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[Xeaphon]

I was on a bus from Croydon to Heathrow Airport (UK) on Wednesday morning and a man got on wearing an astronaut's helmet. He wasn't wearing a full suit, just the helmet, with a long black overcoat. I got off before him, so I didn't see if he was going all the way to the airport.

[Tesla II]

Black Ops Hazmat space training.. .

Anyway must have been quite a shock for a normal routine too encounter this space guys.. Did the suits look like hazmat or space ?

[Tesla II]

Xeaphon, on 15 March 2013 - 04:40 PM, said:

I was on a bus from Croydon to Heathrow Airport (UK) on Wednesday morning and a man got on wearing an astronaut's helmet. He wasn't wearing a full suit, just the helmet, with a long black overcoat. I got off before him, so I didn't see if he was going all the way to the airport.

Daft punk man...

[spud the mackem]

Wow,maybe they were not "men", did you see their faces or were the sun-visors down.

[Tesla II]

Ok so they were Alien black ops hazmat space astronauts xDDD. Poking a dead rabbit at the side of the road.

Quote

It: What is that?
Second it: Must be some sort of organic rock
It: This planet is strange... lets cover it up.. It is a tree..

Just joking

In case of daft punk they werent little green men they once had a gig without the helmets ...fact

Edited by Tesla II, 15 March 2013 - 05:26 PM.

[marboo]

Xeaphon, on 15 March 2013 - 04:40 PM, said:

I was on a bus from Croydon to Heathrow Airport (UK) on Wednesday morning and a man got on wearing an astronaut's helmet. He wasn't wearing a full suit, just the helmet, with a long black overcoat. I got off before him, so I didn't see if he was going all the way to the airport.

How weird!

Tesla II, on 15 March 2013 - 04:46 PM, said:

Black Ops Hazmat space training.. .

Anyway must have been quite a shock for a normal routine too encounter this space guys.. Did the suits look like hazmat or space ?

I could have sworn they were space suits, If I saw footage of astronauts in space wearing those suits I wouldn't even take a second glance.

spud the mackem, on 15 March 2013 - 05:18 PM, said:

Wow,maybe they were not "men", did you see their faces or were the sun-visors down.

The reflective visors were down, although I'm positive they were people. Just doesn't explain the uneasiness before it all happened.

[Tesla II]

marboo, on 16 March 2013 - 03:19 AM, said:

The reflective visors were down, although I'm positive they were people. Just doesn't explain the uneasiness before it all happened.

Very weird and interesting... you should come back and look around or mabye spy abit on what they were doing. That uneasy effect might originate in something they were doing, still i find it even more werid that there wasnt any security.

[highdesert50]

If these were completely self contained suits, having the breathing apparatus within, then this was a fairly high level hazmat incident. Yet, what the OP has described seems inconsistent with incident management where responders would be using level one protection. Typically, a high level hazmat incident is very carefully controlled and would be cordoned off, for example, concentric rings with the "hotest" area in the center eventually followed by a well defined decontamination area for the response team. What then comes to mind is perhaps some sort of informal training. Perhaps, because level one personal protection is so uncomfortable and awkward in use, the team was simply getting some practice donning and doffing equipment in a realistic setting. But, this is indeed a curious event from the perspective of hazardous materials handling.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

My first thought was that you drove past them filming one of those "aliens make friends with humans" kids shows we get from time to time filmed here.

[scowl]

marboo, on 13 March 2013 - 04:37 AM, said:

Scary to think that something so dangerous is completely exposed to the public

It was more scary to read that some kid was able to accumulate enough radioactive material to attempt to build a crude nuclear reactor and had more than enough stuff to build a dirty bomb.

[CRIPTIC CHAMELEON]

They were just looking for new places to film a mars or moon landing.

[ufosdisclosed]

They were probably doing some sneaky testing or disposing some toxic material inside the earth like they normally do...

Their reaction is, "Nothing to see here folks"!

[OverSword]

To the original post.  Sounds a bit like a possible time slip which may explain why seemed to ignore you.  (?)

Edited by OverSword, 19 March 2013 - 03:00 PM.

[Rogue Suga]

What were these men in space suits doing? Also can you describe that "futuristic van" please?

[DKO]

Do trucks ever go down that road? Possibly a truck spilled some chemicals or something and they were the HAZMAT team cleaning it up.