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"Strange Craft" Sightings

isaaccaret.fortunecity.com — DETAILED description of someone's experiences working with classified other-worldly technology! Anti-Gravity, Invisibility, etc. Chris Pirillo posted this info on twitter and covered "live" @ live.pirillo.com...ALIENS!!

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  • delelles, on 10/11/2007, -33/+119This story deserves more Diggs like WHOA!
    • smackywentz, on 10/11/2007, -11/+21Anyone else save every photo?
      • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -7/+6lol, I saved a lot of these photo's from the articles I found, last month. Closeups of the wings of these things showing strange writings and such... There are a lot of these photo's, taken by lots of different people...
        The sitings of these things are fairly widespread, so it's not the work of some cg photoshopper hoax.

        Check out my links in this digg article for a TON more photos:
        http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Odd_Aerial_Drones_Over_Lake_Tahoe_and_Central_California_Check_This_Out
        • existent, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3One of my primary objections to the original pictures was that no professional aircraft would repeat the symbols in that manner. It screamed amateur at me. This new information, however, seems to wrap that up nicely.
      • DrDragun, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3mirror this *****!
        • Trepan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Why bother to mirror some crackpot's website? A little investigation tells me that this started on Coast to Coast AM which we all know is 99.9% BS in the first place. I've listened to that show for years and do you think this is the first claim like this ever to appear on that show, only to be debunked later?

          The real story here is that Chris Pirillo was dumb enough to start getting caught up in what can only be a scam. Wait for the guy to call in again to C to C in the future and then be selling a book on it.

          By the way, I know why the craft has those straight bar extensions on it. It makes it really easy to attach it to rooftops, telephone poles, and posts obscured by trees without ever having to use a wire (hence no need to photo shop).
      • smackywentz, on 10/11/2007, -15/+5bury
      • insecuregirl, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16(flashing a neuralyzer to digg users) All right, DIGGers, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
      • Akaji, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3These photos have already proven to be false. For example, for them to visible in that detail against the sky, their undersides would have to be lit as bright as the sky - otherwise they'd appear extremely darkly.

        Honestly, people who believe in aliens scare me.
        • unitedstatians, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3The obvious, overall lighting suggests overcast skies for most of these, hence no sharp shadows. I repeat, there's not a lot of shadows because the day is overcast..so the light is coming from all directions effecting the contrast.
    • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -8/+16I posted several articles about this a month or so ago: Lots of BIG pictures and closeups! and even some stories about the sightings!
      http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Odd_Aerial_Drones_Over_Lake_Tahoe_and_Central_California_Check_This_Out

      here's a link with a closeup of the wing of the thing, with some real cool writing on it:
      http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2022.html?theme=light

      Appearantly these are wide spread sightings too...
    • bradallen18, on 10/11/2007, -11/+25I just finished reading the whole article. And if this is true (which as of right now is looking pretty backed up with evidence) then this has the power to change the way the human race thinks as we know it.
      • bradallen18, on 10/11/2007, -10/+23Or you know, the Halo3 team could just be bored and making us ***** our pants.
      • bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -20/+3all of your accounts should be banned from digg for wasting our time with this.
      • achoi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20I tried reading some text in the scan, it reads like a game manual. I liked the part when they mentioned that Part A1 has 3 mores: Field Mode, Component Mode and Multi Mode.

        I'm trying to decide whether or not this is viral marketing for Halo, or Transformers. That little flying things looks similar to the new Megatron model. I thought perhaps by the model alone that this was some attempt to show us that the Decepticons have been scouting the earth for the past 20 years. But the 3 'modes' and that lame attempt at documentation on the alien machinery sounds more convincing from a video gamer's mindset.

