Chariots of Light?

Back in August of 2009, I wrote a post about a UFO sighting of my own titled Chariots of Fire.   I described the UFOs as looking like two fireballs zipping around the sky and used the Biblical story of Elijah and Elisha being separated by a chariot of fire as the inspiration for the title of that post (though, for the record, I didn't actually see horses or an actual chariot, they really just looked like two glowing fireballs from my vantage point).

I've been reading about UFOs for years and have seen many videos of UFO sightings.  Despite that, I've never really come across video footage of a sighting that I thought was similar to what I saw....up until now.  Video footage of a UFO sighting over Geelong, Australia posted on the Geelong, Advertiser is similar to what I saw.

What's similar is the patterns of movement.  These objects are able to move in a way that publicly known conventional aircraft cannot.  The video footage is around seven minutes long, and in this case, the zoomed out shots are actually the best shots because the footage is to shaky when the cameraman zooms in.  The best footage comes from around the two minute mark on, where the footage is mostly zoomed out and you can really get a good view of how these objects move around.  There are two UFOs visible in this video, and two is how many I saw also, although I don't know if that is even a significant.  A notable difference though, between my sighting and the sighting filmed in this footage, is the color of the UFOs.  The objects I saw were a glowing reddish-orange color, but the UFOs in this video look like balls of white light.



 I think the UFOs I saw moved around a little more than these did, but the speed and type of movements these objects were capable of doing is similar to what I saw. I haven't figured out what those fireballs were I saw, and I'm not sure what these are either. But as you can see, they don't move like any publicly known conventional aircraft.

This is one time that I don't feel the need to question whether the sighting and footage is authentic or not -- I know that something exists which is capable of moving around like these objects seen in the above video.  I'm just not sure what they are.

H/T

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P.S.  I've heard the objects in the video may be remote controlled airplanes.  However, I'm fairly sure what I saw myself were larger than remote controlled airplanes, as I remember seeing one go behind a cloud on the horizon.  Regardless of what the lights are in this footage, the movements still remind me of the UFOs I saw.

Destination Truth didn't ask enough questions in Petra

In last night's (4/14/10) episode of Destination Truth, the team went to the ruins of Petra in Jordan to search for djinns (a type of spirit, which is the word that our word "genie" is derived from).  At one point, Josh was doing an EVP session and asked out loud if anyone was there with them, and almost immediately afterward, the team heard what sounded like a voice saying "yes."  This wasn't something they heard on the recording after the fact, they actually heard the "yes" out loud.

For some reason, they seemed to be content with just getting that "yes."  You'd think that if someone asked if anyone was around and someone -- whether it's a person, djinn, or something else -- responds, they'd ask for more details.  Instead of settling for a single answer to a question, they should have also asked other questions such as who it was, why it was hanging around Petra, can it grant wishes, etc.  For all they knew at the time, it might have just been a lost tourist wandering near them!

I love Destination Truth, Josh's sarcasm as well as the adventures the team goes on seeking the truth about the unknown give it a real-life Indiana Jones feel that makes for a very entertaining show.  But I think they might have dropped the ball at Petra.  They should have asked more questions!

Unidentified Flying Pyramids?

I was looking at Colin Andrews website today and came across a post about two tetrahedron/diamond shaped UFOs that were filmed over XI'an, China in January.  The footage is actually pretty clear.  At first glance, I thought they looked like kites, but after watching the video clip, they appear to be too big to be kites.





I did a quick search on Google to see if I could find out more about it, but I didn't come across anything I thought was significant.

There was a similar sighting over the Kremlin in Russia recently too.  That sighting even got mentioned in some British media sources (see a Telegraph article here and a Daily Mail article here).  The Daily Mail article says hundreds of people saw it, but if it's real, I'm surprised thousands of people didn't see it considering how big it was.



Some have questioned where the international media was and why the Russians wouldn't have scrambled jets.  Well, those are good questions -- where were the media and jets?  If it's fake, the media wouldn't have seen anything to report and the military wouldn't have needed to scramble jets to intercept it on that day.  But whether it's real or not, why has most of the mainstream media ignored it?  If it is a hoax, the mainstream media ought to investigate the hoax and report who was involved or how it was staged.  At the very least, the mainstream media could just go on the record saying they didn't see anything unusual in the sky that day.  This isn't just your average run-of-the-mill UFO video, it's actually pretty clear.  You'd think it would deserve at least a brief mention. So why will the mainstream media report stuff like what Paris Hilton or Tiger Woods did and repeat it 50 times a day but they won't mention something like this?

I also found a video of a pyramid-like UFO over Colombia (this one actually looks kind of fake to me).

All of this reminded me of an episode of UFO Hunters entitled "Alien Fallout" though, where the team investigated a sighting of a diamond shaped UFO in Texas on December 29, 1980.

So what are these pyramid-like UFOs?  Balloons?  Kites?  CGI?  Holographic projections in the sky?  Or are they real UFOs?  I'm not sure what they are, but I can't help but notice the resemblance to Ra's mothership from Stargate. J