Sunday, August 28, 2011

So I Wasn't Crazy After All

In a report in Friday's Los Angeles Times the Pentagon revealed details of its new hypersonic space glider that can fly at twenty times the speed of sound. Loyal readers of this blog will remember the post I did two and a half years ago about my UFO experience back in Denver in 2007...If you look at the picture of the space plane on Wikipedia and the picture I did in my blog post (which I've copied in full below) you'll see a remarkable similarity...My logic in the post below isn't too shabby either...
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In the autumn of 2007 the wife and I were in the back garden of our house in Denver looking at the stars and chatting when we both saw a triangular shaped object flying north over the Front Range Mountains. It was massive, much bigger than any aircraft I've ever seen, entirely black but with three lights at the points of the triangle. Its size was impressive, but what was incredible about it was its speed - much much faster than any conventional jet. We watched it fly along the Front Range for about five seconds and then amazingly it turned to the north east on a dime and accelerated so fast it was beyond the horizon in seconds.
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The missus, who's a bit sharper than I am, said "Without discussing it at all, let's go inside and draw what we both think we saw." We went inside and I drew a triangular shaped object with lights and hers looked more like a massive flying V. I googled the UFO hotline and called them up but the recorded message said: "This is a serious business, no more crank calls please." I told them what we saw anyway and left our number but they never called back.
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Ok so what did we see? Certainly not an extra terrestrial craft. Why would an alien spaceship have running lights? I also dismissed the idea that it was a remote controlled plane that only looked far away but was actually low to the ground, how could a remote controlled aircraft cross the entire Denver metro area in a few seconds? Could it have been a conventional aircraft? No, no commercial plane or glider has that shape or speed. A stealth fighter or bomber? No, this thing was huge and the stealth aircraft I've seen are not that big or that fast. No, my theory is that we saw an un-named black ops stealth plane whose existence has not yet been revealed to the public. It was flying north as if it had just taken off from Colorado Springs which of course is home to NORAD, the Air Force Academy and several air force bases and has easy access to Lockheed Martin, Denver where stealth technologies have been pioneered in the past.
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It's been 18 years since the United States government admitted the existence of a new secret aircraft type. What's been happening in those 18 years? Quite a lot if you ask me. The USAF or CIA has a big supersonic stealth aircraft that it chooses to remain quiet about, either that or the aliens aren't quite as subtle as they should be.

69 comments:

Tim said...

Now I understand that Klaatu barada Nikto line in Dead I May Well Be.

Brian said...

sigh, this is the last we'll hear about you. this comment will go first, then this posting, then the entire blog, then the entire record that you ever existed at all.

seanag said...

It's okay, Brian. Because we're all going to have to be disappeared now too. I doubt we'll feel a thing.

Adrian, you've already established that your wife is very smart, but now we know that she has an even more important quality--it's called 'presence of mind'.

This is my question about your theory, though. If you guys saw it, presumably a lot of other people would or could have seen it too. And why would NORAD have risked that if they were wanting to keep it secret? And why would a stealth craft have running lights anymore than an alien craft would?

Also, is this post really just a symptom of Battlestar Galactica withdrawal?

adrian mckinty said...

Tim

I'm shocked that anyone would remember that line. I put that in just for me.

adrian mckinty said...

Brian

How do you know it hasnt already happened. Can you be sure this is me replying to you?

adrian mckinty said...

Seana

I take your point but I think that Pentagon planes even black aircraft have to apply FAA regulations in US Airspace.

This could be BSG withdrawal, yes. I dont know what I'll do until Mad Men starts up again.

Brian O'Rourke said...

Adrian -

Ever read any Jack McDevitt? He writes sci-fi and his stories usually offer some interesting perspectives on human and alien civilizations having first contact with one another.

Perhaps this was a ploy by JJ Abrams to stir up excitement for Star Trek. I mean, that would require a lot of foresight and planning in advance, but the guy must be doing something right considering how big he is right now.

seanag said...

I was going to take comfort from the idea that stealth planes couldn't mount an internal attack because of U.S. air space regulations, but then realized that all it really means is that those running lights would be the last thing I'd ever see.

IQXS said...

Thank you for the post! Very nice read indeed...

