it was seen in stevensville texas on jan the 8th 2008. it was on cnn and the world news i dont have the url...not anymore and i cant seem to find the artical anymore. but they had creditable eye whitnesses(sp?)


check it out....if you want?

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It's being discussed all over the board.
But frankly, understanding some rudimentary physics makes it seem to me like impossible engineering would need to be involved to make a floating craft a mile long.

The gravity strain alone would be tremendous- but also think about wind shear. Over a mile long solid surface? WoW....

I have no problem with the physics. Space aliens can do what they want. But without reading the article, because I couldn't be bothered, how the heck can anyone tell how large an alien spaceship is by looking at it? Just what refference frame would someone use that would enable them to judge how large an alien flying object up in the sky is? Had the observer spent a lot of time in the Denebulan spaceship yards?

One might wonder what they were doing lurking there
Denobulans are polygamous.

Coming up next on Mythbusters, how to build a 1.5-mile-long balloon!

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The most amazing piece of technology that all of the aliens visiting Earth seem to have is a hand-held camera avoidance detector, since no one ever seems to have a decent camera in the areas where their ships appear.

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The Mile Long and Half Mile Wide Spaceship. It sounds like the title from an early 70's New Wave novel. Maybe accompanied by The Celestial Steam Locomotive.

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I hear the "1.5 mile" is the new model from Denebulan. It succeeds the Denebulan "1 mile". It is an all new line of SUV. If you go now to a Denebulan dealership thay also have special lease rates. But act now, it's a limited time offer.

Maybe accompanied by The Celestial Steam Locomotive



Stevenson's Rocket perhaps?

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My ship, the Constellation was 1,074 feet log and had close to 5 acres of flight deck. It wieghed 85,000 tons empty. What would a ship that big wiegh? Half a million tons?

Double the size, triple the mass gets out of hand fast, don't it?

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MUFON?
Oh, wait---none other than Mr. No-Spin is on it!No mention of mile-sized objects here, tho.

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what a crock of s*^&).

anybody that believes aliens are around is mental.

Park on my lawn tomorrow and i will eat a bid piece of humble pie

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if some skeptics had their head up their posterior they would claim it was night time, and any other explanation was insanity

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sarcasm
What is so bizzare about this aliens is that they are classist and racist, I mean what is wrong with Africa. I've never heard (except for one woman who claimed to have carried an alien love child) of any these guys coming down here..Its always in the USA. Is it because we are poor, and don't carry low resolution cellphone cameras. I feel, I must air this injustice.
/sarcasm

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I thought I was the only person who'd heard of that book.

BTW, video has surfaced of whatever it was. The military has also admitted that they did have aircraft in the area on a training mission. Now, the video is pretty inconclusive, IMHO. It could have ben some kind of natural phenomina I'm not familiar with (it looked like high speed footage of the Northern Lights) or it could have been one of the ships from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The military, however, was stupid in saying that they didn't have anything in the air and then admitting that they did. That just feeds the nutters. They should have admitted to the training flight at the beginning or the spokesperson should have said that they didn't know.

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The ship is a mile long and about a half mile wide? Sounds like an Imperial Star Destroyer. Did the eyewitnesses say it had a dagger-like wedge shape? Perhaps, the Empire is scouting us out in preparation for their attack...

And some Believers would claim that it was the only possible place to keep their heads, no matter what evidence was presented that said otherwise.

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The understanding I have on the subject was that the spokesman thought there wasn't anything up then and was wrong. It happens. The problem is, CTs don't seem to know anything about human behaviour when it's applied to individuals within large organizations. They think the large organization (the military, the government, the Freemasons, etc.) behaves in a way that is not based on how people within it act; the organization is monolithic.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Yeah, but you'd think that by now, the military would have gotten their act together enough to be able to know that the default answer in such situations should be, "I don't know if we had any planes in the air, but I'll check on it and get back to you."

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Was it Clarke or Heinlein that said "It's not an alien craft unless you can read the Mars registration plate"?

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As Gillian said, each individual in the military would have to know that too. Most of them don't have training in what-to-do-if-someone-cries-UFO.

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"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Oh, come on! It's not like the military has never faced this issue before. Any time someone yells, "Space aliens!" the media always puts in a call to the military to see if they were behind it. Were we talking about Roswell, NM circa 1947, I could understand, but they've had 61 freaking years to figure this out now. It ain't like it's rocket science!

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And how many thousands of people make up the military? I'm sure there are procedures that have been drafted to deal with this. The issue is each individual needs to know the procedures. With all the regs and guidelines in the military, how can you possibly have everyone trained for every procedure?

The same thing happens here at work. Press releases go out about something, and we are lectured on how to deal with inquiries. We still have people who run off at the mouth spouting half truths to sound important even though it could mean the loss of thier job.

Is the company wrong?

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With the Cold War over as well, you can see how seriously the Military takes UFO sightings.

I wonder if it hung in the air exactly like bricks don't?
Now where's my towel?

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As I said, it's not "the military" who said it, it was one guy in the military.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort