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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:32 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

There is a pretty active UFO group in the north east too.

I am not a "alien encounter" believer but if you stare at the sky very
long you will see something you can't identify.

I think there are more sightings and reports in rural areas, simply
because there are more military operations there and the people are
not as well informed.
Military aircraft in the crowded airspaces around metropolitan areas
act in a very orderly manner.
When you get out in the boonies, they do strange stuff.
Back when RSW first opened (the Ft Myers airport) they only had a few
dozen flights a day and there might be an hour or more without a plane
in the pattern.
We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.


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Major metro areas in the Northeast could not see a UFO at night as they can
not see the stars either. Lots of light pollution.

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:56:28 -0400, wrote:

We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.

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There are a lot of military fighter jets flying out of the Key West
area. They do many low altitude pusuit maneuvers that are quite
dramatic to watch.

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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:01:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and
I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes
out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But
I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus
of
the University of Chicago.


Most Florida residents came from one of those northern states you hold
in such high regard.
I certainly see a lot of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut people here. (mostly on the east coast) On the west coast
we mostly get mid westerners.
That is basically a I-95 vs I-75 thing

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I happened to stumble upon a re-run of this show the other day. For
the gullible it was pretty convincing, especially with all the
"scientific" evidence and skeletal remains:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mermaids-real-mermaids-caught-camera-animal-planet-documentary-19286637

On 6/18/13 1:38 PM, Eisboch wrote:


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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:01:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus of
the University of Chicago.


Most Florida residents came from one of those northern states you hold
in such high regard.
I certainly see a lot of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut people here. (mostly on the east coast) On the west coast
we mostly get mid westerners.
That is basically a I-95 vs I-75 thing

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I happened to stumble upon a re-run of this show the other day. For
the gullible it was pretty convincing, especially with all the
"scientific" evidence and skeletal remains:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mermaids-real-mermaids-caught-camera-animal-planet-documentary-19286637


I suppose you don't believe in the tooth fairy or the easter bunny,
either.

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:37:26 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:31:49 -0700, jps wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:53:38 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:33:29 -0700, jps wrote:


But it is about Floriduh...

A Florida man was beaten, robbed, forced to strip naked and abandoned
on the side of a road Friday evening during a first date gone horribly
wrong, according to police.


What's your point? How ineffective the police are at preventing crime?

How stupid Floridians are? He should have been sprinting across the
cow pasture instead of peeing. He'd have had plenty of time to ****
in his pants later.

I don't suppose he knew he was going to get robbed.
Horrible situational awareness but that is not just a Florida trait.
I am sure if I trolled the Seattle police reports I would find
hundreds of people who made mistakes and became crime victims but I am
not that obsessed. Why are you?

Seattle has some bizarre **** going down but Florida and the South
make the NW look tame. Well, apart from Idaho.