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Title: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: mystery-ak on June 21, 2019, 02:17:34 pm
Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
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By Veronica Stracqualursi and Zachary Cohen, CNN

Updated 4:14 PM ET, Thu June 20, 2019
Talk of UFOs comes to Washington

Washington (CNN)A group of US senators, including the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, received a classified briefing Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the US Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to a congressional aide.

"If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn't matter if it's weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely — we can't ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily," Rachel Cohen, the spokeswoman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, told CNN.

Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, also confirmed the briefing took place in a statement to CNN on Thursday.

"Navy officials did indeed meet with interested congressional members and staffers on Wednesday to provide a classified brief on efforts to understand and identify these threats to the safety and security of our aviators," he said.

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Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: GrouchoTex on June 21, 2019, 02:19:59 pm
The truth is out there.......

(followed by eerie music and whistling)
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 21, 2019, 03:47:42 pm
This 'soft disclosure' kinda stuff seems to be ramping up.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: edpc on June 21, 2019, 04:40:20 pm
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I started binge watching this on Netflix. I hope it remains fictional.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Chosen Daughter on June 22, 2019, 05:34:31 pm
Some of the military jet that we have now probably would have been seen as UFO's many years ago.  Vertical lifts and landings.  The shape and speed.  Its probably some new military invention from some country.  Yes, unidentified.


https://www.hexapolis.com/2014/08/10/14-peculiar-specimens-human-made-aircraft-look-like-ufos/ (https://www.hexapolis.com/2014/08/10/14-peculiar-specimens-human-made-aircraft-look-like-ufos/)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-ufos-are-just-super-secret-military-aircraft-23816 (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-ufos-are-just-super-secret-military-aircraft-23816)
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Bill Cipher on June 22, 2019, 05:39:46 pm
Some of the military jet that we have now probably would have been seen as UFO's many years ago.  Vertical lifts and landings.  The shape and speed.  Its probably some new military invention from some country.  Yes, unidentified.


https://www.hexapolis.com/2014/08/10/14-peculiar-specimens-human-made-aircraft-look-like-ufos/ (https://www.hexapolis.com/2014/08/10/14-peculiar-specimens-human-made-aircraft-look-like-ufos/)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-ufos-are-just-super-secret-military-aircraft-23816 (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-ufos-are-just-super-secret-military-aircraft-23816)

Yup.  Particularly when they were being test-flown, with some of their features disguised from spies with bright lights.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Chosen Daughter on June 22, 2019, 06:06:38 pm
Yup.  Particularly when they were being test-flown, with some of their features disguised from spies with bright lights.


Yes, its probably Russia spying on us.  Or China...………..
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: edpc on June 22, 2019, 06:33:22 pm

Yes, its probably Russia spying on us.  Or China...………..


I doubt it. Even with their espionage program, they can’t build a true Gen 5 aircraft.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 22, 2019, 06:53:51 pm

I doubt it. Even with their espionage program, they can’t build a true Gen 5 aircraft.

One of the sightings off Virginia Beach recently was described as a "Cube inside a sphere,...cube points touching inside of sphere".

Whoever they belong to, has discovered a way to displace all matter except cube inside sphere, which enables it to change speeds instantly and/or accelerate/stop to evade, etc..

Let's hope that they are allies of mankind rather than not...otherwise, we're screwed.

It's past time to accept that humans are not alone on this rock, and there is at least one other intelligent species present on earth.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Chosen Daughter on June 22, 2019, 07:24:40 pm
One of the sightings off Virginia Beach recently was described as a "Cube inside a sphere,...cube points touching inside of sphere".

Whoever they belong to, has discovered a way to displace all matter except cube inside sphere, which enables it to change speeds instantly and/or accelerate/stop to evade, etc..

Let's hope that they are allies of mankind rather than not...otherwise, we're screwed.

It's past time to accept that humans are not alone on this rock, and there is at least one other intelligent species present on earth.


Yeah right, well lets see them release it to the public.  Transparency.  Prepare!  The world as we know it is in the hands of the mysterious cube people!
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 22, 2019, 11:48:22 pm
It's past time to accept that humans are not alone on this rock, and there is at least one other intelligent species present on earth.

