Space.com: Black Triangle sightings on the rise

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Monday, October 25, 2004 15:46
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SUCCATASH

Saturday, September 4, 2004 7:14 AM

Thu Sep 2, 4:30 PM ET

By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
SPACE.com
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=14&u=/space/20040
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"They have become legendary in UFO circles. Huge, silent-running Flying Triangles have been seen by ground observers creeping through the sky low and slow near cities and quietly cruising over highways.

The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), has catalogued the Triangle sightings, sifting through and combining databases to take a hard look at the mystery craft. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, NIDS is a privately funded science institute with a strong research focusing on aerial phenomena.The results of their study have just been released and lead to some unnerving, still puzzling conclusions.

The study points out: The United States is currently experiencing a wave of Flying Triangle sightings that may have intensified in the 1990s, especially towards the latter part of the 1990s. The wave continues. The Flying Triangles are being openly deployed over and near population centers, including in the vicinity of major Interstate Highways.

Covert operations?

A key NIDS conclusion is that the actions of these triangular craft do not conform to previous patterns of covert deployment of unacknowledged aircraft. Furthermore, neither the agenda nor the origin of the Flying Triangles are currently known.

The years 1990-2004 have seen an intense wave of Flying Triangle aircraft, the study observes. Sifting through reports by hundreds of eyewitnesses, the NIDS assessment states that the behavior of the vehicles does not appear consistent with the covert deployment of an advanced DoD [U.S. Department of the Defense] aircraft.

Rather, it is consistent with (a) the routine and open deployment of an unacknowledged advanced DoD aircraft or (b) the routine and open deployment of an aircraft owned and operated by non-DoD personnel, suggests the NIDS study.

The implications of the latter possibility are disturbing, especially during the post 9/11 era when the United States airspace is extremely heavily guarded and monitored, the NIDS study explains. In support of option (a), there is much greater need for surveillance in the United States in the post 9/11 era and it is certainly conceivable that deployment of low altitude surveillance platforms is routine and open.

Open, even brazen

According to Colm Kelleher, NIDS Administrator, the newly completed quasi meta-analysis of Flying Triangles melds three major U.S. databases: NIDS, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and data collected by independent researcher, Larry Hatch, the creator and owner of one of the largest and most comprehensive UFO databases in the world.

Kelleher said, the analysis indicates that deployment of Flying Triangles is open, not covert, and involves low-flying, brightly lit aircraft routinely deployed over populated areas including cities and Interstate highways.

However, I cannot say whether these are U.S. Air Force aircraft. We simply don't know, Kelleher told SPACE.com . But it does not appear to be consistent with the covert patterns of deployment we saw with the F-117 and B-2 prior to their acknowledgement. This is open, even brazen, he stated.

Stealth aircraft

For example, a perfunctory look at the how past DoD stealth aircraft programs were kept from public eye -- although eventually came to light -- is different from the patterns for the Flying Triangles.

Prior to acknowledgement of the F-117 and B-2 aircraft, only rare night time sightings occurred in the sparsely populated sections of Nevada, California and a few other states. Flying at low altitude over populated areas was rarely reported for the F-117 or B-2.

In contrast, the Flying Triangle deployment, especially during the 1990s, appears more consistent with the open and public operation of these aircraft, the study explains. The trend of open deployment of the Flying Triangles is not consistent with secret operation of an advanced DoD aircraft.

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CALHOUN

Saturday, September 4, 2004 1:41 PM

A friend and I saw something similar about 10 years ago.

It was the middle of the day, we were driving near the beach when we both saw this large triangular shape flying silently down the coastline. The one main difference I can see is that this thing we saw was going very fast.. we expected a sonic boom. It never came.

I pulled over and we both had this incredulous look on our faces and were so excited thinking we had witnessed some major event which others surely would have seen and would be on the news... never heard another thing about it.

I still remember the look on my parents faces when I was telling them. I am sure they thought I was on drugs..

CYBERSNARK

Saturday, September 4, 2004 8:12 PM

Serendipitously, I've been halfassedly researching UFO-related conspiracies for a story lately, and I came across something interesting: http://www.crystalinks.com/vedic.html (fair warning, it has this horrible cheery muzak that won't shut up.)

To summarize the interesting part: India's Rama Empire coexisted with Atlantis, and apparently fought a nuclear war with them (as chronicled in the Mahabharata), explaining the vitrified, fused, and often mildly radioactive ruins found in certain corners of the world). Also according to the Mahabharata, both sides had access to highly-advanced aircraft.

What's interesting is that the Atlantean ships (called Vailixi) were "cigar shaped," while the Raman craft (Vimanas) were usually either spherical or disk-shaped. Both of these descriptions have been invoked since the earliest UFO accounts, dating back thousands of years (possibly even into neolithic times, if you believe the cave paintings).

Triangles only started appearing recently, when people started talking about the (typically US) government using captured "alien" tech.

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Originally posted by Succatash:
have bright disco lights

Yikes. That's just what we need. An interstellar Soul Train.

