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Alien Abduction

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I would suggst this is simply not the case. Again you generalise, with "they've all had much more likely more reasonable explanations." This simply is not the case. There are many cases which defy any rational explanation, and no matter how hard the debunkers try to pigeon hole them into a "reasonable explanation", they simply do not fit.
    And I've yet to see a single claim that withstood any level of scrutiny or provided anything that would convince any rational person.

    But you're drifting away from the point.
    The idea of sleep paralysis being the root of some abduction stories are only used in stories where it is a plausible (typically the most plausible) explanation.
    Claiming that it is used else where, or that it is the only explantion skeptics provide is a dishonest strawman.

    Again, I'm finding some of your posts hilariously hypocritical.
    Your claiming that anyone who doesn't agree with you are somehow mentally deficient while you are desperately trying to argue that UFO claimants aren't and that skeptics are unwilling to consider other explanations, while you are doing the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭enno99


    King Mob wrote: »
    Yes, but there's no reason for me or you to conclude that.
    There's nothing about my story (or the OPs) that isn't explained by sleep paralysis and there's nothing that requires there to be anything fantastical present.
    So barring other evidence, the most likely conclusion is that it was sleep paralysis.

    Ah so you think alien abduction is possible
    but anyone who thinks it might have happened to them are just believing in magical creatures or aliens or things to that effect are being unreasonable and ridiculous


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    enno99 wrote: »
    Ah so you think alien abduction is possible
    Yes, in the strictest sense of the word. Just as it's "possible" that there's a banana orbiting Mars, I can't say for 100% certain that it's not there but it's improbable and not reasonable to assert that it is probable.
    enno99 wrote: »
    but anyone who thinks it might have happened to them are just believing in magical creatures or aliens or things to that effect are being unreasonable and ridiculous
    No I did not say that. That's a dishonest twisting of my words, which would make you unreasonable and ridiculous.

    I stated that the idea of alien visitation is unreasonable and ridiculous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Covered in the Daily Wail today:
    Our close encounters: Meet the alien abductees - and the pictures they drew to prove they weren't imagining it all...
    article-0-12D87C7D000005DC-797_634x848.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭enno99


    King Mob wrote: »
    Yes, in the strictest sense of the word. Just as it's "possible" that there's a banana orbiting Mars, I can't say for 100% certain that it's not there but it's improbable and not reasonable to assert that it is probable.

    No I did not say that. That's a dishonest twisting of my words, which would make you unreasonable and ridiculous.

    I stated that the idea of alien visitation is unreasonable and ridiculous.
    No, I'm saying that explanations that rely on magical creatures or aliens or things to that effect are unreasonable and ridiculous.
    Doubly so when there is a much more plausible, supported and mundane explanation that fits the bill.

    that is what you said

    Now the banana is just a cop out

    Because if you say no you have to apply the misremembering bullsh*t you like to trot out to yourself
    And that puts you in a position of being exempt from something that you think everyone else is prone to


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    enno99 wrote: »
    that is what you said
    Which is not what you claimed I said.
    enno99 wrote: »
    Now the banana is just a cop out

    Because if you say no you have to apply the misremembering bullsh*t you like to trot out to yourself
    And that puts you in a position of being exempt from something everyone else you think is prone to
    It's not a cop out, it's an illustration of how basic logic works.
    Neither you or I can show with a 100% certainty such a banana does not exist. This means there's some possibility it could exist we've just yet to discover it.
    If you can show with 100% certainty that the banana orbiting Mars does not exist, then please do.
    However we can both agree that it is improbable that such a banana does not exist. So improbable it's practical to assume that it does not exist. And we both make this judgement based on the same idea that there is no evidence to support the existence of this fantastical thing.

    Now I told you that I'm not exempt from the same stuff everyone else is. And I could be misremembering my experience, but there's no reason to suggest that I was. Sleep paralysis fits the available facts, just as it does with the OP's story and as it does with the thousands of other instances and claims.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    I stated that the idea of alien visitation is unreasonable and ridiculous.

