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If you plan on hoaxing a UFO report this season - don't do it on Fletcher Gray's turf.
He's good.
The Texas Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Field Investigator resolved Case # 21440 - "A bright light that descended to the ground and left a mark."
The Grand Falls, Ward County, case from January 9 is quite a story - enough to stir the ranks within MUFON, including STAR Team Manager and SIP Project Coordinator Richard Lang.
When Lang steps into the picture, he has the power to order scientists and investigators onto the scene immediately. But those orders are not made lightly.
The story unfolded January 11 in the MUFON witness reporting database when yet another Texas case from the same general area revealed a UFO landing - this time by what appeared to be sweet church-going folks out for a drive after evening services. By gosh we even get to know that they stopped briefly to purchase milk, Pepsi, and a pack of cigarettes. (I would have nixed the cigarettes, though, and included an apple pie.) But as the couple approaches Grandfalls, the wife points out an "intensely bright, white light" in the sky. The rest of the story unfolds like a scene from a Spielberg movie with details like "the old power station" and "a large shiny object floating." They even go back to the scene the following morning to find "a big black circle" on the ground where the saucer landed.
Enter Fletcher Gray.
Now you have to understand the serious nature of the witness reporting database for MUFON. This is not a play area. This is not where you practice fiction techniques for class next week. A trained national team is reading these reports twenty-four-seven. Phone calls are made. Alerts are placed. People are woken up. The preliminary investigation process moves to action.
Behind the scenes - what you as the public cannot see - are the personal details witnesses must give up. These are details that remain private for the trained and certified investigator's eyes only so that they can conduct research into the case. In this instance, the first clue was a Yahoo email address that was created on the same day that the report was made.
The phone number for the report turned out to be a local business and there was no match between the name behind the email address and anyone working with or associated with that business.
A deputy for the Ward County Sheriff's office was contacted who said that no reports came to his office on this case nor were there any UFO reports recently for the greater Grandfalls area. And the "old power plant" on Fifth Street - does not exist.
Case solved. But we do expect the writer to gain at least a "B" on the narrative in class this week. All kidding aside, please take your fiction somewhere that counts. There are many fiction web magazines and science fiction sources that would appreciate your characters and their antics. But not inside the MUFON reporting database. You caused a chain-reaction where good people and excellent public servants went into action when their time could have been spent in worthwhile endevours.
"This is the the third such report originating from the same general area in Texas, describing similar landing events, where witness contact information could not be validated," Lang said.
The UFO Examiner reported on the two previous stories: UFO lands in Texas, two 'creatures' on the ground and Second UFO landing reported in Texas with multiple 'beings' on the ground. Both of these stories have the same ending.
Thanks to Fletcher Gray and Richard Lang and everyone in between for sorting out the fiction and letting us get on with the real investigations that are so important. When you actually sit down with a genuine UFO witness, hear the story, walk the beat - you understand why the study of UFOs in this country is an important and worthy process.
Fletcher Gray is also a STAR Team investigator and STAR Team Coordinator for Texas.
Comments
...ahhhhhh, a report like this is music to a sceptics ears!
WAY TO KEEP IT REAL, Mr. GRAY!
A lot of folks I read seem to think that extraterrestrial contact would be a good thing. I don't. That's why all this SETI stuff (at least the part where we are beaming hi-powered messages into space) make me all twitchy. Ever notice how nature repeats itself? Like the swirl you see in your coffee cup after you stir in your cream looks like a spiral galaxy? Little stuff, repeating on a larger and larger scale. Ever think that planets that support life as a rule may foster intellegence as well? And that intellegence will eventually spawn interstellar travel? What's the difference between that and a summer wind blowing dandelion seeds to new locations to root and then repeat the process? If the intergalatic telephone rings (someone calls in on SETI's listenings) DON'T ANSWER THE DAMNED THING.
Good work...Enough of these charlatans, hoaxers, dreamers, publicity stunts on the UFO topic......
Don't people have enough to do without faking UFO reports? I'm glad he got caught. And, the cigarettes would have been my first clue. Church-going folks in the rural South would not buy cigarettes, especially as a family.
AL,
I can certainly agree with you about us sending messages into space, trying to get other intelligent life's attention! It's not a selective message for only the good guys of the Universe. Also if they are anything like us they will come and kick our a.s.s. or exterminate us. Then take our planet as their own! The old saying be careful what you ask for, you might get it. Perhaps we already did! Abductions, mutilations, missing people and animals, ships and planes. As of now a massive Alien fleet could be on it's way!
