AirTalk.org Aviation discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  mystery of the colored flashing lights          AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Instrument Flight Rules View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Guest Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:11 am    Post subject: mystery of the colored flashing lights Sorry for being a little off topic, but I think you will see why this group is a good one for this post. On Feb 18, 2007, I visited a pilot who lives in the Oakland, CA hills about 5 nm north of KOAK. He related a story of having seen multicolored flashing lights in the air at night in the general direction of SF Bay. These lights appeared fairly motionless and at first he thought they were a blimp of some sort. After watching for 10 minutes or so, he observed the lights change direction and move in a westerly direction and a fairly high rate of speed, faster than a blimp and about the speed of a jet if it was over the water. He indicated that this happened a couple of nights in the preceding weeks (Jan/Feb, 2007). I thought perhaps he'd been reading too many sci fi books except that later that night, I boarded a jet at KSFO. I happened to have a window seat and as we turned onto 28R for our night departure, lo and behold there it was at an angle of about 45 degrees to the runway. It was hard to tell how far away it was but it was low to the horizon and there were many flashing multicolored lights spread out over a small area of the night sky. This had to be plainly visible to any pilot flying that night. I know there are quite a few Bay Area pilots that read this forum. Anyone seen or heard of this? Any NOTAMS describe an activity that would be compatible? My pilot contact says that he has had no more sightings since Feb. Back to top Peter R. Guest Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights On 3/29/2007 11:03:15 PM, wrote: Quote: These lights appeared fairly motionless and at first he thought they were a blimp of some sort. After watching for 10 minutes or so, he observed the lights change direction and move in a westerly direction and a fairly high rate of speed, faster than a blimp and about the speed of a jet if it was over the water. The first idea that crosses my mind is a jet that is approaching your friend's vantage point and then turns 90 degrees right or left. -- Peter Back to top Guest Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:12 pm    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights On Mar 30, 7:42 am, "Peter R." <pjr...@gmailX.com> wrote: Quote: On 3/29/2007 11:03:15 PM, wrote: These lights appeared fairly motionless and at first he thought they were a blimp of some sort. After watching for 10 minutes or so, he observed the lights change direction and move in a westerly direction and a fairly high rate of speed, faster than a blimp and about the speed of a jet if it was over the water. The first idea that crosses my mind is a jet that is approaching your friend's vantage point and then turns 90 degrees right or left. -- Peter The object had about 20 multicolored lights that flashed on and off over several seconds. It was diffuse (black area between the lights) and it appeared motionless for 8-10 minutes before moving off rapidly. It didn't look like any jet I've seen. Back to top Judah Guest Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:17 pm    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights lelson (AT) bigfoot (DOT) com wrote in news:1175223797.954224.108230 @n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: Quote: I thought perhaps he'd been reading too many sci fi books except that later that night, I boarded a jet at KSFO. I happened to have a window seat and as we turned onto 28R for our night departure, lo and behold there it was at an angle of about 45 degrees to the runway. It was hard to tell how far away it was but it was low to the horizon and there were many flashing multicolored lights spread out over a small area of the night sky. This was a final wave of scouting ships from my home planet, Xenodorph. It is approximately 11.2 Billion Light Years from here. The people of my planet have been monitoring you for about 6000 rotations of your planet around its primary star. In early days, we assisted your people by correcting certain injustices, and delivering certain information, sometimes in the form of large tablets or scrolls. We were very active early in our monitoring program, but have since become quite content to watch your how your species would fare without our help. For a very long time you performed quite well, and we were proud. Unfortunately, lately you have begun to let us down. So we have decided to prepare for action anew. We came to this conclusion when we observed your people annoint a cowboy as King. This cowboy clearly suffers from long-term brain cell damage caused by methamphetamine abuse, and we took this as a sign that your population clearly has lost it's senses. This conclusion was reaffirmed after your people allowed him to continue serving as king a second time, even though he nearly destroyed the economy, and started slaughtering people on whim and fancy. We initially assumed that the only reason this could be possible is that everyone is uncontrollably scared of this king's unpredictable and untethered barbarism. They even went as far as to return him to reign after most of the people demonstrated that they did not want him there. However, we have since observed that in his efforts to remove freedom from his subjects, he has lulled them into a false sense of security and hypnotized most of them into believing that he is a good king. As such, we believe it is time to act, and have made our base on an uninhabitable island in your Pacific Ocean, and are continuing our monitoring from there until such time that we are properly prepared to come to your aid. Unlike this king, though, we do not begin an action of such consequence until we have finalized our plan and are sure we can execute it properly within certain reasonable tolerances. Back to top Mxsmanic Guest Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights Judah writes: Quote: This was a final wave of scouting ships from my home planet, Xenodorph. It is approximately 11.2 Billion Light Years from here. You realize, of course, that your attempt at humor may be insulting and disrespectful to real extraterrestrials on this group, don't you? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. Back to top Judah Guest Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:20 am    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights Mxsmanic <mxsmanic (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:0e8t03ddu0h6atkiolaipdm6s2gkod8igc (AT) 4ax (DOT) com: Quote: You realize, of course, that your attempt at humor may be insulting and disrespectful to real extraterrestrials on this group, don't you? I apologize for insulting you then. I wasn't thinking clearly. Back to top john smith Guest Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:31 am    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights In article <Xns99048741D4949Judahnospamnet (AT) 69 (DOT) 28.186.158>, Judah <judah (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote: Quote: lelson (AT) bigfoot (DOT) com wrote in news:1175223797.954224.108230 @n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: I thought perhaps he'd been reading too many sci fi books except that later that night, I boarded a jet at KSFO. I happened to have a window seat and as we turned onto 28R for our night departure, lo and behold there it was at an angle of about 45 degrees to the runway. It was hard to tell how far away it was but it was low to the horizon and there were many flashing multicolored lights spread out over a small area of the night sky. This was a final wave of scouting ships from my home planet, Xenodorph. It is approximately 11.2 Billion Light Years from here. The people of my planet have been monitoring you for about 6000 rotations of your planet around its primary star. In early days, we assisted your people by correcting certain injustices, and delivering certain information, sometimes in the form of large tablets or scrolls. We were very active early in our monitoring program, but have since become quite content to watch your how your species would fare without our help. For a very long time you performed quite well, and we were proud. Unfortunately, lately you have begun to let us down. So we have decided to prepare for action anew. We came to this conclusion when we observed your people annoint a cowboy as King. This cowboy clearly suffers from long-term brain cell damage caused by methamphetamine abuse, and we took this as a sign that your population clearly has lost it's senses. This conclusion was reaffirmed after your people allowed him to continue serving as king a second time, even though he nearly destroyed the economy, and started slaughtering people on whim and fancy. We initially assumed that the only reason this could be possible is that everyone is uncontrollably scared of this king's unpredictable and untethered barbarism. They even went as far as to return him to reign after most of the people demonstrated that they did not want him there. However, we have since observed that in his efforts to remove freedom from his subjects, he has lulled them into a false sense of security and hypnotized most of them into believing that he is a good king. As such, we believe it is time to act, and have made our base on an uninhabitable island in your Pacific Ocean, and are continuing our monitoring from there until such time that we are properly prepared to come to your aid. Unlike this king, though, we do not begin an action of such consequence until we have finalized our plan and are sure we can execute it properly within certain reasonable tolerances. For an advanced civilization, you don't seem very enlightened. Back to top RST Engineering Guest Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:27 pm    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights I'd say just about as unenlightened as somebody who posts a one line reply to a 50 line article without learning to SNIP, DAMMIT. Jim "john smith" <johnsmith (AT) net (DOT) net> wrote in message news:460efd78$0$5818$4c368faf (AT) roadrunner (DOT) com... Quote: Unlike this king, though, we do not begin an action of such consequence until we have finalized our plan and are sure we can execute it properly within certain reasonable tolerances. For an advanced civilization, you don't seem very enlightened. Back to top john smith Guest Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:02 pm    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights In article <ObQPh.4$Il2.39976 (AT) news (DOT) sisna.com>, "RST Engineering" <jim (AT) rstengineering (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: I'd say just about as unenlightened as somebody who posts a one line reply to a 50 line article without learning to SNIP, DAMMIT. You count the number of lines???? Back to top Matt Barrow Guest Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:13 am    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights "Judah" <judah (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote in message news:Xns99048741D4949Judahnospamnet (AT) 69 (DOT) 28.186.158... Quote: lelson (AT) bigfoot (DOT) com wrote in news:1175223797.954224.108230 @n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: I thought perhaps he'd been reading too many sci fi books except that later that night, I boarded a jet at KSFO. I happened to have a window seat and as we turned onto 28R for our night departure, lo and behold there it was at an angle of about 45 degrees to the runway. It was hard to tell how far away it was but it was low to the horizon and there were many flashing multicolored lights spread out over a small area of the night sky. This was a final wave of scouting ships from my home planet, Xenodorph. It is approximately 11.2 Billion Light Years from here. The people of my planet have been monitoring you for about 6000 rotations of your planet around its primary star. In early days, we assisted your people by correcting certain injustices, and delivering certain information, sometimes in the form of large tablets or scrolls. We were very active early in our monitoring program, but have since become quite content to watch your how your species would fare without our help. Is that how we got the 15 comman...{CRASH}...the 10 commandments? Back to top Matt Barrow Guest Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:15 am    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights "john smith" <johnsmith (AT) net (DOT) net> wrote in message news:460efd78$0$5818$4c368faf (AT) roadrunner (DOT) com... Quote: In article <Xns99048741D4949Judahnospamnet (AT) 69 (DOT) 28.186.158>, Judah <judah (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote: Unlike this king, though, we do not begin an action of such consequence until we have finalized our plan and are sure we can execute it properly within certain reasonable tolerances. For an advanced civilization, you don't seem very enlightened. And you are...what? Back to top Matt Barrow Guest Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:21 am    Post subject: Re: mystery of the colored flashing lights "Judah" <judah (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote in message news:Xns99049C11BA5FJudahnospamnet (AT) 69 (DOT) 28.186.158... Quote: Mxsmanic <mxsmanic (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:0e8t03ddu0h6atkiolaipdm6s2gkod8igc (AT) 4ax (DOT) com: You realize, of course, that your attempt at humor may be insulting and disrespectful to real extraterrestrials on this group, don't you? Which is why so many people ask what planet he's from.... Quote: I apologize for insulting you then. I wasn't thinking clearly. Sure you were. 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