    It's unreasonable and ridiculous until you see a UFO for yourself, after that, you're on your own because most people cannot fathom that experience. And of course.. will lead to them telling you it's a meteor or a planet or a secret military aircraft or chinese lantern or something. It's great that such experts exist on things of which they have never seen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    dyer wrote: »
    It's unreasonable and ridiculous until you see a UFO for yourself, after that, you're on your own because most people cannot fathom that experience. And of course.. will lead to them telling you it's a meteor or a planet or a secret military aircraft or chinese lantern or something. It's great that such experts exist on things of which they have never seen.
    And people say the same thing about God and fairies and ghosts and any other supernatural entity, but this does not make their claims true.

    Further you implying that people who don't believe only do so because they are ignorant is the exact same type of close mindedness you are accusing them of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    I'm not saying you or anyone else is ignorant or close minded. There was such a time when i hadn't had those experiences.. and was one of those people who wholeheartedly believed life in the universe was possible 'out there somewhere', just never really imagined i would have found it 'here'. For what it's worth, i immerse myself in science and critical thinking.

    What i implied was, that people who have not seen a UFO, cannot seem to make that leap of faith, and that's fine, because i wouldn't expect anyone could do it unless they could see it for themselves. We're not talking about deities or faeries or fauna, we're talking about real physical objects that are flying around in our atmosphere doing whatever it is they are doing, and i'm not going to speculate on that because i don't have the faintest clue what they're doing either.. but i do know that they are here. This is not about fairy tales or religious dogma, it's about questioning the reality that so many people are observing.

    Whether you want to believe it or not is up to you, and if you don't that is perfectly fine, but please don't pretend to know what you're talking about just because your belief system and your experiences won't allow you to see any further. Science doesn't help either, because this is a question which hasn't been answered yet, and paradoxically, one that is largely ignored because of the stigma that is attached to it.

    So, if you asked an alien... they would probably say.. yes, 'they' really are stupider than they look, and probably have a good laugh over it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Your post is wonderfully self contradictory.
    You say:
    dyer wrote: »
    I'm not saying you or anyone else is ignorant or close minded.
    And then say:
    dyer wrote: »
    because your belief system and your experiences won't allow you to see any further.

    Then you claim:
    dyer wrote: »
    i immerse myself in science and critical thinking.

    Then you say these:
    dyer wrote: »
    that people who have not seen a UFO, cannot seem to make that leap of faith,
    ....
    Science doesn't help either, because this is a question which hasn't been answered yet
    Which indicate that you understand neither.

    You also say:
    dyer wrote: »
    it's about questioning the reality that so many people are observing.
    But you don't at all seem interested or willing to question your reality.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    But you don't at all seem interested or willing to question your reality.

    i'm quite capable, comfortable, and very well able to question my reality.. perhaps you should do the same! you're not asking me to question mine, you're asking me to question yours.

    i give up anyway this is obviously not a conversation i can have with you, but no hard feelings ;) good luck on your endeavor.. i don't even know what you're saying, it's just semantic spaghetti.. perhaps you should try listening once a while, you might actually learn something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    dyer wrote: »
    i'm quite capable, comfortable, and very well able to question my reality.. perhaps you should do the same! you're not asking me to question mine, you're asking me to question yours.

    i give up anyway this is obviously not a conversation i can have with you, but no hard feelings ;) good luck on your endeavor.. i don't even know what you're saying, it's just semantic spaghetti.. perhaps you should try listening once a while, you might actually learn something.
    Lol. So much self contradiction, hypocrisy and irony and in IMO, a very good example of how both are rampant in the UFO community.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    well, if you ever happen to see a spaceship floating above you.. maybe you can come back to me and i'll gladly pick up this conversation where we left off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    dyer wrote: »
    well, if you ever happen to see a spaceship floating above you.. maybe you can come back to me and i'll gladly pick up this conversation where we left off.
    You'll have to explain the definition of "open minded" you use can includes the idea that you only discuss things with people who already agree with you.

