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TheCriticalEye Chicago Astronomer Apprentice member is offline
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Re: UFO Sightings by Astronomers... « Reply #1 on Sept 28, 2004, 9:27am »
Ya know Joe, Out of all the nights I have spent out under the night sky. All the times I been outdoors even. I have never seen anything in the sky i couldn't rationally explain what it was.
NatureDevil Senior Chicago Astronomer member is offline
"I love humanity, it's people I can't stand" - Linus
Joined: May 2004 Gender: Male Posts: 238 Location: Chicago suburb, Elmwood Park
Re: UFO Sightings by Astronomers... « Reply #2 on Sept 28, 2004, 12:17pm »
I agree with you on that, I have never seen anything I couldn't rationally explain myself. I can't prove any of it though.
I personally don't take much stock in UFO sightings and stuff. It is interesting though. I, along with many friends, go on ghost hunts throughout the city of Chicago with our cameras. You know, we look up buildings, cemetary's, even a few pubs that have historical tales of hauntings and ghostly apparations. We have never seen anything ourselves, and of all the pictures we've taken, if you see somethign weird in any of them it is cause you are looking too hard. But anything is possible, it's fun to get your hands dirty and actually go romping around in abandoned cemetaries on the south side getting a little excersise, and everyone we talk to is fascinated by it. So why not.
But as for taking photos of stuff, I believe if you want to see something, you'll find it. Most of those photos come off to me as being light reflections, dust, muck on the lense, or any combination of things. As I said, I don't take much stock in them.
I never understood what fascintated aliens so much about our livestock though. Moo.
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Re: UFO Sightings by Astronomers... « Reply #3 on Sept 28, 2004, 2:52pm »
Out of the thousands of hours I have spent looking up....I can only say that I saw only two events that I could not explain it source.
I agree on most of the images produced of ufo's...many of them ignorantly blatent on what it actually is. The dust on the lens, camera movement...and my favorite...out of foucus objects. All can be discredited.
But, there are a very small few which look pretty good to me.
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