        "...PACL has been provided with a small.. device capable of controlling A1 by activating and deactivating it... This device, assigned the identification code S1, is of particularly sensitive importance, as it is the only know method of controlling A1." - cute

        but like everybody else that got buried, the marketing team is going to make accounts and bury me down. wheeee!
        • madrid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I think it's for the Transformers movie. I was mulling this over last night, and I noticed that the style and direction of the Halo3 ARG doesn't come anywhere near this level of detail, but the transformers artwork does. In fact, it's very similar to the style of glyphs created by The Designer's Republic (www.thedesignersrepublic.com), evident in the most recent issue of Wired. If this were to be a hoax, it would have to be perpetrated by either someone with a lot of time and resources, or more likely, a company with the time and resources. I'm going to say that this is a very elaborate marketing drive by the studio behind the Transformers movie, and if you go see the film, you will most likely see this craft in it.
      • jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I'm sorry, but, where is the hard evidence? This could just as easily have been a pitch for a new Tom Cruise movie. And please don't tell me that the photos are undeniable proof. Have you used Photoshop CS3? Awesome program. I need credible witnesses before I can begin to believe a word of this. But, of course, Isaac is still searching for witnesses, himself.
      • elpasoGuy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Thats why I love the internet, this would never make it to the big News Stations , they rather lead with Paris Hilton , wake up World!
    • moojj, on 10/11/2007, -12/+26Wasn't this proved to be Halo 3 viral stuff?
      • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5no? o-O not that I know about. Some people just out right denounce the photos as photoshops, but that certainly doesn't disprove them or link them to halo... lol some people are trying to claim it's just a transformer movie viral thing... but that doesn't seem right either...

        and this article is new, and only further confuses me as to what's really going on. lol
      • oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4yeah I'm pretty sure it's the halo 3 thing. Heard the whole thing was done up in maya and photoshop.
    • mrwiggles123, on 10/11/2007, -25/+1story

      tl;dr
    • mrwiggles123, on 10/11/2007, -25/+1story

      tl;dr
    • TheAkolyte, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Its an interesting read, but I'm still skeptical. I don't know if it's foolish or wise, but I don't like to jump to conclusions.
      • theworldisround, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Things like "Figure 14.13: Rotary junction with orbital sub-junction connecting to an octal switch" on the page scans make it seem a tad fake. Very interesting read and I will definitely keep up on the story, but I'm going to need to see a lot more evidence to buy it.
      • mucnix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7"I had an idea like that once. It was a mat you place on the floor, with different conclusions on it, that you could "jump" to."
    • DrDragun, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16transformers would make a lot of sense given how they have set up the plot of the movie and it's opening this Friday
      • madrid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I think it's for the Transformers movie. I was mulling this over last night, and I noticed that the style and direction of the Halo3 ARG doesn't come anywhere near this level of detail, but the transformers artwork does. In fact, it's very similar to the style of glyphs created by The Designer's Republic (www.thedesignersrepublic.com), evident in the most recent issue of Wired. If this were to be a hoax, it would have to be perpetrated by either someone with a lot of time and resources, or more likely, a company with the time and resources. I'm going to say that this is a very elaborate marketing drive by the studio behind the Transformers movie, and if you go see the film, you will most likely see this craft in it.
    • NicksVideo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4Original stories:

      http://digg.com/gadgets/Strange_Craft
      http://digg.com/space/More_Photographs_of_Strange_Craft_Taken_at_Big_Basin
    • Clelland, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20The writing on the objects just looks like the Japanese katakana alphabet flipped around a bit.
    • JKAL, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25this is a hoax, a lot of that cool writing is one of the Japanese language's writing systems called Katakana, and they meshed some of them like mixing a "J" and "F" to get one character. You can also see most of these characters in the "Matrix Code" where Katana was also used written either backwards or upside down...
      Also I love it when these so called "whistle blowers" say "I will tell you the biggest secret of all" but then go and say "well I can't tell you this bit or other" due to security issues? what?!? come on if your going to tell the secret , Like the great Yoda said "DO or DO not, there is no try"
    • krawkula, on 10/11/2007, -23/+171This definitely isnt a hoax. I saw one of these crafts one day when I was younger. It was in a V shape and had many other crafts with it. This was about 9 years ago when I lived in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. A friend of mine saw it to and he disappeared the next day, I went to go tell my family and my mom got scared And said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought, "Nah, forget it. Yo home to Bel-Air!" I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 And I yelled to the cabby yo holmes smell ya later Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
      • nottheonlychris, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2ROFL
      • crimesaucer, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2krawkula is GOD.
      • TheProtested, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9*****, i got bel-aired again.
      • pr0t0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6LOL! Before I read the first paragraph of Isaac's letter, I scrolled to the bottom just to be sure it didn't contain FPoBA lyrics!
    • MindTrigger, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18The white lightbox photos are a turn-off for me. Looks like too many game concept model renderings I have seen over the years.
    • AegisGFX, on 10/11/2007, -19/+8***** you people are ***** idiots and morons.
      • jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6You don't win many arguments, do you?
    • shrewduser, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13i'm very surprised at the amount of people willing to believe this based on these photo's... they're very easy to do for a professional photographer as long as he has the tools and know how...

      i've seen people use a reflective sphere and small toys to achieve this effect...

      it looks like something from neon genesis to me...
    • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14By the time you get here in the comments reading, you will have realized you have been had. Bungie has raped your mind, got your hopes up, and then crushed them. For those who still arn't convinced:
      * Notice the striking resemblance of the designs in the summary document to that of the doodad around the 3 in the Halo 3 logo
      * Notice the striking resemblance to all things Halo in everything in this document. I mean if there really were alien technology, I really don't think that some graphic artist on the Halo team would have hit the general style right on the head.
      * Notice the "document" is devoid of any United States government markings. I don't know if you've ever seen something produced for a USGov entity but they definitely have the "THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH AMERICA DAMMIT" logos.
      • MindTrigger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7The fact of the matter is, we have no reason to believe aliens write, let alone to believe they communicate in any way which we would identify as writing. Maybe a race from another galaxy communicates with light, or smell... who knows. You have to really think outside the box here. I tend to think that if this kind of stuff could be easily duplicated or mimicked by humans, it's simple not alien :)
      • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Upon further research I have found that this might not be Halo 3 viral marketing at all and happens to be part of some TopCola/Lyca ARG done by a certain Matt Asher which is in turn interfering greatly with Halo 3's ARG.
    • shrewduser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7this is the technique i was referring to in my previous comment:

      http://www.cgexplorer.com/2005/05/31/half-life-2-in-real-life-with-hdr-rendering/
      • jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1OMFG, they're here!! *runs to bomb shelter*
    • themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1So is the strange writing on the craft supposed to make it hard to decipher plans? I havent read too far in.
    • Zuggy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Dugg for cool background images
    • NoCatharsis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8This is like Blair Witch for dorks. Definitely viral.
    • Orion682, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Diggers can be such ***** sheep sometimes. My God, I've seen people do better graphics with Adobe Aftereffects and 3DSMax, the lighting isn't even correct in the photos, as one of them shows the craft in complete sunlight, but the sunlight isn't on the craft. It still looks like a dull surface with terrible illumination.

      Learn to actually look at evidence instead of accepting evidence.
    • M4RSH4LL, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Wouldn't this seem more likely to be a viral marketing campaign for the upcoming Transformers movie?? It's dated June 2007. Halo has been released already right??
  • BrokenBokken, on 10/11/2007, -30/+13Does anyone else thing his writing style is a little sophistocated for a physicist? Call me a critic, but I find it hard to believe some of the UFO stuff.
    • curios, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Read some papers at http://www.ArXiv.org. Will help you redine the sophistication of a physicist.
    • djvchris, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Sophisticated? Man do I wish I had you for 11th grade English. You know it's not Dickens when the fourth word of the text is misspelled.
    • tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5I "breif"ly looked it over. This is obviously a ***** fake. I can't believe it got to the front page.
  • robertgoodwin, on 10/11/2007, -14/+67It seems like a lot of work for a hoax. But who knows?
    • zybch, on 10/11/2007, -9/+9These pics were exposed as a hoax a couple of weeks ago!
    • DrDragun, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18You ever clicked on Online Help for Age of Empires or Tiberium Wars? They have a 5-page paper on each and every unit in that video game including fake histories.