    Cause that seems to be exactly the charge leveled at the non-believers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    How can you explain this to anyone who hasn't experienced it themselves? The experience is what opens your mind. It's not about just finding people who already agree with you, it's about being able to share it with someone who has had a similiar experience. There is no disrespect, but imagine if you will, how hard it is to communicate this to people who just simply cannot believe it, in short, the whole world doesn't believe it. I have to live with that, just like so many others do, but it's not going to annoy me anymore, i just count myself lucky that i experienced something so extraordinary. Any true scientist worth their salt would look for answers, despite what the world or anyone else thinks of them.. i dont think science or maths or philosophy or any other subject would develop without the people who are willing to walk those paths alone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    dyer wrote: »
    How can you explain this to anyone who hasn't experienced it themselves? The experience is what opens your mind. It's not about just finding people who already agree with you, it's about being able to share it with someone who has had a similiar experience. There is no disrespect, but imagine if you will, how hard it is to communicate this to people who just simply cannot believe it, in short, the whole world doesn't believe it. I have to live with that, just like so many others do, but it's not going to annoy me anymore, i just count myself lucky that i experienced something so extraordinary. Any true scientist worth their salt would look for answers, despite what the world or anyone else thinks of them.. i dont think science or maths or philosophy or any other subject would develop without the people who are willing to walk those paths alone.
    Because if you're claiming something that you can't show to another person, it looks exactly like it's fictional.
    And believing something in spite of this is religious belief.

    You show your misunderstanding of how science works by pretending that this predetermined, unmoving, irrational belief is acceptable in science.

    Everything you just wrote shows that you are unwilling accept or even consider the possibility that you are wrong, and this is the definition of being closed minded.
    Yet you still love to throw that accusation out at anyone who you disagree with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭TheRiddler


    This is the fckin stupidest thing ever


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    If you think it's a religious belief, you obviously haven't studied ufology very much King Mob, and i'm not talking about the sensationalist sh!te most people have been educated with. There is no burden of proof on anyone but yourself if you can't come to terms with it, if you want to be a skeptic, by all means do, but at least be a real one and not a sideshow of clichés. All the information is there, go look at it, find it, research and digest it and come up with your own opinion, all your arguments have been iterated a thousand times before, it's like a bad record playing itself to death. Why do i need to accept that i'm wrong? I'm not wrong, i don't need you or anyone else to tell me that. Is it close minded of me to believe that you simply cannot understand me or many others because you haven't experienced anything like what we've been talking about? No, that's just common sense. It's just a pity that it's gonna take humanity so long to undertand or accept any of it. You're parading science as the very thing you seem to abhor, a religion in itself, a doctrine or a mandate by which you describe your logic, there's nothing admirable about that, any kid who can read a book can come to the same conclusions that you have. You just don't seem to get the point i'm making! and as i've said, many times ovvvvvverrrrr, it does not matter to me whether or not you believe it, because i believe it myself, because i have seen it, and it was every bit as real as the light of day, so i don't need to spend my time debating with people about it, because seriously, what is the point? if i wasn't drunk right now i probably would not have bothered with this at all.. but there you go.. time for bed.. god speed and all that ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    dyer wrote: »
    . Is it close minded of me to believe that you simply cannot understand me or many others because you haven't experienced anything like what we've been talking about? No, that's just common sense.
    Yes, it's very closed minded because you are going to flat out refuse to even consider different view points to yours.
    This makes you pseudo-philosophical rambling hilariously hypocritical.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    You're simply picking out things without any coherence to what's being said as a whole and attacking those as if it somehow justifies how you think or something.. i really do not know. You haven't even offered me an alternative view point to my own (other than i'm wrong and that what i have to say must be utter nonsense because everything you apparently know says otherwise), so i don't understand what you mean by that. Anyway, this has deviated far from the OP, so let's agree to disagree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,349 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    When you think of all the Cameras' that are in the world today, on cell phones etc.

    Yet nobody has come up with any credible photographic evidence the UFO's exist.

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    And I've yet to see a single claim that withstood any level of scrutiny or provided anything that would convince any rational person.

    Then contrary to what you would have us believe, you have failed to do much if any research into the subject.

    Even when the U.S Air Force conducted investigations back in the 50's under Project Blue Book, they could not categorise and rationalise all events. approximately 5% remained unidentified. any reasercer, or skeptic worth their salt knows this fact. So by your above statement, you have actually shown how little you know on the subject.

    which is not altogether surprising, because its very hard to understand or learn anything when you are instantly going to deny any evidence presented to you.
    King Mob wrote: »
    But you're drifting away from the point.
    The idea of sleep paralysis being the root of some abduction stories are only used in stories where it is a plausible (typically the most plausible) explanation.
    Claiming that it is used else where, or that it is the only explantion skeptics provide is a dishonest strawman.

    i think you like the word "strawman". :D
    King Mob wrote: »
    Again, I'm finding some of your posts hilariously hypocritical.
    Your claiming that anyone who doesn't agree with you are somehow mentally deficient while you are desperately trying to argue that UFO claimants aren't and that skeptics are unwilling to consider other explanations, while you are doing the same.

