Comments on: UFOs or UAVs?

By: Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:36:22 +0000

There are a couple of UK UFO cases that were almost certainly UAV-related: one off the coast of Scotland in 1996, and one a few years later on the Isle of Man (also off the UK mainland). I’ll dig into my files and do a write up over the next week.

I met Feschino at Ryan Wood’s crashed ufo gig in November and he gave a good lecture on Flatwoods.

By: Bill Hancock

Bill Hancock — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:32:07 +0000

Have recently been amused at much the now-legendary “Flatwoods/Braxton County Monster” of 1952 resembles a UAV in both structure and movement. When artist Frank Feschino began researching this incident several years back one of the first things he discovered was that the famous drawing of the thing..”based on eyewitness descriptions”…was NOT what they said they saw. The drawing published and circulated (and re-circulated) for years seems to be a HIGHLY anthropomorphized version of what the witnesses saw. They reported a shell type object with a “head” to it (though not really a head in a human context), little arms or antennas that stuck out to the side, and a “skirted” bottom that seemed metallically segmented. The drawing that was made turned the “head” into an anthropomorphized head, turned the little horizontal antenna into long, pantographic style arms, and rendered the “skirt” LITERALLY…as though the thing was wearing a dress. The preposterousness of the appearance of this version of the “monster” tended to put people “off” of it for years.

What Feschino was told by all surviving witnesses was that this rendering was NOT what they saw…so he sat down, took notes from them, made sketches for their approval, and finally came up with what they agreed was the thing they SAW…instead of what other people implied they saw.

Then he painted it.

And what did he paint? Something that looks VERY close to a UAV of some kind…not a “monster”. The revised version shows the kind of thing that could be akin to the probe “Nomad” on the old classic Star Trek episode. Or to the “Guardian” at Fort Huachuca.

Interesting.

Check it out at here.

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:42:33 +0000

This seems certainly a lot more fun than fooling around with some stupid model airplane–and he gets paid for it!

Where did the MUFONites they think the helicopters came from, Zeta Reticuli? This is part of the reason I don’t go to the local meetings anymore, although I must admit that I got some good questions and discussion when I spoke there a couple of months ago.

By: DingoDog99

DingoDog99 — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:18:08 +0000

Funny you mention this, just the other day I was driving down airport road and I saw a funny looking little doughnut shaped UFO. GREAT! I grabbed my kolchak the nightstalker special (old cheapy camera that resides in the glovebox) and got ready to take some pics. Thats when I rounded the corner of the flight facility and saw the goofy air force E-5 playing with the remote control and sporting a huge goofy grin. He waved, I waved, it was… hilarious. ;-p

It’s almost as funny as the time the Albuquerque MUFON people accused me of being a man in black for insisting that the black helicopters in town came from the special operations wing at Kirkland AFB. Silly me!