Keith Thomson's Blog, page 4
April 13, 2015
Name That Robot
This is an actual unretouched photo taken in the United States early 1960s, and, no, not of a Hollywood film or TV set. First person to correctly i.d. the device wins a copy of 7 Grams of Lead. Use the form below to submit your answer. As always, an incorrect answer, if it sufficiently brightens the judge's evening, also wins a book.
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Related Link: Giant Nuclear-radiation-proof Battlebots are Real and Nothing New
April 10, 2015
UFO WTF?
Copies of Once a Spy will be awarded for the best explanations of this photo. Submit your response using the form below. Explanation need not be accurate, so long as it's entertaining.
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Related link: My true Area 51 UFO story
April 4, 2015
Name That Spy
This boy grew up to become a spy and achieve worldwide renown. First person to name him (correctly) wins a copy of Once a Spy, Twice a Spy, or 7 Grams of Lead. Submit answers via the form below. Prizes may also be awarded for wrong answers that entertain the judge.
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March 28, 2015
What's the Story?
Free copy of Once a Spy to the first person to tell me the story* behind this photo. Google told me only that it's a "bikini photo." Submit your response using the form below.
*First correct response wins. Copies of Once a Spy will also be awarded to pure speculation/other responses that are sufficiently entertaining.
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Related Link: Once a Spy
March 18, 2015
The Winter 1951 UFO
The following unstaged, unretouched, unPhotoshopped and otherwise legit photo was caught on film in New Zealand in 1951 by a photographer convinced he was documenting a flying saucer over Auckland.
The US Air Force later released its conclusion that the saucer was in fact a lenticular cloud. I've been unable to find out why the US Air Force deployed its analysts and/or was the definitive source. But were the Air Force analysts right? According to Wikipedia, lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are "stationary lens-shaped clouds that form in the troposphere, normally in perpendicular alignment to the wind direction." Here are a few examples:
Lenticular cloud above Reno, Nevada
Oxenhope, England
Mt. Ranier
Mt. Fuji
Seen from the International Space Station
The Dalles, Oregon
Wikipedia continues, "Because of their shape, they have been offered as an explanation for some Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings."
So either that explains Winter 1951. Or Wikipedia is part of a same US Air Force coverup.
Related Links: Dispatch from Area 51, The UFO in Mexico, The Vancouver UFO
March 11, 2015
Three Aircraft for the Price of One
How many aircraft do you see below? The correct answer is 3. Sort of. In the future, especially if BAE Systems has any say in the matter, you may see a aircraft made up of smaller aircraft, increasing flight range and mission versatility.
Traveling together saves fuel, and increases flight range. Facing an enemy, they can split up, making the fight three-against-one. Or one can do recon while the other two
Let's go to the (very cool) videotape:
RELATED LINKS: Speed Agile, VTOLUAVWTF, 7 Grams of Lead
March 7, 2015
Laser Trucks are Awesome
It goes without saying that we all want laser trucks, or at least laser systems for our cars. This is one step closer to reality with ATHENA (Advanced Test High Energy Asset) developed by Lockheed Martin.
ATHENA uses spectral beam combining—multiple laser beans forming one big beam. Say there's another truck, driven by ISIS guys. ATHENA burns right through the hood and the engine block. Game over. And whereas comparable surface-to-air missiles cost thousands of dollars, the laser is just a 50 cents a shot.
Here's a video where the earlier ADAM system takes out a rocket. Wait for the slow-mo version about 30 seconds in:
Related reading: 7 Grams of Lead, Laser Nose plane
March 5, 2015
A New Look at an Old KGB UFO File
The fall of Iron Curtain brought the release of a secret KGB file on a 1968 UFO crash in Sverdlovsky.
Allegedly.
Seeing is believing, people exclaimed on seeing the footage—which includes an autopsy of one of the aliens found in the wreckage—when "The Secret UFO Files of the KGB" aired on TNT in 1998.
But how does it hold up in 2015, now that everyone accepts that Photoshop is out there?
Below are a few stills from the purported site and autopsy as well as key video clips from the 86-minute TNT show, which can be seen in its entirety here. What do you think?
Related Link: My True UFO Story
February 3, 2015
Plane Tries to Land on Moving Truck
In August, 40-year airshow veteran pilot Greg Koontz of Ashville, Alabama, attempted to land a Piper Cub on a moving pickup truck and…
Let's go to the video:
For more information, see the GK Airshows site.
Also see The Most Amazing Crashes that Pilots Walked Away From
February 1, 2015
The UFO in Hollydale, CA
As you know if you are a reader of UFOSightingsDaily.com, a group of UFO hunters met in Hollydale, California, last weekend. They focused their thoughts on summoning UFO.
"This sounds crazy at first," says UFO Sightings Daily, "but the truth is that in 50-100 years our technology will be able to read minds and thoughts from a long ways away, so for aliens with thousands, millions or billions of years of evolution on us."
Doubt that?
Well, a UFO showed up. Here are the two best images, stills from a video.
Unfortunately, none of the UFO hunters brought a camera able to take a close-up of the object.
Related Link: My true Area 51 story
