As it occurs to me that this post will be my 2,500th on AJB, I wondered if someone might be able to point me in the direction of a reputable boutique where I can acquire a life. 8-)
As it occurs to me that this post will be my 2,500th on AJB, I wondered if someone might be able to point me in the direction of a reputable boutique where I can acquire a life. 8-)
There are no UFO's. It's a silly superstition, unlike Christianity that's completely sensible and scientific!
I have never spoken about the following to anyone.
In about 1977 I was a young Police Constable. I was out on patrol with another PC in a panda car. It was a glorious summers afternoon approximately 1600hrs (we were on the 'afters' shift 2 while 10) with a cloudless blue sky. We had parked up opposite a cemetery & had both stepped out of the vehicle to take advantage of the weather.
Now I'm an aircraft enthusiast & at that stage knew more or less all the different types of military aeroplanes then in service with the RAF, NATO & the WARPAC.
My colleague & I spotted a most unusual sight in the sky. A pair of RAF Jaguars were flying line abreast in pursuit of an object the like of which I had never seen. The aircraft were low enough to enable me to immediately identify them & were travelling at approximately 200mph. They were following this object. It was black, wedge shaped, with no wings/windows etc. I estimate it to have been about thirty to forty feet in length (I was using the Jaguars for scale). We just stood & watched when a Phantom fighter streaked in, in between & slightly above the Jaguars, when it had passed it dropped to the same altitude & closed on the object. As it got to about 500 yards the object suddenly accelerated, defying all laws of physics it went from about 250mph to several thousand in a split second. After it had put distance between it & the Phantom it slowed just as fast as it accelerated to then maintain the space between itself & the pursuing aircraft. We watched as disappeared over the horizon.
If that wasn't a UFO - unidentified flying object - I don't know what is! Even though I could not identify it as any aircraft I had ever seen or read about I would have written it off as some sort of test flight until I saw the thing accelerate/decelerate. think a high velocity bullet being fired then decelerating equally as fast & you get an idea of what I'm speaking about.
Fascinating story. There have been all sorts of developmental and stealth aircraft tested over the years with technology that is likely still secret, however, they usually do their test flying in largely uninhabited areas or at night so that nosy people don't see them. It's not impossible that this was some sort of test aircraft (the black wedge shape and lack of windows is generically similar to something like the F-117 which reportedly made its first flight in 1981 but it - or elements of it - could conceivably have been flying four years earlier), but it is peculiar that they'd be flying something like that over England and during daylight...and that's without getting into the speed and acceleration issues you describe.
I too have seen the odd thing in the sky, but being of average intelligence
and not a red neck Hillbilly. I just assume, it's a plane at an odd angle, a planet
in daylight. That sort of thing, I don't immediately ring up the local papers with
stories of UFOs.......... although next time I might, it could get me on Jeremy Kyle
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I simply play the percentages if 95% of all odd sightings can e explained, then like
Spock, logic dictates last 5% must also have a reasonable ( if unknown) explanation.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
...and I can't imagine they would have been test flying stealth technology at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the middle of England. You also wonder why the Phantom was there as if it had been a test flight of some sort a couple of Jaguars would have been good enough as chase planes. The Phantom is a fair bit faster than a Jaguar and carried more armaments too. Perhaps it also carried cameras. Hmmm...wonder what lurks in hidden government files.
It's not that I believe in UFOs, sasquatches and yetis per se, more that I try and keep an open mind. While it's a stretch to think there is a species of 7-foot tall hairy beasts* that has gone undiscovered (scientifically) in parts of the US, Canada etc etc, we have had completely new species of antelopes the size of large dogs discovered in the jungles of Vietnam and elsewhere in recent years, so....
In my teenage years, under our wonderful Queen ..... Victoria I was very much into UFOs,
Ghosts, paranormal activity etc. Then I began to read a few books by sceptics, and began to
Feel cheated, so many mysteries seemed, when properly analysed, quite mundane.
I also got In to magic big time, and began to read up on mind reading, cold reading
Techniques, how Victorian séances were Faked, how modern technology can be used to
Perform almost God like miracles.
So now having learned these many techniques, and how easy it is to fool even scientists, I
Now work on the assumption that I'm being fooled, I may not know how.... but I don't believe
In any thing, everthing can be faked, bluffed or misunderstood.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
In my teenage years, under our wonderful Queen ..... Victoria I was very much into UFOs,
Ghosts, paranormal activity etc. Then I began to read a few books by sceptics, and began to
Feel cheated, so many mysteries seemed, when properly analysed, quite mundane.
I also got In to magic big time, and began to read up on mind reading, cold reading
Techniques, how Victorian séances were Faked, how modern technology can be used to
Perform almost God like miracles.
