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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 10:50 AM
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Look its a bird its a plane its a UFO oh wait....

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/article2139580.ece

Please tell me this ISN'T serious and that people don't actually believe this is a UFO..:crazy:
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 12:19 PM
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1. well, it IS the Sun.
Nice how the term "lenticular" didn't appear once, although "inexplicable" did!

(I actually thought it would be a photo of Chinese Lanterns before I opened the link.
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 12:33 PM
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2. This is The Sun - a nasty little toilet roll
TextAnd these amazingly clear pictures have given new hope to the thousands who believe life does exist on another planet.


... but no intelligent life in The Sun editorial dept. They treat their "readers" like idiots who believe their drivel. And of course many of them do.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-09 05:14 PM
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3. Pretty clouds.
Though I have to admit the first time I saw lenticular clouds I did go "WTF?".But I sure is hell didn't mistake them for a UFO.
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-09 05:14 PM
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4. Meanwhile, people in GD are mistaking a bird for a UFO during the inauguration.
It's clearly a bird, but there's claims it passes behind the Washington Monument when it obviously passes in front, etc. A good demonstration of the willingness to overlook details when the bias is to believe it is something strange and unusual instead of commonplace.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-09 06:37 PM
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5. yeah I saw that.
Considering ALL THE GODDAMN AIR TRAFFIC circling the Mall yesterday, I highly doubt ANYTHING unidentifyible was going to get anywhere near the airspace without SERIOUS trouble.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 05:50 PM
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6. Rods. They are called rods.
Had a friend show me a video of them once. It was difficult to keep my skeptical 7 yr old quiet, esp when we got to the part where the black helicopter turned into the mother ship and even more difficult when that flock of geese were called some sort of ufoish thing.
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