Feb 05 2008
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UFOs Over California (Again)
Welcome to post #300 of Wake Up Down There!
Brian Vike’s indispensable HBCC site has a report of something strange which appeared over the Southern California skies last week:
On January 26, 2008 residents from Orange and LA County, Anaheim, and Brea, California were witness to a very unusual but spectacular UFO event. Numerous people watched as an object fell from the night sky and to their amazement it came to a complete stop while in flight. Most folks thought at first they were witnessing a meteor falling to earth until the object stopped and hovered, leaving everyone scratching their heads. While these objects sat and moved around the sky, aircraft were seen and appeared to be checking out these objects. As just about all of the eyewitnesses mentioned to me, they are baffled at no mention in any of the newspapers over the event, or media in general. I must admit, that makes me wonder why not, when so many people witnessed this really unusual event in the night sky.
What could this have been? Why is it that when a town in rural Texas has a few sightings that the media goes nuts, but when something appears over one of the greatest population centers in the world, we hear nothing about it? Perhaps we’re not supposed to hear about it, and our attention is being drawn to the unimportant sightings. It may also be that the a good portion of the population of Stephenville, Texas witnessed the strange lights and reported them, while only a few people reported the Southern CA event. Who knows?
Perhaps I’m just paranoid.
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Huh?
February 5th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Yeah if it also leaves you scratching your head it could be some sort of mind control obsessive compulsive meme or something. Also watch out for weird pancakes turning up in your breakfast.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Gerry,
Could you elaborate?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Drew,
I am tempted to remove the “paranoid” comment.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
It’s the giggle factor. The mainstream press can get away with ridiculing a bunch of small town Texans(or any other state) but when there’s a sighting in the largest media market in the world, they ignore it because if they ridiculed the possible thousands witnesses who came forward in LA,CA, they risk annoying a lot of potential viewers who may have seen the ufo. The mainstream media has the lowest trust rating its ever had of late and telling a few thousand witnesses that what they saw was swamp-gas or a weather balloon will only worsen that distrust.
February 6th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Greg,
I just wanted to say hi and I enjoy reading your blog.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
There are a lot of lawyers in L.A., who could sue for libel. I think crgintx is right
Another sighting in your town and you miss it Greg?? I don’t know what we are NOT paying you for!!
PS: Congrats on your 300th post
February 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
It was swamp gas! Or maybe ball lightning!
No, A WEATHER BALLOON!
February 6th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Any better estimate of the time that this took place at? There was a pretty major rainstorm going on that evening.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Gerry,
Thank you, and keep reading (and commenting!)
February 6th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
RPJ,
Maybe if I stop complaining, something will happen!
February 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Chris,
On the link above, the sightings are placed between 5:50 and 6:30. According to the weather records for that time, the sky was overcast. Between 6:50 and 7:50 PM, it started raining. None of the reports mention clouds, but the ceiling may have been high. In fact, this makes the reports more interesting, since the events would have taken place below the cloud cover. Perhaps this made the objects more visible.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
raeleggett,
I wish I could see a weather balloon.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
crg,
Good theory, but I don’t know if the TV stations or newspapers know how many people actually saw the lights. It was on a Saturday during dinner time, after all.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Greg:
“They” obviously know where you live and were putting on a show. You’ll never be safe from them now. Doubtless it will only be a matter of time before that slow, ominous knock on the door occurs and the MIB show up…
February 7th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Greg -
Ceiling height at FUL would be good to know even though the 5pm report at FUL was “mostly cloudy.” I was in the mid-Wilshire and downtown area during the time frame and at that time the early pieces of the storm front were overhead and by 7pm it was raining pretty hard.
One thing I did notice that day was that the flight paths at LAX were reversed west-to-east (land over water, take off over city) to route traffic around the storm system. I confirmed this with the LAX Flight Checker and rolling back to the early evening of the 26th. I couldn’t find TRACON data for ONT or SNA, but SNA does occasionally reverse flight tracks should weather conditions dictate it.
Where I’m going with this is that the light-with-a-tail description sounds a lot like a airliner with full landing lights on approaching head-on at ceiling level. Not saying that’s what it was, but after living underneath the SNA and El Toro approach paths for years, you tend to notice what’s normal and what’s unusual.
I stop by that Brea location of The Hat pretty often too. Terrific pastrami!
February 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Chris,
I think the reversed approach at LAX was probably due to the reversal (or nearly so) of the prevailing winds as well.
I don’t know what the approach for Ontario, Long Beach, or John Wayne airports were that evening, but all but one of the UFO reports mentioned another light seemingly circling the main light. I don’t know what would explain this, as well as the “tail” that everyone initially observed on the main light.
I am under the impression (from the reports) that the witnesses were looking at this from different angles, which throws doubt on the landing lights theory, as they all said that the light was stationary for quite awhile.
There might be a good explanation for all of these aspects. If so, I’d like to see them.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
There’s a new report from Fullerton from a witness that was closer.
Now I’m really puzzled
February 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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“Numen Est Omen.” — Nandor Fodor
The Church of the Big Black Triangle finally solves the mystery of transubstantiation — what Jung failed to solve, as he called it: The 3 in 1 problem. Worshipping the “form of the formless” aka the snake goddess or what in Reichian terms is called the “disc of the dragon” we at the Church of the Big Black Triangle are confident in the return of our abductees or, we mean, disciples.