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Posted: 14-06-2002 22:50 Post subject: Unidentified Floating Object.

UFO.. So what was it, anyone care to speculate.

Posted: 14-06-2002 22:55 Post subject:

It would have been nice to have seen a photo. If it had numbers, it must have a terrestrial origin, unless those 'numbers' were in an unknown script. But if that had been the case, the article would surely have mentioned it.

It probably has quite a mundane origin, but what that is I couldn't hazard a guess.

Carole

Posted: 14-06-2002 23:00 Post subject:

Why wasn't their first thought that it could be a mine?
I would have used extreme caution and not been
swimming up to it and tugging on it!!!

That being said: deep sea flotation device?
(Keep something in a net steady at 300 meters?)

Since it was empty, it must have been designed to float.

TVgeek

Posted: 14-06-2002 23:19 Post subject: Photo and video

I no sooner post one reply, when I find this:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/orb020614.html

TVgeek

Posted: 17-06-2002 03:06 Post subject:

It seems to have been floating in the water for some time as you can see the water mark around it's circumference.

Posted: 17-06-2002 04:58 Post subject:

Weren't there a bunch of those in a jungle somewhere?

If I remember right, there was a whole bunch of them sitting in the middle of a jungle, so the best explanation I can come up with is a natural phenomenon of some kind. After all, pebbles are round :p

Posted: 08-08-2002 17:21 Post subject: A load of balls (FT 162 p20)

In this month's FT, there's a story about balls being washed up in South Carolina. They're 3ft in diameter, metallic, generally smoothed but slightly dimpled, and have identification numbers stamped on them.

Anyone got any idea what they are? I'm tempted to say they're some kind of marine version of the weather balloon rather than anything ET.

Posted: 08-08-2002 18:01 Post subject:

I'm sure I saw something on the MB not long ago on a similar subject. I'll try and dig it up.

Posted: 08-08-2002 18:51 Post subject:

Well, I found the news story.

[Edit]
More here from Ananova and Rense.

And something about a religious slant on the story
here.

Posted: 08-08-2002 20:28 Post subject:

We discussed this a while back... here is the thread:

[Threads now merged - ryn]

I haven't read it in a while, so I don't remember if a conclusion
was reached or not!

TVgeek

Posted: 08-08-2002 21:14 Post subject:

That's what I was going to say, shame the original link doesn't work anymore.

Posted: 08-08-2002 22:11 Post subject:

I've merged this thread with the original one, so we are now in News Stories.

As PY says (above) the original link no longer works, but plenty of others have been given more recently.

Posted: 09-08-2002 02:00 Post subject:

Posted: 09-08-2002 13:55 Post subject:

Horta eggs.

Posted: 09-08-2002 15:26 Post subject:

Hasn't anyone opened one up yet to see if there's anything inside?

Could be interesting as the claim that they weigh "several hundred pounds" and measure 3ft across should mean that they shouldn't be floating at all!

I stand to be corrected on this 'cos I just thought about WW2 mines.... Sad