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From: "Keith Woodard" <qwoodard@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 04:17:34 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:07:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Art Bell's Update On Phoenix Sightings
> From: setag@cyberspace.org, Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk
> (StigAgermose)
> To: updates@globalserve.net, d005734c@dc.seflin.org
> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:02:52 +0100
> Subject: Fwd: Art Bell's Update On Phoenix Sightings
> Received via "alt.alien.visitors" December 16 at 20.56 local time
> (GMT> + 1 hour):
> *******
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:41:11 -0600
> From: setag@cyberspace.org
> Subject: new eye witnesses phoenix sighting
> Message-ID: <884977743.744685569@dejanews.com>
<snip>
> What these witnesses describe is a triangle shaped object about
> 1000 feet in the air that was immense in size. Many of the
> witnesses estimated the object to be over 20 blocks long! Many
> got out of there cars to watch it fly by as it was moving very
> slowly at this point. Some even reported that the object was so
> low there headlights reflected off of it. It obviously was using
> some sort of anti-gravity propulsion.
Have you read about the secret military "flying wing" called the
"Blimp?" Art Bell's first UFO sighting, that forever changed the
character of his show, answers to this description. He says the
craft was definitely "floating" through the air.
According to the Federation of American Scientists
(http://www.fas.org/irp/mystery/blimp.htm):
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"A very intriguing aircraft was been reported in the late 1980s.
Some observers claim to have witnessed a vast black flying wing,
estimated at between 600 and 800 feet in width, passing silently
over city streets in California. The craft moved so slowly one
observer claimed that he could jog along with it. The aircraft
reportedly executed bizarre maneuvers in which it stopped,
rotated in place and hovered vertically, pointing its thin
trailing edge toward the ground. This vehicle's unlikely
gyrations suggest that it is distinct from the other sightings,
and could be a lighter-than-air craft pushed by slow- turning
propellers."
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Even if it's not lighter-than-air, it seems possible that a large
cross-section-to-mass ratio, ultra-light materials, and advanced
aerodynamic contours could enable a heavier-than-air craft to
float in the observed manner. My point is that a craft behaving
this way would not necessarily need an antigravity device.
<snip>
> For those that are skeptics to the whole UFO thing, well
> you are the same type that told Columbus the world is flat. The
> universe is humungous. There are billions of planets out there
> and you think earth is the only one that supports life? WAKE UP!
There may be religious fundamentalists who believe earth is the
only planet supporting life, but the mainstream skeptical
position actually holds that the universe is probably teeming
with life. According to this position, astronomical distances,
the speed-of-light limitation, and the lack of irrefutable
evidence indicate that it is unlikely we are being visited.
Since this position can be cogently attacked, there is no need to
set up a straw man.
Kind regards,
Keith
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