Where’s Mulder when you need him?
This is nothing new. This has been going on since before the Lubbock Lights were photographed and the photos appeared in Life magazine in the 1950s.
I doubt very seriously that it’s either Russia or China, because we know what they do and don’t have, even if they think we don’t. Of course, we’d never tell them that we know what they have, because if they knew that we know that they know that we know that they know that we know what they have, there wouldn’t be any need for them to try to hide it, would there?
Seriously, the Soviets couldn’t even get nuclear stuff going unless their German spy guy Klaus Fuchs funneled stuff to them from the Manhattan Project, never mind the Rosenbergs, and later on the Walker family selling stuff to the Soviets, so that they could patronize strippers and buy expensive booze. And just because they got Sputnik up in an Earth orbit while we were on vacation in Wisconsin, it does not mean that we were behind. We were just being more careful. And besides, they were getting our stuff funneled to them.
Really, come on! If the Russians actually had an aviation vehicle that could nose dive from 60,000 feet and stop on a dime and hover at 50 feet, wouldn’t we have had it first? Our Germans were always better than their Germans, anyway. Ask Albert. Ask Heinlein.
And just think about the physical impact that kind of maneuvering would have on a human pilot.
This WaPo article is almost like an hysterical teen seeing his/her/its first real UFO, and not much more. UFOs have been around for centuries, even millenia. Ask the NASA engineer who designed an aviation vehicle based on a local guy’s description of one in the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament. His conclusion was that yes, it could fly if you could figure out the propulsion system. His book was titled ‘The Chariots of Ezekiel’. The primitive mind is quite literal about a lot of things.
But I digress.
The videos in the article are interesting things, but someone who spent a good deal of time investigating such things in the 1970s, with a rather dim view of silliness, came to the conclusion in his book ‘Earth Lights Revelation’ that they are most likely either animate objects generated by piezo discharges, or they are an unclassified lifeform that needs further investigation. Their ability to move about at will, as indicated by those videos, and move both independently aind in groups with at-will control of speeds, suggests a previously unclassified lifeform.
A piezo discharge, FWIW, behaves a lot like it’s alive, but it is not. It is sometimes referred to as ball lightning, and the majority of it occurs in quake-prone geological areas like the Deccan Traps in India and the Cascades up in the Pacific Northwest. And remember now, the astronauts have recorded electrical discharges generated by the Earth, just like Jupiter does, called elves, red sprites and blue jets.
It is a strange, but normal and interesting Universe that we live in.
And the ‘wow’ signal from 1977 picked up by the Big Ear? Well, that’s supposed to be hydrogen gas emissions from comets instead of alien attempts at communicating with us, because comets do emit gases in the hydrogen spectrum. Many of us do the same thing, but we usually apologize for it if we’re in a crowd.
But what if the hydrogen spectrum is the way an alien race sends long distance communications?
Now, there’s a thought.
I have to go. I think an alien species has engaged in a gas attack in my yard. If I’m right, I know what it looks like: it’s black with a white stripe down its back. I should probably report it to NASA, right?
