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- whoreable, on 12/01/2008, -8/+76In Soviet Russia UFOs conceal the truth about you.
- vtbarrera, on 02/03/2009, -3/+47I guess living 180 days in the mir space station could make some people go crazy.
- Chriswifvanilla, on 12/01/2008, -0/+41'Pilot Pavel Popovich' - dugg for the awesome alliteration
- domfosnz, on 12/01/2008, -3/+32This stuff seems to get classified pretty quickly by the authorities.
- cirrhosis, on 12/01/2008, -1/+27Pravda is pretty much the Russian Weekly World News.
- d2002, on 12/01/2008, -1/+21I guess when you/re standing in line for toilet paper suddenly the prospects of UFOs aren't as exciting to you on a daily basis.
- Dimanoff, on 12/01/2008, -7/+24Not surprising at all. I am 100% certain that NASA has a lot of secrets about UFOs and other weird phenomena classified in their archieves too. On the other hand, if they never allow astronauts say a word about humanoids and flying disks, why did they let the X-Files series see the light?
- replikhant, on 12/01/2008, -0/+15Years later it was revealed that the US government trained people to lecture on UFO´s as extraterrestrial craft not as secret spy planes. These people did their job well because to this day many people actually believe that UFOs are alien spacecraft. This was done to confuse the population and divert their attention from top military secrets, such as stealth fighters or the V-7, a saucer shaped flying vehicle designed by the Nazis and much improved in later years.
If the UFO phenomenon never existed in the former USSR it may be because the soviet government was not dedicated to fooling their own people with extraterrestrial baloney; they were very active fooling their people with political fiction. - 1professional, on 12/01/2008, -0/+14Well if it happened, they are out there...the thing is, a "THEM" like that would create the need for an "US" here on earth and bang would go our petty little differenes which make billions...
- Bloodboiler, on 12/01/2008, -3/+16OMG it is not marked as possibly inaccurate so it must be true.
- DougUpndown, on 12/01/2008, -0/+12Those damn cooks, and chefs, and other kitchen staff... always getting blamed for stuff.
Oh, wait, did you mean Kooks? - Hetman, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1210 seconds later hundreds of Japanese suddenly become aroused.
- Bith8654, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10Yeah it's not like space is that big or anything...
- scoot2006, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10NSFW
The article is fine but there's an ad on the side with a boob. Dugg for a boob as well as an interesting read. - andrewrs, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9Do a quick search on astronauts and UFO sightings... its definitely not only people living in a space station for half a year that have reported seeing them (there are a lot of accounts of UFO sightings by pilots and astronauts). Not saying they are aliens, but there have been a bunch of astronauts who have seen things that are seemingly unexplainable. Pretty interesting.
- diggopolous, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8Thruth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE THRUTH!
- NeoCortex, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8Apollo Creed
- Sinn3r, on 12/01/2008, -1/+9These stories are as vacuous a the space they're based in.
The first anecdote is charming.
"I was just about to get my camera but then teh aliens, but it exploded be4 I cud! LOL!" (Paraphrasing slightly there.).
Could it have been a meteorite simply burning up in the atmosphere? They're often composed of radioactive metals. No photo of the remaining debris? What does an elite pilot know about this stuff? I've sailed across the Atlantic but I'm not a marine biologist.
Think people, the reason there's never any real detail and we're always just on the verge of some genuine revelation is that these are all trivially mundane things and there is never a shred of evidence to support some of the more interstellar claims. Astronauts/Cosmonauts are cool, but they're just people and as susceptible misinterpreting witnessed events as you or I. Selective memory handles the rest.
To me it seems absurd we are the only form of life in this universe by our current definition, but ***** is really far apart in space. Let's save the fun for when we have the evidence, or can at least explain how these vastly more advanced race able to traverse the mind boggling vistas of even our own Milky Way, are dumb enough to keep getting caught by beings as credulous as we all obviously are. - InfiniteNothing, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8Couldn't very well be after could it?
- jmantra, on 12/01/2008, -8/+16Conspiracy theories...
must be a slow news day - inigomntoya, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8Of course they are crazy! Didn't you ever see Armageddon? That Russian Cosmonaut was definitely crazy! Hollywood doesn't lie.
- krekc, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8I Want to Believe
- elhaf, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7I saw some footage of Russian VTOL fighters the other day. One of the maneuvers they could do was to hover above the ground, then swing around each other in a very weird otherworldly way. So yeah, I agree.
- mediahaze, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Yes it does... Could it be because it might paint the Cosmonauts as being just a little crazy?
"Psychologists often warn cosmonauts prior to their space missions that they may experience a phenomenon known as the altered state of consciousness. A Russian cosmonaut said in 1994 that he and his partner had numerous visions when they were working on board the Mir station for six months. It seemed to them that they were turning into weird creatures – animals and even humanoids of extraterrestrial origin." - jggube, on 12/01/2008, -4/+11Wow, that's scary. What else are they hiding?
- Morky, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7This is from Pravda, a former Soviet organ of the CPSU, whose name means "the truth". The other top Soviet paper was Izvestia (also still alive and much improved), who name means "the News". All this so I can post the classic Soviet joke: "In the News there is no truth and in the Truth there is no news".