That is true, and historically, has always been true. This stuff is by no means a new thing.
And it has never, ever been a good thing.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: libertybele on June 23, 2019, 12:06:42 am
One of the sightings off Virginia Beach recently was described as a "Cube inside a sphere,...cube points touching inside of sphere".

Whoever they belong to, has discovered a way to displace all matter except cube inside sphere, which enables it to change speeds instantly and/or accelerate/stop to evade, etc..

Let's hope that they are allies of mankind rather than not...otherwise, we're screwed.

It's past time to accept that humans are not alone on this rock, and there is at least one other intelligent species present on earth.

I have believed that we are not alone since I was in my early 20's; there has to be life on other planet(s).  Perhaps they are contemplating saving us from destroying ourselves.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 23, 2019, 12:43:50 am
I have believed that we are not alone since I was in my early 20's; there has to be life on other planet(s).  Perhaps they are contemplating saving us from destroying ourselves.

We're not talking about extraterrestrials.  We're taking terrestrials who have been here for millions of years.

Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 23, 2019, 12:48:17 am
We're not talking about extraterrestrials.  We're taking terrestrials who have been here for millions of years.

Close, but not quite... Think more along the lines of inter-dimensional....
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Chosen Daughter on June 23, 2019, 02:19:15 am
We're not talking about extraterrestrials.  We're taking terrestrials who have been here for millions of years.


 :Aliens:   :Aliens:   :Aliens:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 23, 2019, 04:35:21 am
Close, but not quite... Think more along the lines of inter-dimensional....

@roamer_1

Hmmmm...not ready for that just yet.    :laugh:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 23, 2019, 05:29:16 am
Hmmmm...not ready for that just yet.    :laugh:

@DCPatriot
You can buy into billions of light-years, but you can't buy into extra sensory dimensions?  :laugh:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 23, 2019, 09:55:17 am
@DCPatriot
You can buy into billions of light-years, but you can't buy into extra sensory dimensions?  :laugh:

Not that at all.

Humankind exists on the surface.   It's still a huge rock if it was to be peeled...which I believe has happened on multiple occasions.

"The evidence is all around us, as Ancient Alien theorists suggest".    :laugh:

Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on June 23, 2019, 08:27:14 pm
THERE is a briefing I would love to have attended!
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 23, 2019, 09:03:05 pm
Not that at all.

Humankind exists on the surface.   It's still a huge rock if it was to be peeled...which I believe has happened on multiple occasions.

"The evidence is all around us, as Ancient Alien theorists suggest".    :laugh:

Ahh... Inner earth... I can live with that...
Ask just about anyone where hell is, they'll point below...
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 23, 2019, 09:16:46 pm
Ahh... Inner earth... I can live with that...
Ask just about anyone where hell is, they'll point below...

 :beer:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on June 24, 2019, 01:39:01 am
One of the sightings off Virginia Beach recently was described as a "Cube inside a sphere,...cube points touching inside of sphere".

Whoever they belong to, has discovered a way to displace all matter except cube inside sphere, which enables it to change speeds instantly and/or accelerate/stop to evade, etc..

Let's hope that they are allies of mankind rather than not...otherwise, we're screwed.

It's past time to accept that humans are not alone on this rock, and there is at least one other intelligent species present on earth.

@DCPatriot

I have seen evidence of UFO's flying over my father's house on a starless night. I had gone to check on him and left about 10 PM,and saw strange lights doing strange things off in the distant night sky,so I parked my car and sat on the hood to watch them. In the literal blink of an eye they were crossing miles of sky,and they had the ability to make 90 degree turns while doing it. I watched them for a while and left,but both my father and the daughter of a local farmer that was up here checking on her cattle saw "something" hover directly over my fahter's house maybe 50 above the ground that was so big it blacked out the sky to my father and the girl,who were standing out in the yard. She saw the lights first,got scared,and drove to his house and beat on his door in a panic to get him to let her in. Which is odd,when you consider both ended up out in the yard looking up,my father in his underwear and holding his shotgun.

They both said it hovered there for a few minutes in total silence,and then was gone in the blink of an eye without making any sound. They were both still scared when I talked to them the next day.

Maybe a week later I saw it again,and this time it stopped fairly close to me,and I heard a sound identical to one of those old "pull chain" light switches,and a huge area in the marsh was lit up like a football field. There was a humming sound for a few minutes,the "light switch" sound again followed immediately by total darkness,and then it was gone.

