The man is an idiot. But he supposed to be some kind of expert.
Let’s run by what he says …
Take a careful note of the words there; “leaned up to the car window”. So he didn’t lean through the window, he leant up to the window. Meaning the car window was closed and he shot the picture through it. :smack:
And it doesn’t occur to him that his “UFO” might just possibly be a speck of mud on the window. Nope. Far more probable that it’s a 30 foot UFO. And what basis are we using to establish the distance to this object? Why, because it appears on a two dimensional photo near some trees it’s obviously the same distance away! :wally
Why is it that amateur astronomers, who spend thousands of hours looking at the sky, never see these things? While some hayseed from West Asscrack, who takes one picture in a lifetime, does?
Hovering? How the fuck does he know it’s hovering?
As far as i can tell from the story, they have one single picture with this “UFO” in it. This means there’s no way to tell in which direction, if any, the object was moving. Also, the picture was probably taken at a shutter speed of at least 1/125sec, and possibly as fast as 1/1000sec, which would pretty much negate any visible movement in the picture, especially at the distance that the photographer claims the object was.
I could take a single picture of a basketball that made it appear as if the ball were suspended in mid-air. Doesn’t mean the fucking thing is hovering! :wally
Because the Asscrack residents don’t look up in the sky, and so aren’t familiar with what is supposed to be there. Like when Venus chases them. “I drove faster and faster, but its still kept up with me!!”
I will fess to having seen a UFO…of course since I didn’t bother calling to follow up on it, I can’t confirm that it was in fact a meteorite coming to earth somewhere relatively [like within 100 miles or so] close. All I saw was a green streak coming from behind the car, and passing overhead at a fair height [probably in the athmosphere] and disappearing towards the ground just over the horizon. At least that is what it looked like.
I would like to point out that I did in fact not investigate what I was fairly certain to be a celestial object simply so I could have seen a UFO [Unidentified Flying OBJECT … not spaceship=)]
Jeez, I was prepared for the aliens to be more intelligent than us, but it’s depressing to realize that they’re going to dress better than us, too. Kind of puts our place in the universe in perspective.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are amused by the OP, let me give you… Dr. Bruce Cornet. Dr. Cornet has apparently made a new career for himself as an investigator of AOPs (Anomalistic Observational Phenomena); let’s not call them UFOs, eh?
The entire site is an eye-opener, but I allow me to point out a couple of my favorites (WARNING: some of these pages play music automatically):
I’m amazed at how these UFOs continue to evade detection on our nation’s air defense systems. Does NORAD have an “ignore uffies” subroutine in its radar code somewhere?
Ignore? Not exactly. “Call and say howdy and remind the alien pilot to stay on the planned flight path in order to maintain the massive military cover-up,” sure.
What’s so special about a helicopter, anyway? Just a guess. If it’s anything real and not simply a hoax, I’d guess it’s a copter and the tail is hidden by glare.
