Posted by DanR on 08/20/07 23:36

"Neil Bates" <neil_delver@caloricmail.com> wrote in message
news:13cf1inlfbj544d@corp.supernews.com...
> 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?
>
> 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."
>
>
> 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 wonder why the clip ends before the pieces settle to the ground. Possibly,
if it's fake, the gravity effect would be a give-away.

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