Post by Kiwi on Mar 19, 2008 7:35:11 GMT -4
phantomwolf said:
I have lived all my life in New Zealand and I've seen a programme about flying saucers by Nick Cook. Does that make me as qualified as Altair4?I have lived all my life in New Zealand and I'm quite unfamiliar with Nick Cook, but I read all the newspaper reports during the Kaikoura incident, have a book here called "The NZ Files -- UFOs in New Zealand," once read Bruce Cathie and Eric von Daniken, and two nights ago advised someone about things in the sky as shown below. Does that make me as qualified as Altair4?
From a Trade Me Message Board Thread about the ISS and Space Shuttle (the thread vanishes into cyberspace two or three days after the last post):
8. dbb I have a Q for you -- Every morning me and mum go walking...each day looking toward the NW i see this round thing crossing the sky. It is soundless, wingless and is white. I am not kidding as mum has seen it as well. Any clues as to what it may be please???
solitaire3 (396 ) 10:53 pm, 17 Mar
[With so little to go on, the first step was to find out the poster's location. Her profile said Waihi.]
10. No. 8 -- You need a much more detailed description for identification -- height in degrees, size, distance, direction of flight, area of the sky covered, speed etc. ## Dandelion seed? Weather balloon? Aircraft? ## Northwest from Waihi you'd be looking at heaps of aircraft flying to Mangere and possibly Whenuapai. I see the Wellington-Auckland aircraft flying across the Taranaki Bight about 20km out to sea from where I live, and they usually look exactly the same as you described. It's very rare to see the wings or tail, only the fuselage, which looks vaguely saucer-like. And what shape are many UFO's described as? Keep in mind that UFO is an abbreviation for Unidentified Flying Object, but many dummies nowadays wrongly take it to mean alien spacecraft. It doesn't. If you know it's an alien spacecraft, then it's an IFO. Identified.
dbb (20 ) 2:54 am, 18 Mar
[My favourite quote, which is with my profile on that web site: "Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R Murrow (1908–1965)]