Quick question...and why WOULDN'T a UFO have running lights? :}

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Brian O'Rourke said...

Your info has been Twittered at
h t t p : // twitter . com / IQXS
and shared with Twitter UFO enthusiasts
worldwide. We track the latest in
UFO News, Views and Pix and Vids.


Adrian, it was nice knowing you.

seanag said...

Personally, I disavow any knowledge of his existence whatsoever.

seanag said...

Though actually, if all the UFO fans are going to come on board, this might be a great time to plug 50G. After all, it does have a lot to do with illegal aliens...

marco said...

Your info has been Twittered at
h t t p : // twitter . com / IQXS


Ah! They want me to believe in UFOs and they don't even know how to do hyperlinks!


I'm shocked that anyone would remember that line.

For sci-fi fans it's almost too easy.
By the way, on Tor site there has been quite a lot of roundtable eviscerating of BSG final, but some in the comments said they liked it. They say people who don't get it are godless monkeys blindsided by their Darwin-Dawkins induced hate of religion.
I guess we'll have their cars when the Rapture comes.

this might be a great time to plug 50G. After all, it does have a lot to do with illegal aliens...

Go behind the blackboard now!

seanag said...

Actually, you might say the book has near universal appeal.

adrian mckinty said...

IQXS

Thanks for the tweet.

I think it unlikely that a UFO would feel obliged to obey FAA regulations and post running lights that give away its shape and position. Aliens dont seem that law abiding to me, chasing sheep, kidnapping people, landing on the mall in Washington DC...

However if they are very legalistic, we could lure them into parking illegally at the Saint Kilda Sea Baths in Melbourne, Australia. When they get hit almost immediately with a 95 dollar parking fine, they may be so incensed that they'll fly back into space. Either that or they'll nuke the planet. Still its worth a gamble.

adrian mckinty said...

Brian

Its wasted on me. I'll at Star Trek in the first week. One question from the trailer though - was Scotty always that bald?

adrian mckinty said...

Marco

IF the aliens dont know how to do hyperlinks you are going to be seriously pissed off.

The anti ending crowd are right. It sucked. The finale was actually pretty good until that crazy last act. Glen A Larson the creator of the original BSG is a devout Mormon of course who doesnt believe in the Theory of Evolution.

adrian mckinty said...

Seana

Damn another marketing opportunity lost. The whole alien/illegal alien thing could have led to some delightful confusion. Actually it sounds like the premise for one of those Judd Apatow movies.

Peter Rozovsky said...

Hmm, I begin to understand why you keep fleeing from country to country. That's a clever cover story, that stuff about your wife and teaching posts. You have seen too much.

By the way, I like those Battlestar Galactica babes and their groovy outfits. Are we to conclude, then, that humanity's ancestors are a bunch of Hooter's girls?
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adrian mckinty said...

Peter

Unfortunately they were never dressed like that on the show.

And yes that is exactly what we are supposed to believe. Oh and the one on the right (Starbuck) apparently is a resurrected female Jesus.

We may know too much. My wife had a student who worked at Lockheed Martin and she did mention that on the Take Your Daughter To Work Day she was never allowed to go because she couldnt get security clearance. Thats the story anyway.

Peter Rozovsky said...

Starbuck, eh? I suppose Tall ®, Grande ® and Venti ® are the Holy Trinity.
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marco said...

Jesus with a gun.
How very American.

seanag said...

Speaking of marketing, the review for Fifty Grand has hit Publisher's Weekly today. I'll leave you to post it at your own leisure, Adrian, if you have access, but if not I can send it as a comment. Up to you.

marco said...

Is it good?

seanag said...

I'll say nothing till I get word from our host here. For all I know it is the entire content of his next blog.

adrian mckinty said...

Marco

Yeah its a pretty good review. Full of the usual spoilers of course. Even more than the Kirkus I think, but I've given up complaining about that.

adrian mckinty said...

Seana

I was over on another blog ranting about Galactica. Yeah I'd like to post it but its so spoiler rich I may just link to it instead.

adrian mckinty said...

Peter

You never heard about my idea for a series of tea shops called Queequegs?

seanag said...

I agree on both counts. But it also doesn't have any vague sucker punch criticisms in it either.

