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2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’

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35 points by eref 8 years ago · 35 comments

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phkahler 8 years ago

The key question here is not if these stories are true, or what the objects may be. The question is... Why does the government want to bring UFOs to the fore at this time?

jrs235 8 years ago

This is [also] a [multiple] dupe from a few days ago. An established discussion has already taken place or is in progress.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941580

bkohlmann 8 years ago

CDR Fravor was a simulator instructor of mine when I went through training a decade ago. He was also featured in the PBS Special “Carrier” a few years ago.

Somehow ends up in the limelight over and over! His callsign is most certainly NSFW.

  • dba7dba 8 years ago

    He did look very familiar. Now I know why. I remember him saying near end of the series that he was retiring instead of having to take assignment that would have him pilot desks.

  • aortega 8 years ago

    He looks exactly like Robin Williams.

emmelaich 8 years ago

I can give my own example of an utterly astonishing gob-smacking sight which turned out to have a fairly simple explanation. I invite people to speculate on what it was...

About 7am I was travelling in a ferry on Sydney Harbour about 400m east of the bridge. I saw a giant (50m diameter?) golden glowing ball hover on the other (west) side of the bridge. It was definitely not on the bridge. It maintained its position for over 30 seconds.

Then it changed and the actuality was revealed.

  • aesthethiccs 8 years ago

    Affordable housing.

    Maybe ball lightning, apart from that I got nothing.

  • mehrdadn 8 years ago

    Reflection of some light source in the window?

    • emmelaich 8 years ago

      Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h.

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      • emmelaich 8 years ago

        Ok here it is since I have to go ...

        It was the reflection of the sun in an airplane's cockpit window. The airplane was actually maybe five kilometres away but the extreme brightness played with my sense of distance. The window must have been flat for the reflection to be so bright.

        It didn't appear to move because its speed north relative to the bridge matched my speed south -- i.e. the line between me and the airplane crossed (just west of) the bridge at the same point for a long time. The point of reflection must've been tiny. But it was right on me. I suspect no-one else in the ferry saw what I saw. And it must be extraordinarily rare for the circumstances to be maintained for so long. The illusion disappeared after the ferry and airplane made their turns.

        • emmelaich 8 years ago

          The bigger point here is that if you have people self select and report visual illusions it would be amazing if you didn't hear about something inexplicable.

          So all this stuff about UFO sightings means about zero.

      • tajen 8 years ago

        because it’s the reflection of the sun, and it’s far away, so if you move, the reflection moves too? Which if true lets me guess you live in Manly?

      • lovemenot 8 years ago

        Reflection off a specific vehicle also moving south on the bridge.

        • emmelaich 8 years ago

          Not bad but I would have seen movement of the vehicle against the bridge metalwork. And the reflection appeared on the other side.

  • da02 8 years ago

    Blimp?

  • mbroncano 8 years ago

    An alien vessel?

  • Jedi72 8 years ago

    Hot air balloon?

    • emmelaich 8 years ago

      Not a bad guess - warmish. But this glowing ball was far bigger than a flame and far brighter than a balloon could be.

  • zkim 8 years ago

    The Sun?

neo4sure 8 years ago

Nice distraction. When so many other frightening issues are all around us.

gilrain 8 years ago

This recounts an event that happened in 2004, FYI.

senectus1 8 years ago

wow.. someone on here is a hardcore ufoite...

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