College physics teacher encounters silent triangle UFO

College physics teachers make better witnesses than your run-of-the-mill citizen, i should hope....

A California college physics teacher watched a triangle-shaped UFO that came within several hundred feet and then silently moved away at 9 p.m. on April 15, 2010, in Ventura, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

The instructor first heard a screech sound, then watched the object move quickly across the sky.

"At first it looked like it was a large bird high in the air as the front and two sides were heavily darkened against the mostly dark sky," the witness stated. "It was moving toward me and over a period of about 2 seconds it became clearer and resembled a hang-glider. It was descending and moving toward the east and seemed to be gliding smoothly, making no sound that I could hear."

The witness then described the object as it reached its closest point.

"It was an equilateral triangle and had three circular areas symmetrically placed near the tips. There was a slight contrast between the gray triangular area and the circular areas, as the circular portions had a very faint glowing quality to them."

The object appeared to be two dimensional during this 8-second sighting.

"As it silently continued moving away from me, the craft seemed to have only 2 dimensions. It looked completely flat like it was a projection. It began to gently ripple with smooth wave patterns and disappeared within a little over a second after doing so. The total event lasted around 8 seconds"

On April 7, 2010, the UFO Examiner reported on, California photography student 'grows tired' of frequent UFO traffic.

Ventura is the county seat of Ventura County, population 106,744, in southern, California.

The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If California MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.

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case report from MUFON

At approximately 9 P.M. PDT on April 15th, 2010 in Ventura California.

I was looking toward the west at the constellation of Orion when I heard a brief “screech” sound lasting around one second and coming from the vicinity which I was viewing. Thinking it was an owl I quickly looked for it and saw a faint silhouette of something moving in the clear sky.

At first it looked like it was a large bird high in the air as the front and two sides were heavily darkened against the mostly dark sky. It was moving toward me and over a period of about 2 seconds it became clearer and resembled a hang-glider. It was descending and moving toward the east and seemed to be gliding smoothly, making no sound that I could hear.

As it reached its closest point to me, what looked to be several hundred feet or so, a very sharp and definite outline appeared. It was an equilateral triangle and had three circular areas symmetrically placed near the tips. There was a slight contrast between the gray triangular area and the circular areas, as the circular portions had a very faint glowing quality to them.

As it silently continued moving away from me, the craft seemed to have only 2 dimensions. It looked completely flat like it was a projection. It began to gently ripple with smooth wave patterns and disappeared within a little over a second after doing so. The total event lasted around 8 seconds.

I have my master’s degree in physics and teach college level physics as a career. I am also involved in astronomy. I am about 20 minutes drive from a naval base and do hear and see military aircraft from time to time. Though it is possible that I was seeing a “secret aircraft”, I am doubtful that such a craft would be flown in such plain view as it was very apparent what was seen.

Judging from the change in angular diameter, its descent was fairly rapid and it changed from a dark, fluctuating shadow into a crisp configuration, lightly contrasted against the clear dark sky. I would estimate the base of the triangle to be around 50 feet, though I could be way off. Once leveled off at around 500 feet, it glided forward at perhaps 100 miles per hour until it disappeared from sight somewhat like a mirage does.

The measured angle from the horizontal at which the craft began to wave out of sight was around 20 degrees. It all happened very fast and was short in duration, making it difficult to be definite on measurements. All in all, I saw a craft without doubt and I am perplexed by what I have seen.

UFO fleet Filmed Over Acapulco

some really super links to various videos, haven't had a chance to check out all of them yet, but a great resource....

triangle footage

I've been remiss in posting the last couple months, the recession is kicking my ass and I've been concentrating on staying afloat. But I hope to post more here in the near future, maybe even get the Drupal site up I've been threatening for ages. Drupal will let me organize the site better, so I can put some real value-add to the UFO stuff, and hopefully stand out from amidst the many many UFO blogs out there.
How you ask? By starting to draw the connections and organizing the information in a useful way, with the intent that it all get rated, connected, and contextualized, which is the only way any scientific light will ever be shed using the evidence we have so far. Skeptics will continue to argue each and every individual sighting, no matter if it's on radar or 10,000 people see it, and so trotting out sighting after sighting is pointless. What the UFO community should be going after at this point in time, after 60+ years of sightings, pix, videos, etc. is how to put all this information together in ways that will allow any patterns to emerge, and for connections to be made.
We need to put all the data we have so far in its proper place according to time and date, relevant geospatial data, the type of objects or whatever seen, and the type and number of witnesses and other evidence, so we can make correlations across the data and see if we can prove via scientific statistical means that there is something going on, or once and for all if it all is just mass hysteria, Venus, and swamp gas.

