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I just saw a UFO
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Impossible to tell, due to vague description.
Could be anything, there's a plenty of things in the sky like that.
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24-08-2012, 09:24 PM
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(24-08-2012 08:28 PM)Luminon Wrote:  Today my mom woke me up early because there was something in the sky in daylight. Turns out it was Jupiter, as we thought. You see, sometimes it pays off to have astrologic astronomical training and sky chart software installed.

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24-08-2012, 09:28 PM
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(24-08-2012 08:28 PM)Luminon Wrote:  I think I never see anything impressive, because I pretty much live in the middle of nowhere. In every issue of the independent press [Woo-woo mags] I get, there are pretty impressive photographs [Photshopped], witness accounts [notoriously unreliable] and Youtube links of huge, colourful, maneuvering, glowing and shape-shifting spaceships over major world's cities [all debunked].
I guess the silvery cigar-shaped objects I saw this year were just some auxilliary ships, not for showing off to the public. [insert more believable explanation here]

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24-08-2012, 09:37 PM
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RE: I just saw a UFO
(24-08-2012 09:28 PM)Chas Wrote:  
(24-08-2012 08:28 PM)Luminon Wrote:  I think I never see anything impressive, because I pretty much live in the middle of nowhere. In every issue of the independent press [Woo-woo mags] I get, there are pretty impressive photographs [Photshopped], witness accounts [notoriously unreliable] and Youtube links of huge, colourful, maneuvering, glowing and shape-shifting spaceships over major world's cities [all debunked].
I guess the silvery cigar-shaped objects I saw this year were just some auxilliary ships, not for showing off to the public. [insert more believable explanation here]

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24-08-2012, 09:42 PM
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pffft... is obviously jebus checking things out before his second coming... THE END IS NIGH!!!
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24-08-2012, 09:47 PM
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I just saw a UFO
(24-08-2012 09:42 PM)nach_in Wrote:  pffft... is obviously jebus checking things out before his second coming... THE END IS NIGH!!!

Speaking of the End, I just went outside to see if I could see any UFOs. Sadly, all I saw was Uranus! Weeping
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24-08-2012, 10:05 PM
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(24-08-2012 09:47 PM)Erxomai Wrote:  
(24-08-2012 09:42 PM)nach_in Wrote:  pffft... is obviously jebus checking things out before his second coming... THE END IS NIGH!!!

Speaking of the End, I just went outside to see if I could see any UFOs. Sadly, all I saw was Uranus! Weeping

you're long sighted peeping tom uh? Shocking


see what I did there? see? yeah... it's not funny... Confused
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24-08-2012, 10:40 PM
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(24-08-2012 10:05 PM)nach_in Wrote:  
(24-08-2012 09:47 PM)Erxomai Wrote:  Speaking of the End, I just went outside to see if I could see any UFOs. Sadly, all I saw was Uranus! Weeping

you're long sighted peeping tom uh? Shocking


see what I did there? see? yeah... it's not funny... Confused

No. It's not funny. Yet, still I lol'd. Big Grin
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Damn he used my iPhone / Witch-burning gag! I'll have to hope my students haven't seen this
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