    Not at all, I know pleanty of great skeptics, who I regularly talk with. They are ALWAYS willing to entertain the possibility of something Being beyond their understanding, and let the evidence lead them in an unbiased way to whatever conclusion it will.

    Anyway, as you are entrenched in your non belief, there is no point attempting to offer any further logic, or explanation to you. I am sure in times past there were many like you, who absolutely would not accept the Earth was anything but flat, and called anyone who dared open their mind and speculate otherwise a heretic. Eventually their sky fell, and their world collapsed, as I am sure it will be one day for many like you when our infantile race finally matures.

    Enjoy the remainder of the dark ages, while they last :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    When you think of all the Cameras' that are in the world today, on cell phones etc.

    Yet nobody has come up with any credible photographic evidence the UFO's exist.

    well, before making broad sweeping statements, you really should investigate a little further.

    for example, the flight recorders, HUD's and instrumentation, from 2 independednt F.16 Falcons chasing an unidentified, along with correelating radar tapes, may be considered somewhat interesting.

    If you would like to read only 1 example of the cases that defy everyday explanations, go ahead and take a look at the link below.

    http://blog.ufo-blog.com/2007/12/general-wilfried-de-brouwer-belgium.html


    By the way, this information can be found freely from many different sources. There are also official FOIA documents which also verify the same reports.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Torakx


    I think he means aliens in crafts or just aliens.
    Instead of UFO's which can include man made projects.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    What ever happened to people being abducted by Fairies? Does that not happen anymore?

    I think if I had an episode like the OP the first thing I'd do is get myself down to the doctor. It could be a symptom of any number of things, micro-seizure/mini stroke, alien abduction would be the least of my worries....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,349 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks




  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey



    Interesting to be sure, but It does not discredit the data from the F.16's , the testimony from the officers of the Royal Belgian Air Force , the police officers, or the data from the radar analysis, and Air Traffic Controllers.

    The fact remains that an unknown aircraft penetrated Belgian airspace, and although both F.16's at one point achieved a lock on the target, it manoeuvred at speeds which were not possible using conventioal aircraft technology.

    the rate of change of altitude in such a short time would have killed any occupant.

    This still remains to this day, an unexplained event. Which has never been answered to satisfaction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Torakx


    Interesting to be sure, but It does not discredit the data from the F.16's , the testimony from the officers of the Royal Belgian Air Force , the police officers, or the data from the radar analysis, and Air Traffic Controllers.

    The fact remains that an unknown aircraft penetrated Belgian airspace, and although both F.16's at one point achieved a lock on the target, it manouvred at speeds which were not possible using conventioal aircraft technology.

    the rate of change of altitude in such a short time would have killed any occupant.

    This still remains to this day, an unexplained event. Which has never been answered to satisfaction.

    There has been theories that anti-gravity has been discovered for a long time now.
    Theres guys all over the world apparently geting raided for carrying out experiments in that area of science.And having machinery taken away.
    Wether thats true i cant be sure.But i have seen some interesting videos of bottles and rocks molding together under electricity or some other force and floating inside an empty tube.

    Its posible that if you can create a gravitational field around a craft you could travel at insane speed and turn at right angles speeding up time inside the gravitational field allowing it to appear(or is) like it is going faster outside.
    I forget the theory behind it, but to it when i read inot it, i was satisfied it could well be a good explanation for these types of sightings.
    Aka government secret projects.

    Some even thought humans from the future!


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    Torakx wrote: »
    There has been theories that anti-gravity has been discovered for a long time now.
    Theres guys all over the world apparently geting raided for carrying out experiments in that area of science.And having machinery taken away.
    Wether thats true i cant be sure.But i have seen some interesting videos of bottles and rocks molding together under electricity or some other force and floating inside an empty tube.

    Its posible that if you can create a gravitational field around a craft you could travel at insane speed and turn at right angles speeding up time inside the gravitational field allowing it to appear(or is) like it is going faster outside.
    I forget the theory behind it, but to it when i read inot it, i was satisfied it could well be a good explanation for these types of sightings.
    Aka government secret projects.

