I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force, but are readily picked up by cell phone cameras.

It's clearly a streetlight.

It looks more like a flying toupee to me.

/I for one welcome our hirsute overlords.

Well, we know what kind of 'sroom it must have been.

Holy Shiitake!

Red Fist Of Harmony: Holy Shiitake!

Lol +1

Yeah but that alien pilot really needs to have his plasma drive looked at. You can see the leaks all over it.

Bucked off the Mighty Moon Worm?

Obviously a badger

Looks like something a dermatologist would remove.

Ceiling UFO is watching you masturbate.

Mushroom cloud?

Did someone say clockwork mushroom?
/Obscu-oh who am I kidding?

It looks like some kind of wide-brimmed hat being blown on the wind.

chimp_ninja: I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force, but are readily picked up by cell phone cameras.

The UK Air Force? They're still using Spitfires aren't they?

I want to believe

Bek: It's clearly a streetlight.

Is this the new "first" in threads like this.

/must admit I came here to say the same thing.

...more like a muffin hurled into the sky, I'd say....

Quit cleaning your lens with you handkerchief.

You got one biggas booger on your lens.

/amatures

cgraves67: It looks like some kind of wide-brimmed hat being blown on the wind.

Looks like a flung Tilley Hat. I personally know they make great emergency frisbees...

Obviously mushrooms have evolved. Stupid creationists will probably deny that spontaneous mutation can lead to complex adaptation.

Gobobo: Red Fist Of Harmony: Holy ShiitakeShiiatake!

Lol +1

/don't get your ass banned

PainInTheASP: It looks more like a flying toupee to me.

/I for one welcome our hirsute overlords.

Flying toupee was exactly what I first thought too.

Why are UFO photos always uniformly crappy and grainy? These pictures always look like they were shot with a 1950's-ear Polaroid. Out of the hundreds of millions of people who photograph UFOs every year, they can't ALL be using disposable cameras...

/believes
//tinfoil-free, I promise

It's a streetlight, I've seen many streetlights in my time and this is clearly a streetlight.

Mushrooms, then UFOs.

SHE'S DOING IT WRONG!

TheGreatZarquon: Why are UFO photos always uniformly crappy and grainy? These pictures always look like they were shot with a 1950's-ear Polaroid. Out of the hundreds of millions of people who photograph UFOs every year, they can't ALL be using disposable cameras...

They're using their cell phones now. Disposable cameras are SO 1990's. And you know what spectacular pictures you can take on a cell phone.

kibblesnbits I like your doggy. I've got an Aussie too. She won't fetch a thing--I even show her the frisbee dogs on TV, and she's not impressed.

I actually never used to believe in aliens, since the idea seems crazy. But after a long conversation with a friend, my opinion has changed. Consider the following:

The universe, for all we know, is an infinite system. And even if not, it's still farkin' huge. In any case, hypothetically speaking, the universe is infinite. And within an infinite system there are infinite possibilities. You can't tell me that in all those galaxies and planets and star systems, there can't be a place like ours. Or even just bacteria...SOMETHING alive, that could one day become a species of some kind. For all we know, there could be a whole civilization like ours out there somewhere.

To quote Contact: "I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."

cgraves67: It looks like some kind of wide-brimmed hat being blown on the wind.

Mr. Frumble wanted for questioning.

It's clearly and plainly a house from Kansas.

AmberWolf: It's a streetlight, I've seen many streetlights in my time and this is clearly a streetlight.

Can you tell by the pixels?

Don't stop believing

/streetlight

chimp_ninja: I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force, but are readily picked up by cell phone cameras.

What makes you so sure that they aren't being detected and monitored by the military? It's not like they're going to call up the BBC and say "Guess what! ET craft are flying over London. We don't know what they want or why they're here, only that their technology is vastly superior to ours. Oh-and please don't panic!"

It's Jesus! Sell it on eBay!

BravadoGT, the picture was taken in Croydon, so obviously Sarah Jane is involved.

chimp_ninja: I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force, but are readily picked up by cell phone cameras.

Well....we are talking about the UK air force.

Yay for my home town!!

Croydon is no stranger to flying objects, it was attacked by a couple of Zeppelins during the the First World War. One of them, the L31, bombed Croydon (South London) and many other parts of the capital, but was eventually bought down in Potters Bar (North London). Croydon and Potters Bar are the only two towns I have ever lived in, so I am paranoid about zeppelin attacks!!!

