posted 01-07-2002 07:24 AM            

Posted this saturday at another club...received link to the picture the next day...
>>Today I had the wildest experience, I noticed out my window that they had started spraying...so I stepped outside, after a couple of minutes I was looking to the north I noticed some shiny spots in the sky...it appeared to be a large group of some shiny silvery objects..at first I thought they were white birds (not the norm for here) and they were floating all around one another, there appeared to be about 15 of them...every time the sun would hit them they took on the appearance of silver orbs...they all began to move west as I watched and then just seemed to disappear into the clouds....a short time later another lone one showed up and we watched it for a few minutes and then it took off at a high rate of speed to the west...they were spraying like mad...this object moved alot faster than any bird I have ever seen..I cannot rule out that it was a flock of birds, but I have never seen silver birds ...blessings T
Here are the pics... http://www.realsightings.com/birds.htm

posted 01-08-2002 08:27 AM            

They look like vultures or buzzards of some kind. The light body might be a reflection of sunlight off of feathers. Shiny black feathers can look like those pictures.

Chip

posted 01-08-2002 09:10 AM            

If you've got any more info on who took the pics where and when, that would be helpful. I'll grab the pics off the link you provided and upload them when I get a chance to pop back in here later.

posted 01-08-2002 06:05 PM            

>>>He specializes in enhancing images through the use of computers to see what could not be seen years ago. A photo from the 1950s, he says, can yield telling information when enlarged and manipulated with new software. The new information has helped discount some images that had previously been thought to show UFOs, and has shown that other images the military said were no more than birds or other common objects were actually “structures” that could not be explained.

And, he adds, private institutions such as the Roswell UFO Museum and Research Center must continue the work without assistance from the military, who more often than not, make their task harder.

Since the crash of a “flying disc” near Roswell in 1947, Burleson said the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to make the public believe that some of these sightings can be explained away. When confronted with photos of what Burleson believes to be true UFOs, military research laboratories have offered explanations which usually involve migrating birds.

In one such incident, Burleson said, the Air Force explanation was less than credible — to say the least.

“They told us it was a flock of ducks with ‘very luminescent butts,’” he said.

In another, videotaped incident in which a group of lights was captured on film moving at a high rate of speed, Burleson said the government report attributed the lights to a flock of seagulls.

“Do these people think other people think? Even a seagull shot out of a cannon can’t fly 3,000 miles per hour,” he said.

Most of those attending the lecture seemed to agree with Burleson.< http://www.texnews.com/1998/2000/local/ufo0227.html

posted 01-08-2002 10:47 PM            

Mssw... you mentioned that they were spraying and then you noticed these unusual "birds". Just maybe this is why they were spraying... they could have been trying to hide these "birds" .... or another theory,...these could be some type of unmanned object being sent up to test the contents of the spray. Perhaps they are some type of new equipment to help study our weather.