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Could this be an F-117 or something more exotic?

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Old 30th Aug 2012, 11:38
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Could this be an F-117 or something more exotic?

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No, it's probably just a UFO.
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Crikey! The Eiffel Tower's been nicked!
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XH558 with some of those neon downlights nicked off a chav's Saxo?
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Thought it might be a formation flight but there were no flashing lights, although the first triangle had them.
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Well, everything on that video was triangular, inc the first contact with a strobe. Looks like an aberration in the night vision equipment to me.

Certainly nothing can be made of it. Nothing whatsoever.
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No, it's probably just a UFO.
See many of those at 'The Ranch' did you, Courtney......

An 'auntie' of mine in the USAF was once posted to A Certain Division at Wright-Patt. I jokingly asked her if she was going to join 'The folk who took flying saucers to bits'.....

I never heard from her again..

By the way, what replaced the black Omega?
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If it was a super-secret black project aircraft, whoever put lights all over it might not have thought the idea through!
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See many of those at 'The Ranch' did you, Courtney
I can't comment on the real stuff, obviously, but some of the protoypes were not dissimilar.

By the way, what replaced the black Omega?
You of all people should know better than to ask about that here.

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Certainly nothing can be made of it. Nothing whatsoever.
That's exactly what they want you to think.
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Looks like CGI to me, seems a bit too "scripted". How convenient that when the camera pans into the nothingness, the strange craft appears.
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Hardly new news...

UFO squadron filmed flying over California: 3 lights in triangular pattern spotted | Mail Online

My expectation is that it is something to do with autonomous flying wings. There has also been research done on aircraft flying in close formation to reduce overall drag and also for flying in "res cell" to hide a formation. I suspect the lights are a requirement under their rules of the air at night?

All in all, to me, this technology is very easily done these days and hardly qualifies as "the type of exotic" that would attract Black Omega visits!

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These guys spend hours and hours ''UFO hunting'', mostly they just see satellites and other things which to them are ''a Mothership powering up''. They often go out every night and spend thousands of $ on night vision equipment. But seeing that triangle was a mystery. If there are secret projects flying around guess from time to time they get lucky.
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LJ,

Most of those videos from the likes of KevinMC360 are birds filmed with infra red.

This is the YT Channel of the person that claimed to have filmed the video in post #1. He also acknowledges that some of his footage is simply birds. There are also a lot of hoaxers out there and the UFO programmes will pay a pretty penny for such footage. A bit of CGI or manipulation of a bird formation and you have a nice little earner.

dede95064 - YouTube

See from 0:47 on the KevingMC360 video as featured in the Daily Mail link.


YT is full of 'UFO' hunters trying to pass off infra red footage of birds as 'squadrons of UFOs. KevinMC360 thinks that they are fighting battles!

As you can see birds also make interesting shapes even on radar!

Fig. 1. A single frame of the 8-ram film used to record radar data. Arrow points to a group of geese flying in a V. Diameter of the area shown in radar display 1.85 km. Other radar echoes are from objects on the ground (primarily trees andfarm fences).
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http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v09...0554-p0559.pdf

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Five Canada geese. Most likely residents of Palo Alto.
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"As you can see birds also make interesting shapes even on radar!"

They certainly do. Especially bigger flocks of smaller birds that
change shape and height along the way. My father has used Airport radar in Northern Australia to watch flocks of birds take off, gain height in circles
and then head off on migration. They look very weird on Radar.

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Geese. Or maybe cranes?

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It's Superman, wearing the new "Superheroes" collision avoidance hi vis clothing
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Looks like the good old TR-3B to me.

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No, it's probably just a UFO.
See many of those at 'The Ranch' did you, Courtney......

An 'auntie' of mine in the USAF was once posted to A Certain Division at Wright-Patt. I jokingly asked her if she was going to join 'The folk who took flying saucers to bits'.....

I never heard from her again..

By the way, what replaced the black Omega?


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