    Some even thought humans from the future!

    Antigravity.....:eek:

    So what you are saying is this is an antigravity craft .. OMG Doesnt that sound crazy ...... I mean, imagine, if Electrogravitation was a reality , and imagine if it were integrated into some of todays military aircraft. imagine if what the Belgians saw, was actually a next generation tactical reconnaisance Aircraft. Wouldnt that be something.... ;)

    b2_spiritBomber_1401883c.jpg

    Look at the "blur" around the wing of the B2 Spirit. And before the debunkers point out that its simply the aircraft going through the sound barrier, and this is simply a "Prandtl-Glauert singularity". look at the direction of the cone. A supersonic shock collar extends from the nose of the aircraft (as shown below). I have personally seen many aircraft flying close to , or breaking the sound barrier. This one appears to be extending around the wing and body, in reverse to the direction of travel.

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShEsrd5FEapHbu7kFcjcIYSVlMVbmoYOPoVAxGfwCOzMXhebZ6fA

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9OZbrxiPbOVOjKifcPFPVsFY5lhYS0ErQJ7ZxEJxBm1koLped



    If there are any aeronatical engineers out there, do the math on the fuel payload of the B2, and its stated range. Also there is "supposedly" a charge across the leading edge of the wing in the order of between aproximatly 700KV.-1MV+ (cannot be sure of the exact value) Any student of Electrogravitics will understand the implication of this.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    Torakx wrote: »
    There has been theories that anti-gravity has been discovered for a long time now.
    Theres guys all over the world apparently geting raided for carrying out experiments in that area of science.And having machinery taken away.
    Wether thats true i cant be sure.But i have seen some interesting videos of bottles and rocks molding together under electricity or some other force and floating inside an empty tube.

    Its posible that if you can create a gravitational field around a craft you could travel at insane speed and turn at right angles speeding up time inside the gravitational field allowing it to appear(or is) like it is going faster outside.
    I forget the theory behind it, but to it when i read inot it, i was satisfied it could well be a good explanation for these types of sightings.
    Aka government secret projects.

    Some even thought humans from the future!

    Oh, and you might like to take a look at this link.

    http://starburstfound.org/electrograviticsblog/


    I wont mention it any further, as its off topic, but maybe we should start another conspiracy thread on Electrogravitic technology as used in todays modern military aircraft. But to be honest, its really not much of a conspiracy these days.

    I have actually personally had a B2 spirit fly over my head, at less than 250 ft. I must say , for such a powerful aircraft it was very,very quiet indeed. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Mulder will sort it out haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    b2_spiritBomber_1401883c.jpg

    Look at the "blur" around the wing of the B2 Spirit. And before the debunkers point out that its simply the aircraft going through the sound barrier, and this is simply a "Prandtl-Glauert singularity". look at the direction of the cone. A supersonic shock collar extends from the nose of the aircraft (as shown below). I have personally seen many aircraft flying close to , or breaking the sound barrier. This one appears to be extending around the wing and body, in reverse to the direction of travel.
    Or it could be some other effect besides the cone of vapour during a sonic boom. (Which is not called Prandtl-Glauert signularity.)
    Like say the haze that appears when an aircraft makes a manoeuvre that creates a pocket of low pressure.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22221147@N02/3934431639/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22221147@N02/3934431187/
    http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4111/4982079281_ce17160908_z.jpg
    http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.9792544.4953/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg

    The only two options aren't the poorly represented one skeptics might provide or magic/aliens/unknown technology.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    Or it could be some other effect besides the cone of vapour during a sonic boom. (Which is not called Prandtl-Glauert signularity.)
    Like say the haze that appears when an aircraft makes a manoeuvre that creates a pocket of low pressure.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22221147@N02/3934431639/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/22221147@N02/3934431187/
    http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4111/4982079281_ce17160908_z.jpg
    http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.9792544.4953/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg

    The only two options aren't the poorly represented one skeptics might provide or magic/aliens/unknown technology.

    Well of course the singularity is theoretical, and can never occur, with infinite pressure. But yes of course i am open minded enough to accept your point. But in this picture the aircraft appears to be in straight and level flight.

