10 rules for true believers to follow

Everyone wants to be famous. If you communicate with someone who thinks they have seen a UFO, encourage them to embellish the story, explaining that this will get them on TV - or at least be more popular on-line.
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Nobody wants to be mocked and ridiculed as the kook on the evening news who saw a ufo. Lives are routinely destroyed when people come forward about these sightings, as was the case for the Portage County officers who pursued a ufo for over 70 miles back in 1968. That's why many eyewitnesses nowadays prefer to remain anonymous. Or else don't come forward at all. The fact that people DO come forward is a testament to their courage and confidence in what they saw, not a slur on their character.
 
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Magical Realist said:
Nobody wants to be mocked and ridiculed as the kook on the evening news who saw a ufo. Lives are routinely destroyed when people come forward about these sightings, as was the case for the Portage County officers who pursued a ufo for over 70 miles back in 1968. That's why many eyewitnesses nowadays prefer to remain anonymous. Or else don't come forward at all. The fact that people DO come forward is a testament to their courage and confidence in what they saw, not a slur on their character.
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And for every kook that chooses to remain anonymous, there's a dozen who prefer the limelight and possible income that can be made in sensationalistic bullshit. ;)
 
paddoboy said:
It's a UFO...It still maybe [despite any denial by MR] a weather balloon

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That isn't a weather balloon. It's the old 1960 Echo satellite. Project Echo was a big inflatable metallic balloon put into earth orbit. The idea was to determine whether radio messages could be bounced off of it. (It was the world's first communications satellite.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Echo

I'm kind of sentimental about the Echo satellite, because I still remember my parents, my brother and I going out in our back yard with binoculars one night, to see it passing over. (It looked like a small moving star-like dot.) My family was very into space-travel in those days. We used to all get up before dawn to watch space-launches live on TV.

An interesting factoid: one of the big microwave horns built to bounce microwaves off the Echo satellite first detected the cosmic microwave background radiation.
 
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Yazata said:
That isn't a weather balloon. It's old 1960 Echo satellite. Project Echo was a big inflatable metallic balloon put into earth orbit. The idea was to determine whether radio messages could be bounced off of it. (It was the world's first communications satellite.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Echo

I'm kind of sentimental about the Echo satellite, because I still remember my parents, my brother and I going out in our back yard with binoculars one night, to see it passing over. (It looked like a small moving star-like dot.) My family was very into space-travel in those days. We used to all get up before dawn to watch space-launches live on TV.

An interesting factoid: one of the big microwave horns built to bounce microwaves off the Echo satellite first detected the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Thanks for that! I did get that photo from a list of balloons of all shapes and sizes. :)
I certainly remember Echo and certainly watched it and other Satellites in those early days, particularly of course "Sputnik"
I was of the opinion though that the first communication/s Satellites were called "Telstar".....Another welcomed nice jog of memories of those early days of space.
 
Magical Realist said:
He doesn't know. Like with that alleged weather balloon Yazata busted him on, he just makes up shit as he goes. Sort of like Trump..
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:D
We'll let our peers be the best judges of who is the best bullshitter, you or I, shall we?
In the meantime......;)















 

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