UFO sighting starts to garner national attention

[bjohn13]

I'm not sure if this was on the old board or not, but it's a pretty big buzz around these parts.

Tappen, North Dakota, is an extremely desolate area.

A ripped shirt, a missing pig, and blue lights in the sky...

The mysterious goings-on at a Tappen, N.D., farm will be the subject of a coast-to-coast radio show Friday night, according to Torrey Briese, whose family has had several run-ins with things not of this world.

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=154114

[Halfmad]

A ripped shirt, a missing pig...either aliens or someone has a weird idea of romance.

Seriously, the article you linked to is purchase-only. Can you supply a synopsis or a link to one I can read? Thanks.

[guruwan2b]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1726935/posts

[Quantum Leap2]

ICK, GAAH, YCK, I'll never invite them to any of my parties!

[Eddylizard]

So these guys travel halfway across the universe to steal a pig?

Sometimes I really crave a bacon sandwich, but not that desperately.

[RBCal]

Personally I think FREEPERS are more scary than space aliens.

Here is a key line:

Several days later, with the help of a hypnotist, Evan Briese remembered more details...Prior to hypnosis, “He (Briese) had a sort of unsure look on his face. He was still really wondering what had happened. After the hypnotic regression, he knew. He was made to remember,” Moss said.

You should really put quotation marks around "remembered". Planting false memories is very easy to do (I know someone who actually studies that topic).

Another line:

Briese said he and the neighbor noticed a bluish light in the sky, which stopped when they stopped and moved when they began driving.

That usually is a good sign that the "object" is very far away. Like in orbit or something...

“We’re not out looking for aliens every night,” he said

Well, not every night....

Last one:

Is the design on the side of this dead cow a turnup or a UFO, or neither?

I plead the 5th.....

Originally Posted by Doug4.7

Here is a key line:You should really put quotation marks around "remembered". Planting false memories is very easy to do (I know someone who actually studies that topic).

Can I also suggest putting MADE in capitals and perhaps a couple of Exclamations!! behind it.
It's important to know these hypnotists tend to be supplied by the UFO community and have an extreme vested interest.

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by Doug4.7

That usually is a good sign that the "object" is very far away. Like in orbit or something...

Or alternatively that it's a reflection on the windshield of something inside the car, so it only moves relative to the background when the car is moving.

Originally Posted by Richard W

Or alternatively that it's a reflection on the windshield of something inside the car, so it only moves relative to the background when the car is moving.

Good alternative.

I would just LOVE to see a REAL UFO. I've seen some things that at first, were quite odd, but I always figured out what they were (and was disappointed).

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by Doug4.7

Good alternative.

I would just LOVE to see a REAL UFO. I've seen some things that at first, were quite odd, but I always figured out what they were (and was disappointed).

By definition, if you see something flying, and you cannot identify it, it's a real UFO regardless of whether or not it has a mundane terrestrial origin.

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

By definition, if you see something flying, and you cannot identify it, it's a real UFO regardless of whether or not it has a mundane terrestrial origin.

True, but so far, I've been able to ID everything I've seen in the sky.

I guess to qualify, I'd LOVE to see a real extraterrestrial. I'd have sooo many questions.

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by Doug4.7

I guess to qualify, I'd LOVE to see a real extraterrestrial. I'd have sooo many questions.

"You chose to come here? To Earth? Are things that bad back home?"

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

"You chose to come here? To Earth? Are things that bad back home?"

And all you could think to do was follow some random car on a backroad? They spotted you, by the way - stopping each time they stop doesn't work unless you're behind something. Otherwise it just looks more conspicuous...

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

"You chose to come here? To Earth? Are things that bad back home?"

My theory:

The ETs are alien graduate students sent here to study "pre-FTL or pre-contact societies". The students are sent here for X number of years to study us enough to get a dissertation on, "Activities in Regards to Urban Legends in Pre-FTL Societies: Earth: A Case Study". Now this grad student is stuck here for years and can't get home very often. Now "true" UFOs occur because the student is bored out of his/her/its skull/shell/?. That, or it/her/he gets a "Dear John" letter from his/its/her SO back home. So it gets drunk (or the equivalent in their biology (maybe drink motor oil) and goes and buzzes military bases (their equivalent of cow tipping). Of course, if they get caught, they are sent back to their home planet and are kicked out of graduate school for violating the "Prime Directive". If they are not caught, they just get a hangover and go back to work.

But that is just my theory....

[Eddylizard]

Aren't there laws against being 'drunk in charge of a spacecraft'? What is the maximum legally permitted BMO (blood-motor oil) concentration?

[bjohn13]

I have my own theories on this that involve a lot of meth and a few nights missed sleep, but this teens story on the local news channels sounded quite plausible. A lot of locals are taking this as proof that aliens do exist, and these people can't understand my skepticism.

[Brad from Georgia]

Kodos: Foolish Earthlings! They did not protect their pig!

Kang: And now WE have the pig! We have the upper hand!

Kodos: We don't have hands.

Kang: It's just a figure of speech!

Kodos: Anyway, we have the pig!

Kang: Yes. And it is some pig!

Kodos: Indeed, as you say, it is some pig!

Kang: It is a radiant pig!

Kodos: Yes, it is some pig all right!

Kang: There's a spider. Swat it, would you?

[frogpond]

Space aliens killed Charlotte!?!