Posted by josephus on 08/20/07 06:36

Neil Bates wrote:
> This is great video (to my untrained eyes at least), whatever it really is
> or how really made:
>
> http://www.vidmax.com/index.php/videos/view/2869
>
> Can anyone recognize the area, know any more about anything?
>
it looks like southern california. the desert with smog and a road
nearby. It is not clear but the terrain looks like the desert, there
is not timestamps to indicate when the event took place. it could be a
film translated into UTUBE.


> BTW some of the comments there are clever, but here are my criticisms:
>
> "This is a Skip-Bomb
> This is a Skip-Bomb experiment, developed decades ago to bounce one or more
> times before going off on a predetermined impact. The idea was to bounce
> these into enemy dams, so as to get a more effective horizontal trajectory
> instead of just being dropped from the top. Never made it past the
> development stage. I myself have had a plain, daylight sighting of a very
> large, clearly other-worldy UFO, so I'm not down on UFO's, it's just that
> this object is known to not be of ET origin."
>
it might be a test for a skip bomb
>
> Clever try, but why would a skip bomb be glowing white like that during
> descent? That doesn't make sense, even after a first bounce. And painted
> white still wouldn't be bright enough.
>
> "Awfully small for an other-worldly craft, isn't it?
> If you pause the video as it passes the poles, you can see that is passing
> in front of the poles. This would make it approximatly 1 foot in diameter. I
> guess it could be "really little green men"."
>
>
> I think that impression, which I could find sometimes while clumsily
> stopping frames in mid play, is instead an effect of luminosity bloom
> against a narrow
> darker line. Clearly the object hits the ground much farther away than the
> telephone poles. BTW, how can you advance literally one frame at a time on
> this video program?
>
> Oddly I didn't see much on news/internet about this. It was one of the
> random shocker videos highlighted on Drudge.
>
>

I have the book published about the UFO craze. it was published in
1956 as the Air Force Blue Book. I observe that the UFO folks
misrepresent the book.

josephus

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