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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
Age: 49
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Wazzat ? (UFO ove London)
Anyone got any idea what the big dark rectangle (almost vanished when edge on) was doing over london today?
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Humus Motor
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: A little place called Samsonite
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Cherie Blair's wig?
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
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I dont think it was as big nor odd looking as all that
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Newbury, UK
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Was it a tray from a BA in-flight meal - they're pretty rare occurences over London
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Aisle seat, please.
Join Date: May 2003
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Was it a tray from a BA in-flight meal
"Odd looking" - could be.
"Big" - never.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
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Come on, I know one of you folks would have been talking to the driver. Some of you nice ATC types?
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Joe - never mind your pills, you've been on the ganga again haven't you.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
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BUT someone else saw it too!
Besides, tis a no smoking office, I would have been fired (smoking being the issue not the gange! odd folks).
<sigh> I guess i shall go off for a nice cup of tea, and pretend I never saw it, like with the elephants.
darn, its back
Best be getting some stronger tea.
(travelling west to east ove north London now)
now going east to west.
Just passed "behind" a hill, that makes the thing quite big!
<holds arms open> bigger than that.
Possibly 100 feet across + Come on, one of you guy / gals must be able to see it
<sob>
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Plaything of fine moderators everywhere
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Is it white and fluffy?
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
Age: 49
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Also just noticed that the lines in the sky (the ones from the airplanes) form X's over this building .......................
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Planet Tharg
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Neddie Seagoon voice Oooooohhhhh........
Chemtrails
#12 permalink
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
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Saddly I told all of my coworkers that those super smart ppruners would know what it was, then went and asked in JetBlast !
Its my own fault, I know.
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TheVillagePhotographer.co.uk
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Cotswolds UK
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No plans up for a hyper spatial bypass in this neck of the woods are there?
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Uneasy Pleistocene Leftover
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: South of the North Pole, north of the South Pole...
Posts: 303
I'm pretty sure it was HMG's latest
sniffer device. It's so sensitive, it'll tell the operator whether it (the ganja) was 100% Moroccan.
A side-benefit may be that it should also detect the minutest traces of explosives and radio-active materials...?!
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Humus Motor
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Conan, the Vogon Ships are indefinitely delayed - no catering (or lemon-soaked napkins either)
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TheVillagePhotographer.co.uk
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Cotswolds UK
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Now there is a thought.... Should Gate Gourmet slide down the pan (no pun intended and I haven't sampled their fare(knowingly) either) Should the Phoenix from the ashes be named "Dentrassi"? Corporate makeovers cost a bomb, so that one is there for a decent slow cooker and a free flight somewhere pleasant.
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You were lucky it was only the rectangle! The Triangle is a nasty piece of work!
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Humus Motor
Join Date: Sep 2002
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All served by the triple-breasted whore from Eroticon 6?
#19 permalink
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Kent, UK
Age: 49
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After a good nights sleep, I can report hardly any UFO activity today!
Checked the NOTAM, nothing about UFOs on North London, so presumably no futher visitations are planned.
Not sure I was reading those applicable to yesterday correctly though. (I am not a pilot, and only "take lessons" for the pleasure of it all)
Also nothing about banner towing, would that normally feature?
ditto brests (single, double or tripple) not covered by NOTAM (titter)
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The Veloceraptor of Lounge Lizards
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: From here the view is lovely
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It is an advertising banner towed by a Twin squirrel helicopter.
the banner you saw is one of several all of 25,000 square feet.
The banner is on the end of a 150 ft cable and is flying at approx 35 kt.
Also to be seen this weekend in Nottingham and Birmingham, recently in Manchester and anywhere else they make me go. In Glasgow recently a GA aircraft was very concerned about what he was seeing and asked for confirmation that his eyes were really working.
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