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Did anyone see this UFO last Friday

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Did I also see aliens?

    The truth is out there !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    This UFO was spotted Friday morning: https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/close-encounter-with-ufo-off-irish-coast-leaves-pilots-wondering-884774.html

    l was driving home at about 9.15-ish (PM) in pitch black in the middle of nowhere (near Granard, Longford), and I spot this light moving slowly, like a plane in the distance. I then catch it stopping, reversing direction and flying off faster than a concorde. Did I also see aliens?

    Granard is in Longford , that in itself is the explanation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Hmm frightening, I would take pilots and ATC reports on this seriously ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    A lad rang into Today FM this morning to say he saw it in Roscommon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Commanchie


    Really aliens?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Im not saying it was Aliens ... but it was Aliens ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    but seriously, I wonder could it have been next gen military testing, I mean let's be honest, It wasn't f*cking aliens!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 RiseitekiMind


    It was a Russian Troll in full flight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    A lad rang into Today FM this morning to say he saw it in Roscommon.

    Longford , Roscommon , surely Leitrim next or Cavan , yeah definitely Cavan.


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Interstellar travellers. Casey's going to go mad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,919 ✭✭✭Odelay


    A lad rang into Today FM this morning to say he saw it in Roscommon.

    Did someone tell him it was a motor car?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,604 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Longford , Roscommon , surely Leitrim next or Cavan , yeah definitely Cavan.

    Wtf is a "Leitrim"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,423 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Pics or gtfo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭EdgeCase


    I'd say something like either natural phenomena like meteors entering the atmosphere at an odd angle, or space debris from something unannounced like a failed Chinese satellite or some old abandoned space junk falling to earth could explain it.

    I'd say if it were something like a Russian missile troll/test or something serious, it would have been picked up by ground radar here or definitely by UK military radar and other systems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Space junk reentering?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,044 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    More immigrants!!

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    They dont even pay road tax


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    vicwatson wrote: »

    "The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”."

    I have never known a meteor to do this. If the pilot is genuinely reporting what she saw occurring then it was no meteor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,718 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Considering the Alien thing it’s possible or more “not impossible”. Remember the object that passed through the solar system earlier in the year has been classified as possibly and alien spacecraft.

    The thing that pisses me off is if that is true it seems we’re the backward low level species that the aliens with the cool tech are coming to look at like some sort of anthropological freak show, while they whizz round the galaxy with their FTL drives and death rays, meanwhile we have Donald Trump amd I have to work 39 hours a week at a pointless job :(


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    _Brian wrote: »
    Considering the Alien thing it’s possible or more “not impossible”. Remember the object that passed through the solar system earlier in the year has been classified as possibly and alien spacecraft.

    Wasn't that a Vulcan starship on a survey mission? They observed Planet Earth and decided we were too primitive to be of interest to them. They are due back in 2063 at which time we may have invented warp drive spaceflight and there may be some sort of contact at that point.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    _Brian wrote: »
    Considering the Alien thing it’s possible or more “not impossible”. Remember the object that passed through the solar system earlier in the year has been classified as possibly and alien spacecraft.

    The thing that pisses me off is if that is true it seems we’re the backward low level species that the aliens with the cool tech are coming to look at like some sort of anthropological freak show, while they whizz round the galaxy with their FTL drives and death rays, meanwhile we have Donald Trump amd I have to work 39 hours a week at a pointless job :(

    Possibly an alien spacecraft ? - based on pure conjecture, really like saying there could "possibly be an intelligent race in the alpha centauri star system".

    It's based on nothing.

    https://twitter.com/AntonioParis/status/1059790821531246593


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    "The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”."

    I have never known a meteor to do this. If the pilot is genuinely reporting what she saw occurring then it was no meteor.


    Could have been light refraction, it wasn't fuppin aliens anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    MarkR wrote: »
    Interstellar travellers. Casey's going to go mad.

