QUOTE (Evangium @ Mar 15 2008, 10:41 AM)

And we know it is a machine because... I can think of a few examples of fauna where colouration could be described as metallic and texture as smooth (eg fish-and, if you want to take this out of context as a point of ridicule, fish have rained from the sky- , beetles, birds). How do we know that, if extra-terrestrial life form is absolutely and positively the only explanation for that 2% of genuinely UAP, that a biological lifeform couldn't evolve those characteristics? And where does the Petrosavodsk UFO fit into into this? Maybe we should discount it because none of the hundreds of eyewitnesses were identified as experienced pilots and there was no radar report...
Taking into consideration in addition to the basic descriptions, the aircrews also reported portholes and rotating beacon lights on the domed saucer-shaped objects, which were maneuvering around their aircraft at the time. In other words, the aircrews were describing machines, not anything to do with atmospheric phenomena.
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So hypersonic flight is the only 'proof' that UAP/UFO= ET's spaceship?
No, but when taken into consideration of the descriptions in regards to the objects, then it is clear that the saucer-shaped crafts were not anything else but artificial flying objects as a truck you passed on the highway is considered an artificial object and nothing to do with atmospheric phenomena based on the basic descriptions.
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The conclusion I've come to is that the evidence of a machine is a human being (somewhere in the chain of events) looking at the 'data' and trying to provide an explanation to the unexplained, decides machine it must be and skews his research accordingly.
Obviously, that encounter nor the the following encounter had nothing to do with natural phenomena, and I might add that a pilot of an F-117 stealth fighter also confirmed the UFO in the American West encounter.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case225.htmThere are a number of ways that an object can be determined as a machine and nothing to do with atmospheric phenomena, and I provided an example above.
Aircrews reported encountering machines, not natural phenomena, and the nature of the radar contacts backs their encounters as artificial intelligently-controlled machines, and that in addition to meteorologist who have also backed the aircrews and radar experts that the objects they encountered had nothing to do with natural phenomena.
Here is another example from an actual encounter.
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Lieutenant Sid Coleman was Radar Officer aboard a B-29 bomber near Galveston. When watching the radar scope Coleman observed two UFOs which he tracked at a speed in excess of 5,000 miles per hour, quite impossible for planes of the day.
The captain of the plane, John Harta, suggested that Coleman recalibrate his set as the sighting was impossible but the sighting was immediately confirmed by the navigator on his radar scope. Eventually four UFOs were seen on the radar screen.
From the plane, they were also able to make visual contact with the object, watching it as a blue-white streak moving fast near the bomber. Shortly after this there was a repeat with several more objects whizzing past their plane.
Crew members watched the UFOs perform incredible maneuvers to avoid hitting the plane. There were reports of a mothercraft absorbing smaller craft and one report of one UFO moving at over 9,000 miles per hour.
The folks who are saying the experts are wrong are skeptics who have no concept on the nature of the basic technology involved, much less any knowledge on natural atmospheric phenomena.