I have seen some other unexplained stuff,but it was never clear enough to figure anything out. This stuff was different.  There was no question about this being out of place and time.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on June 24, 2019, 01:41:57 am
Close, but not quite... Think more along the lines of inter-dimensional....

@roamer_1

I can't say I can agree with that,but I'm not going to argue with it,either. Whoever/whatever they are,they are to us as we are to insects.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 24, 2019, 02:04:00 am
I can't say I can agree with that,but I'm not going to argue with it,either. Whoever/whatever they are,they are to us as we are to insects.

@sneakypete
With all the crap we have pointing toward space, there is no instance tracking them inbound. They just appear. And then disappear. And that can be found throughout history - they come through portals, and always have.

They have always stolen people away to the magic realm, they have always kidnapped babies, they have always impregnated women. All the way along.

Another very interesting thing, their tech seems tied to ours.
In the 50's their crafts looked like two hubcaps glues together. By the 90's they're sleek and angular, and etc...

I don't thing they are from out there at all.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 24, 2019, 02:45:52 am
@sneakypete
With all the crap we have pointing toward space, there is no instance tracking them inbound. They just appear. And then disappear. And that can be found throughout history - they come through portals, and always have.

They have always stolen people away to the magic realm, they have always kidnapped babies, they have always impregnated women. All the way along.

Another very interesting thing, their tech seems tied to ours.
In the 50's their crafts looked like two hubcaps glues together. By the 90's they're sleek and angular, and etc...

I don't thing they are from out there at all.

Seems Antarctica is being discussed a lot recently.   An entrance hole on the ice sheet that shouldn't be there.

They have discovered caves and lakes and miles upon miles of tunnels....with an ambient temperature of 72 degrees F.

Because they can displace matter (that's why some describe it as pulsating, it creates a field of 'nothing' around it, so that speed and immediate radical turns on a dime are simple.  Works under water too.   They were witnessed traveling over 70 knots.

Their interest in our nuclear missiles...being able to shut them down at will, tells us that they are somewhat friendly, or objective.

IMO, things could change radically if Iran were to get nukes and the delivery system that goes with it.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

But I've got this nagging feeling that this One World Order might be THEIR suggestion.   :bolt:          :laugh:

Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on June 24, 2019, 03:59:00 am
...

Let's hope that they are allies of mankind rather than not...otherwise, we're screwed.

It's past time to accept that humans are not alone on this rock, and there is at least one other intelligent species present on earth.

I don't know.

If they manage to take over the world without screwing up Internet access they'll probably have a higher approval rating than Congress.

P.S. I won't freak out until all the dolphins disappear.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61IJurlF7DQ/TpXL4BtUAEI/AAAAAAAABRM/sh487J_YPiM/s1600/1131998.gif)
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: DCPatriot on June 24, 2019, 04:01:51 am
I don't know.

If they manage to take over the world without screwing up Internet access they'll probably have a higher approval rating than Congress.

P.S. I won't freak out until all the dolphins disappear.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61IJurlF7DQ/TpXL4BtUAEI/AAAAAAAABRM/sh487J_YPiM/s1600/1131998.gif)

I feel exactly the same way, Luis.

As long as I can keep my doctor...everything is cool.    :beer:

PS:   http://www.wivb.com/news/national/dolphins-are-dying-at-an-alarming-rate-along-the-gulf-coast/2094667948 (http://www.wivb.com/news/national/dolphins-are-dying-at-an-alarming-rate-along-the-gulf-coast/2094667948)
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on June 24, 2019, 04:18:53 am
I don't know.

If they manage to take over the world without screwing up Internet access they'll probably have a higher approval rating than Congress.

P.S. I won't freak out until all the dolphins disappear.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61IJurlF7DQ/TpXL4BtUAEI/AAAAAAAABRM/sh487J_YPiM/s1600/1131998.gif)

@Luis Gonzalez

Luis,where ya been? Has parole finally kicked in?
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on June 24, 2019, 02:37:19 pm
Seems Antarctica is being discussed a lot recently.   An entrance hole on the ice sheet that shouldn't be there.

They have discovered caves and lakes and miles upon miles of tunnels....with an ambient temperature of 72 degrees F.

