Cue Up the Twilight Zone Theme. Baker spots UFO
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I am going to use this to augment the Survey thread:
Have you ever seen what you believe to be a UFO?
I have not, not that I recall.
I am going to use this to augment the Survey thread:
Have you ever seen what you believe to be a UFO?
I have not, not that I recall.
Yeah when I left it on an unattended burner once in a lot of grease. Could not tell what it was.? Just another UFO (unidentified frying object).
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From NBCSports:
This is gonna make for a great Progressive commercial.
Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield posted recently on Twitter that he and his wife saw a UFO while driving on Wednesday night. Well, they’re nearly certain they saw a UFO.
“Almost 100%, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner,” Mayfield said. “We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it. . . . Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Baker Mayfield@bakermayfieldAlmost 100%, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner... we stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it... Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?Mayfield is not alone in thinking we are not alone. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers claims that he has seen a UFO, and that the orange object in the sky was eventually chased by fighter jets.
For years, many have suspected that the government has hidden information about close encounters. Over the past year, the government has systemically been sharing the truth about UFOs, and no one seems to care.
It’s the height of human arrogance and conceit to believe that, in a vast and limitless universe, we inhabit the only planet inhabited with life. The only question is whether we find another planet like ours before the residents of that planet find us.
Then again, there’s a good chance they already have. Hopefully, they won’t be
.It’s the height of human arrogance and conceit to believe that, in a vast and limitless universe, we inhabit the only planet inhabited with life.
The Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? We don't see them. We don't hear them. We don't see any sign of them. Not with our best telescopes. No signals from anywhere in the observable universe. No signs of Dyson Swarms. No self replicating robots colonizing a galaxy. No evidence that a civilization ever got that far. And in theory, there's been plenty of time before us, billions of years, for many civilizations to have progressed Waaaay beyond our current condition. There's a Great Filter out ahead of us (most probably ahead of us, unless we're the first). What is the Filter? Is it a killer virus that wipes out life? Is it that civilizations always ruin their habitat before they can figure out how to live as one with the planet? Do civilizations eventually blow themselves up, or actually engineer and unleash a killer virus? Does the universe wipe out life by gamma ray bursts eventually? Asteroid / comet collisions?
Is abiogenesis REALLY hard? Was that the filter?
If a civilization exists at such a distance that we will never know of them due to the expansion of the universe, then does it matter that they exist? If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, did it make a sound?
I'm sure that Mayfield & Rogers saw something weird. But the answer is never aliens.
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To Serve Man...one of my favorite TZ episodes
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I got a chuckle out of this.
Two things that will define you: Your determination when you have nothing. Your attitude when you have everything. - Mike McCartney -
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
UFO sighting: NFL star Baker Mayfield claims he saw UFO over Texas ‘Almost 100%’
March 4, 2021Mr Baker wrote on Twitter: “Almost 100 percent, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner.
“We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it.
“Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Indeed, others had witnessed the phenomenon. One person, named David, responded to Mr Baker and said: “No way, I thought I was the only one!
“I live on a Lake Travis and my parents called me crazy when I ran to tell them. No way you saw it too!”
There has been no official explanation for the supposed UFO sighting, but as astronomer Patrick Valley pointed out in response to Mr Mayfield, there is usually a logical explanation.
Mr Valley said: “Baker, the number one thing I’ve come to realise over the past five years or so of studying the night sky is that it’s never aliens.”
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
Hours before Mr Mayfield’s tweet, SpaceX launched its Starship SN10 rocket, allowing it to cruise for 10 kilometres before landing it.
Elon Musk and co launched the rocket from its Boca Chica testing range, which is only a few hundred miles from Lake Travis.
Alternatively, Mr Mayfield could have witnessed a meteor dropping to Earth.
Astronomer Chris Impey, from the University of Arizona, said most UFOs have “mundane” explanations.]
Browns & Buffett: Got to go fishin, Down to rock bottom again, with just a few Friends -
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
UFO sighting: NFL star Baker Mayfield claims he saw UFO over Texas ‘Almost 100%’
March 4, 2021Mr Baker wrote on Twitter: “Almost 100 percent, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner.
“We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it.
“Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Indeed, others had witnessed the phenomenon. One person, named David, responded to Mr Baker and said: “No way, I thought I was the only one!
“I live on a Lake Travis and my parents called me crazy when I ran to tell them. No way you saw it too!”
There has been no official explanation for the supposed UFO sighting, but as astronomer Patrick Valley pointed out in response to Mr Mayfield, there is usually a logical explanation.
Mr Valley said: “Baker, the number one thing I’ve come to realise over the past five years or so of studying the night sky is that it’s never aliens.”