Thanks CH (except for the part about the invasion fleet, if that does happen it's going to be a very bad day). Did you ever read Battle Field Earth by L. Ron Hubbard? Although I don't care for what he did with starting Scientology and all the book isn't too bad. It begins with a alien deep space exploration ship findind one of our Voyager probes. Then then discover the "record" on the side of it. Are the interested in playing it, no, they say "LOOK! IT'S MADE OF GOLD!" They then further discover that not only did we provide them with a map (by pulsars) on where we are but also a representation of our DNA so they have a basis for developing a toxin! They shortly find us, gas the whole planet killing every man, woman and child and then SET UP MINING OPERATIONS! I always thought that was a much more likely first contact scenario than Close Encounters of the Third kind presented.
I have to say that Al's comments at first made me laugh, but then I thought about it. Maybe we shouldn't be letting people in on the good deal we got on this planet - maybe we should try and put up a few more shrubs to hide the fact that we're here. I enjoy covering UFOs for a living, but the truth is, what's possibly out there does scare me.
I hope there was some small consequence to the false reporting...I don't mean anything drastic but some embarrassment might stop the next one...
As for being scared ... I'm not simply because if they wanted to harm us .... they've had lots of chances....unless that's another cover-up by the good old U.S. government....
Roger, very good report. You made Fletch blush! Last year when the State Director asked me to be a Section Director, I had one condition. I wanted Fletcher Gray to be my Sr FI. Before becoming a MUFON FI he was a crime scene investigator for ten years for the police department. Also an amateur astronomer. Knows alot about aircraft, satellites, space junk, photo analysis etc. Filmed a segment with UFO Hunters last February that was never aired. Besides that, he is all business, great attention to detail, and zero tolerance for BS. He is also really good at reading people. You can't lie to the guy and him not know it. (we call him Mr. Grumpy behind his back). Its been a real privilege to work with him. Most of what I know about UFO investigations, I learned from him. If this UFO mystery is ever solved, it will be solved by the continued dedication of investigators like Gray and Lang.
Regarding SETI, sure its okay to listen, rather expensive way to UFO hunt Cost vs Return. What worries me is when we send probes and signals into space. That is kind of like sending your address and phone number to Hannibal Lecter and telling him dinners at 8. Wonder how long it would take a hungry alien race to go through 6 billion people. Just a thought.
Okay SRV, I gotta jump in here. Fletch can blush all he wants - never met the man in person, but based on my communication with him and watching his investigations - there should be a film based on this guy. When Richard Lang prompted me on this story, I was pleased to see that it was Fletch investigating. I tend to agree with you on the Hannibal Lecter "dinner at eight" theory. Let's not advertise we're out there - enough of "them" are here already. They don't seem to be taking over the planet - meaning, they're not yet on the White House lawn; but I often wonder how much our government really knows about the various species that seem to be invading our airspace daily. And I tend to think that the real reason our government does not own up to what they know - is that they don't know enough. They may know more than we know, but they don't know enough - get it? It's the moth looking at the candle and wondering how close they can fly in. Sometimes they get too close - and poof.
How can our government disclose UFOs? If they did the public would want to know more, like what are they going to do about them! Why are they here? What are they doing? Why are we letting come here? What is the government going to say? They knock out our missiles in silos etc. They out fly us! Abductions! Sorry we are powerless to stop them from coming into our airspace! I think this is one can of worms the US Government would rather not open!
BUT....
Here's the state of address speech:
My follow Americans,
Ahhhh sorry! We ahh, well we ahhh.....We kinda thought ahhh...
Oh hell! We are sorry we sent our calling card complete with a map to earth's address into outer space for every ET to be able to find us. We didn't think about the consequences unfortunately it was bad. We didn't know we could be on the their menu. We did have a small hope, but also we gave them our DNA genetic makeup. So we are basically..... Well lets just say we don't have to worry about health care anymor
SRV,
Are you familiar with a fluorescence substance found on abductees?
There has to be a collusion between us and them already. Got to be. Too many mysterious objects in our sky not in use in Iraq and Afghanistan to be totally ours. Abductions, mutilations ad nauseum.
You all would probably interested in the Electromagnetic Leak map located at this website (Roger, I'm sorry about doing an "end around" on the sites no URL rule, I beg your pardon).
abstrusegoose(dot)com/163
replace the (dot) with a . in your browser's address field
I think the map is about three or so years out of date but still it gives good perspective on where we are and who we're reaching if anyone is listening. Also, take heart in that signals meant for terrestrial use are not powerful enough to remain cohesive past light year or two (using our technology that is (eh-hem).
