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November 2, 2015
Badass of the Week
At the Olympic Airshow in Olympia, WA, illegally parked cars get towed. By a helicopter. And dropped from great heights.
Here's some video from the 2009 show.
Related Links:How to Keep Your Car from Getting Towed, Unfreakingbelievable Helicopter Crash
October 16, 2015
What to Do with an Abandoned Cement Mixer
Abandoned cement mixer uglying a roadside near you? Here's an idea from Winganon, Oklahoma, where a cement truck rolled over on the side of the road fifty years ago. The owner retrieved the truck, but left the mixer because it was full of heavy concrete.
Recently, a local couple used some cans, garden hose and other things they had around the house to turn it into a space capsule. The result:
Wonder if, within the next fifty years, a couple of Winganonians will figure out how to get it into space.
Related Links: Winganon Space Capsule Facebook page; My True Area 51 Story
September 24, 2015
How to Draw a Plane
Click to play 15-second tutorial:
More drawings: http://keiththomsonbooks.com/drawing
More planes: http://keiththomsonbooks.com/birdwatc...
September 15, 2015
The Truth about the UFO in China
This flying saucer photo, taken the other day in Shandong province and now making the rounds of UFO conspiracy sites, is 100% legit. Not a single pixel Photoshopped. But it's an incomplete picture—literally. Scroll down to see why.
In fact the "saucer" is an 1,798,000-LB containment dome being hoisted onto a new reactor at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant in east China's Shandong province.
The next question is how are they hoisting a 1,798,000-LB containment dome? 1,798,000-LBs is the approximate weight of four 103-foot Titan II rockets. Alien technology?
RELATED LINKS: My true Area 51 Story; Once a Spy
August 25, 2015
Third Grade Project
"I got this off the Internet, Dad. My idea is to have one that shoots out even more blue fire. You just need to get a 3-D printer to print it out and call that Skunk Works guy you know to make us an engine. Have him FedEx it here ’cause this is due tomorrow. And we probably need to get a booster seat."
Related Links: Once a Spy, 7 Grams of Lead
July 23, 2015
Where in the World is El Chapo?
The Mexican government is offering a $3.4 million dollar reward for the capture of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who escaped from from a high security prison located near Mexico City on July 11. On top of that, you can now get a hardcover copy of the novel Once a Spy, published by Doubleday (retail value: $24.95).
Just fill out the form below to enter. Note: Prizes will be awarded for good or entertaining tips even if they don't lead to an arrest (just books for now, pending the Mexican government's response).
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Related Links: Once a Spy
July 13, 2015
July 7, 2015
What's wrong with this picture?
Clue: The plane is a P-38 Lightning. Scroll down for answer.
Keep scrolling for answer. The book jacket is just to take up space. Don't click on it.
Here's the answer to question posed in headline:
The P-38 is way too small. Photographer wasted way too much space on sky/sun.
Related link: Once a Spy Dispatch from Area 51
July 5, 2015
What's Wrong with this Picture?
Clue: Photo was taken in New York, NY.
Scroll down for the answer.
The book jacket (also shot in NYC) is just to take up space. Don't click on it.
Here's the answer to question posed in headline:
Hardly any of the New Yorkers are jaywalking.
Related link: 7 Grams of Lead, Dispatch from Area 51
June 30, 2015
Identify this UFO and Win a Book
The first of the following fireball photos is legit, taken by a NASA satellite early yesterday morning. The other photos, allegedly taken by people in the Southern United States, were posted online at the same time, supporting their authenticity. The question here is: What's in them?
Next, two quick videos, way better than the usual could-have-been-a-Frisbee blurs on UFO vids. [Source is the American Meteor Society, which we'll get to in a few seconds]
The American Meteor Society received over 150 such reports from people in Georgia, Bama and the Carolinas. Whatever it is was going 14,500 mph, which is pedestrian by the standards of meteors, which average 160,000 mph. Hence NASA officials speculated that Russian SL-6 Rocket parts—from the Cosmos 2196 missile early warning system—reentering the atmosphere. As such space junk breaks apart, it indeed creates fireballs, according the American Meteor Society. But is it just me, or does "Russian SL-6 Rocket parts from the Cosmos 2196 missile early warning system" have a little too much specificity for speculation about space junk. Is this the 21st century version of "It was just a weather balloon"?
Use the form below to share your theory, if you have one. If it turns out you're right, or your response is otherwise good, you may win a free copy of one of my books.
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