a blimp, helicopters at a distance, etc, etc.
But; based on the pictures, I think Balok sent out another marker bouy

[Swift]

But; based on the pictures, I think Balok sent out another marker bouy
:lol:
Exactly what I was thinking (http://hot4spock.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/corbomite3.png?w=373&h=268)

[tnjrp]

Heavy UFO traffic in Denver:
http://kdvr.com/2012/11/08/mile-high-city-mystery-ufo-sightings-in-sky-over-denver/

[NEOWatcher]

Arg; they disabled videos at work and I keep forgetting to view that at home.

The man who brought the video to our attention believes the UFOs are launching and landing near 56th Ave. and Clay Street in Denver. A Map shows only homes in the area.
And nobody there knows or witnessed it even though it's several times a week?
There's a fire department a few hundred feet from there, and a certain church (who call themselves witnesses. :p)

From what I see on google, he was several miles from the alleged launch site. Nobody thought to go there?

[tnjrp]

This does remind me of a FUFORA case a year or two back in which somebody claimed a UFO had landed on the roof of an opposing building and sat there for IIRC more than a week. I do believe they finally send someone to investigate but suppose either the aliens had already taken off by then or it wasn't the xenos after all :D

[tnjrp]

Oh dear.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/28/ufos_over_denver_are_insects.html

[SeanF]

Oh dear.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/28/ufos_over_denver_are_insects.html
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords...

[NEOWatcher]

Oh dear.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/28/ufos_over_denver_are_insects.html
Here's the "Oh Dear" that I see in that article.

With this in mind, I contacted Hemmat at KDVR to see if I could talk her into doing a follow-up. To her great credit, she replied almost immediately and was open to the idea, but she didn’t think her bosses would allow much more time to do more investigation.
Nope... they got their shock story, and made their money. Facts don't matter.

[Solfe]

So what happens to all of the Buggy UFO's when 3D cameras start to take off?

[NEOWatcher]

So what happens to all of the Buggy UFO's when 3D cameras start to take off?
There's still a few options:
1) The same thing that they do now... Don't use the technology that helps identify it.
2) Announce that UFO's have technology that only allows viewing from one direction or live partially in unseen dimensions.

[tnjrp]

Interstellar pirate radio station:
http://io9.com/5965740/new-video-captures-enormous-ufo-hovering-over-hawaii-broadcasting-music

[NEOWatcher]

Interstellar pirate radio station:
http://io9.com/5965740/new-video-captures-enormous-ufo-hovering-over-hawaii-broadcasting-music
Considering io9 also serves as a SciFi site, and the source of the video is a ufo site, and there is no information about the source of the videos, then I am willing to let that one flounder in the non-news catagory.

[tnjrp]

Russel Crowe tries to photograph fruit bats, gets a UFO instead -- or maybe not:
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17213066-russell-crowes-ufo-video-explained

[NEOWatcher]

Russel Crowe tries to photograph fruit bats, gets a UFO instead -- or maybe not:
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17213066-russell-crowes-ufo-video-explained
Bravo to cosmiclog for giving it some reality.
Especially with the video from ParaBreakdown's Phil Poling. That video is a great analysis of the situation. Mystery solved.
Now; I'd like Crowes rebuttal

I looked for this thread after seeing CNN's take on the situation (http://us.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/showbiz/2013/03/07/erin-crowe-spots-ufo-in-australia.cnn). Shame on them. Nothing but Celebrity says, and Mufon says, so it must be something unexplainable. No details AT ALL.

[tnjrp]

News item about a UFO sighting at Glasgow airport -- 6 months ago:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/01/passenger-plane-jet-ufo-glasgow-airport_n_3191347.html

The conspiracy has kept this under wraps until now, I'm sure.

[NEOWatcher]

The conspiracy has kept this under wraps until now, I'm sure.
Or at least until it was published about a month after the incident.

Another one of those "could be anything" sightings especially with the media picking out the soundbites.
"Bigger than a balloon"? How about telling us what kind of balloon.
Also; if the pilot couldn't determine it's direction, then how can he say it was moving quickly?
Not that I would expect this kind of detail in an article, but how did he determine it was 400 feet below?

But; I'm not going to pick on the media this time. In this day and age of (over?) concern about threats on airliners and in airline safety, it is perfectly understandable that these things hit the news. Unfortunately; these things tend to be taken out of context.