So now having learned these many techniques, and how easy it is to fool even scientists, I
Now work on the assumption that I'm being fooled, I may not know how.... but I don't believe
In any thing, everthing can be faked, bluffed or misunderstood.
No, don't be like that! Next you'll be telling me that that wasn't Sean Connery's real hair in DAF!
These items were stolen by French postal worker , as well as WWF rolled mini posters (Elizabeth , Blassie , Mean Gene , Heenan etc) & Bravestarr horizontal poster (4 piece set)
I have never spoken about the following to anyone.
In about 1977 I was a young Police Constable. I was out on patrol with another PC in a panda car. It was a glorious summers afternoon approximately 1600hrs (we were on the 'afters' shift 2 while 10) with a cloudless blue sky. We had parked up opposite a cemetery & had both stepped out of the vehicle to take advantage of the weather.
Now I'm an aircraft enthusiast & at that stage knew more or less all the different types of military aeroplanes then in service with the RAF, NATO & the WARPAC.
My colleague & I spotted a most unusual sight in the sky. A pair of RAF Jaguars were flying line abreast in pursuit of an object the like of which I had never seen. The aircraft were low enough to enable me to immediately identify them & were travelling at approximately 200mph. They were following this object. It was black, wedge shaped, with no wings/windows etc. I estimate it to have been about thirty to forty feet in length (I was using the Jaguars for scale). We just stood & watched when a Phantom fighter streaked in, in between & slightly above the Jaguars, when it had passed it dropped to the same altitude & closed on the object. As it got to about 500 yards the object suddenly accelerated, defying all laws of physics it went from about 250mph to several thousand in a split second. After it had put distance between it & the Phantom it slowed just as fast as it accelerated to then maintain the space between itself & the pursuing aircraft. We watched as disappeared over the horizon.
If that wasn't a UFO - unidentified flying object - I don't know what is! Even though I could not identify it as any aircraft I had ever seen or read about I would have written it off as some sort of test flight until I saw the thing accelerate/decelerate. think a high velocity bullet being fired then decelerating equally as fast & you get an idea of what I'm speaking about.
Fascinating story. There have been all sorts of developmental and stealth aircraft tested over the years with technology that is likely still secret, however, they usually do their test flying in largely uninhabited areas or at night so that nosy people don't see them. It's not impossible that this was some sort of test aircraft (the black wedge shape and lack of windows is generically similar to something like the F-117 which reportedly made its first flight in 1981 but it - or elements of it - could conceivably have been flying four years earlier), but it is peculiar that they'd be flying something like that over England and during daylight...and that's without getting into the speed and acceleration issues you describe.
I went through all the possibilities myself at the time including the test flight theory. It was simply the fact that when closed on by a Phantom fighter the thing just accelerated away with phenomenal speed - really it became just a blur - as an estimation I'd guess that it went from about 250mph to over 2000mph in a quarter of a second but the decelerated just as quickly to travel at 250mph again when it had distanced itself from the Phantom. There was no sonic boom or anything though. It was an incredible sight.
When the stealth fighter first came to public attention I thought it may have been one of those (or some prototype derivative) but I could never explain the physics defying nature of the way it sped away then slowed down.
Well, what you saw was by definition an UFO (for you at least). To post perfectly honestly about UFO's: I think the exsistance of UFOs (as in aircraft from other planets) is not impossible.
Angela Merkel took her jet to Zurich yesterday to participate the tunnel opening.
There you see the most powerful woman on the planet vs. the power of Rock'n Roll
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
"The people of Delhi were today urged by their city council to do anything possible to watch live on television the unveiling of Higgins' latest pair of trainers."
just wondered ,as I have been reading FRWL ,if any of our esteemed Northern Ireland agents ,had visited AUGHNACLOY (I think that's how its spelt) birth place of red Grant ,just for the crack of it , 8-)
There are no UFO's. It's a silly superstition, unlike Christianity that's completely sensible and scientific!
I have never spoken about the following to anyone.
In about 1977 I was a young Police Constable. I was out on patrol with another PC in a panda car. It was a glorious summers afternoon approximately 1600hrs (we were on the 'afters' shift 2 while 10) with a cloudless blue sky. We had parked up opposite a cemetery & had both stepped out of the vehicle to take advantage of the weather.
Now I'm an aircraft enthusiast & at that stage knew more or less all the different types of military aeroplanes then in service with the RAF, NATO & the WARPAC.