    At least they are traveling.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    vicwatson wrote: »

    Could have been light refraction, it wasn't fuppin aliens anyway

    Why not?

    (Not saying it was or that I believe it was, but I'd love to know why you're so sure it wasn't)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    wexie wrote: »
    Why not?

    (Not saying it was or that I believe it was, but I'd love to know why you're so sure it wasn't)


    Oh jesus some conspiracy theorists have made it across the void to AH


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    wexie wrote: »
    Why not?

    (Not saying it was or that I believe it was, but I'd love to know why you're so sure it wasn't)

    Occams razor really.

    The likelihood of it being something like meteors, high end military testing etc is far far far far far higher then it being Aliens.

    Look at the unimaginable distances involved to the closest star systems... why would they be arsed buzzing around our skies showing little hints of their existence ?
    If they could fly all that distance their tech. is vastly superior to ours and wouldn't be caught out by our ATC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/audio-close-encounter-with-ufo-off-irish-coast-leaves-pilots-wondering-884774.html
    At approximately 6.47am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight, call sign Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing.

    There were no military exercises underway.

    Shannon ATC replied: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”

    The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.”

    The controller then asked: “Alongside you?”

    The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”.

    She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”.

    So it headed north to Longford and Roscommon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,747 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Occams razor really.

    The likelihood of it being something like meteors, high end military testing etc is far far far far far higher then it being Aliens.

    Look at the unimaginable distances involved to the closest star systems... why would they be arsed buzzing around our skies showing little hints of their existence ?
    If they could fly all that distance their tech. is vastly superior to ours and wouldn't be caught out by our ATC.

    Occams razor is a likelyhood - ie the solution with the least amount of assumptions MAY prove to be correct. Its not an absolute


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Occams razor really.

    The likelihood of it being something like meteors, high end military testing etc is far far far far far higher then it being Aliens.

    Look at the unimaginable distances involved to the closest star systems... why would they be arsed buzzing around our skies showing little hints of their existence ?
    If they could fly all that distance their tech. is vastly superior to ours and wouldn't be caught out by our ATC.

    If it was high end military testing whose military and why were they in Irish airspace? (I think we can rule out the Irish military unless they have developed some top secret new technology.):rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Aliens are quite plausible given some of the ideas out there.
    We may be living in a simulation is a genuine scientific theory.


    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Oh jesus some conspiracy theorists have made it across the void to AH

    not even remotely, I stated in my post that I don't think it's likely it was aliens, just curious as to what makes you sure it wasn't.

    But I see you don't have much of an answer for me?
    Occams razor really.

    The likelihood of it being something like meteors, high end military testing etc is far far far far far higher then it being Aliens.

    Look at the unimaginable distances involved to the closest star systems... why would they be arsed buzzing around our skies showing little hints of their existence ?
    If they could fly all that distance their tech. is vastly superior to ours and wouldn't be caught out by our ATC.

    That is very true, and I'd be quite happy with an explanation of high end military testing, although you'd have to wonder why they would be doing that here rather than any number of sparsely populated areas that would be available.

    If you want to stick with Occam's Razor though, the assumption there aren't any aliens out there would be equally wrong. Odds of that would be astronomically* (hurhur) small. (You're right though that the odds of them actually visiting here would be pretty remote).

    *unless you're a creationist, in which case there's little point continuing this debate :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Occams razor really.

    The likelihood of it being something like meteors, high end military testing etc is far far far far far higher then it being Aliens.

    Look at the unimaginable distances involved to the closest star systems... why would they be arsed buzzing around our skies showing little hints of their existence ?
    If they could fly all that distance their tech. is vastly superior to ours and wouldn't be caught out by our ATC.


    Everything we know is not all there is to know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    If it was high end military testing whose military and why were they in Irish airspace? (I think we can rule out the Irish military unless they have developed some top secret new technology.):rolleyes:

    Yeah very unlikely, but the whole point is compared to it being Aliens - it's far more likely.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Yeah very unlikely, but the whole point is compared to it being Aliens - it's far more likely.