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EBONEZER

Sunday, September 5, 2004 4:55 AM

Oh good. As if i didn't already have enough un baised fears, no i have to deal with disco dancing aleins.

Thanks tash. No really, this means a lot to me.

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ANOTHERFIREFLYFAN

Sunday, September 5, 2004 7:15 AM

Wow, that totally freaks me out cause I remember several years back, while on an interstate, an odd boomerang shape lit up aircraft flew over us, and I thought it was strange. As years have gone by, I just dismissed it as an airplane.

Anyway, whatever they are they must be human created. I'm not one to believe in supernatural, superstition, or conspiracy theories.

~AFf

Keep flying

COSMICFUGITIVE

Friday, October 8, 2004 10:32 AM

I've been following the subject for 10 years now. I've learnt to be objective and sober about the subject and it still challenges my beliefs.

I'm not surprised about the rise in FT sightings recently. It's just classic FT behaviour. They're just testing the water of human reaction.

Commercial airline and Fighter pilots still have the highest percentage of sightings of all UFOs anywhere in the world though. (Even if a lot of them aren't reported through fear of ridicule.)

Oh, and Brazil is a major hotspot too...

I have to agree that the FT's might be nuts and bolts technology. There's a chance it's just top secret flights of new airforce technology (A high percentage of sightings in the West coast of America have been blamed for it over the years according to the CIA), but it doesn't explain the rest.

(There are several types of UFO's: FT's, Cigar-shaped, Boomerangs, Classic Saucers, Orbs (Foo Fighters)...).

They're spotted on land and falling into the sea. There's even footage taken by NASA of them in space too. It's all mad.

On a more serious note, there's a theory that our perception of UFOs are distorted because of the way our eyes work. They fill in the blanks and we're not really seeing something as it really is. It still doesn't explain what it is, but it could partly be some natural phenomena. I don't know. It gives me brainache.

I read about the ancient nuclear wars too. It's interesting stuff.

There are also hieroglyphs in Egypt that clearly depict helicopters, submarines, tanks and so on that could be related.. It's weird...

http://www.margaretmorrisbooks.com/atlantis_and_giza.html#ANCIENT%20AI
RCRAFT

Here's a following link that has a data base of Government UFO files and other subjects released under The Freedom of Information Act that might be of interest to anyone.:

http://www.blackvault.com

NEBARISCAPER

Friday, October 22, 2004 6:26 PM

It's Fall. I always see more triangles in Fall. Winter it's mostly circles, Summer octagons, Spring ahh yes glorious Spring brings visions of trapezoidal glory.....

James Marsters in the Dresden Files
http://www.buzzymultimedia.com

EBONEZER

Friday, October 22, 2004 7:48 PM

Aw man, I saw this, and read it again and was like "Oh shit! They're back!" But its just the same thing revised....which is good...i guess..

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DANFAN

Saturday, October 23, 2004 1:05 AM

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Originally posted by nebariscaper:
It's Fall. I always see more triangles in Fall. Winter it's mostly circles, Summer octagons, Spring ahh yes glorious Spring brings visions of trapezoidal glory.....

Cool! I see duodecahedrons around Christmas time.

SPACEFILLE

Sunday, October 24, 2004 8:37 AM

Some of them are aircraft... my wonderful British Astrophysicist professor (in my astronomy class) showed us the designs for a military jet the US was working on back a couple years ago... the jet was a black triangle shape. He passed around a piece of grey/black plastic he had helped design for the hull. Apparently this plastic it absorbed radar signals so it would be virtually undetectable. I don't think he was supposed to show us those either, but since we're Canadian, maybe it didn't matter? Anyway, it sounds like your black triangles may be those.

I don't believe in UFOs or aliens amoung us anyway... I think 99% of them can be explained in some way. A point in case... I had just fallen asleep one night about a year ago to "wake up" to find an alien in my room with me. (It had been a half an hour since I last looked at the clock). I couldn't move to get away and I was terrified and he came over and pressed his hand into my back. I felt the weight of it and the pins and needles that raced through me as I really did wake up was very real.

I did a bunch of research to determine that what I had was a night terror, a condition occasionally brought on by stress. There was no alien and the tingly sensation was caused by my brain releasing adrinaline to try to get me to wake up. From that I further deduced that the vast majority of UFO sitings were night terrors or hallucinations. Point in case, the stereotypical UFO siting... driving someplace on a long highway at night or at twilight. You're tired and you start to drift off. Half awake half asleep you begin to have a night terror, a truck is coming towards you at an distance, it's lights can very easily turn into a spinning orb of a flying saucer. If the highway's divided it going to go right by you all spinny and flyer saucery like. Now say that your brain is smart and had you pull over to the side of the road before you dozed off without you remembering doing so, and it's an hour later when you have the night terror. You jerk awake, scared out of your mind, to find that an hour's gone by, you just saw a UFO... what are you going to think?

Some food for thought at least...

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