Unidentified Flying Object over Lake Havasu Arizona

By Saturday August 1, 2009

Yes…it’s unidentified. That’s all I’m sayin’.



59 Comments
  1. Chris Mac says:
    8/1/2009 at 11:35 pm

    If nothing else, I can thank this web page for confirming that no one that’s ever been to earth, can make a good “spaceship”.

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  2. pecker says:
    8/2/2009 at 3:51 am

    If you watch the entire video you can see that the object is nothing like a balloon. The disc part is metallic and flat with no corrugations at all. So, it’s not like the one in the picture posted above – you’d have to come up with a way of making a flat balloon.

    As for it being a kite. The object is pitching and rotating in such a way it would be impossible to see where you would attach a line from the ground. There is also the problem that a symmetrical disc shaped kite would not stay in the air without a tail, or some other way of providing directional stability. It wouldn’t just just spin, it would quickly slew off to one side and arc sideways to the ground.

    So we are left with it being some kind of radio controlled plane. One that can hover in the sky whilst pitching and yawing through 360 degrees, with no visible control surfaces, propellers or fans.

    None of the ‘rational’ explanations given so far add up.

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  3. ridin the short bus to Earls' House says:
    8/2/2009 at 4:51 am

    I could only wathc about 30 seconds… its a great film if it was 1958. Fake/Sucks.. Next time guys..make a better quality Hoax would ya?… :-)

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  4. Bob says:
    8/2/2009 at 5:23 am

    Known technology…

    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/flying-saucer-drone-hovers-over-hapless-human/

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  5. pecker says:
    8/2/2009 at 5:59 am

    # 43 Bob, the link you provide is known technology but it looks nothing like the object that’s in the Lake Havasu video. The ‘ufo’ appears to have no fans or control surfaces and is hovering and maintaining its position regardless of orientation or attitude. I know model helicopters can be made to hover upside-down but they can’t hang in the air pitched over at 90 degrees like in the video. The saucer-drone in the wired article looks even more limited it’s maneuverability than a helicopter and it definitely wouldn’t be able to hang in the air with its edge pointing at the ground.

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  6. Special Ed says:
    8/2/2009 at 6:47 am

    Now I would have believed it if they were throwing bodies out of there like it was a cruise ship.

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  7. JimD says:
    8/2/2009 at 7:40 am

    Looks like an ordinary snap fastner composited over some shots out the window !!! Notice how the “cameraman” keeps saying “its so far away” !!! FAKE !!! TURN ON THE BS METER !!!

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  8. Mr. Fusion says:
    8/2/2009 at 8:15 am

    The funniest thing is THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT !!!

    This almost excuses Alphie and his dude in the sky routine. Close.

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  9. soundwash says:
    8/2/2009 at 8:30 am

    1) either slow acting gyros are stabilizing it’s flight, or

    2) (more likely) a slow acting human is over compensating for level flight. -mainly due to the distance from the controller to the craft.
    can’t see the effect of his corrections fast enough causing the wobbling flight.

    i used to build/fly remote control helicopters when i was a kid. the further the helicopter
    was from me, the more i would make it see-saw from over-correcting when trying to hover.
    (was always more pronounced at a distance)

    definitely a ufo..definitely someone with a remote flying it.

    -besides, the nature of electrogravitic flight or “hovering” is lends itself to be self-stabilizing. (if a poorly tuned circuit is employed, the oscillations would be far more violent)

    the simplest example in nature of a self-stabilizing electrogravitic [hovering] force would be the water molecules in clouds.

    clouds stay aloft because this force.

    (water molecules are in fact, electric dipoles)

    look it up. you’d be surprised how much crap we’re taught that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

    -s

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  10. pecker says:
    8/2/2009 at 8:31 am

    # 46 JimD,
    There is no way to prove that it is or isn’t a digially manipulated fake or genuine, however you have to consider:
    - To coordinate the camera-shake and changes in focus between the object and background is far from a trivial compositing job.
    - There are independently photographed still shots of the same incident if you do a quick search online.
    - There are hundreds of similar videos and sightings like this reported around the world each year.