@DCPatriot
I am somewhat familiar - this ain't my main bag. I look at this stuff from an historical position as it intersects with occult prophecy and Biblical prophecy...

But historically, legend would affirm wide, even spacious tunnels all over the world.

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But I've got this nagging feeling that this One World Order might be THEIR suggestion.   :bolt:          :laugh:

Oh yeah - It's coming. It is written.
powers and principalities in high places...
No one will buy or sell but those with the mark... All that.
How does that happen without a one-world order?

The thing that's different here and now is all the soft-disclosure that is happening. Hardly 3 months goes by without another official look behind the veil. It bodes no good... But this steady feed of disclosure is leading to something.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on July 14, 2019, 04:07:05 am
@Luis Gonzalez

Luis,where ya been? Has parole finally kicked in?

 :happyhappy: :happyhappy:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: catfish1957 on July 14, 2019, 04:11:24 am
One of the sightings off Virginia Beach recently was described as a "Cube inside a sphere,...cube points touching inside of sphere".



Cube?  I knew the damn Borg would come for some tasty assimilation.  Futile resistance rules bubba.   :silly:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on July 14, 2019, 05:13:10 am
"If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn't matter if it's weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely — we can't ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily," Rachel Cohen, the spokeswoman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, told CNN.

Is this regarding the disappearance of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815?  I studied that mystery for 6 years and never really understood what happened.  Glad to see our US Senate has not let it get swept under the rug of history.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Gefn on July 14, 2019, 08:12:58 am
Where is Georgio?

George Noory?

The ghost of Art Bell ?   


Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 14, 2019, 09:14:14 am
Some of the military jet that we have now probably would have been seen as UFO's many years ago.  Vertical lifts and landings.  The shape and speed.  Its probably some new military invention from some country.  Yes, unidentified.


https://www.hexapolis.com/2014/08/10/14-peculiar-specimens-human-made-aircraft-look-like-ufos/ (https://www.hexapolis.com/2014/08/10/14-peculiar-specimens-human-made-aircraft-look-like-ufos/)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-ufos-are-just-super-secret-military-aircraft-23816 (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/et-denied-many-ufos-are-just-super-secret-military-aircraft-23816)
I'd reckon F-117s really racked up a few 'sightings', especially with the ability to not appear on radar.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 14, 2019, 09:17:46 am
Is this regarding the disappearance of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815?  I studied that mystery for 6 years and never really understood what happened.  Glad to see our US Senate has not let it get swept under the rug of history.
I believe the reference is to the Naval Air Station at Oceana, VA.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Drago on July 14, 2019, 11:06:27 am
I am kinda "Lost" after Once-Ler's post above.
 eeefly
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on July 14, 2019, 01:40:13 pm
I'd reckon F-117s really racked up a few 'sightings', especially with the ability to not appear on radar.

@Smokin Joe

I have seen UFO's myself,have SOME familiarity with military aircraft,and know of no airplanes that can move sideways at speed,or make 90 degree turns .  Or that can even move at that speed in a straight line without making any noise. I saw all this one night while visiting my father,who was living in a very remote area. I saw it as I was leaving late at night.

HE saw it all up close a hour or so later when the farm girl whose family owned the farm land next to his house came beating on his door to wake him up and let her in because "I am being chased by a UFO!". This "girl" was probably 30 at the time,and she was terrified. My father told me all about it the next day when I went back to see him,and said he grabbed his shotgun and ran out in his yard in his drawers to see what the hell was going on,and it hovered directly over his house,was big enough to black out the stars,and then he hear what sounded like the "click" you hear when you pull the chain on a old-timey light switch that has a chain pull,and "POOF",it was gone.  He never even saw or heard it move. One instant it was hovering over his house and blocking out the stars,and the next instant it was gone with no noise being made.All the while being completely silent while hovering. The "click" was the only noise he heard.


Did we see an alien space ship from another dimension? Beats me. I have no explanation,or even a guess,as to what we saw. What I DO know is that it was no sort of US Military aircraft,experimental or otherwise. And this was 25 or so years ago. What are the chances of something with those capabilities 25 years or so ago STILL not being mass produced today if they were of Earth Origin? 2 guys don't build stuff like that in their garages. Hundreds,if not thousands of people would have to have been involved. What are the odds of that many people staying silent about it?
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on July 14, 2019, 02:58:59 pm
I have seen UFO's myself,have SOME familiarity with military aircraft,and know of no airplanes that can move sideways at speed,or make 90 degree turns .  Or that can even move at that speed in a straight line without making any noise. I saw all this one night while visiting my father,who was living in a very remote area. I saw it as I was leaving late at night.