I think the link with spoller warnings is a good idea. Not as good as going big and marketing to the entire galaxy, but still...

Peter Rozovsky said...

What's on the menu at these tea shops?
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adrian mckinty said...

tea and geuine Inuit organically caught cruelty free whale blubber.

marco said...

You never heard about my idea for a series of tea shops called Queequegs?

It's not your idea. It's Pat's idea.


What's on the menu at these tea shops?

Every tearoom has giant tattoed men with big harpoons.

Brian O'Rourke said...

Adrian -

No idea why they had Simon Pegg buzz his hair like that for the role of Scotty.

Congrats on the good review over at Publishers Weekly!

adrian mckinty said...

Marco

Yeah you're right, I did still it from one of my fictional characters. Actually Starbucks is in big trouble I read recently. Suddenly everyone has realised that 4 dollars is too much for a mediocre cup of over roasted coffee.

adrian mckinty said...

Brian

Thanks for that.

I dont know whats going on with Scotty either. I'm pretty sure Jimmy Doohan did not wear wig, unlike some other cast members I could mention.

Peter Rozovsky said...

"I'm pretty sure Jimmy Doohan did not wear wig, unlike some other cast members I could mention."

Speaking of wigs, I attended a concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra this evening (highlight was Stravinsky's complete Firebird, in case you're wondering), and the conductor had had the most obvious hair transplant I'd ever seen. The patch looked good, like the rest of his hair, but set off from its surroundings like a crop circle in an English field.
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adrian mckinty said...

Nice work bringing wigs and aliens together. I could go farther - Firebird, some people say John Williams ripped it off for his Jaws theme and what did he write just after Jaws, why Star Wars of course.

Jimmy Doohan of course never actually made it into space. They sent his ashes up by aatellite twice and both times the rocket carrying them blew up. The second time the capsule was destroyed. "The engines they cannae take it" - no truer words were spoken.

Peter Rozovsky said...

Aye, they dinnae have enough dilithium crystals.
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Brian O'Rourke said...

Peter,

That was the greatest tie-in I've even seen in the blogosphere: rugs, opera, and aliens. good on you.

Glenna said...

I'm not sure weather to be more amused by the post or the comments. I'm sorry to say Adrian, but I think the comments are winning.

adrian said...

Glenna

I'm fine with that.

Peter Rozovsky said...

I get it. You've been abducted because of what you saw, and the top-secret -.-.-. is reposting old posts in an effort to cover up your disappearance.
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kathy d. said...

Gosh, at 8 a.m., I laughed so hard about the UFO sightings--the blog and the comments.

I want to know more about the report on UFOs filed by people who "saw" them.

It is hilarious to watch those folks on tv here in the states; they really believe they're seeing "alien" spaceships and that people are being kidnapped and brought to other planets.

Glenna said...

And, I trust you realize I mean no offense or anything. I do enjoy this blog quite a bit.

Adrian said...

Glenna

Dont be silly. None taken of course.

These days I dont even get offended by bad reviews. As long as they've actually read the book, I'm satisfied.

Glenna said...

Good. Sometimes I forget that my "off" sense of humor might be read wrong so I wanted to make sure.

seana said...

He won't take offense unless you are a rabid Bono fan and then all bets are off.

Glenna said...

I'll keep that in mind Seana, but I think I'm pretty safe there. Unless....no...I'm safe.

seana said...

I was in Dublin a few years ago at the same time he was and even that might be too much. I didn't go to his hometown concert, though.

I swear I didn't.


Could I hear the concert from the open windows of our bed and breakfast?

Well, maybe...

Michelle said...

I ran across a reference to your blog via a NYTimes book review article on authors' blogs. You do have a way with words...

My UFO story. We were driving from St George Utah to Los Alamos NM through the Navajo reservation, probably on US 160 or 163. At the time it was a two lane highway that had became remarkably snarled due to road construction. We were stopped, waiting to be lead through a one lane zone, when a roar shattered the sky. Nothing could be seen for several minutes (not seconds) and then a stealth jet buzzed our line of traffic. It was large, black, fast, triangular, and I swear, seemed to be no more than fifty feet off the ground.

