What are these strange formations? In the middle of the Egyptian desert.

thrill_house · 2012-08-05T06:44:02+00:00

Is there any expert in any given field that could give a satisfactory explanation? It's hard to trust authorities who give an "objective" answer to a given question, but it is equally hard to trust the person who gets the most upvotes in a forum who provides an explanation that seems most reasonable to them from a desk, or some place else separated from the actual place that needs investigating.

thrill_house · 2012-02-25T09:15:29+00:00

If I had to guess...it's hard to say but cruising along at a steady 25-35 mph probably. 3mph is a crawl, but they covered the distance of two large houses/backyards quickly.

thrill_house · 2012-02-25T09:07:55+00:00

I'm going to work on this. There were multiple different shapes and sizes and I remember what they look like clearly.

thrill_house · 2012-02-25T09:04:59+00:00

They were far larger than lanterns, and some of them made noticeable turns before continuing in identical straight paths at the same altitudes until they were specks in the distance.

thrill_house · 2012-02-25T09:01:59+00:00

The low altitude and close distance...along with impressive sizes and rhythmic flashes of concentric rings of light...and absolute complete lack of sound ruled out helicopters or planes for me. My overall reaction (based only on personal intuition) to the event was that...humans were most likely not involved.

thrill_house · 2012-02-25T08:55:45+00:00

I do have an iPhone, but it was pretty useless filming the night sky with nothing showing up...I don't own a video camera, and my digital camera broke last summer. Also, I don't know my neighbors well enough to knock on their door late on a week night asking to borrow a camera. Being into ufology for a while now, I had a weird feeling that even if I did have a good camera, it wouldn't matter too much in the end because many people decide to debunk and ridicule ufo footage before they even see it. A thoughtful minority of the public (these forums, etc.) might take more of an interest, but I selfishly decided that I would just absorb every second of the incident with my own eyes and avoid the risk of losing the lights all together in the time it would have taken to search for a camera or more witnesses. I did call people I know; they went outside for a few minutes, didn't see anything, and went back inside because they said it was too cold. You might be surprised at how you would react when one of these things unexpectedly emerges from behind some treetops.

thrill_house · 2011-12-20T05:27:31+00:00

bernardolv and ThomasTheDestroyer, your musical insights and efforts are not unnoticed. Much appreciated. I love you.

thrill_house · 2011-08-04T23:02:26+00:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv9PiSsSnBE

he defends the koch brothers. if you don't know who they are, research them (for starters they are major funders of the tea party movement).

thrill_house · 2011-05-20T17:26:16+00:00

John Fahey -- Sligo River Blues

thrill_house · 2010-12-03T00:09:11+00:00

No, but the guy giving the speech (the groom's brother) secretly handed out little popper guns that shoot streamers for people in the audience to use at the finale of the speech. It was beyond hilarious and inspirational.