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
Hours before Mr Mayfield’s tweet, SpaceX launched its Starship SN10 rocket, allowing it to cruise for 10 kilometres before landing it.
Elon Musk and co launched the rocket from its Boca Chica testing range, which is only a few hundred miles from Lake Travis.
Alternatively, Mr Mayfield could have witnessed a meteor dropping to Earth.
Astronomer Chris Impey, from the University of Arizona, said most UFOs have “mundane” explanations.]
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
UFO sighting: NFL star Baker Mayfield claims he saw UFO over Texas ‘Almost 100%’
March 4, 2021Mr Baker wrote on Twitter: “Almost 100 percent, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner.
“We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it.
“Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Indeed, others had witnessed the phenomenon. One person, named David, responded to Mr Baker and said: “No way, I thought I was the only one!
“I live on a Lake Travis and my parents called me crazy when I ran to tell them. No way you saw it too!”
There has been no official explanation for the supposed UFO sighting, but as astronomer Patrick Valley pointed out in response to Mr Mayfield, there is usually a logical explanation.
Mr Valley said: “Baker, the number one thing I’ve come to realise over the past five years or so of studying the night sky is that it’s never aliens.”
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
Well....note: Baker did NOT say he saw "An Alien Spacecraft".....he said he saw a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. You can profess to seeing a UFO without professing to see an alien spacecraft. Its just that He didn't know what it was. Sounded to me more like a meteor, or it could have been SpaceX. (But, doesn't an space launch go up, not down?)
On the other hand, perhaps even more inexplicable was the UFO the pilots saw last week:
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I did see this one over Austin while waiting in a gas station at zero dark thirty in the morning N. of Georgetown. But of course it was a meteor coming down.
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Oooh, when did that happen?
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I live right by a common Miramar Base flight path. The odd lights and sounds are so common I laugh anymore when someone by us claims they spotted a UFO.
Lake Travis TX, or some other area where non commercial aircrafts aren’t so common- who knows
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I live right by a common Miramar Base flight path. The odd lights and sounds are so common I laugh anymore when someone by us claims they spotted a UFO.
Lake Travis TX, or some other area where non commercial aircrafts aren’t so common- who knows
I live right by a common Miramar Base flight path. The odd lights and sounds are so common I laugh anymore when someone by us claims they spotted a UFO.
Lake Travis TX, or some other area where non commercial aircrafts aren’t so common- who knows
Actually, there is a major Air Force base near there: Fort Hood. Only 70 miles away. My niece's husband was stationed there for some time.
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One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
UFO sighting: NFL star Baker Mayfield claims he saw UFO over Texas ‘Almost 100%’
March 4, 2021Mr Baker wrote on Twitter: “Almost 100 percent, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner.
“We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it.
“Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Indeed, others had witnessed the phenomenon. One person, named David, responded to Mr Baker and said: “No way, I thought I was the only one!
“I live on a Lake Travis and my parents called me crazy when I ran to tell them. No way you saw it too!”
There has been no official explanation for the supposed UFO sighting, but as astronomer Patrick Valley pointed out in response to Mr Mayfield, there is usually a logical explanation.
Mr Valley said: “Baker, the number one thing I’ve come to realise over the past five years or so of studying the night sky is that it’s never aliens.”
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
Hours before Mr Mayfield’s tweet, SpaceX launched its Starship SN10 rocket, allowing it to cruise for 10 kilometres before landing it.
Elon Musk and co launched the rocket from its Boca Chica testing range, which is only a few hundred miles from Lake Travis.
Alternatively, Mr Mayfield could have witnessed a meteor dropping to Earth.
Astronomer Chris Impey, from the University of Arizona, said most UFOs have “mundane” explanations.]
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
UFO sighting: NFL star Baker Mayfield claims he saw UFO over Texas ‘Almost 100%’
March 4, 2021Mr Baker wrote on Twitter: “Almost 100 percent, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner.
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.Hours before Mr Mayfield’s tweet, SpaceX launched its *Starship SN10 rocket*, allowing it to cruise for 10 kilometres before landing it.
Elon Musk and co launched the rocket from its Boca Chica testing range, which is only a few hundred miles from Lake Travis.
Alternatively, Mr Mayfield could have witnessed a meteor dropping to Earth.
Well....note: Baker did NOT say he saw "An Alien Spacecraft".....he said he saw a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. You can profess to seeing a UFO without professing to see an alien spacecraft. Its just that He didn't know what it was. Sounded to me more like a meteor, or it could have been SpaceX. (But, doesn't an space launch go up, not down?)
Elon Musk has quite a space inventory ?.... If in fact?, SpaceX confirms shooting off & landing a Starship SN10 rocket?
It looks rocket'ish?
not UFO'ish, looking up at it, in the dark.. ? (yikes! I've been spotted!)