This happened in the late afternoon. i imagine the pilot was eager to get home, but still willing to have some fun with Indians and tourists.

adrian said...

Michelle

I know that road. When we lived in Denver we used to drive down to Taos a couple of times a year.

I'll bet that almost all UFO encounters in NM, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona can be explained by the testing of new aircraft types.

seana said...

You've read the blog, Michelle. Now read the books. I think you'll be glad you did.

Sean Patrick Reardon said...

My first thought was the Stealth Bomber, but you explained that one. About 10 years ago I was walking through Hyde Park in LON and The Concorde flew over. It was daytime, but it was really impressive. If it was at night, it would have been a real trip.

Rob James said...

Isn't Denver Airport the latest favourite location for the tin-foil hat brigade?

Secret bases, unusual murals (they are a bit odd for an airport) and that big horse....

adrian mckinty said...

Sean

I used to love it when Concorde would fly over. There was a 5pm flight that used to take off from Heathrow and bank over London before heading to NYC.


Rob

Yes there's a chapter in one of David Icke's books about the alien base under Denver International Airport.

Anonymous said...

Meyer lay prostate on the deck of the Busted Flush, waving his glass of Boodles on ice like a Libyan rebel with a looted AK47 in front of a CNN camera. "Damn it, McGee, you believe me now? I told you it waj a UFO but you din't believe me. You thought I waj drunk but I seen it all right! The hell wit you!"

McGee leaned over in his chair and gave Meyer a playful boot in the ribs. "Shut up old man. You're plastered and next thing you'll be telling me you see aliens. Little green men with little pink antennea. Hah!"

It was a chilly February evening and the snowbirds had left weeks before. The laughing lassies and chucking bubbas had packed up and gone home. Across the harbor I could hear the sound of a marimaba band like a ghost from another time and planet.

BRIGHT WIND FROM MOUNTAIN

adrian mckinty said...

Bright Wind

Damn it, couldnt have said it better myself. And yes perhaps alchohol had been consumed - if I remember the time and place correctly it was probably a humble Johnnie Walker or two but the facts speak for themselves dont they?

seana said...

That is pretty cool to finally have some sort of answer on that.

You still might be crazy, though.

Peter Rozovsky said...

Congratulations on a small victory for rational thinking ... unless the L.A. Times story was a plant to throw you off the trail.

adrian mckinty said...

Seana

I should have been more didactic and forthright, I could have broken a big story here...

adrian mckinty said...

Peter

Occams razor and logic, not wishful thinking and fantasy.

seana said...

Yes, you could have broken the story, but then they would have had to kill you.

All in all, I think you made the right decision.

adrian mckinty said...

Seana

If I'd been arrested I could have gotten a Spielbergesque screenplay out of it.

Rastamick61 said...

I used to see all sorts of stuff in the stars when I lived up in Leadville but that was mostly due to it being the late 70s.

adrian mckinty said...

Rastamick

Had the same experience myself a few times in Boulder.

Rastamick61 said...

Haaa no surprise there I lived there for about 6 months in 1981, The Blue Note on the mall and Halloween 1981 were vaguely memorable. Listened to the last chapter of Bloomsday Dead on audio last night at bedtime. Any chance of this trilogy being made into a film ? I cast it in my head every time I listen to it, me as Michael of course... ha ha

OptimistRhyme said...

I dont know if this is linked but a rapper I like has said there have been lights flying over California the last few nights. Loads of people have seen them.

There are a couple great vids on youtube of several of them flying in formation and hovering.

Anyway the Guardian were reporting on the military jets and apparently they can fly from England to Sydney in 1 hour. However when they tried to go its top speed 13,000 mph they lost contact with it.

erin said...

(long time mckinty reader, first time mckinty blog stalker!)
I can't believe no one has mentioned Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen. Part of it explains the relationship between secret CIA shenanigans at Area 51 building crazy Cold War spy planes and the huge uptick in UFO sightings at the same time. I'm only a 1/4 or so of the way through, but some very interesting stuff. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/books/area-51-by-annie-jacobsen-review

adrian mckinty said...

Erin

I read that book while waiting for my kids to get clothes at Big W. Its was an enjoyable read although she doesnt say much about what's been going on there in the last couple of decades.