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There's also this, from two years back, which defies explanation - mysterious lights on/in the Pacific ocean. http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_erupt
by madaxe_again 10y ago
There's also this, from two years back, which defies explanation - mysterious lights on/in the Pacific ocean. http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption
I've seen my share of "weird shit in the sky". I've seen a bolide in broad daylight, which was literally a "holy shit drop to your knees in awe" moment, but I've also on a few occasions seen patterns of lights moving in impossible fashions - high speed motion, instantaneous vector changes, followed by insane acceleration and disappearance. They're usually orange. An explanation I've heard for this sort of thing is car headlamps reflecting in a temperature inversion - but the last I saw these was while camping in the taklamakan, a long way from anything or anyone else.
I'm a physics graduate, an amateur astrophotgrapher, a pilot with an expired license, and I can identify aircraft, satellites, and so-forth - but some stuff I can't explain.
I also saw bona fide ball lightning and St elmo's fire a few years back driving across the Russian steppe, between astrakhan and volgograd - huge electrical storm, but as we were heading towards it, we kept seeing little sparks of bright white light zooming up from the road into the clouds, and as we were coming into the storm, we noticed the barbed wire fences along the road glowing with purplish plasma. Cows in the field were sporting furry plasma pompons on the tips of their horns. Absolutely nuts.
Anyway. I reserve all judgment on the question of LGM, but it'd be foolhardy to say all unexplained phenomena simply don't exist.
- sandworm101 10y agoNight + sea + strange green lights... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
- madaxe_again 10y agoThe green flash is just the sun retracting over the horizon - you can see it off the west coast of most places. Also, the Taklamakan is a desert, not a sea...
- sandworm101 10y agoIt can appear anywhere you have a clean horizon, such as while flying. It can be so dramatic that any time I hear of green light moving in such a situation I point to green flash phenomena.
- awiesenhofer 10y agois there any site were you write up your travels? I would love reading more about your adventures!
- madaxe_again 10y agoAfraid not - on that particular trip I had decided to journal it, and was even shooting the whole thing in 1080p 3d... And then on the last day, my cameras were all stolen, as well as the 386 laptop I'd been using to write on. I took a 386 in the hope nobody would want to steal it. Thankfully I still had the hard drives full of footage, got it home, transferred it to my nas, raid 5, started backing that up online (several tb...), during this, two drives in the array fail (seagate. Flood batches. Sigh), all footage lost. A year later I shot drone footage amidst the hongs in Thailand, flying through caves, launching from a kayak - crazy stuff, amazing footage - until I had another pair of disks die in another raid 5 array. So, I now just enjoy the experiences and don't try to document them. I actually blame seagate for me giving up, as it's their toxic disks that kept dying on me.
- conceit 10y ago> I'm a physics graduate, an amateur astrophotgrapher, a pilot with an expired license, and I can identify aircraft, satellites, and so-forth - but some stuff I can't explain. You are not a UFO-expert so your appeal to authority is out of place.
- madaxe_again 10y agoI don't remotely profess to be any such thing, and there is no such thing, by definition. If something is unidentified and unknown, one can hardly be an expert in it. Gosh, looking at your comment history, you do appear to be an expert in curmudgeonry. You know, you could try contributing to conversations rather than calling people trolls and swearing at them for their grammar?
- mcfist 10y agoIn 1988 I've been standing for quite a long time on my balcony, awing at 5 huge lighting objects dancing in the sky. Never believed in UFOs, but - in front of my own eyes, and in the middle of a big city! Then my mother came and said it must be preparations of light show for tomorrow's concert over the stadium. Oh well...