Monday, May 25, 2009
Pop Culture MS UFO?
Posted by Greg Akers on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:46 PM
It's not too often you get reports of UFOs in the Memphis area, much less ones that are captured on video and disseminated through YouTube. A dispatch from Examiner.com discusses a May 20th sighting in Horn Lake, Mississippi, of all places. (Warning, video contains NSFW language.)
Read down to the end of the story from Examiner.com, and you'll get the commenters dismissing the mysterious lights as nothing more than flares from a military exercise — a common explanation for UFO sightings. Not that that's not a viable possibility, but I've always wondered, why do military exercises so frequently use flares? I'm not being cheeky, I really want to know.
The Horn Lake lights are reminiscent of the Phoenix lights of a decade ago. Okay, I admit it, I'm into this stuff a little, at least in a pop culture way. I do not wear tin foil on my head. And I would guess the people who shot this video don't either.
Worst case scenario, maybe this video will serve you in a future installment of Harvard/Horn Lake Trivia.
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Greg,
Not that I am an expert but I do have an answer to your questions. The military doesnt normally conduct training with flares. This is because they are expensive to use and they flares do not add much to the training of the flight crews.
Again, I am not an expert but this video is of the FedEx arrivals into Memphis filmed by a couple of stoned Horn Lake dudes who believe they are in the opening sequence of a Will Smith summer blockbuster movie but they got bored after a couple of minutes and made a run to Taco Bell.
It is very easy to see the aircraft spaced out and they all turn over the same point and after they turn you can see the stobe lights. This is FedEx not ET.
I am an expert on tin foil and the best way to block the gamma rays and stop the mind control experiments is to line the roof of your home with the tin foil. I would call "Bob The Builder" immediately.
I would not wear the tin foil on your head because it will make you easier to track with satalites and easier to identify while being observed by the Men In Black. Only Capt. Kirk could get away with that.
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The carrier (Fedex) already moves 150 aircraft in and out during its night shift. ....
Alien abduction would explain a lot....Has anyone else noticed how pointy WW's head is getting?
I witnessed a bat-winged aircraft, possibly a B-2 prototype, in low-level flight over Hopewell, MS around 1990. It freaked me out. A few years later I met someone who also witnessed the event. I'm really not sure why people who see Unidentified Flying Objects are branded as crazy. Surely the average layperson person can't "identify" every aircraft they see in the sky.
Waitaminute, ya'll. Are you saying that FedEx is the lead provocateur in a vast bat-winged conspiracy in which aliens are visiting our planet in the vicinity of Memphis International Airport — Area I-55 — and that our mayor sometimes acts out of this world because he's ACTUALLY FROM OUT OF THIS WORLD!?!?
Crazy talk.
hey, i live in horn lake and went and checked this out. if you want to see what the filmer saw for yourself, go to the schnucks at goodman and hornlake road around 10:35pm on a weeknight. in the front parking lot over on the east (dollartree) side face NE (towards the airport/airways). a great place to stand is the east corner of a flowerbed there.
you can see what are very obviously planes spaced out coming in for a landing.
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