    I think the gain on your BS meter is probably turned up too high.

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  11. N74JW says:
    8/2/2009 at 8:43 am

    “In the morning!”

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  12. Wretched Gnu says:
    8/2/2009 at 3:35 pm

    Even in the still frame that appears before you start the video, the light source is to the left of the object. But the sun is to the right…

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  13. pecker says:
    8/2/2009 at 4:45 pm

    # 5 Alfred1, # 51 Wretched Gnu,
    At the start of the video, when the camera pans back, you can see that the sun is behind and to the right of the object (the big bright area in the sky to the right of the telegraph pole). The shadows cast on the object appear consistent with the position of the sun at that point. The shadows slowly change so that half way through the video it looks as if the sun is behind the object. By the end, the sun is to the left of the object – this is the part of the video the still was taken from.

    The object must have been moving from left to right relative to the camera.

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  14. Dallas says:
    8/2/2009 at 9:01 pm

    Put a face on it and you’ll have millions of people on the streets worshiping it.

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  15. Glenn E. says:
    8/2/2009 at 9:58 pm

    Lake Havasu is that totally invented tourist trap, that didn’t exist before they moved the olde London Bridge there. Or at least, simulated what they claim the bridge looked like, and built an old “London Towne” around it. The lake was also fabricated too. So I’m thinking that tourism is way down, during this time. And reporting a UFO sighting might get some of the Roswell visitors to come there. Maybe they should also say they saw Elvis, and get some of the Graceland crowd to come. Next year, they can claim to have spotted MJ too.

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  16. amodedoma says:
    8/3/2009 at 2:17 am

    The most amazing thing about the UFO phenomenon is that even with all the attention and interest, the continuing lack of convincing evidence, persistent government denials and associated top secret documents, trustworthy witnesses with excellent credibility, and scientists on both sides of the fence, this obsession just won’t go away. I’ll bet that even if a UFO touched down on the whitehouse lawn there would still be people arguing over it’s actual exsistence.
    The problem I have with this sighting is the fact that it made no manuever. It seemed totally subject to the breeze. It could be argued that our intergalactic neighbours have finally figured out that zipping along at 5000 miles per hour gets too much attention. This way you see something floating on the breeze and it has lots of possible explanations. I had a night sighting similar in this way. It certainly makes things easy for the nay-sayers.

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  17. pecker says:
    8/3/2009 at 4:52 am

    # 55 amodedoma,
    The poster of the video says the footage was shot around 4pm on 3rd July. From the position of the sun at the start, the cameraman must have been facing south and tracking the object moving from east to west (just look at how the shadows change on the object from start to finish)
    There doesn’t seem to be an NOAA weather station in Lake Havasu but there is a student operated station, unfortunately they don’t seem to publish historical stats for wind direction. Hopefully someone can get hold of accurate weather data for this location and time.

    The best I have been able to find is info on Weatherbug and Windfinder. They both say the prevailing wind at this time would have been south-westerly. So if the object was being carried by the wind it would have been moving north and from west to east – i.e opposite to the direction seen in the video.

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  18. KneeJerk Optimist says:
    8/3/2009 at 8:44 am

    Okay, maybe it’s alien teenagers out for a drunk joyride (ET works in strange ways, ones that we cannot possibly comprehend…oooh!)

    Remote control technology is quite advanced these days, in case anyone hasn’t noticed. Also, there’s a lot of past evidence that hoaxes are a very prominent fly-in-the-ointment of the UFO enthusiast’s world, whether they like it or not.

    Why can’t I see one?? I’ve been an amateur star-gazer for years, and I’d just love to see one of these things. (I’ve never seen a ghost either, while I have to sit around and listen to friends and relatives relate all of the spooky experiences they had).

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  19. Rick Cain says:
    8/4/2009 at 8:53 pm

    Looks like a balloon to me. I do not work for the USAF.

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