Comments on: Chinese Company Develops UFO

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:05:06 +0000

Oh, that’s just Wordpress at work, dear elfis… or is it anomaly?

You see, when you include urls in your post, Wordpress automatically assumes you’re selling Herbal Viagra or something like that, so it takes longer for your message to appear, but it eventually does

By: anomaly

anomaly — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:51:42 +0000

Greg … I logged in and posted that first message with the url to the image. Then logged out and came back to the site later the same day. Once here I noticed that my comment was missing so I logged back in and then VOILA it was there. At that point I posted the second message inquiring about the disappearing / reappearing previous post. Whatever happened it appears to have resolved as I saw both of them just now without having been logged in - that is, before logging in NOW to post this …

And I suspect you are right that Drudge just grabbed yet another UAV pic in much the same way I suspect that the AP did with that unrelated pic that they posted.

- SMiles

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:51:45 +0000

Elfis,

How did you leave a comment without logging in?

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:49:31 +0000

I don’t know what’s up with that photo either, and I couldn’t find a picture of the supposed craft at any of the other news sites that ran the story. That one from the Drudge site looks pretty low-tech. Who knows where it came from, or if the Drudge people either checked it out, or just wanted to give the impression that the Chinese are way behind us in the UAV field.

By: elfis

elfis — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:05 +0000

Wow, so my first comment in this thread only appears when I log in.

What’s up with that?

- SMiles

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:19:16 +0000

Yes, I think I made that mistake craig. Thanks for the correction

Still, I was right on 4 feet/1.2 m in diameter

By: craig york

craig york — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Red- I think you’re confusing yards with feet. 1000 yards works out to
(roughly) 923 meters, if my memory of
a meter being about 39 inches ( Vs. 36
inches in a yard, or three feet ).

By: elfis

elfis — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:32:47 +0000

That picture has nothing to do with this news story. That particular image has been aroudn for at least a year or so. I’ve come across it before doing general image searches for “UFO”. So my guess is that the folks putting this news item up at Breitbart did the same thing, googled for a “UFO” image and came up with that and posted it cuz they liked its stylish flare.

Drudge then linked to a copy of THIS image …

http://psiopradio.podomatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1031754/460%3E_1045559.jpg

… which I’ve not been able to verify (that link is to the copy I downloaded and renamed).

- SMiles

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:11:55 +0000

“The aircraft is 1.2 metres (four feet) in diameter and is able to take off and land vertically and hover at an altitude of up to 1,000 metres (yards), Xinhua news agency said.

I concurr with Craig. If the saucer is 1.2 meters in diameter,then the guy standing next to it is what? 40-cm (16 inches) tall???

They say it can hover 1000 meters (yards), well… which one is it? 1000 metes is really impressive, but 1000 yards is only 305 meters, although it would still be better than what Moller’s saucer can pull off (you remember Moller, don’t you, he’s the guy who has promised you a flying car since you were a toddler)

By: craig york

craig york — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:07:15 +0000

It sounds a lot like some of the saucer shaped devices being developed in the
UK ( I think Nick has done some posts
on them in the past.), mainly for public
surveilance work.

I think the image from the link is some kind of modern art installation sculpture-it certainly doesn’t match the
description in the text.