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Scientist Reports UFO - Jet Encounter

Wednesday July 1, 2009
We all know how most scientists feel about UFOs: they say there just isn't any proof. But, not all scientists agree. What would you think about a case where a scientist reported that he saw a military jet pursuing a UFO?

Now you can check out my report of an eerie incident that occurred in Noble, Oklahoma. A scientist had his entire belief system altered by what he saw on May 27, 2005.

Check out my article at Scientist Reports UFO - Jet Encounter, and be sure to comment as you wish.

Comments

July 1, 2009 at 7:33 am
(1) mrjaspergary says:

how could one tell of marker lights being 50 to 75 feet apart from a distance of 4 miles.

July 5, 2009 at 11:03 pm
(2) JayP says:

Agreeing with mrjaspergary, I wonder how this ’scientist’ could place aircraft/UFO’s altitude at 20,000 feet, guess the speeds and I thought red, white and green were boating colors. This guy is amazing.

July 6, 2009 at 2:19 pm
(3) Sam B says:

All aircraft are equipped with red and green navigation lights – green on the right wingtip and red on the left. In addition to the red and green lights, most aircraft are also fitted with steady white position lights in various locations. Large airliners in particular will often have such lighting on the trailing edge of each wingtip. These lights are also sometimes placed along the trailing edges of the horizontal tail.

Another popular location is at the very aft end of the fuselage or at the top of the vertical tail. One of these latter lights placed along the aircraft centerline is especially common on smaller airliners and commuter planes. Whatever the location, the purpose of these steady white lights is to improve the plane’s visibility from behind the aircraft.

Aircraft also have flashing red anti-collision lights. These lights are fitted to aircraft near the center of the fuselage. One is located on top of the fuselage and the other on the bottom. The beacons are turned on just before the engines are started and they remain active until the last engine is shut down. In addition to increasing the visibility of the aircraft in flight, the beacons help to serve as a safety warning to ground personnel that the engines are operational.

Most aircraft also carry high-intensity strobe lights. Most smaller planes are only equipped with one of these strobes near the leading edge just behind the red or green navigation light. Larger airliners may be equipped with an additional strobe at the trailing edge as well. These flashing lights are very bright and intended to attract attention during flight. They are sometimes also used on the runway and during taxi to make the plane more conspicuous.

To digress slightly, it is very often these same lights that cause an aircraft to be mistaken for a UFO. This is especially true if the aircraft is a good distance away, since the human eye can’t resolve the separate lights at great distance and they all tend to run together. They can look as if they are changing color as well as flashing.

Now, as to the pursuit witnessed by this scientist, I also have to question how he could have determined the altitude of the triangle without any point of reference. He may just have been guessing at that, as well as the apparent distances between lights on the object.

One observation he does make is that the object made a sharp turn at high speed and left the jet aircraft to swing wide as it turned to follow the object. Assuming that this was a valid observation and not an illusion or even a confabulation, that maneuver alone sets the object well apart from any known terrestrial craft. Not even the F-22 or F-35, both with thrust vectoring that can make them turn almost in place, can match that. I stress “known aircraft” since agencies like DARPA and places like the Skunk Works undoubtedly have some pretty exotic stuff under development about which we know nothing.

All things considered, I have to assign to this sighting a high probability that the unknown was either an ET craft, or more likely some highly advanced and deep black aircraft of terrestrial origin.

July 6, 2009 at 3:29 pm
(4) Glenn says:

There are a growing number of us scientists who are very interested in UFOlogy. I have been studying the phenomenon for many years.

Whether we scientists have more credibility than anyone else or not, I do believe this Noble Oklahoma report. I live perhaps 30 miles north of Noble, Oklahoma and do remember reading about this sighting when it was fresh. The Oklahoma City area is not really a hotbed for UFO activity, but there have been many more sightings since that 2005 report, including several triangle sightings.

Currently, triangles are my major area of interest, and I have been heavily involved in several Texas triangle sightings, Stephenville and the surrounding area in particular. They continue to this day, I assure you. My best guess for now is that they are a combination of black ops and ET craft, with much more advanced black ops craft than most can imagine. Reversed engineered from crash retrievals? Probably.

I hope to know the truth before I die.

July 7, 2009 at 11:54 am
(5) The Flying Fisherman says:

I have actually seen a triangle in this area (St Clair County, IL) and carefully noted its lighting and compared it with stealth aircraft. I am convinced it was alien, not ours. The scientest is estimating but could be close to accurate as a known aircraft was involved. The craft I saw was near a military air base (Scott Air Force Base) so I have plenty of sightings of normal air craft.

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