[Chaos-l] FW: BlackTriangle

[Tony Garcia]

I don't have an answer here but I will comment that visual perspectives can
do crazy things.

For example, my UFO story --

I used to live in New Mexico and was walking home one afternoon when I saw
a spinning, round, UFO hovering over the field next to me.  I looked at it
and around in complete amazement and to point it out to anyone nearby - of
course there was no one!

It slowly landed in the field...  then I walked over and picked it up ...
it was a large trash can lid that had been swept up in an afternoon dust
devil and was in the process of die-ing out and depositing the lid. ( its
like a tiny tornado if you are unfamiliar. Larger ones will sweep up and
take trampolines and empty kid pools. )

A little trick of wind, hovering, and depth perception made it flying
saucer!

So, no particular answer to the question below other than that a completely
rational, skeptical, intelligent person can see something that can't be
easily explained or best explained as a UFO.  Well, maybe the intelligent
part was a stretch in my case.

-ctg


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Sayle, Amy E <sayle at email.unc.edu> wrote:

>  Hi, CHAOS folks --
>
> Can you help me out with any thoughts you have on what this man may have
> seen? (The email below is from a Chapel Hill News reporter-- I have deleted
> from the email the name & contact info of the man who saw the object and
> contacted the reporter.)
>
> This is the relevant excerpt from the "UFO report" the man refers to in
> his email to the reporter:
> "...on Saturday November 3, 2012 at approximately 9pm I saw what at first
> I thought was a falling star.  I was looking at the constellation
> Cassiopeia when a streak of light caught my attention.  The object came
> out of the North to the left of Cassiopeia. As I craned my neck to follow
> it across the sky I realized it was a perfect black triangle with white
> lights on each point. It continued its straight path out of sight beyond
> the tree line. It was very fast, with no sound. 3 seconds total. "
>
> He lives in Carrboro, near the center of town, and saw this from his back
> yard.
>
> thanks,
> Amy Sayle
> Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Schultz, Mark [mschultz at newsobserver.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:26 PM
> *To:* Sayle, Amy E
> *Subject:* Fwd: BlackTriangle
>
>  Amy,
>
>  Here is the image our caller saw.
>
>  Thanks very much,
> Mark
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:
> Date: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:23 PM
> Subject: BlackTriangle
> To: mschultz at newsobserver.com
> Cc: mark.schultz at newsobserver.com
>
>
> Mark
>
> Attached is a simple jpeg lifted from the internet that looks exactly like
> what I saw. Again, the one I witnessed was moving.
>
> In addition to the attached UFO report that I submitted to NUFORC, I would
> also say that the object in question may have changed speeds, because
> visually, it went from a long streak of light across the sky to a perfect
> triangle as it passed overhead. Basically, it felt as if the object came
> from far away in a hurry.
>
> Feel free to give me a call with any other questions, and have the
> Planetarium call me directly if they want to.
>
>  --
> Mark Schultz
> Editor
> The Chapel Hill News l The Durham News
> The News & Observer
> 919-932-2003
> Facebook: facebook.com/mark.schultz.94043
>
>
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