My colleague & I spotted a most unusual sight in the sky. A pair of RAF Jaguars were flying line abreast in pursuit of an object the like of which I had never seen. The aircraft were low enough to enable me to immediately identify them & were travelling at approximately 200mph. They were following this object. It was black, wedge shaped, with no wings/windows etc. I estimate it to have been about thirty to forty feet in length (I was using the Jaguars for scale). We just stood & watched when a Phantom fighter streaked in, in between & slightly above the Jaguars, when it had passed it dropped to the same altitude & closed on the object. As it got to about 500 yards the object suddenly accelerated, defying all laws of physics it went from about 250mph to several thousand in a split second. After it had put distance between it & the Phantom it slowed just as fast as it accelerated to then maintain the space between itself & the pursuing aircraft. We watched as disappeared over the horizon.
If that wasn't a UFO - unidentified flying object - I don't know what is! Even though I could not identify it as any aircraft I had ever seen or read about I would have written it off as some sort of test flight until I saw the thing accelerate/decelerate. think a high velocity bullet being fired then decelerating equally as fast & you get an idea of what I'm speaking about.
Fascinating stuff, Stag. My experience of UFO's was about 1980 when me and my mate were giving two girls we had met at a casino a lift back to one of their gaffs. We were driving through Epping Forest in the early hours of the morning when we became aware of a white light quite high up in the sky that seemed to be following us...this happened for a couple of miles then the light suddenly swooped down behind the car to a height of about 500 feet - I could see it quite plainly through the back window it was a solid light in the classic disc shape - it then suddenly shot off up into the sky at a phenomenal speed and disappeared into the distance. To this day we have no idea what it was and we were the only vehicles on the road at that time.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Discovered this little factoid today, which will cause many arguments during a pub quiz.
Mt Everest is Not the talest Mountain on earth ( it is above sea level ) but if measured
Base to summit, then the winner is Mt Kea in Hawaii.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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Discovered this little factoid today, which will cause many arguments during a pub quiz.
Mt Everest is Not the talest Mountain on earth ( it is above sea level ) but if measured
Base to summit, then the winner is Mt Kea in Hawaii.
TP, you are certainly a mine of useful information. -{
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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Fascinating story. There have been all sorts of developmental and stealth aircraft tested over the years with technology that is likely still secret, however, they usually do their test flying in largely uninhabited areas or at night so that nosy people don't see them. It's not impossible that this was some sort of test aircraft (the black wedge shape and lack of windows is generically similar to something like the F-117 which reportedly made its first flight in 1981 but it - or elements of it - could conceivably have been flying four years earlier), but it is peculiar that they'd be flying something like that over England and during daylight...and that's without getting into the speed and acceleration issues you describe.
and not a red neck Hillbilly. I just assume, it's a plane at an odd angle, a planet
in daylight. That sort of thing, I don't immediately ring up the local papers with
stories of UFOs.......... although next time I might, it could get me on Jeremy Kyle
Spock, logic dictates last 5% must also have a reasonable ( if unknown) explanation.
(*not a subliminal reference to Mr Trumpf)
Ghosts, paranormal activity etc. Then I began to read a few books by sceptics, and began to
Feel cheated, so many mysteries seemed, when properly analysed, quite mundane.
I also got In to magic big time, and began to read up on mind reading, cold reading
Techniques, how Victorian séances were Faked, how modern technology can be used to
Perform almost God like miracles.
So now having learned these many techniques, and how easy it is to fool even scientists, I
Now work on the assumption that I'm being fooled, I may not know how.... but I don't believe
In any thing, everthing can be faked, bluffed or misunderstood.
No, don't be like that! Next you'll be telling me that that wasn't Sean Connery's real hair in DAF!
These items were stolen by French postal worker , as well as WWF rolled mini posters (Elizabeth , Blassie , Mean Gene , Heenan etc) & Bravestarr horizontal poster (4 piece set)
Well, what you saw was by definition an UFO (for you at least). To post perfectly honestly about UFO's: I think the exsistance of UFOs (as in aircraft from other planets) is not impossible.
Angela Merkel took her jet to Zurich yesterday to participate the tunnel opening.
There you see the most powerful woman on the planet vs. the power of Rock'n Roll
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
So, what is that?
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Fascinating stuff, Stag. My experience of UFO's was about 1980 when me and my mate were giving two girls we had met at a casino a lift back to one of their gaffs. We were driving through Epping Forest in the early hours of the morning when we became aware of a white light quite high up in the sky that seemed to be following us...this happened for a couple of miles then the light suddenly swooped down behind the car to a height of about 500 feet - I could see it quite plainly through the back window it was a solid light in the classic disc shape - it then suddenly shot off up into the sky at a phenomenal speed and disappeared into the distance. To this day we have no idea what it was and we were the only vehicles on the road at that time.
Mt Everest is Not the talest Mountain on earth ( it is above sea level ) but if measured
Base to summit, then the winner is Mt Kea in Hawaii.
TP, you are certainly a mine of useful information.