As pompous and arrogant as it may sound, I hope to start to do that with the Drupal version of Dimension22, which I hope to have time to do one of these days. I've got the site installed, I basically just need to build a nifty template for it, do the taxonomy and the rss feeds, and start the laborious process of adding the content, both from this temporary blog as well as all the on- and offline stuff I've been wanting to post.

I've got a huge backlog of stuff to put up, that I hope I can someday get to, but in the meantime, here's some interesting nighttime footage of something with non-standard blinking lights and of considerable apparent size, as far as can be ascertained.
Hard to tell what it is, but it's pretty clear what it isn't -- a helicopter or plane, unless it's one with really illegal lights!

spinning triangle thingy over Amsterdam, Netherlands!

This video, if authentic -- which I doubt -- is pretty nifty. It shows some weirdo object spinning over a city (presumably Amsterdam), that then takes off amazingly quickly, doing a nice STNG flash thing. Pretty good fake though, IMHO, although I'd love to be proved wrong about this one (about the fake part)....

3 crisp daytime flying triangle photos

these 3 photos are really sharp and clear; what isn't clear is whether they are something otherworldly or just really advanced military technology...
They were taken in Greenville, South Carolina

objects seen in Pakistan, Turkey

the video below seems to be a composite of several different videos taken of what was described as a 'huge' object hovering and doing manoeuvres described as 'not of this planet', over Lahore, Pakistan.


Also a hexagonal orange light was filmed by a Turkish Security Guard (Those Turkish security guards have all the luck! :D ) and his on 2 coworkers on April 23 in the early AM:

At first I couldn’t understand what I was witnessing. I saw this large object rising from the sea. It definitely wasn’t a plane or balloon. It was leaving a trail and it was glowing. My hands were shaking from the excitement. As it descended towards the sea I ran to the beach but then it began to rapidly rise eventually merging with the stars. It was hexagonal, orange and fluorescent. As far as I am concerned it was a definitely UFO

The TR3-B black Triangle

OrionSixNine wrote me this message today:

Have you read much on the TR3-B triangle?
Here is an article and a few videos on it.

I'm going to respond publicly since this is a very interesting aspect of UFOlogy and bears some thoughtful, measured response.

Regarding the "TR3-B", the term is a new one on me, but the stories associating the black triangles with Military Black Ops have been around since the mid-90's, and I've been hearing stories about the Aurora Program since then as well.

However, several aspects of the Black Triangle sighting don't make a lot of sense at first blush as military ops.
For one, in the 90's, there were several sightings, some from satellite even, of strange, corkscrew-shaped contrails. These were at the time attributed to the Aurora program and its newfangled propulsion system. Contrails of course don't make any sense given a gravity-reducing propulsion system:

mercury based [plasma],is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres,at a temperature of 150 degrees kelvin,and accelerated to 50,000 RPM to create a super conducted plasma,resulting in gravity disruption

So that's a big question mark. Also, while I am not a physicist, I'm pretty sure plasmas are a state of matter between liquid and gas, so something cooled down to 150 degrees Kelvin (about -190 Fahrenheit, or -123 celsius) is more likely to be a Bose-Einstein condensate, not a plasma.
So while that could be just a misidentification one way or the other, the fact is they can't both be the Aurora project.
Also, these triangles are usually FRIKKIN HUGE, and are often seen gliding slowly and silently near population centers. Why the hell would the military fly their secret shit over big cities in places like Belgium or over Phoenix, AZ? They wouldn't is the answer.
I personally think the triangles are something else, and all this talk of the TR3-B is disinfo to keep people from utterly freaking out. After all, a secret military craft is a lot easier on the old reality buffer than giant black alien spaceships scoping out our population centers....