- clutchdude, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Elvis
- breadfred, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Maybe scary, but also some kind of comforting. Assuming these sightings are real, this phenomenon seems only to observe us. They have not sabotaged any mission apparently, nor posed any threat - as far as we know. Maybe not all Aliens are evil.
- Darunium, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6If Pravda publishes it it must be legit
- EasyTigerDon, on 12/01/2008, -2/+8Please define 'conspiracy theory'.
These are first-hand witness account, WTF has that to do with conspiracy theories - andrewrs, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6an telescope thats looking that far out into space is seeing an extremely small section of our atmosphere... those pictures are of huuuuuge objects that are incredibly far away. Astronomers are way more likely to observe objects far away from earth than they are to observe objects in earths orbit (who wants to look at a satellite when you can see a galaxy?). This greatly decreases the chance of them seeing a satellite or airplane, let alone a UFO.
I, for one, think its pretty interesting that so many astronauts (from this article and many others if you do a quick google search) report seeing such weird things... - maus56, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6When vodka talks, reality walks.
- hazard99, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6"Psychologists often warn cosmonauts prior to their space missions that they may experience a phenomenon known as the altered state of consciousness. A Russian cosmonaut said in 1994 that he and his partner had numerous visions when they were working on board the Mir station for six months. It seemed to them that they were turning into weird creatures – animals and even humanoids of extraterrestrial origin."
But the fanatics will still digg this post even though the thought of some martians giving any ***** about this planet does not come across as absurd to them. - martinezmic, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5Chekov saw a Klingon, so what?
- BruceAnderson, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5Though I've often aspired to awesome alliteration, alas, all attempts...end badly.
- TechnoRabbit, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4Except that that is not how it works. Humans have plenty of hate. Did racism suddenly end when it was 'us' against 'them' when wars happened? No. There's plenty of hate to go around.
- lowsh, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4Pravda is one of the more blatantly sensationalist and nationalist publications out there - they have a good habit of bringing a strong bit of irony to their name
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3I think that X-Files series has little to do with the reality... anyway it is really disappointing that people like you and me can't know the whole thruth...only small peices of it...
- NotYourProdigy, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Let's just say it's an alien space-craft, why would it need to 'explode' into two pieces before take-off?
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -3/+6It would be interesting to see what definitive proof of alien life would do to our society. I guess given how many people are still trying to deny global warming and evolution they'd continue to deny aliens until one personally beamed down in front of them and slapped them in the face with a slimy tentacle.
- TheMahdi, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4Who's actually dumb enough to believe this?
- Impressa, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3Why would the government lie? They have no need to do that. Inaccurate.
/s - stvanchimo, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3umm...really? i mean...seriously? articles about UFOs without any kind of citation are now making it to Digg front page? come on folks, please don't digg tabloids unless it's a particularly funny article.
- wolfing, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2we all know they're just waiting for us to develop warp engine technollogy before they make 'first contact'
- wenomspitta, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3nothing factual about last page pravda stories
- andrewrs, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2"even though the thought of some martians giving any ***** about this planet does not come across as absurd to them"
not saying that these astronauts saw martian vehicles, but if you dont think scientists on earth would want to study an intelligent species on another planet you're an idiot. Its not that absurd (hell, its not absurd at all) to assume that another intelligent species would find observing us interesting. - benologist, on 12/01/2008, -3/+5http://gizmodo.com/5100028/homemade-backyard-digit ...
If any person anywhere *in the world* can build their own spectacularly powerful telescope then it is impossible for authorities to conceal UFOs. - MiddleOfNowhere, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Smartest comment I have read all day (and I had to read a lot today.)
Hats off, Sir.
Just like Mr. Mulder, I want to believe, but it's hard to believe that a space-faring civilization always, *always* happens to kidnap (and probe) bored white trash and/or be photographed by people who for some odd reason never get a clean, crisp shot of E.T.; just flickering lights.
Personally I believe that because - as you put it so eloquently - ***** is really far apart in space, and shoving ***** from A to B takes a lot of energy, we will be visited (or we are being visited right now) by civilizations that managed to get rid of heavy, fragile fat/water/muscle-based bodies and have uploaded their minds (or at least some slick A.I.) into tiny nano spaceships. Less *****, less trouble, no risk of being caught by us cavemen. - elhaf, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Although it is true that it took a war to end the practice of slavery in the US, and another war to end racial segregation, and another to end civil rights discrimination, and yet another to get a black president elected.
- WindReaver, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2Agreed. I hate it when people say that all of the astronomers would have spotted UFOs long ago if they were flying around.
Even with a fairly low-powered telescope you are not going to see an airplane if it flies right through your view. A darkening and then lightening are all you will see. Zoom a camera onto an object and pass your hand fairly close to the lens to see the effect. Telescopes for astronomy are not made for looking a close objects.
Even finding large things in space can be damn near impossible if they are not emitting or reflecting light. If we have trouble seeing asteroids and comets how do people expect astronomers to see a spaceship if it were there? -
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