      This is a viral Halo 3 marketing campaign. I'll admit that it's well put together though. Still, the guy does not write like a graduate level computer scientist. And I doubt physicists would call something "Antigravity". More like "anti-inertia" or "antimass" the way he describes its applications. And if he wants to keep his identity a secret then why does he write 3 full paragraphs about his specific background?
      • feoren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You're right, I doubt physicists would call anything "antigravity". They'd need a more physicsy word like inertia or mass! Just like a janitor would call it an "anti-mop". Except that makes your comment even more stupid, since gravity is a physics word. What the hell are you talking about?
    • leffunov, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Whether or not this is a hoax, I am reluctant to believe the craft referred to could not exist. Nothing here seems out of place, if this is a hoax it isn't sensationalist like every other hoax I have heard of.
    • omnirusa, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Look at the linguistic files
      40% about of all those symbols are japanese.... umm wtf?
      • TDot1980, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2OBVIOUSLY the Japanese are aliens.......... DUH!
      • biff198, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The Japanese aren't aliens, you moron...

        ... they invented aliens...
    • sabach, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Not too much work for a publicity stunt though.
    • Palmer586, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I was bored by all this talk of lame old anti-gravity and invisibility technology...but wow! What amazing printing quality for the 1980's on those linguistics files!
      Who knew the aliens also gave them laser-jet printers too!
    • Pssdoff, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I found blueprints!
      http://www.frazmtn.com/~punstr/blueprint/pdroid.gif
  • delelles, on 10/11/2007, -17/+69I'm sure anything UFO-wise is hard to relate to unless you've seen something other-worldly for yourself...I've been fortunate enough to witness something absolutely amazing, so I'm giving "Issac" the benefit of the doubt here.
    • BabyBrumak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18It is an interesting read regardless of the reality. The real kicker though is that a lot of what he says seems plausible on some level, ranging from the holographic materials and processing to what appears to be a fractal language.
      • Chaos12, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Yes, it somehow feels as if thats how it all would work (computer-wise) in the distant future.
    • themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I've seen 2 ufos in my life. So I have to say I cannot deny something like this without some proof.
      • turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9I've been abducted by 3, and they touched my parts.
        • wakananda, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3That's not very funny - except in a cold, Southpark pedophilia sort of way. Read John Mack (PhD Harvard) on Abduction. Or the Bud Hopkins material. Theres a lot of real trauma associated with - the phenomena.
      • themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ufo's and aliens may be 2 different, unrelated things
    • unitedstatians, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5There's many things in this world humans can not conceptualize and will discredit. Especially, if you been indoctrinated in a judo-Christian believe system that forbids free thinking scientific creativity. Do you have total confidence or trust solely in the religious authorities on our future survival as earthly living beings?...You have nothing to lose but parts of your brain which chains the human mind potential to perform immense power abilities and incredible feats to retain and share the information.

      "My goal in life has and always will be, to find the truth - to understand that truth and then to pass it on to those who've not yet been fortunate enough to find the truth." By Rick Donaldson
      • disciple83, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1You don't have be an indoctrinated Christian to be a skeptic. In today's society, any 15 yr. old with a talent in Maya can create an image like this. Besides, with our concept of God being an infinite being, who's to say that when God created man in his image, it was all of what God looked like? People say that God is visible in nature, making the trees and rocks and sand, the heavens and earth, also part of his image and power. You think that because some fundamentalists have this literal view of the earth's creation that everyone who believes in God and the Bible disregards life elsewhere? Listen pal, if God can create "intelligent life" on this rock, why would he limit himself to just one rock? The way I read it, God is pretty full of himself, always wanting people to love him and worship him for his own glory, who are we to think that God didn't create more beings to shout his name somewhere else in the cosmos...

        Who's being narrow-minded? You really should stop being some "free-thinking" parrot spouting off the same nonsense crap as the angriest anti-religious person.
      • itzac, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Funny that the Rick Donaldson quote sounds so much like a religious statement. Truth of god's love and all that. And I really don't want to lose any part of my brain because my mind is a direct product of the structure of my brain. And finally, you do in fact use 100% of your brain, just not necessarily all at the same time. Your brain can't do anything it doesn't already do, at least not without losing some other ability. And I don't really think being able to multiply large numbers quickly is a very impressive super power.
    • pr0t0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"judo-Christian"? Aren't those the Christians that can kill you nine different ways with a spoon?