    And no suggestion here of aliens, simply technology moving forward.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Well of course the singularity is theoretical, and can never occur, with infinite pressure.
    But it's not what breaking the sound barrier, or the cone of vapour around a plane is called.
    But yes of course i am open minded enough to accept your point. But in this picture the aircraft appears to be in straight and level flight.
    And it doesn't appear to be using any new fantastic technology. But you won't accept that reason as evidence that the technology is involved.
    You can't tell that the plane is in straight and level flight because it is a still picture. It could have been taken just after or just before the plane made a sharp turn/dive/climb/roll. It could have been speeding up sharply, which coupled with the odd design of the B2 results in the collection of vapour even in straight level flight.

    In fact the picture could very much show the plane going supersonic just that due to the angle from which the photo is taken as well as the timing could make it seem like the the cone is not forming at the nose.

    Or it could be the fact that due to the odd aerodynamics of the plane, it's just not how the cone forms on it when it goes supersonic.
    There's plenty of examples of the cone forming and not producing the clean, perfect examples you pointed to:
    http://www.emmitsburg.net/humor/pictures/2007/Image31.jpg
    http://www.etsu.edu/physics/ignace/physics/BA_Sonic_Boom_opt.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/63/1630495.jpg/sr=1
    And no suggestion here of aliens, simply technology moving forward.
    Yes but it's a suggestion based on the same style of logic.
    "I don't know, therefore aliens/magic/anti-gravity....."


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    But it's not what breaking the sound barrier, or the cone of vapour around a plane is called.

    And it doesn't appear to be using any new fantastic technology. But you won't accept that reason as evidence that the technology is involved.
    You can't tell that the plane is in straight and level flight because it is a still picture. It could have been taken just after or just before the plane made a sharp turn/dive/climb/roll. It could have been speeding up sharply, which coupled with the odd design of the B2 results in the collection of vapour even in straight level flight.

    In fact the picture could very much show the plane going supersonic just that due to the angle from which the photo is taken as well as the timing could make it seem like the the cone is not forming at the nose.

    Or it could be the fact that due to the odd aerodynamics of the plane, it's just not how the cone forms on it when it goes supersonic.
    There's plenty of examples of the cone forming and not producing the clean, perfect examples you pointed to:
    http://www.emmitsburg.net/humor/pictures/2007/Image31.jpg
    http://www.etsu.edu/physics/ignace/physics/BA_Sonic_Boom_opt.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/63/1630495.jpg/sr=1

    Yes but it's a suggestion based on the same style of logic.
    "I don't know, therefore aliens/magic/anti-gravity....."


    Sorry, fail to see why you are bringing aliens into a discussion where i clearly stated no alien suggestion.

    Ohh, wait, maybe you WERE abducted by a magical fairy,Who you though was an alien, who took you to Mars, and gave you a darn good probing with a banana, and your still sore about it .. Well, I would suggest therapy , it can help you know.:D

    Yes of course you are right, about everything, everyone else is wrong, there ya go . Happy now .. Excellent .. Thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭dyer


    When you think of all the Cameras' that are in the world today, on cell phones etc.

    Yet nobody has come up with any credible photographic evidence the UFO's exist.

    you can find some interesting ones here, whether or not they are all real or not is another story, but i doubt all of them are fake.

    (link above doesn't seem to work in firefox for me but is fine in chrome)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Sorry, fail to see why you are bringing aliens into a discussion where i clearly stated no alien suggestion.

    Ohh, wait, maybe you WERE abducted by a magical fairy,Who you though was an alien, who took you to Mars, and gave you a darn good probing with a banana, and your still sore about it .. Well, I would suggest therapy , it can help you know.:D

    Yes of course you are right, about everything, everyone else is wrong, there ya go . Happy now .. Excellent .. Thanks.
    Oh well, I suppose it's my fault for assuming that you'd be open to other explanations that don't fit into your worldview :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    Oh well, I suppose it's my fault for assuming that you'd be open to other explanations that don't fit into your worldview :rolleyes:

    ROFL, what could YOU possibly know about being open to other explanations that don't fit into your worldview .....:)

    Anyway, I looked at all the pictures you provided, they may be a slightly irregular shape, but all of the vapour cones, as we shall call them, still expand away from the direction of flight ..

    I suppose because its a still picture, you will likely point out that the B2 may have been breaking the sound barrier while travelling in a reverse derection.