That's right. I ain't seen any such up close, like you have, but I have seen em in the night sky plenty of times.

See one come from the east horizon, and one from the west - over your head in a 10 count... where they almost meet - and turn 90 degrees- one going south and the other going north, never having lost speed.

I know of no thing made by man that can do that...
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on July 14, 2019, 03:45:05 pm
I see spots in front of my eyes all the time.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on July 14, 2019, 03:47:10 pm
I see spots in front of my eyes all the time.

That's just bad dope...
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on July 14, 2019, 04:02:45 pm
That's just bad dope...
Let me tell you about bad dope...they told me if I took LSD I'd get flashbacks, and I never did.  What a ripoff.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on July 14, 2019, 04:04:43 pm
Let me tell you about bad dope...they told me if I took LSD I'd get flashbacks, and I never did.  What a ripoff.

Yeah, that only works if your not already in a flashback.
go figger.
 :shrug:
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on July 14, 2019, 04:05:00 pm
That's right. I ain't seen any such up close, like you have, but I have seen em in the night sky plenty of times.

See one come from the east horizon, and one from the west - over your head in a 10 count... where they almost meet - and turn 90 degrees- one going south and the other going north, never having lost speed.

I know of no thing made by man that can do that...

@roamer_1

I don't know of any natural animal that can do it,either.  AFAIK,current physics theory says it is impossible.

YET.............!
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on July 14, 2019, 04:13:06 pm
@roamer_1

I don't know of any natural animal that can do it,either.  AFAIK,current physics theory says it is impossible.

YET.............!

@sneakypete
That's right... I don't know many folks that can actually see the night sky that won't admit there is something else up there. Every night you can see something that cannot be explained.

I like taking my (hot) tea at night out on the porch, looking up at the sky.
After while, it gets pretty easy to detect satellites - they all tend to move in the same directions, and follow around the same paths.

But I like to count the things that don't move according to those paths... Way up there... and moving contrary, changing directions. There is hardly a clear night that I don't see at least ten of them.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on July 14, 2019, 04:17:02 pm
Yeah, that only works if your not already in a flashback.
go figger.
 :shrug:
Sick burn.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on July 14, 2019, 05:33:00 pm
@sneakypete
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That's right... I don't know many folks that can actually see the night sky that won't admit there is something else up there. Every night you can see something that cannot be explained.

@roamer_1

Most people these days either live in a city or residential area where there are so many lights they can't really see the stars. Hell,most of them have never even heard "quiet".


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I like taking my (hot) tea at night out on the porch, looking up at the sky.

Who doesn't if the mosquitoes will let them? If there is something you can do that brings you more peace and happiness than all that wonder,I don't know what it would be. I really don't think I can overstate how tranquil this can make you,no matter how wound-up you got that day. Greatest tranquilizer ever,and it doesn't cost a dime or have any negative side effects.
I guess this could just be me,but I doubt it.
 
 
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But I like to count the things that don't move according to those paths... Way up there... and moving contrary, changing directions. There is hardly a clear night that I don't see at least ten of them.

That's probably more related to the lack of residential and city lights where you live than the actual grid coordinates. People that live in cities just can't see them because of all the glare from the other lights.
 
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 14, 2019, 06:06:35 pm
@roamer_1

Most people these days either live in a city or residential area where there are so many lights they can't really see the stars. Hell,most of them have never even heard "quiet".


Who doesn't if the mosquitoes will let them? If there is something you can do that brings you more peace and happiness than all that wonder,I don't know what it would be. I really don't think I can overstate how tranquil this can make you,no matter how wound-up you got that day. Greatest tranquilizer ever,and it doesn't cost a dime or have any negative side effects.
I guess this could just be me,but I doubt it.
 
