... Venus. The stated position checks exactly (within allowable observational error) with the computed position of Venus. Description of color, speed, and setting time all check closely. There have even been reports of UFO sightings from Maine. In Bangor on February 27, 1998 a man reported that he had seen a flashing white light move rapidly across the sky while driving along a highway. Another sighting in Bangor on ... he pulled out a pistol and fired at the flying object. On the third shot the disk flew away at a tremendous speed. On September 1, 1971 in Dexter a man reported seeing a sil...

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... photographic probes, and planned to send in divers equipped with television cameras.  UFOs Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), any object or light, reportedly sighted in the sky, that cannot be immediately explained by the observer. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but UFOs (sometimes called flying saucers) became widely discussed only after the first widely ... who had taken antidepressant medication and was legally intoxicated. "The driver was in a state of drunkenness and under the influence of medicines incompatible with alcohol, a state which preven...

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... since travel at huge speeds will no longer be energy prohibited. Now, would those ships be prohibited by the speed of light? Some physicists believe that it is possible to make space-time itself. This means to surround the spaceship with local space time in ... deep space travel times. This implies discovering a means to move a vehicle at or near the actual maximum speed limit for motion through space or through the modification of space-time itself. 3. Discover fundamentally new on-board energy production methods to power propulsion devices. This third goal ... To understand and fully ap...

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... three minutes...They were flat like a pie pan.Æ' Arnold, being an experienced pilot, clocked the speed of these flying objects at about 1200 miles per hour. (Menzel 4) First of all, if these Æ' ®flying saucersÆ' ­ were moving at a speed of 1200 miles per hour, they would have traveled out of his sight in well less than three minutes (in the three minutes that Arnold observed them ... phenomena are mirages. Mirages are not illusions. They are real objects seen because of abnormal reflection. Mirages are usually seen on hot flat surfaces such as deserts or roadways. Mirages occur whe...

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... they almost always fail to prove it, or they just have a blurry picture or taping of one. One of the earliest sighting was seen by a pilot named Kenneth Arnold. What he said was, "Suddenly, a bright flash seemed to light up my airplane." (Arnold 6). After this he claimed to see 9 separate disk-shaped ... objects. Kenneth, after noticing this, tried to fix the speed at which the UFOs were going, and got an estimate of 1,350 mph, way faster than his plane. While people ... like Kenneth only see the flying object, Lonnie Zamora, was one of the lucky ones. He claims that not only did he .....

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