I saw another UFO Saturday night. Once again in the car headed west, I spied a bright starlike object in the reddish post-sunset sky, low to the mountains. It was reminiscent of Venus as it appears deep in the sunset glow, but of course Venus is not in that part of the sky at sunset […]
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I saw another “UFO”, maybe two
Published April 14th, 2008 in Bizarre, Space, atmospheric events and Science. 5 CommentsWhat’s behind all this, an alien conspiracy? Is the government hiding something from us? Well, I think we all know what is going on. And if you don’t know, you need to get informed. For anyone who has observed the skies for more than a few years, it is obvious that stars are disappearing. And […]
Sundogs bite as UFOs
Published January 20th, 2008 in Bizarre, Photos, Space, atmospheric events and Science. 17 CommentsLet me start by saying that I do not know what most people of north central Texas saw and reported as a UFO last week. If the published reports are accurate — then what they saw was very unusual at least, and if true, then we cannot rule out an extraterrestrial origin. However, I […]
Hot pink flying saucers!
Published December 3rd, 2007 in Bizarre, Photos, Climate, atmospheric events and Science. 6 CommentsHot pink flying saucers, enormous six-legged pigs, the Michelin Man, the Grim Reaper — there are strange sights to be seen in clouds!!
I saw a UFO a week or so ago, and to this day I am not sure what it was. It was late afternoon, right at or just shortly before sunset. In the western sky just above the mountains (as seen from Denver) there was a tiny, bright pinpoint of light. [The photo here is […]
How to identify a UFO
Published October 4th, 2007 in Bizarre, Space and atmospheric events. 68 CommentsIn a previous post I gave some ideas of what you should do if you observe something in the sky you can’t identify. I used “flying saucer” in the title of that blog, but I don’t want to restrict this to objects with such an obvious and questionable connotations, so I will use “unidentified flying […]
Do you have a right to a clear, dark, night-time sky? If you are an American, you have a constitutional right to many things, not the least of which is the "pursuit of happiness." If your idea of happiness is to be able to view, unhindered, the majesty of the heavens, is it "right" that […]
They came as an invading horde of tiny eight-legged aliens, gliding silently across the sky on gossamer wings.
It’s not science fiction, but a fanciful scene from Charlotte’s Webb. And of course the aliens were really harmless baby spiders, heeding Nature’s call to spread themselves far and wide to assure the survival of spiderdom (or at […]