    Ho Hum ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    ROFL, what would YOU know about being open to explanations that dont fit into your worldview .....:)
    Enough to know that your half assed condescending dismissals of explanations you don't like seem to be the exact same ones that people seem to think mean old skeptics use against your ideas.
    Anyway, I looked at all the pictures you provided, they may be a slightly irregular shape, but all of the vapour cones, as we shall call them, still expand away from the direction of flight ..
    Yes, and viewed from certain directions at certain times could make it seem that it is doing the opposite.
    The first example for instance seems to have it's cone coming both from the front and the back at almost the same time.

    And than aside I offered several other possible explanations which, in your open mindedness, have not addressed or considered.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    Enough to know that your half assed condescending dismissals of explanations you don't like seem to be the exact same ones that people seem to think mean old skeptics use against your ideas

    I like it , a little emotion ....Methinks I may be pushing buttons.. :mad::mad::mad:

    dont take it personally, you are a great adversary;)
    King Mob wrote: »
    Yes, and viewed from certain directions at certain times could make it seem that it is doing the opposite.

    Eh, actually No , I have SEEN it myself, from many angles, it looks the same.

    King Mob wrote: »
    The first example for instance seems to have it's cone coming both from the front and the back at almost the same time.

    Yes, this again is quite normal, and the cone is still expanding away from the direction of travel. This is normal as the pressure waves compress. The reason there are 2 cones, is because of the way the airflow is interacting with the fuselage, and the elevators/tailplane. Both are generating the shockwave. You can see this in many wind tunnel simulations.

    To better illustrate my example, you will notice from the images below, the way the supersonic shockwave extends away from the direction of flight, as the pressure waves move back across the aircraft.

    i-5-1.jpg

    b-70-shock.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I like it , a little emotion ....Methinks I may be pushing buttons.. :mad::mad::mad:

    dont take it personally, you are a great adversary;)

    Eh, actually No , I have SEEN it myself, from many angles, it looks the same.


    Yes, this again is quite normal, and the cone is still expanding away from the direction of travel. This is normal as the pressure waves compress. The reason there are 2 cones, is because of the way the airflow is interacting with the fuselage, and the elevators/tailplane. Both are generating the shockwave. You can see this in many wind tunnel simulations.

    To better illustrate my example, you will notice from the images below, the way the supersonic shockwave extends away from the direction of flight, as the pressure waves move back across the aircraft.
    And none of this addresses any of my points.

    I know that the cone expands away from the direction of flight. However as the example showed, as certain angles and at certain times and taking the picture out of context, it can appear that cone is doing something else.

    But again, I gave you a list of other possibilities that you've ignored because they don't fit your preferred conclusion and you can't address them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    And none of this addresses any of my points.

    I know that the cone expands away from the direction of flight. However as the example showed, as certain angles and at certain times and taking the picture out of context, it can appear that cone is doing something else.

    But again, I gave you a list of other possibilities that you've ignored because they don't fit your preferred conclusion and you can't address them.

    well, I do apologise if I have misread your post, I did believe after looking at the provided links, and reading your opinion on the cone being viewed from another angle may make it look like its not extending frm the direction fo flight.

    I thought I addressed your points. usual banter aside, I honestly am open to any serious discussion on the matter, possibly not in this thrread as it may be off topic. However, my main point was the cone shown in the pic of the B2, is actually NOT generated by supersonic flight. Its wrong. It does not extend from the direction fo flight, in fact it extends from the rear over the fuselage.

    Also given what I will say is the "fact", as It is now well documented, and also admitted by the USAF, that the B2 charges the leading edge of the wing, to extremely high voltages, It would appear this "cone" is not a vapour cone at all.

    I am not suggesting anything alien, or mystical, or magical. simply the applied physics of a known theory of extending the wing area, through ionic charge of the surrounding air. Not exactly antigravity, but shall we say , a slight boost to the thrust to weight ratio :)

    I would suggest checking out " the Hunt for Zero Point", by a respected Janes Aviation journalist called Nick Cook. Believe me, there is nothing at all alien related in there, but it does talk about experiments the Germans were working on during WWII, which were taken back to the U.S after the war, with the scientists, under project Paper Clip.

    Much of the testing was done, at the White Sands missile Range, which runs over 3,200 Sq mi of New Mexico. Yes, i am a skeptic at heart, and I believe that reading this book, also points to a logical and plausible explanation to another fabled event that happened somewhere around New Mexico, in July 1947.

