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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 11:01 AM Jun 2013

Pub-goer's disbelief as he captures picture of two UFOs flying at speed over commuter town..



A pair of mysterious fast-moving discs of light have been pictured in the skies over the Berkshire town of Bracknell.

Steve Lambert, 42, was making a phone call outside the town's Running Horse Pub when he spotted the UFOs at 8pm on Friday.

The driving instructor from Basingstoke, Hampshire, said: 'I was drinking with my girlfriend and her son.'

He added: 'I went outside to make a phone call when something caught my attention.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343801/Pub-goers-disbelief-captures-UFOs-camera-phone-flying-speed-commuter-town.html




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Pub-goer's disbelief as he captures picture of two UFOs flying at speed over commuter town.. (Original Post) Little Star Jun 2013 OP
Why is an "unidentified flying object" always construed to be an alien craft? siligut Jun 2013 #1
The same way they always know its speed without knowing its size, distance, or altitude arcane1 Jun 2013 #2
Exactly my point, assthinking always makes the news. siligut Jun 2013 #3
Not always and not often enough nt fadedrose Jun 2013 #5
Dummies. Iggo Jun 2013 #4
R'd for your courage... fadedrose Jun 2013 #6
Do you believe they could be alien spacecraft? siligut Jun 2013 #7
Hmm fadedrose Jun 2013 #8
Posting things like this in Creative Speculation is accepted and expected. siligut Jun 2013 #9
No fadedrose Jun 2013 #10
I have a friend who also believes in their existence siligut Jun 2013 #11

siligut

(12,272 posts)
1. Why is an "unidentified flying object" always construed to be an alien craft?
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 11:27 AM
Jun 2013

Just because most people don't know what it could be, they exclude it as being human-made? Has an aeronautics engineer ever reported seeing a UFO? Probably not, because this sort of individual has the capacity to comprehend what is possible with modern engineering.

An examination of this mental phenomena, the desire explain anything one doesn't understand as not understandable could explain the success of the conspiracy theories popular with the likes of Beck and Limbaugh fans.

Of course, this is the Daily Mail and its general readership is composed of people looking for salacious thrills.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. The same way they always know its speed without knowing its size, distance, or altitude
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 11:49 AM
Jun 2013

In other words, they pull it out of their ass

siligut

(12,272 posts)
3. Exactly my point, assthinking always makes the news.
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 12:18 PM
Jun 2013

I guess it is something most people can relate to. Probably because it is so easy and everybody has one. Also, scientific sounding embellishment is a key tool in making crap believable. But of course that scientific stream of thought never goes deep enough to actually analyze the object itself, that would ruin the all of the fun

siligut

(12,272 posts)
7. Do you believe they could be alien spacecraft?
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:01 AM
Jun 2013

It's OK if you do of course, but I would be interested to hear why.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
8. Hmm
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:11 AM
Jun 2013

I don't know if they are or they aren't. But Little Star risks being laughed at for posting them. It takes more courage to say you believe in ET's than to deny they exist.

I do believe in the long term presence of ET on the earth. Too many unexplained references to them in the Bible, cave drawings, paintings, folklore, pilot sightings, human sightings, pictures, all religions, etc. It takes less to believe that some of these exist than to believe that none of them do.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
9. Posting things like this in Creative Speculation is accepted and expected.
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:14 AM
Jun 2013

I just wondered if you had experienced something personally

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
10. No
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:19 AM
Jun 2013

I have a instinct that tells me that they exist, but instinct isn't proof. I guess it's something like birds who migrate - sometimes their instincts are wrong, mostly not, but something tells them what to do.

It's in my nature to believe in ET's, flawed maybe, but it's not taught or learned from anything personal.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
11. I have a friend who also believes in their existence
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:25 AM
Jun 2013

But then she doesn't believe in psychic phenomena. With some issues like aliens or psychic phenomena you tend to have most people on one side or the other, not too many in the middle.

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