CH - I think you captured the "speech" 100 percent. Very funny; but not really that far off. I also feel that at some point, just the way communications is happening on the planet, that our government will not be able to hide the fact that they "know." Sooner or later, it's going to happen. I'm getting my own speech ready for my children. I think I'll start with - "well, they've always been here."
SRV: I don't think they're going to eat us for the simple reason that their gastronomic tracts haven't undergone terrestrial evolution....or lightly put, as Morbo said once on Futurama, "Kittens give Morbo gas".
AL - I think you're right. If they were going to treat us as food, they would have done it by now. Just not sure about the abduction process; and this cattle mutilation thing. Not sure where they're going with all this. But who am I - just a moth?
Me neither, Roger. I imagine as any normal person would I find a great deal about the reported abduction experiences very disturbing, especially from a technical / tactical viewpoint. How do you defend against an opponent who can walk through walls? Last I heard approximately 3% of the population of the United States believes they have gone through at least one abduction, what makes them so interesting to these beings? Or perhaps it's what makes the other 97% NOT interesting? Or they want to abduct these folks and they can't? Why not? Something with the way the house is wired interferes with their machinery? They're lacking something or maybe have something that makes them undesirable? I don't know! But what I do know is that the more true experiences we have related to us the better our understanding of such will become. And people like Fletcher Gray need to be applauded. I would love to read some of the cases where he believed something truly unexplainable occurred. Peace
One may think that finding people in that small percentage who do get "taken" will help us know what no one here seems to know about UFOs and Aliens, right? Aliens do eat people. Aliens rape people, and some get pleasure out of torturing us too. Isn't this why the two previous cases got debunked in lump with this latest debunked TX report? Would anyone consider that this last report was perhaps a "setup," where, once debunked for its flagrant hoax, that it would be used to dismiss the previous two? THERE WERE NO DETAILS ON HOW THE PREVIOUS TWO REPORTS "HAVE THE SAME ENDING" AS THIS THIRD! How can MUFON be "proud" of itself by dismissing cases in such a completely unscientific way - the results of one case used to dismiss two other unrelated (only nearby) cases? That's ridiculous to people who actually employ the scientific method! Mr. Lang's and Mr. Gray's (wow, that a name in this context!) methods of reaching conclusions are more like those found in gossip tabloids. PSYOP anyone?
Seeking Treasures: I didn't want to waist my audience's time by going into detail on the two previous cases; but the same thing happened - all of the contact information was bad. This is typical of reports made from various parts of the country when people decide to have a little fun with the database.
Got to love the pranks. You should hear the phone calls i get.
Al, just so you know. The case that bothers Fletcher the most, the one he never solved - the 3-sphere object first seen in Crockett, Texas May 23, 2009 @ 2:45. We have spent 100's of man hours researching and tracking it. Roger ran an article about it back over the Summer. At last count, it has been seen in 14 states.
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Roger,
Thanks for the up date about the two previous cases! All of the contact information was bad! I hate hoaxes! There is so much fake stuff online etc, it clouds the truth!
***I'm not one at all for wanting new laws, but I wish we could petition and make it a law..... That if you get Hoaxing UFO reports etc, that it carry a stiff sentence and hefty fines. *Couldn't it be a matter of National Security? If only the our government was behind the people! Sad isn't!
Hey the last ones were in Texas! Lets get a rope! Hang um!
CH - balloon boy's Dad got in trouble. You can get in trouble for making a false report if its to a government agency. To me making a false report is equal to yelling fire. Ironically, someday these people will eventually see a "ufo" and no one is going to believe them.
Hi SRV, I hope all is well and good down your way. I knew that reporting falsely was a crime, if it's to government. I know MUFON is short on funds to investigate. Stuff like this just hurts. How you described the investigators in the story above reminded me of my dad and my Marine Drill Instructors all rolled into one! No BS and you had better tow the line! It's the old gun fighter! You had better walk away clean!
YES! Ironically, someday these people will eventually see a "ufo" and no one is going to believe them.
*Perhaps it should be an abduction and tortured just enough not to leave a mark! So no one will believe and no proof!
Take care and keep up the good work.
P.S. I've been seriously contemplating joining MUFON to become an investigator. No wife and extra time. One of my best friends did, because of my sightings. I also helped him see a round orange object, I called him and he ran out in time to see it. The fastest thing he's ever saw.
Thanks SRV, I'll look that up.
