A UFO as big as a two-story house was spotted floating slowly over a Highland miniature-golf course recently. It was observed by the golf course owner who then contacted the police.
The object was also seen by four Metro East police officers as it moved above Lebanon, Shiloh, Dupo and Millstadt.
It was described as having two rows of windows and red lights inside the object and along its metallic dark belly.
Police in Millstadt don’t believe the sighting was a visitor from outer space. But they won’t make any assumptions about what it was either.
“This has been one of the biggest things we have experienced in this area. It’s reached the world,” Wilkerson said.
Could this object have been some kind of top-secret military craft?..an alien craft?..or did it even exist at all?
Hmmmm…
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Then again, I’m not real up to date on secret government technology. Secret government conspiracies and alien spacecraft are more my area of expertise…
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You’ve got to admit, if there is a stealth blimp it would be 10 times cooler than if it were a UFO.
Imagine if your dad came home from Lockhead with a t-shirt that said ‘My Dad rode in the Stealth Blimp and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt’. Wait, I’m going to get that shirt made.
Regarding the size of the object reported by the witnesses:
On a Discovery Channel show about Crop Circles, many witnesses reported seeing a flickering spherical object hovering over a farming region at night. At least one witness swore that the object was at least half a mile across.
It turned out to be a helium-filled balloon with a flashlight nestled inside it, sent into the air by a prankster. The flashlight’s switch had been purposefully rigged so that it would go on and off at random intervals. The balloon, when inflated, measured 6 feet in diameter.
The truth, as always, is more complicated than that.
I will pay 1 million dollars to the first person that can produce an alien from another planet. But that will never happen because guess what? This is it folks. There is no other intelligent life in the universe. But if you are so convinced that a)there is intelligent life on other planets & b) intelligent life has been visiting Earth for x centuries (and doing anal probes still for some reason. how much can you learn about a species by probing it’s ass and at what point do you move on?) then I will pay you 1 million dollars to produce just ONE of the “obvious” scores of aliens that have been visiting us for years.
Someone want to explain why they haven’t revealed themselves to us? (billy bob on the farm in iowa doesn’t count. the alien needs to make a showing to the masses. and don’t give me a bunch of crap about how crowds of people have wirnessed “strange flying things”. that doesn’t count either because for all we know that is our government testing new equipment. it has to be a living breathing alien that will come forward and stand the test of scrutiny.)
I first became aware of this, about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy
Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year?
Well this year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said “Keep
your head and arms inside the mixer at all times.” But Bill Jr., he was a
daredevil., just like his old man. He was leaning out saying, “Hey
everybody, look at me, look at me”. POW! He was decapitated. They found
his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open
up the mail and there’s a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And
it’s addressed to Bill Jr. And it’s entitled, “Do you know what the
queers are doing to our soil?”
Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big
underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example.
Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can’t build on it, you
can’t grow anything in it. The government says it’s due to poor farming.
But I know what’s really going on, Stuart. I know it’s the queers.
They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for gay
Martians. I swear to God.
You know what Stuart, I like you. You’re not like the other people, here
in the trailer park.
a) If they are aliens from another world $90 Billion dollars wouldn’t be enough because our money would have no value to them
The offer was for one of you earthlings to catch an alien and bring him into the public domain.
b) the offer is for cash money. but i’ll tell you what, you name your price and bring me an alien (from another world, not taiwan) and name your price and the cash is yours.
You’re right! I don’t have a million dollars. But bring me a real live alien and I can get the money. If you’re silly enough to bring it to me then I’ll cash in on it. I’m quite sure I could find someone wealthy enough to pay for a live alien space monster. The thing is though, it will never happen because there aren’t any alien space monsters/people. It’s just us folks.
Hmmm…I’d venture to say that a person who produced evidence of a sort that has a demonstrated provenance and sufficient usefulness in achieving some degree of certitude that it demonstrates something useful might be pleasantly surprised. David has indicated that his rules of evidence are stringent but by no means impossible.
If somebody did bring back a device that contained, e.g., a battery composed of Element 124 plus a means of harnessing its radition, a letter that indicates that an apparent meteor impacted in Francine Jones’ field at 10:37 and Sgt. Waters of the Sheriff’s Department arrived at the scene at 10:41, Ms. Jones leaving her house to join him at that point, and that they found this battery thingie at 10:45 and entrusted it to the local FBI office, who called in Phil Klass to evaluate it, which he proceeded to do, and here’s his results, together with a log of who had it when from that 10:45 until it’s placed in CSICOP’s hands, David would be quite pleased to acknowledge that this time somebody’s got some worthwhile evidence of something extraterrestrial (since we’ve only recently discovered Element 124 and no significant supply, much less an atomic battery, of it has yet been created). David, care to critique this and tell them what I’ve missed on proof?
Polycarp, you will note that I said photographic evidence, not physical evidence of the type you described.
Unfortunately, that still leaves open the question because someone could still come up with a “thingie” such as you describe, it could genuinely be an alien construct, but if it didn’t have element 124 in it, you’d be wasting your time, at least as far as David is concerned. Obviously, it would be more likely that it would be a piece of some falling satellite, etc.