I don't think Baker would be reporting a meteor falling to earth?... but hey, it was a slow news week ?
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How to serve man!! Classic!!
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One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
UFO sighting: NFL star Baker Mayfield claims he saw UFO over Texas ‘Almost 100%’
March 4, 2021Mr Baker wrote on Twitter: “Almost 100 percent, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner.
“We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it.
“Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Indeed, others had witnessed the phenomenon. One person, named David, responded to Mr Baker and said: “No way, I thought I was the only one!
“I live on a Lake Travis and my parents called me crazy when I ran to tell them. No way you saw it too!”
There has been no official explanation for the supposed UFO sighting, but as astronomer Patrick Valley pointed out in response to Mr Mayfield, there is usually a logical explanation.
Mr Valley said: “Baker, the number one thing I’ve come to realise over the past five years or so of studying the night sky is that it’s never aliens.”
One possible explanation for the sighting is that Mr Mayfield witnessed the latest SpaceX launch.
Well....note: Baker did NOT say he saw "An Alien Spacecraft".....he said he saw a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. You can profess to seeing a UFO without professing to see an alien spacecraft. Its just that He didn't know what it was. Sounded to me more like a meteor, or it could have been SpaceX. (But, doesn't an space launch go up, not down?)
On the other hand, perhaps even more inexplicable was the UFO the pilots saw last week:
Well....note: Baker did NOT say he saw "An Alien Spacecraft".....he said he saw a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. You can profess to seeing a UFO without professing to see an alien spacecraft. Its just that He didn't know what it was. Sounded to me more like a meteor, or it could have been SpaceX. (But, doesn't an space launch go up, not down?)
On the other hand, perhaps even more inexplicable was the UFO the pilots saw last week:
Yeah, lots of "Unidentified Flying Objects ", until someone identifies them as something mundane. As a lifetime amateur astronomer, I've spent thousands of hours looking at the night sky, and haven't seen one yet. Usually planes or bright meteors are the culprit. The planet Venus frequently gets mistaken too.
FWIW, the latest Space X did take off to about 6 miles up, and then came back and landed on a test flight. Spectacularly blew up on the ground about 5 minutes later. Easily could have been mistaken for a UFO.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn10-test-launch-landing-explosion
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It’s the height of human arrogance and conceit to believe that, in a vast and limitless universe, we inhabit the only planet inhabited with life.
The Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? We don't see them. We don't hear them. We don't see any sign of them. Not with our best telescopes. No signals from anywhere in the observable universe. No signs of Dyson Swarms. No self replicating robots colonizing a galaxy. No evidence that a civilization ever got that far. And in theory, there's been plenty of time before us, billions of years, for many civilizations to have progressed Waaaay beyond our current condition. There's a Great Filter out ahead of us (most probably ahead of us, unless we're the first). What is the Filter? Is it a killer virus that wipes out life? Is it that civilizations always ruin their habitat before they can figure out how to live as one with the planet? Do civilizations eventually blow themselves up, or actually engineer and unleash a killer virus? Does the universe wipe out life by gamma ray bursts eventually? Asteroid / comet collisions?
Is abiogenesis REALLY hard? Was that the filter?
If a civilization exists at such a distance that we will never know of them due to the expansion of the universe, then does it matter that they exist? If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, did it make a sound?
I'm sure that Mayfield & Rogers saw something weird. But the answer is never aliens.
The Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? We don't see them. We don't hear them. We don't see any sign of them. Not with our best telescopes. No signals from anywhere in the observable universe. No signs of Dyson Swarms. No self replicating robots colonizing a galaxy. No evidence that a civilization ever got that far. And in theory, there's been plenty of time before us, billions of years, for many civilizations to have progressed Waaaay beyond our current condition. There's a Great Filter out ahead of us (most probably ahead of us, unless we're the first). What is the Filter? Is it a killer virus that wipes out life? Is it that civilizations always ruin their habitat before they can figure out how to live as one with the planet? Do civilizations eventually blow themselves up, or actually engineer and unleash a killer virus? Does the universe wipe out life by gamma ray bursts eventually? Asteroid / comet collisions?
Is abiogenesis REALLY hard? Was that the filter?
If a civilization exists at such a distance that we will never know of them due to the expansion of the universe, then does it matter that they exist? If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, did it make a sound?
I'm sure that Mayfield & Rogers saw something weird. But the answer is never aliens.
Me and Orion are both astronomers.... the bug bear to interstellar travel is this nasty thing called the speed of light. Only way to get from point A to point B in our galaxy is hope wormholes exist. Fer instance- even IF you could build a spaceship capable of travelling at the speed of light- (that's 186,000 miles per second, you can get to the Moon in a second and change) it would still take you 4 years to get to our nearest neighboring star, Alpha Centauri.