Crazy theory, just throwing it out there... what if you were in on what the UFO phenomena was. Maybe you're in some ultra dark underground highly funded arm of some secret government thing... you get the picture. Say you had credible and truthful information that a real UFO event was to happen in a specific area. Maybe the area is rural and very sparsely populated but... still populated. If you're in this line of business you probably also know what channels to lean on (I'm looking at you MUFON and NUFORC) to file bogus story after bogus story... all somewhat similar as to show pattern... but nonetheless bogus. Knowing they'll investigate and find the flimsy trail of deceit behind the stories the investigators will throw their hands up and say hoax... we fell for it... we won't investigate these Texas, or whatever trend of the day, emails and posts claim anymore. Sounds like the perfect setting to have a real event follow. Stage is set. Project Crying Wolf complete.
Wow! Pretty interesting stuff there! (this re: the 3-sphere object first seen in Crockett, Texas May 23, 2009). With all due respect to those who have seen them (my wife and I twice, me alone three times personally) lights in the sky are just “lights in the sky”. I have always been fascinated by reported UFO sightings that describe craft that are nuts and bolts hardware. Here we had a uniquely structured craft sighted by multiple witnesses. Very compelling!
Sean:
Nothing crazy at all there. I think what a citizen could do to derail that line of action would be to maintain yourself as a credible witness no matter what lunacy appears to be being reported around you. Remember that the MUFON and NUFORC people are not trying to catch a live event, they're just investigating what has already happened.
Crazy theory, just throwing it out there... what if you were in on what the UFO phenomena was. Maybe you're in some ultra dark underground highly funded arm of some secret government thing... you get the picture. Say you had credible and truthful information that a real UFO event was to happen in a specific area. Maybe the area is rural and very sparsely populated but... still populated. If you're in this line of business you probably also know what channels to lean on (I'm looking at you MUFON and NUFORC) to file bogus story after bogus story... all somewhat similar as to show pattern... but nonetheless bogus. Knowing they'll investigate and find the flimsy trail of deceit behind the stories the investigators will throw their hands up and say hoax... we fell for it... we won't investigate these Texas, or whatever trend of the day, emails and posts claim anymore. Sounds like the perfect setting to have a real event follow. Stage is set. Project Crying Wolf complete.
AL, lights in the sky are not just lights. :)
A craft flew over me March 10th, 2009 at 9:26pm. It went towards SLC Int. Airport. Where it slowed down, stopped & then slowly moved away to the north. The object was about 3,000 ft above me, when it passed over. Totally silent. Short dark trail exhaust? 2 bright white lights on both sides visible the whole time, a white dished under belly. No lights on the bottom. From the rear view only, you could still see the bright white lights on both sides, but also 2 very small intense blinking red & white light. These were towards the center & higher than the 2 outside bright lights. A red one on the left & the highest, down on a 45 degree angle the white light. I looked with 10x50 binoculars as it passed over me! My digital camera, which was in great working order would not work now! New batteries etc! For 3 days it wouldn't function. Later it was back to normal! I've seen it a few times at a distance too, with the same lighting patterns.
Sean, not a crazy theory at all. If I was in charge of the cover up I would do just what they are doing. Give so many false leads that investigators can not tell the real thing from hoax. Keep investigators chasing their tail. Destroy the credibility of any credible witness. Then make UFO's such a joke, that no university or scientist will risk career/reputation investigating the phenomona. Thus no funding for projects. Then throw in some debunkers to muddy the waters. Some of our best informants work for the government. Problem is its hard to tell the difference between friend or foe. The problem is alot more complicated then people on the outside looking in realize. Its very frustrating at times and has taken tremendous toll and sacrifice on the researchers and their families. I would probably quit doing it myself, but I won't abandon Fletcher.
AL, That craft I was describing. I first seen one of these on March 5th at about 8:05 pm, 2009. It hovered for about 20 minutes over the mountain range NE of downtown SLC. I watched it with my binoculars mounted on a tripod. It looked like 2 aircraft landing lights except as far a part as a jet wing tip to wing tip! Very odd! No blinking or other lights. I was watching it as it took off abruptly & moved over the east side of the valley & turned north. Then I could see it had other lights, but they were not blinking(Rear view). As it moved north then 2 lights higher up starting blinking now! Later on the 10th as I described before. This craft with the same lighting patterns flew right over me! The next day I called the airport to find out the lowest altitude the jets are at my address coming in on approach. I was asked why I wanted this information. I reluctantly was truthful. I was told 3,000ft. He was very interested in my sighting & wanted all my information, which I gave him.
