UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations 319
schwit1 is just one of the massive flood of readers (and publications) writing to tell us about the recently declassified UK Ministry of Defense account of a supposed UFO sighting. Included are nineteen sightings between 1986 and 1992, with the most notable being a sighting in 1991 with a US Air Force pilot's first-hand account. Not that this lends an air of credibility to anything, just more papers with more words. "Almost 200 such files will be made available by the MoD over the next four years. [...] UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke, said the documents would shed new light on relatively little-known sightings. He said some conspiracy theorists would already have decided that the release of the papers was a 'whitewash.' He added: 'Because the subject is bedevilled by charlatans and lunatics, it is career suicide to have your name associated with UFOs, which is a real pity. The National Archives are doing a fantastic job here. Everyone brings their own interpretation. Now you can look at the actual primary material — the stuff coming into the MoD every day — and make your own mind up.'"
Don't be silly. (Score:5, Funny)
Do you really think the MoD (or the CIA, NSA, etc.) are going to provide us with the real deal? Of course it's a whitewa.....NO, NO NOT THE ANAL PROBE AGAIN!!!
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
yeah, but, it's more PC to say, "Aliens stuck a probe up my ass!" than saying "I stuck a probe up my ass because I LIKE IT!"
I'll still blame the aliens thank you very much!
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
I think you underestimate the driving power of finding inlets of pornography.
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:3, Funny)
My girlfriend stuck her tongue in my ass and it felt very alien. I did like it though...
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:2, Funny)
This may be true, but it also means the govt's creditability is zilch.
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:4, Funny)
Rule 34. Even aliens have it.
Re:What UFO conspiracy theorists REALLY want (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't be silly. (Score:3, Funny)
Mr. Goatse didn't cooperate, and look what happened to him.
I beg to disagree (Score:5, Funny)
To counter your wildly irresponsible statements, I offer proof [youtube.com].
Re:What UFO conspiracy theorists REALLY want (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't be silly. (Score:5, Funny)
Dammit! Another brownout!
Re:Illin in the panicillin? (Score:1, Funny)
Can we please get some entertaining trolls? This simply makes no sense.
Re:Cause & Effect (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
It went from 400K to 700K in a matter of seconds.
700K isn't really that warm for a jet engine (~425 C), what's impressive is that it had been running so cool - 400K is only ~25 degrees above boiling! It is impressive that the Belgians incorporate that kind of data into their radar systems, though.
They probably just kicked on the afterburner.
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
... are you seriously citing your knowledge of radar screens based on an Atari game?
Laugh now, but when the revolution comes, I am the one who will fly the TIE fighters to save humanity. I have countless hours of simulation time to prove it. :-)
Similar training has also taught me the best way to win a firefight (like let's say, Iraq or Vietnam or WW2 Germany) is to bunny hop diagonally, then make a rocket-jump to higher ground! Seriously, the guvmint needs to apply this to our armed forces training now!
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:4, Funny)
Get ready for the staged alien invasion [google.com] slated for 2012, of course.
Re:UFO != alien apacecraft (Score:2, Funny)
I am pretty sure that a flaming dead cat dropped from an airplane at night would be considered a Unidentified "Falling" Object. Flaming dead cats do not fly.
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
There are also dragons in medieval paintings. "You will have to explain why" they don't exist or else, obviously, we must accept that dragons are real. It's well known that the fire of a dragon's breath goes "from 400K to 700K in a matter of seconds," so we can safely say this is confirmed by ironclad modern empirical evidence!
Being British,what are flying American acronyms... (Score:5, Funny)
If anything, Her Majesty's extraterrestrials, keen to avoid any interference with the Royal Air Force (or, heaven forfend, the Home Secretary's wrath), stay orderly well grounded, and are kept busy making corn circles to lure Japanese tourists or those from insubordinate colonies to the fields of Devon!
Re:And before you U.S. UFO conspirists chime in... (Score:5, Funny)
There are also dragons in medieval paintings. "You will have to explain why" they don't exist
They evolved from fish. Their swim bladders gained an electrolysis gland which separated water they drank in to hydrogen and oxygen. They exhaled the oxygen, which caused spontaneous combustion on anything they breathed it on, and kept the hydrogen in their flight bladder to provide lift. Obviously, when they died, the hydrogen would combust, igniting the rest of the body and leaving no remnants in the fossil record.
Next conspiracy please.
Re:UFO != alien apacecraft (Score:3, Funny)
We have reached the limits of what rectal probing (Score:4, Funny)
On earth the highest order creatures use rectal "probing" more than the lower creatures. It only stands to reason that more advanced creatures would have an even greater interest on rectal probing than us humans.
Re:A Moderation Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
When writing haiku
Use seventeen syllables
I counted eighteen