Comments on: The UFO Mystery Solved

By: Mats N

Mats N — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:56:05 +0000

I’ve seen some quite shiny protective covers on powerlines. Just shiny enough to appear matte black during the day, but reflect light if it strikes the plastic at the proper angle. So I think it could still be the powerlines.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:16:06 +0000

UFO ‘mystery’ in the Keewenau Penninsula, Upper Peninsula, Michigan in the 1970s when I lived there: Also lights seeming to dance in the low sky outside town *near the airport*. Long story short, it was the headlights on airport ground vehicles and landing lights on incoming small private planes reflecting off a small lake 1/4 mile past the end of the runway and onto the side of a large hill/small mountain yet nother half mile away. That area gets fog banks often and that’s when the UFO reports really came in.

By: Bastard Sheep

Bastard Sheep — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:05:30 +0000

This story and solution very well demonstrates the key thing to most UFO and miracle stories. There is ALWAYS key peices of information to the event not spoken about which leaves such stories impossible to bunk or debunk. In fact, I might even use these posts of yours for a story of my own on my blog as it reminds me of a discussion I had with someone on a forum about “light angels”. Thanks to persistent questions this person eventually put up a small street-map of the area he was talking about.

Didn’t help directly, but it did allow me to track down the location in/near Russia through google maps. From there I was able to see the buildings and trees, then use their shadows to get a rough idea of height (at least relative to eachother), and from THIS information it became clear as day the path light from the sun in the early morning was taking, between some trees, hitting a window, and reflecting to the shaded side of a building in the shape of an angel due to very minor warping of the window … just as I had been telling him must have been the case all along.

The evidence I tracked down (rather than what I got from him) backed up my explanation scarily well, right down to trees causing it to fade in and out quite suddenly rather than come in and out gradually.

By: Brian Hart

Brian Hart — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:57:20 +0000

Brian:

Maybe at night you could use a high-power green laser and walk up the street with it. Utilizing walkie-talkies or cell phones, you could walk the same path as the security car, while pointing to various locations until you are told by your “viewee” that you got a “hit”. That would tell you exactly where the reflective surfaces are.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:22 +0000

Something similar happened to me recently. I was walking northward, and it had just gotten dark. There was a REALLY bright light in the sky that I had never seen before. It was too high up to be on the mountains, and FAR too bright to be a star (even brighter than Venus). It wasn’t moving. I thought that maybe something had gone supernova… (Lol, no UFOs, no angels, no ghosts… Supernova. I’m such a skeptic!) I was so stoked!! Until I got closer and closer and realized… It was a light on the arm of a crane. I couldn’t see the body of the crane because it was behind another building, but the arm was swung over the street, making the light look like it was floating high in the sky, attached to nothing. How disappointing. Lol!

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:18:58 +0000

[Watch Brian take the easy way and tell us the mystery lights at sea moved inland and are the same ones explained here. Two unidentified birds with one stone!]

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:21:40 +0000

But what about the “Mystery Lights at Sea”?

http://skepticblog.org/2009/02/12/solving-the-mystery-lights-at-sea/

I am still waiting for the answer to that one.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:23:36 +0000

Aaarrggghhhh! What about the lights in the sea?

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:49:26 +0000

Power lines are heavy and are usually wrapped around a supporting cable that bears the weight. A sort of sheath is often used to hold the lines and weight-bearing cable together. That sheath could be construed as ‘black rubber’ on a visual observation.

I’d suggest that the source of the reflection is probably a glass window or something as efficiently reflective.

So, Final Disclosure is not upon us after all.

*sigh*

By: DoctorAtlantis

DoctorAtlantis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:10:37 +0000

So – you admit to the possibility that it was Aliens who built those power lines as a signaling device? Excellent! And do you see their clever message?? Do you??? That the message is conveyed by light, Light-bringer = Lucifer, ergo: Luciferian technology!!!!

The obvious solution is to remove all electrical equipment as it is Luciferian.

Oh wait – that means my laptop wouldn’t work. NEVERMIND, back to work.