Invasion?

Friday night I heard a guy on George Noory talking about how he had predicted that UFOs would be seen in the skies over the world’s major cities on October 13 and that the “events in Manhattan” had proved him right.

Meh, it wouldn’t be much of an installment of Coast to Coast without that kind of statement. The show is all about confirmation bias and wishful thinking and delusions, after all. And I said out loud, as I pulled the car into the driveway and switched off the radio, “Oh, yeah, that incident in New York that everyone is talking about and that has made such huge headlines. Right.”

So then yesterday I get the following email from my sister:

What the hell was over NY last Wednesday?  I didn’t even know this had happened.  The site below has an 8 minute raw footage video shot by CBS.  It looks and sounds legitimate to me.  Fox reported that this UFO sighting was predicted by a former air defense officer in a book that he wrote.  He predicted that a fleet of UFOs would be seen over the world’s main cities on 10/13/10.  I gotta research that one.

Okay, weird, so apparently the guy I heard on George Noory — and please don’t get the idea that I tune into this show every night; I was just hitting radio buttons on the way home from the movie — is the same one referenced in my sister’s email.

Here’s the video:

I don’t know what to make of that. They look like balloons to me, but they seem to be moving oddly for balloons. Some of the odd movement is apparently an artifact of camera panning and zooming, but not all of it. So, odd, interesting, and, to me, thoroughly unconvincing.

I wrote back to my sister:

Clearly, if some guy said there would be lights in the sky and then there were lights in the sky, earth is being visited by extraterrestrial space craft. There is no other conceivable explanation.

(Don’t worry; I’m her older brother. She’s used to the snotty tone.)

Well, then my brother chimes in with the following:

Very Weird!  Make sure dad see’s this.

 

We were in Parker at [my nephew's] football game and watched 4 of these things for about an hour.  Looked just like that but not grouped that tightl

Turns out my Dad saw something similar just a couple of weeks ago. Then my brother sent me a link to this video:

At this point, I’m starting to feel like a character in the opening scenes of a science fiction movie. In the following scenes, the aliens would show themselves unambiguously either by attacking or by landing in front of the White House and asking us to joint the Galactic Union or whatever.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) it seems we never seem to get to those subsequent scenes.

So meanwhile…let’s do another survey!