 
That's probably more related to the lack of residential and city lights where you live than the actual grid coordinates. People that live in cities just can't see them because of all the glare from the other lights.
Light pollution is a problem, sure enough. I remember being able to see so many stars here that you felt  like you'd fall in, just looking up at the night sky. Not so much any more.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on July 14, 2019, 06:07:37 pm
@roamer_1

Most people these days either live in a city or residential area where there are so many lights they can't really see the stars. Hell,most of them have never even heard "quiet".



That's right. I have kin that come out from the city, and they never come but that they comment on it being too dang quiet for em, and that they can't sleep for it...

But of course that really ain't true - The night is alive - it's just a different kind of noise... That they can't hear at all.

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Who doesn't if the mosquitoes will let them? If there is something you can do that brings you more peace and happiness than all that wonder,I don't know what it would be. I really don't think I can overstate how tranquil this can make you,no matter how wound-up you got that day. Greatest tranquilizer ever,and it doesn't cost a dime or have any negative side effects.
I guess this could just be me,but I doubt it.

@sneakypete

That's exactly right - It is my singular favorite time of day...
I live on what passes for a highway hereabouts... that goes up to a fairly popular lake, and feeds up from there back up onto the gravel... There's a lot of traffic going by, especially morning and night when folks are coming down out of the sticks to work, or going up to go home... but pretty much all day too, this time of year, with folks coming and going to the lake...

But late night it's sacred silence... Big cup of Sleepy Time tea, Nothing on the highway. the breeze in the cottonwoods, the coyotes yappin up on the mountain... Night birds callin back and forth... and that humongous, magnificent sky.

Nothing but peace. I hear you, man, I really do.
It ain't half as good as up in the proper sticks, but it'll do.

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That's probably more related to the lack of residential and city lights where you live than the actual grid coordinates. People that live in cities just can't see them because of all the glare from the other lights.

They don't know what they're missin. It leaves me breathless. Every night, all the time.
They get it when they finally see it in all its glory... Take em way up in the sticks, up on top of Sarah Peak, way back in the south fork, where you can look in every direction and not see a single electric light anywhere... And the night starts to tell it's story at dusk with a few stars coming out... and by an hour past dark, OMG, but it's magnificent.

Beyond magnificence... There just ain't any word that will do. They just don't know what to do with it all. Heck, I've been lookin at it nigh on 50 years, and I still don't know what to do with it all.
Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: roamer_1 on July 14, 2019, 06:16:28 pm
Light pollution is a problem, sure enough. I remember being able to see so many stars here that you felt  like you'd fall in, just looking up at the night sky. Not so much any more.

I know what that is exactly - that sense of falling up... That's right.
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Title: Re: Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
Post by: sneakypete on July 14, 2019, 07:16:18 pm
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That's right. I have kin that come out from the city, and they never come but that they comment on it being too dang quiet for em, and that they can't sleep for it...

But of course that really ain't true - The night is alive - it's just a different kind of noise... That they can't hear at all.

I've had friends that live in the suburbs come visit,and couldn't sleep because of all the noise the frogs and crickets made after it rained. When they asked me "What's making all that noise",I actually asked them "What noise?" because I was so used to it that I don't really hear it.

 
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Nothing but peace. I hear you, man, I really do.
It ain't half as good as up in the proper sticks, but it'll do.

You should give it look from the deck of a small boat out at sea,or in a body of water so big you can't see the shore from any direction. That,and the noise the water makes lapping against the hull makes you sleep so "hard" it's almost like going into a coma.

Then again,the boats I was on were shrimp boats,and we worked 24/7 and napped while hauling,so it really didn't take much to go to sleep. Just getting semi-vertical would usually do it.
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They don't know what they're missin. It leaves me breathless. Every night, all the time.

True,but if you don't quit talking about it in public,you are likely to wake up one day and discover you now live in a suburg.


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They get it when they finally see it in all its glory... Take em way up in the sticks, up on top of Sarah Peak, way back in the south fork, where you can look in every direction and not see a single electric light anywhere... And the night starts to tell it's story at dusk with a few stars coming out... and by an hour past dark, OMG, but it's magnificent.

Let's not mention the magic show known as the Northern Lights. One of the few things worth going north for,AFAIAC.

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Beyond magnificence... There just ain't any word that will do. They just don't know what to do with it all. Heck, I've been lookin at it nigh on 50 years, and I still don't know what to do with it all.

You look at them in wonder,that's what you do. That's why it's there and what it's for.