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They finally got a ufo.

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Hunter Captures UFO In Nevada

While hunting alone in a remote part of Western Nevada recently, Robert Pitzer bagged himself a UFO. In fact, there wasn't much of a chase: The unidentified flying object touched down almost on top of him.

Pitzer was lugging a 12-gauge shotgun across the hardscrabble Nevada landscape when he looked up to see a bizarre object descending slowly toward the ground. He got out his phone and snapped some photos, racking his brain to figure out what the object might be. "It looked different than anything I've ever seen, without a doubt," Pitzer told ABC News 10 in his hometown of Auburn, Calif.

The strange object touched down near Pitzer — the only human being for miles — and bobbed up and down for a while in the wind. Pitzer tied it to a rock.
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"tied it to a rock" :D
 
Interesting to note this guys attitude. No "OMG run to the hills its a UFO" he wanders up photographs it, tethers it then inspects the thing to discover its origins

I wonder how JPL might have reacted if he's unloaded the 12 gauge into the instrument package
 
MG1962 said:
Interesting to note this guys attitude. No "OMG run to the hills its a UFO" he wanders up photographs it, tethers it then inspects the thing to discover its origins
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Much the same way Mac Brazell did his balloon in 1947.
I wonder how JPL might have reacted if he's unloaded the 12 gauge into the instrument package
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"Note to self: No more launchings from Arkansas."
 
arthwollipot said:
So what did it end up being?
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A high altitude balloon

From the linked article:
"I still didn't know quite what was going on," he said. "But I figured it's an experimental aircraft. That's when I noticed the JP Aerospace sticker on it."

Pitzer called JP Aerospace, a spaceflight research organization, and learned that the flying object was a high altitude balloon platform meant to carry science experiments to the edge of space. The platform had been launched using helium balloons two hours prior from a starting point 50 miles away, but one of its balloons burst, causing the craft to slowly fall back to Earth.
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Zax63 said:
Damn clever aliens, disguising themselves as a balloon + instrument package. Tiny bastards!
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How good was the Terran Response Force. Man on the ground, armed with no more than a shotgun. The aliens learned nothing of our capacity due to that little foray.
 
"A camera on the balloon platform shot some footage of the bewildered hunter during its descent. "

I hope they release that video. :)
 
phunk said:
"A camera on the balloon platform shot some footage of the bewildered hunter during its descent. "

I hope they release that video. :)
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Especially if the guy is dressed black and carrying a flashy thing :p
 
I had a similar experience!
A deflated party balloon crashed to earth right next to me when out walking in the desert!
Strangely, I was just musing on where those aero-sonde balloons released to measure weather do come down, and why are those not reported?
The one that smashed down next to me was ripped open.. obviously by the altitude it got to.
When observing the sun, it's not rare to see party balloons pass in front of it.
 
I Ratant said:
I had a similar experience!
A deflated party balloon crashed to earth right next to me when out walking in the desert!
Strangely, I was just musing on where those aero-sonde balloons released to measure weather do come down, and why are those not reported?
The one that smashed down next to me was ripped open.. obviously by the altitude it got to.
When observing the sun, it's not rare to see party balloons pass in front of it.
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The balloons degrade with time, and they're really not that big when deflated. I remember History Channel's "Unsolved History" trying to reproduce the Roswell balloon. When they went out into the desert to do the test, they "found" an expended balloon. (I doubt the sequence of events was as described.)

If you remember this episode you probably noted that they didn't account for something Mac Brazell reported to the Air Force, namely that there had been a storm a few days earlier. The HC recreation stated that the debris field was much smaller than reported by Brazell, but they mad e no mention of the storm, which may have torn up and tossed around what was left of the balloon.
 
Ah--we're onto one of my pet peeves!

It's generally clear from context when the term "UFO" is being used to mean "alien spacecraft" [ETA: For examples, "Do you believe in UFOs?" and "Are UFOs real?"] and not technically an unidentified light.

When people go all hypercorrect in pointing out that a found UFO is an IFO and such, I like to point out that most UFOs aren't F and many aren't Os. Indeed, if they're U, by definition you can't know whether they're F or Os!

Venus and the Moon are probably the two things most often seen as UFOs, and they most certainly do not "fly". Optical illusions, reflections, and so on comprise many UFOs and these aren't even "objects".
 
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So much for the "keeping UFO's secret to prevent widespread panic" meme.
 
Robrob said:
So much for the "keeping UFO's secret to prevent widespread panic" meme.
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Widespread panic is precsely what we need to kick start the economy.
Clearly this whole incident has "Gummint Seekrit Agency" stamped all over it. (Economists in black).
 
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