SRV, I agree with you 100%! Seans theory is more what I would guess to be..... more like a fact as to how they play us. SRV you put it very nicely, well said. I just wanted to say, please never give up. I won't.
(P.S. my skin is still very itchy etc from that episode, makes me well up with emotions. I'm still full of fight, I'm not going down without a fight. Yesterday I found a burn on my right knee inch by 3/4 of an inch in size. After I send this I will photograph it)
CH e-mail the picture to me I'll take a look at it for you if you want. Also, describe it best you can, I'll try to figure out what to put on it.
CH: Sorry bud I should have clarified my definition of lights in the sky. Allow me to do so by citing (3) separate personal episodes. Ocean City MD, Sept 2004 (this one drives me nuts because THOUSANDS of people must have seen this but there was NOTHING in any paper, on-line, etc). Around 9 PM approximately 12-15 bright orange lights appeared over the Atlantic. They didn’t move, they didn’t flicker, they just hung there and then went out one at a time. No structure seen, just lights. Nov 2008, 3 bright orange lights flying in a row, perfectly spaced, no sound flickered a little then they went out one at a time. About 2 weeks later in the same location spotted 2 EXTREMELY bright lights sitting about 20 degrees apart in the night sky. These were as bright as the light caused by arc welding. These two went out at exactlt the same time like someone threw a switch. None of the above had any visible structure.
CH (continuing):
When I speak of "lights in the sky" the sightings related below are what I'm referring too. Truth be told when it comes to seeing something like those I’m going to believe that there is a terrestrial explanation simply because it’s the most likely. None of things I spotted were so fantastic (although they were beautiful) that they needed anything more than terrestrial science and a little elbow grease to engineer. Now the thing that YOU saw had structure, something like that would fall outside of that definition.
.....and regarding the someone filing false UFO reports to cover up real ones I'm reminded of what Roy Neary said during the Gov't meeting...."You can't fool us by agreeing with us!"
AL,
Thanks for explaining what you meant. I think I already knew what you meant. I was meaning lights in the sky have substance, they are a part of something. At times we don't get to see the structure which could have numerous reasons. True if we don't see a structure it could be man made, but that could go both ways. The same goes for structured objects as well. We both know an unknown object, doesn't make it extraterrestrial. Some readers may not understand, but I know you do. No argument from me :). I have seen what looked like cloaked UFOs. They were like shadows and distorted the sky around them, but had lights! It's like Dang! Make up your mind, if you want to be cloaked turn off the lights! The side of the craft shimmered like water, very reflective, mirror like. It was extremely fast. *Anyway I think we are always on the same page :) . I always enjoy your comments. Great sense of humor too :) . What part of this great nation are you in?
Take care!
AL,
I forgot to mention about the objects you saw. They sound like what I refer to as the Orange or white star like objects, that are often up very high. At times they are very low too. I have seen two of them fly underneath our commercial jets. Anyway what I want to tell you or perhaps point out to you & others. ***When you see these orange or white round objects moving along & stop & or disappear as they are traveling: If you have time, please don't think they are gone. I have seen countless ones do this. I decided one night, okay where did you go? I couldn't see it any more even with binoculars. So I watched the area where it disappeared, 20 minutes later it lit up again as it took off! When they disappear usually within 3 to 20 minutes later they will reappear fully lit again and leave. Sometimes, but seldom, I never see them leave. Also importantly, if they are moving when they disappear they usually drift more of a distance, but less if they stop before disappearing.....
To AL, ....Continued.
So when they disappear they usually don't reappear exactly where they disappeared. If they stopped first then they will be closer to where they disappeared when they reappear. Also the time they stay invisible, if it is longer then think more drift time. Also if while your looking at the area where one disappeared & say you look far to the left a few miles & see one suddenly appear, don't assume it's the one you saw disappear, it's not! It just one you did see come their first before it disappeared! **I have never heard anyone other than me say this about these objects. So I don't know how many people realize this. Crazy as it sounds, I have seen 70 or 80 of these ones? I have them logged, but those number are not too far off, it was last year. 8 this year. I don't like to call them orbs, to me they are too big. The orange ones are about 20-30 ft in diameter. The white ones are 40-50 plus in diameter. I have seen a white one within 200 yds, Orange 1500 ft.
Interesting article, however, I am not clear on one thing. How did you come to the conclusion who these hoaxers were? You said they "appeared to be sweet church-going folks out for a drive after evening services."