    I think was can safely assume that if it was military it wasn't Irish.

    That'd be less likely than aliens.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Pilot asks Ballygireen about military testing. Like they would know! She directs civilian flights.

    You really think that is something that is part of, say, Russian protocol - "tell Shannon in advance when we send stealthcraft into their area"?

    Some people here don't understand Occam's razor, or if they do simply don't like it.

    Pilot's language was very strange -
    Another pilot said the speed of the UFO was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2”, or twice the speed of sound.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,551 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    but seriously, I wonder could it have been next gen military testing, I mean let's be honest, It wasn't f*cking aliens!!!

    Em.... we don't even have this generation military gear, so if it was, it wasn't us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    i seen a ufo a few years ago, i remember posting about it on boards to see if any one else had seen it, flew out over the sea by the james larken road in dublin it was far away like but it was insanely fast done the distance i usually seen planes doing along there in a few seconds and flew around at crazy arch's and then shot out over the sea. No one ever believes me i was just putting out the bin at first i thought it was a star it was bright redy orange but solid didnt any have any kind of glinting like you would see on a fire work even a fire for example, it was just this orb of redy orange. i was just gob smacked didnt even think of getting my camera. I seen similar videos of it online from the Dublin area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Driving one night a few years ago, I saw something unidentifiable in the sky that seemed to shoot upwards, and my wife asked, what I was looking at and then she said she saw it too after I told her. It was like two lights in the sky over a tree line, that shot off at speed, and we couldnt explain it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    maccored wrote: »
    Occams razor is a likelyhood - ie the solution with the least amount of assumptions MAY prove to be correct. Its not an absolute

    Occam's Razor is an absolute- it fully cuts out the negligibly likely in favor of the more probable. That's why it's called a Razor and not Occam's Highlighter Pen.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Occam's Razor is an absolute- it fully cuts out the negligibly likely in favor of the more probable. That's why it's called a Razor and not Occam's Highlighter Pen.


    We don't know the probability of aliens buzzing the skies.
    Could be perfectly normal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    Life might (and probably does) exist elsewhere in the universe but that doesn't mean we aren't the most technically advanced race.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    kneemos wrote: »
    We don't know the probability of aliens buzzing the skies.
    Could be perfectly normal.

    Sure, but that doesn't change what Occam's Razor is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Life might (and probably does) exist elsewhere in the universe but that doesn't mean we aren't the most technically advanced race.

    I think it's vanishingly unlikely that we've been visited, but if there is other intelligent life in existence right now, we are even less likely to be the most advanced.

    Our planet showed up in the last 4 billion years of the universe's 14 billion year lifetime, and we showed up only in the last 1 million years.

    A species with even so much as a few centuries of lead time on us would be massively more advanced than us. Hell, we might not even have been the first intelligent species that showed up on this planet- 4 billion years is plenty of time to make a species like us and wipe the slate clean again a bunch of times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Sure, but that doesn't change what Occam's Razor is.


    Who wants to change it??


    Aliens could be the most likely explanation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,921 ✭✭✭buried


    Very cool. Love hearing about this sort of stuff when its from reliable sources like numerous air pilots. Whatever it was, these people definitely saw somethng they can't explain. Could be anything. Could be the fourth dimension breaking through some sort of time or energy slip. Very cool listening to the recordings

    Make America Get Out of Here



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    kneemos wrote: »
    Who wants to change it??


    Aliens could be the most likely explanation.

    I was replying to someone who said Occam's Razor is "not an absolute". It is an absolute, that's the point of it. You don't have to agree with applying it in any given situation, but it is what it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I was replying to someone who said Occam's Razor is "not an absolute". It is an absolute, that's the point of it. You don't have to agree with applying it in any given situation, but it is what it is.


    It's not an absolute. Ridiculous.

    The most likely solution is the most likely,nothing more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭jammiedodgers


    It was the Healy-Raes returning to their home planet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    David Icke will like this


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