I always love to point out this reduction in scale example. Shrink the universe down to- the Sun is a dot, and the Earth is an atom sized speck orbiting it one inch away. On that scale Alpha Centauri is 4 miles away. Our nearest neighbor Andromeda Galaxy would be 10 times more distant than the Moon.
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I got a chuckle out of this.
I got a chuckle out of this.
TB12 clapped back on colin saying how do you know i have never seen alien,colin !
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Well....note: Baker did NOT say he saw "An Alien Spacecraft".....he said he saw a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. You can profess to seeing a UFO without professing to see an alien spacecraft. Its just that He didn't know what it was. Sounded to me more like a meteor, or it could have been SpaceX. (But, doesn't an space launch go up, not down?)
On the other hand, perhaps even more inexplicable was the UFO the pilots saw last week:
Yeah, lots of "Unidentified Flying Objects ", until someone identifies them as something mundane. As a lifetime amateur astronomer, I've spent thousands of hours looking at the night sky, and haven't seen one yet. Usually planes or bright meteors are the culprit. The planet Venus frequently gets mistaken too.
FWIW, the latest Space X did take off to about 6 miles up, and then came back and landed on a test flight. Spectacularly blew up on the ground about 5 minutes later. Easily could have been mistaken for a UFO.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn10-test-launch-landing-explosion
Yeah, lots of "Unidentified Flying Objects ", until someone identifies them as something mundane. As a lifetime amateur astronomer, I've spent thousands of hours looking at the night sky, and haven't seen one yet. Usually planes or bright meteors are the culprit. The planet Venus frequently gets mistaken too.
FWIW, the latest Space X did take off to about 6 miles up, and then came back and landed on a test flight. Spectacularly blew up on the ground about 5 minutes later. Easily could have been mistaken for a UFO.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn10-test-launch-landing-explosion
And that did take place somewhere in south Texas.....so if the timing was right, that could have been it.
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Yeah, lots of "Unidentified Flying Objects ", until someone identifies them as something mundane. As a lifetime amateur astronomer, I've spent thousands of hours looking at the night sky, and haven't seen one yet. Usually planes or bright meteors are the culprit. The planet Venus frequently gets mistaken too.
FWIW, the latest Space X did take off to about 6 miles up, and then came back and landed on a test flight. Spectacularly blew up on the ground about 5 minutes later. Easily could have been mistaken for a UFO.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn10-test-launch-landing-explosion
And that did take place somewhere in south Texas.....so if the timing was right, that could have been it.
And that did take place somewhere in south Texas.....so if the timing was right, that could have been it.
Nah- if Baker was back in the Austin area- it's almost 400 miles to the Space X launch pad in Boca Chica. Unlikely..
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The Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? We don't see them. We don't hear them. We don't see any sign of them. Not with our best telescopes. No signals from anywhere in the observable universe. No signs of Dyson Swarms. No self replicating robots colonizing a galaxy. No evidence that a civilization ever got that far. And in theory, there's been plenty of time before us, billions of years, for many civilizations to have progressed Waaaay beyond our current condition. There's a Great Filter out ahead of us (most probably ahead of us, unless we're the first). What is the Filter? Is it a killer virus that wipes out life? Is it that civilizations always ruin their habitat before they can figure out how to live as one with the planet? Do civilizations eventually blow themselves up, or actually engineer and unleash a killer virus? Does the universe wipe out life by gamma ray bursts eventually? Asteroid / comet collisions?
Is abiogenesis REALLY hard? Was that the filter?
If a civilization exists at such a distance that we will never know of them due to the expansion of the universe, then does it matter that they exist? If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, did it make a sound?
I'm sure that Mayfield & Rogers saw something weird. But the answer is never aliens.
Me and Orion are both astronomers.... the bug bear to interstellar travel is this nasty thing called the speed of light. Only way to get from point A to point B in our galaxy is hope wormholes exist. Fer instance- even IF you could build a spaceship capable of travelling at the speed of light- (that's 186,000 miles per second, you can get to the Moon in a second and change) it would still take you 4 years to get to our nearest neighboring star, Alpha Centauri.
I always love to point out this reduction in scale example. Shrink the universe down to- the Sun is a dot, and the Earth is an atom sized speck orbiting it one inch away. On that scale Alpha Centauri is 4 miles away. Our nearest neighbor Andromeda Galaxy would be 10 times more distant than the Moon.
Me and Orion are both astronomers....
Calling me an astronomer is an insult to astronomers. ? I'm just a mild enthusiast. I have an 8" equatorial that's set up in my enclosed back porch...but it hardly ever carries itself outside.
The constellation Orion is heading west now at night. Spring's a Comin'.
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