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[Jeff]

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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Photos: Strange Tentacled UFO - Soquel, CA - January 27, 2009

Statement: Jan 27th 2009, Soquel,Ca. We were working here and I was on my lunch break, when I hear my father calling my name and saying, "whats that in the sky?!" I didn't think it was going to be what I saw. I got out of my truck and looked into the sky. There is was, a metallic object.

It moved slowly across the sky, but the arms of it rotated and moved without sync. It looked like octopus arms, individually moving in different directions. The object continued to move across the sky until it was no longer visible. This object was extremely far up in the sky. I believe I saw a UFO.

[barracuda]

Tentacled? Looks very similar to the Discovery Channel "morphing" UFO in this video which we have discussed here before. Great pictures.
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[Ben D]

Researcher claims UFO 'tentacles' are propulsion plasma beams.

January 19, 2009

The "tentacle" appearance of an unidentified flying object (UFO), such as one reported over a wind turbine farm near Conisholme, England, on Jan. 4, 2009, may have been "constantly changing, torque-generating plasma beams" related to an exotic propulsion system.

An experienced American scientific researcher has proposed that the "jellyfish" or "octopus" visual effect that some witnesses have reported in the UK and United States could actually be what is called a "magnetoplasmadynamic" or "magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)" field.

Ray Stanford, a pioneer in studies of UFOs by use of optical and electronic instrument systems said that, "Although some UFO-generated physical phenomena may, through human mind's ever-interpreting 'lens,' look 'organic' (as though what was observed is something alive), that absolutely is not the case."

According to Stanford, this tentacle-like effect is "most often and readily visible when a craft is either slowing down or moving very slowly over an uneven surface."

And, he prefers the term "anomalous aerial objects (AAOs)" to the more common term "UFO."

JELLYFISH EFFECT

Stanford says there is often a "pulsing" visual effect associated with some anomalous objects in our skies, but the "jellyfish" appearance is not the object itself.

He has even seen this effect himself and filmed it on several occasions. Continues...

[pepsified thinker]

I saw something a few months ago--not sure just when but see below--that might have looked something like this but it was too small to make out. I assume it was small because it was at high altitude and was not very big to begin with.

At the time I stood and watched the thing for a good few minutes and even pointed it out to a guy going into the same store. He stood and looked at it too.

It didn't have the 'x' shape that those in the picture have--but that could be due to viewing it from an angle.

It was undulating its way across the sky. Not going too fast, but then again, depends on how high it was.

Neither of us could easily resolve what it was, and at the time, I wrote it off as a string of mylar balloons.

Incidentally, anyone know any trick for estimating altitude of an object? I realize, if you know it's size, that helps, but when I see contrails and/or hear a plane, are there any tricks in terms of how the contrails spread or the gap between where the plane is and where the sound of it seems to be coming from, etc.--?

(about when this happened: I remember making a joking comment to the guy who stopped to look at it, about how probably Republicans were to blame one way or another [he didn't seem impressed with that idea], and that tells me it was probably before the election. I was less prone to such views/comments once McCain lost.)

I still tend to view it as mylar balloons. I trust first impressions in cases like this.
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[barracuda]

I've never seen a reflective mylar balloon in that sort of "pickle" shape before, though. I rather like the "exotic propulsion system" theory.
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[pepsified thinker]

At the time, best guess as to what I was seeing 'WAY UP THERE' was a string of such balloons.

But now this bit comes back to me (unless I'm 'forcing' a memory?)--that it sort of moved like one of those Chinese dragons from a parade or some such.

Obviously, though--I guess--if I was really satisfied that it had been a string of mylar balloons, I wouldn't mention it here.

That was just what it seemed like at the time.

Pondering this gives me a better appreciation of how there could be a lingering 'unknown' that really can't be resolved.
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[Joe Hillshoist]

Those pictures remind me of why I started this thread:

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=11781

[Jeff]

Hadn't seen this before, from the UK




More UFOs over Wimbledon?

3:10pm Wednesday 28th January 2009


This is the latest sign of alien activity in the skies above Merton.

The picture was taken by Nicholas Fitter, from his flat on the Broadway last week.

Mr Fitter said: “I was doing my laundry when I saw it.

"I thought it was a balloon at first, but it was as big as a house. I went out on the roof and took some pictures.

“It had tentacles that appeared squid like and even mimicked a squids movement at times. I am sure other people would have seen it too since this jellyfish appeared rather large in broad daylight.”

Another possible UFO sighting was reported by Tina de Souza in Mitcham.

The Cheam resident was driving down Love Lane with her son when the pair spotted unusual lights in the night sky.

“They were moving about all over the place,” she said.

Speculation about alien activity in Wimbledon and Colliers Wood began two weeks ago, after a number of possible sightings in the area.

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/wimbledonnews/4082686.More_UFOs_over_Wimbledon_/