When the L31 was brought down, the Croydon Times reported:-

ANOTHER THRILL FOR CROYDON -
A SECOND ZEPPELIN SEEN IN FLAMES -
17 HUNS BURNED ALIVE -
SPECTATORS' CHEERS -

aahh, those were simpler times

chimp_ninja: I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force, but are readily picked up by cell phone cameras.

Do you just not get how stealth technology works? Look at all the highly advanced craft of the US Military.
Can you physically see them? YES.
Can you take pictures of them? YES.
Can radar see them? No.

Just because they evade radar doesn't mean they are cloaked or invisible.

I saw a UFO last year. We were staying in a cottage on a farm in northern England near Keilder, middle of nowhere, no light pollution. Anyways, I went out to get some fresh air about 2 am. I walked down the lane a couple of hundred yards, it was real country darkness and I was a tad nervous. I'm a city boy, trying not to think that the rustling noise in the trees to my left is a werewolf stalking me or a bunch of local inbreeds who think I "got a real purty mouth". As I stood there I was watching the stars, which were more brilliant than I've ever seen. Then a white triangle appeared in the sky to the left of me, zoomed impossibly quickly across my field of vision, stopped for second and then zoomed off to the right and vanished, all in about three seconds. It was impossible to tell scale and distances, there was nothing to judge against. I just cannot for the life of me explain what I saw. I'd been drinking but was not very drunk and hadn't been smoking anything. No "secret" aircraft could move like that, the G forces should have crushed any pilot. I don't know if it was alien or what but I'm pleased I've seen something I can't explain away. Thereis weird stuff out there, believe me. You think our governments tell us anything?

Quantumbunny: chimp_ninja: I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force, but are readily picked up by cell phone cameras.

Do you just not get how stealth technology works? Look at all the highly advanced craft of the US Military.
Can you physically see them? YES.
Can you take pictures of them? YES.
Can radar see them? No.

Just because they evade radar doesn't mean they are cloaked or invisible.

You addressed radar but you ignored "satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force".

If you have to ignore over half of a sentence to make a point, you still fail.

Did someone say Badger? (new window)

/NOT a Rickroll

limboslam: Well....we are talking about the UK air force.

Well yeah. That's why the OP wrote "I love how aliens can evade radar, satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools..." and not "I love how aliens can evade guns, missiles, warheads, and other artillery...".

i hate jimmy page: You addressed radar but you ignored "satellites, thermal scans, and the other tools available to the UK Air Force".

If you have to ignore over half of a sentence to make a point, you still fail.

Okay, as another poster already said, we wouldn't know even if the military was tracking them, so I am not sure why you feel the need have those addressed at all, but fine. Even if there were sat photos in the government's possession, why do you assume we would have access to them?

Are you thinking they would be on long range Hubble images? Cause there aren't many satellites aimed out from us. It would be unlikely for them to see pretty much any object what with a 90+% lack of coverage...

What is the response time of the average satellite? Do you know how long thermal scans take to run? Assuming an alien has the technology to fly to our planet from somewhere else, they can go faster than the speed of light which means they would evade pretty much anything from a visibility standpoint until they slowed down, possibly rather immediately already within our atmosphere under the radar curtain hovering over London.

All thermal tracking would work off a different in temperature from surrounding areas and the object in question. If they can match their hull temp to the surrounding area, they will not be showing up on these will they? Hell, if they were invisible, they would still show up on a thermal scan unless again, they can change that.

You go ahead and mention some of the other tools, and I will mention why being invisible is not required, nor likely. This isn't a Sci Fi show, this is real life... and kind of Cloaking or invisibility would just make it invisible to naked eye leaving open thermal scanning, radar, and other techniques.

Friendly Mushroom!

The flying spaghetti monster is in awe.

Does anybody else find it odd that she claims to have seen this, photographed it, and then only decided it was a UFO after having the pictures printed? Personally I'd find it more believable that she saw some weird blurry thing in her pictures after having them printed and then decided to make some shiat up, but whatever.

/It's a streetlight

James Traficant is making his big escape from jail.

Is it Christmas Day already? 'naaaa, can't be?