I am very interested in UFO sightings. I experienced a few sightings in the sky several times as a child with my parents and neighbors and have always been intrigued. I'll be following your articles.
MP,
Hi, I read your thought on how could they think or determine:
*"How did you come to the conclusion who these hoaxers were? You said they "appeared to be sweet church-going folks out for a drive after evening services."
I copied and pasted the first sentence of the report that was submitted to MUFON. It is below:
""My sighting started as we were going home after attending Saturday evening mass and going out for dinner afterwards.""
From my experience with the Catholic religion, "mass" is one of their services held on various days.
So this is how I would imagine MUFON investigators came to this logical conclusion.
Texas MUFON Case # 21440
Date submitted: 2010-01-11
Date of sighting:2010-01-09
Headliner title: "A bright light that descended to the ground and left a mark"
To read the report, here is the link below:
mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/manage_sighting_reports.pl?mode=view_long_desc&id=21440&rnd=732121263708801
Best wishes hope this helps answe
MP,
You have experienced a few sightings in the sky several times as a child with your parents and neighbors. What types of crafts were they? Where did you grow up? My first sightings started when I was a child too, in Tennessee. It never stopped, I've seen eight already this year. How about for you, when was the last sighting for "you" and or the last? I now live in SLC, Utah.
Where exactly do these craft come from? And how? Fascinating.
Hello CH: I hail from that beautiful part of the United States which could be called East Central Pennsylvania. I believe you said you’re from Utah? Your view of the night sky must be spectacular. For the last ten years we have been living in a wooded area, our house is surrounded by 90 foot oaks, poplars, some cherry and lots of spruce. We can’t see the heavens like we used to. We already said that when we retire we’re going to find some dark and open sky to live under. Sorry for the tangent there! There has been a tremendous upsurge in the number of orange lights in the sky sightings. I loathe the term “orb”….I was actually asked to stop posting on a “ghost hunting” sight some time ago because I demonstrated that their “orbs” were probably nothing more than small bits of particulate mater illuminated by their camera’s flash. Also I showed them that a “ghost in a window” they had was an reflection of a utility pole and a transformer. That really upset them for some reason.
I think like most of us here I'm after the truth. What I love about Roger's page here is that he posts just about everything. He doesn't pass judgment or try to filter, he lays it out there and then let's us discuss. We also have some very intelligent and regardless of how we lean in our beliefs OBJECTIVE people posting here. Years ago I had a friend who lived up on a hill. Although I never joined him in this he said he used to get 100 gallon tan trash bags, fill them with a mixture of oxygen and acetylene, rig up a fuse and float them over the city. The things would flicker and float up in to the sky looking very strange until the fuse reach the gases. If he set the mixture just right they would explode. If not they would flare up and look like an iridium flare for a second or two. Dangerous, would never do this, but what did the people on the ground think the saw? It wasn't an aircraft, it wasn't a meteor, it was a UFO. That's why I try to look for earthly explanations.
CH Con't (sorry, my message prior to this was also for you):
A few pages before you mentioned that you were seeing aircraft whose lighting patterns did not comply to what would be considered standard FAA anti-collision \ landing lights. I agree....and I thought that I was the only one who noticed that in the last year or two this has REALLY picked up. We saw a small jet on what had to be a flight path for a landing at our local airport last night......except it had like (5) red lights on and it was almost completely silent.....I mean it had to be a jet...it was shaped like onr....right?......(MOMMY!!) No seriously, we saw it as exactly described. I'm 99.9999% sure it was a jet, but no noise and all the weird lights? I see the no noise as a good thing (good engines), but what's up with the LIGHTS...do you know something about an FAA rule change? I mean it used to be green on right wing red on left, had that changed?
AL,
Hello sir! About the FAA standard lighting patterns; There has been no change that I know of. Even my pilot friends say it's the same. I use binoculars to observe what I see. Also if the lighting pattern is different, it can still be our stuff. Just about two and a half weeks ago I seen this leer jet with my binoculars, the model escapes me at the moment. Anyway I am familiar with that aircraft. It's green light on the right wing was out(smiles). Yes even aircraft lights can burn out etc, just like our car turn signal etc :). I'm not quick to call anything a UFO. UFOs, most ones I see have no blinking lights ever. Unknown lights to me is just that, I need more than that. Sound in the summer is hard to hear, in the winter it is much easier. I need flight characteristics our craft can't do. Also a structural visual when all else fails. But I'm also not one of those people that doubt what I see. I don't need anybodies confirmation to prove what I've seen. That's for doubters.
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