Mass UFO Sighting In Texas Town

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Number1

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: aplefka
Interesting.

I also find it interesting that California, Colorado, and Texas lead sightings.
It makes sense. If the military was conducting any sort of experimental aircraft tests, it would be in the SW. There is a large concentration of AF bases and testing facilities in that portion of the country.

If they wanted to keep the flights a secret, they wouldn't do it in a heavily populated region. They'd do it in Alaska or something.

And why would they put lights on them?
 

potato28

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: aplefka
Interesting.

I also find it interesting that California, Colorado, and Texas lead sightings.
It makes sense. If the military was conducting any sort of experimental aircraft tests, it would be in the SW. There is a large concentration of AF bases and testing facilities in that portion of the country.

If they wanted to keep the flights a secret, they wouldn't do it in a heavily populated region. They'd do it in Alaska or something.

But then those polar bears will know!! They'll sell your secrets to the Chinese or the Russians or someone else... :shiftyeyes;
 

potato28

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Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: aplefka
Interesting.

I also find it interesting that California, Colorado, and Texas lead sightings.
It makes sense. If the military was conducting any sort of experimental aircraft tests, it would be in the SW. There is a large concentration of AF bases and testing facilities in that portion of the country.

If they wanted to keep the flights a secret, they wouldn't do it in a heavily populated region. They'd do it in Alaska or something.

And why would they put lights on them?

So they can see it from the ground to track it :laugh:
 

bsobel

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: aplefka
Interesting.

I also find it interesting that California, Colorado, and Texas lead sightings.

Lotsa military bases out there in isolated parts. Remember, the F-117 is retiring and while the F-22 is a good jet, I don't think the govt has stopped skunkworks-ish research with classified planes. There's gotta be more advanced planes in development now.

Development? You can pretty much bank on deployment. The civil side is usually 10-20 years behind the black programs. The Pave Blue program went back to the early 70's. The 117 was flying over Bakersfield in the mid 70s (I think the Bakersfield crash I mentioned was '77). It was made public in '88 during the Panama invasion. The SR-71 was retired without an official replacement in 1998, the government claimed satellites made the bird unneeded but most basic reviews of capabilities shows that to be false. Of course, the Aurora (or whatever its actually named now) had been up in production since 1987.

I understand our countries need to keep programs secret, but I imagine in a decade we'll be looking at some of these UFO sightings and chuckling once they programs are public.

Bill
 

bsobel

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And why would they put lights on them?

I'm guessing your not a pilot. The B2, the F117, the SR-71 all having running lights. Its because when you fly at night hitting each other is a real bad thing (tm). Lights are often 'on' on miltary aircraft (just not usually during actual combat operations ;))

Bill
 

RapidSnail

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Originally posted by: invidia
It was a Protoss Corsair scouting out the place before they land an attack by using a arbitar to mass teleport some reavers and thousands of dragoons.

All it takes is a bit of logic folks. For Aiur!!
 

raystorm

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Some small Texas town..pffft.. What.. big bad aliens afraid to fly over my Bronx neighborhood? wusses
 

2Xtreme21

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I wanna test those air crafts so I can scare the piss out of some rednecks like this pilot does. :)
 

bunnyfubbles

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Originally posted by: RapidSnail
Originally posted by: invidia
It was a Protoss Corsair scouting out the place before they land an attack by using a arbitar to mass teleport some reavers and thousands of dragoons.

All it takes is a bit of logic folks. For Aiur!!

dragoons no longer exist and have been replaced :p
 

manowar821

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: TallBill
Awesome, a thread about people who saw an airplane.
Yes, several dozen people who saw the same "optical illusion" caused by airplanes on different days, in different locations, from different angles.

Those damn airplanes!

WATCH yourself, jpeyton... TallBill has it all figured out, don't want to mess with that.







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