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  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    I too have witnessed something ...
     
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    I think far too many people have for it all to be untrue. And I think that there are even more who don't say anything for fear of ridicule.

    In my case, ridicule would have been hard as it was reported in the local paper the next day as well. Strangely, I looked through the paper's archives a few years later but the story had disappeared.
     
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    Iwas with a group of people in mid wales and we saw a light zig zag through the sky and then disappear...
     
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    I wonder which one of those little dots is the earth?

    Have to agree with both Bolton and Fez the chance that we are alone is remote imo. What form that life will take is anybodies guess as we assume that they will be a version of us. If they are clever enough they will have checked us out and scarpered quickly and wait until we grow up before saying hello.

    My favourtie ST film is First Contact - fills me with hope.
     
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  5. Bolton's Boots

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    Ours was close enough to see clearly - a long cylindrical object, probably about the length of two buses, glowing bright green. Hard to say how high in the sky it was, but the playing field is at the foot of a 600m high mountain and it was definitely lower than the peak.
     
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    It's out there allright, but the bold bit is the key for me.
     
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    I agree. There’s those dirty bastards up the M1 for a start.
     
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    I wouldn't trust NASA if I were you.
    When Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon, it all seemed amazing, until there was a short break in the transmission of the images. NASA simply stated that the pictures had stopped briefly due to atmospheric interference.
    What really happened was that as Armstrong hopped over the ridge he encountered a bloke pushing a wheel barrow in a donkey jacket with WIMPEY across its back.
     
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    I've never really trusted NASA to be honest - ever since the reputedly last surviving pre-emancipation US slave, Charlie Smith, was invited to watch the Apollo 11 launch in 1969, and he famously announced that he didn't believe it was going to the moon.
     
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    If they had faked it, the Soviets would have been first to pipe up and we wouldn't have heard the last of it.
    Can't be doing with this tin foil hat stuff, sorry.
     
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    I seem to remember seeing it all live on the telly when I was a kid. Was the Soup Dragon involved somewhere?
     
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    Maybe, maybe not. At the time, the Russians were denying that they were in the 'race' & their lies were a few years away from being exposed. There's every chance that they would have said nothing.
     
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    I thought that it was well known that NASA appointed Stanley Kubrick to film the "moon landings" but Kubrick only agreed on the condition that the filming was done on the actual location.
     
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    How sad, did you see his face at the end? Will we ever learn?
     
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    Probably not - this seems to be what many around the world aspire to.
     
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    In the words of the old Colin Wilkie song - Autumn is knocking at our door...

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