    Experiments which were ongoing, with esteemed scientists, such as Werner Von Braun himself, were alegedly carried out from that testing site, with craft that may have been misinterpreted, by the average person, as something unknown, had they stumbled across wreckage strewn across a ranch.

    But back to the point, I do apologise, had I misread or misinterpreted your posts. I simply wanted to draw attention to the B2 picture, which many people say is simply the B2 breaking the sound barrier.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭argosy2006




  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    argosy2006 wrote: »


    1.A standard Vapor trail
    2&3. A meteor
    4.Couds
    5.Chinese Lanterns
    6.Chinese Lanterns with attached flashing LED's
    7 A Snowmobile
    8.Sun eflecting on ice/Snowmobile / reflection on Camera Prism
    9. the Planet Venus,with camera prism relection
    10 . our old friend the Chinese Lanterns again
    11 Multiple aircraft on the ILS approach to an airport
    12 Fuzzy picture of something - possibly nose material stuck on camera lens
    13 Standard Rocket or missile
    14 Airliner at night
    15 . International space station out of focus
    16 meteor
    17 meteor
    18 meteor
    Unfortunately, nothing there strikes me as unusual, and believe me, if i did I would be the first to champion it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I thought I addressed your points. usual banter aside, I honestly am open to any serious discussion on the matter, possibly not in this thrread as it may be off topic. However, my main point was the cone shown in the pic of the B2, is actually NOT generated by supersonic flight. Its wrong. It does not extend from the direction fo flight, in fact it extends from the rear over the fuselage.
    But again, this may not be the case because of the angle and timing of the photo. You have not addressed this point.

    Furthermore I pointed to the examples of planes pulling vapour while they are manoeuvring which you have not addressed.

    And then I suggested the possibility that the plane can generate a cloud of vapour just by virtue of it's aerodynamics, which you have also ignored.

    It being a sonic boom is not the only alternative explanation and you need to address these other, more likely one before you can claim it as evidence of this technology you believe in (which seems to be backtracked from your original implication of anti gravity).


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    But again, this may not be the case because of the angle and timing of the photo. You have not addressed this point.

    Furthermore I pointed to the examples of planes pulling vapour while they are manoeuvring which you have not addressed.

    And then I suggested the possibility that the plane can generate a cloud of vapour just by virtue of it's aerodynamics, which you have also ignored.

    It being a sonic boom is not the only alternative explanation and you need to address these other, more likely one before you can claim it as evidence of this technology you believe in (which seems to be backtracked from your original implication of anti gravity).

    Points taken, I have to conceed I cannot determine what the exact manoevres of the aircraft were at the given time, that is impossible. I do not believe it would generate such a cloud of "vapour" by virtue of its aerodynamics. I have seen a B2 in flight, and this did not occur. - Admittedly, only first hand observation of a B2 in operation is the evidence here, and maybe if I watched enough B2's for long enough, ... well, i dont know... we will have to leave that as an unknown.

    Lastly, i was not claiming this as evidence, but an indication, that something is not as it should be as you will see if you check out this picture, many journalists mis-interpret this as a sonic shockwave.

    I think your argument holds water, and we will agree with your hyposthesis on this occasion. I stand down :)

    I do however believe there has been significant advances in the field of electrogravitics, of course I cannot bear any proof, and I am not asking you to believe, or agree with me. It is an interesting field of research, and one which I KNOW for a fact, has much research ongoing.

    Please do not ask me to prove how i know, as I cannot. - inasmuch, as I am not at liberty to answer the question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    It is an interesting field of research, and one which I KNOW for a fact, has much research ongoing.

    Please do not ask me to prove how i know, as I cannot. - inasmuch, as I am not at liberty to answer the question.
    And unfortunatly, that looks exactly like you are just making it up or have bought into some fiction that other people made up.
    And since that is the more likely scenario...


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ninjamonkey


    King Mob wrote: »
    And unfortunatly, that looks exactly like you are just making it up or have bought into some fiction that other people made up.
    And since that is the more likely scenario...

    Yes, indeed. Anyway, I have said what I have said, given my opinions, and they are just that . I accept your points of view, and at the end of the day, it was an enjoyable discussion, one for which I thank you.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    The Truth Ain't Out There.


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