      I think you meant Judeo-Christian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian
      • zjbird, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1seems to me like this guys seen boobies
  • vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -17/+17A little DIGG-Sunshine will be good for this story. DUGG!
    • tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -8/+11...So it can be dragged out into the sunshine and revealed for the ***** that it is?
      • existent, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Indeed, if that is the case. Or perhaps you claim to be possessing of some powers of knowledge acquisition that the rest of us don't?
  • smackywentz, on 10/11/2007, -14/+96No ***** way. Please let all my geek fantasies come true.
    • gcnaddict, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11Any witty responses to parent comment will simply be dugg down.

      ...no exceptions.
      • JoshuaH, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Witty? More like creepy, Amiright...
    • GruntGrunt, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4If this is real ... I will ***** bricks.
    • jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Even if this is real, I doubt the Jedi are coming for you. You're probably too old anyway.
  • snikt, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread284400/pg1

    Simple google for some of the places named brought up this collection of sightings, make of it what you will.
    I smell viral marketing though, hope I'm wrong.
    • tonaros, on 11/14/2007, -3/+5For Transformers, maybe? Just a wild guess.
  • Godlesswanderer, on 10/11/2007, -16/+11If you look at some of the report photos (http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/pacl-q486-photo-4-fullsize.jpg for example) and take a look at the reflections, the white floor goes into the distance.
    A: Things don't normally reflect that well.
    B: There's no soft shadows that would indicate a wall, you can't even see a wall. Unless the photographer found an endless white space, it;s pretty much definately CGI.
    • p0lye, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13wtf?? white floor?? Generally, when you want to take a good picture of something, you don't put it on the floor. It's called a light box. The intention is such that you should not see an edge where the "floor" meets the "wall." Photographers generally use a curved piece of matte finished paper or cloth to achieve this effect. No photoshopping required...
      • datatribe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Check out the reflections. One thing fong shading isn't good at is hiding tesselation across curved surfaces. Play with Lightwave for a while and you'll see this on objects with high reflectivity. The curved "fender" pieces up close appear to be smooth and round but in some shots you can make out the polygons not rendering their reflectivity of the surrounding space correctly. This is some really top notch photorealistic CGI, complete with camera grain and negative scratches for added realism. I havn't looked really close at the scratches on the negatives but I would guess you see a repeating pattern across images - ala a photoshop filter.
        • unitedstatians, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Do you understand the immense learning-curve involved in using basic tools in these 3D editor Applications like 3Ds max, Maya, Softimage XSI, Lightwave 3D, Cinema4D, Blender?
          • datatribe, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1Yeah, sorry, I should have said... buy a license, get some training, then play around with Lightwave for 10 years... and you'll see what I mean.
        • unitedstatians, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I didn't even mention the amount of expenses ($cost), duration and skill needed to approximate "Hollywood quality" professional CGI.
    • gorkish, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I was going to jump in here to say the same; regardless if you wanted to take a real picture of something like this or fake it (either with CGI or with models) you'd put it on a light table to eliminate shadows. A lot of companies produce product shots like this -- so well lit and clean they look computer generated.

      Though it would be REALLY tough to imagine that a coast-to-coast AM insano is legit by any means but still its fun to imagine that he might be.
    • derekbez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Have you ever used a camera? Ever taken a picture of something dark against a bright background (sky)? Ever put that photo into Photoshop and adjusted the levels so the "something dark" looks reasonable? Ever notice how the bright background washes out?
    • Godlesswanderer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Looks like I was wrong then. But still, I'm going with CGI.
  • zeal2k7, on 10/11/2007, -9/+230I just wanted to point out that this is obviously a part of the alternate reality game surrounding Halo 3. The same image of this craft can be found on some of the Halo 3 ARG websites. This is viral.
    • ivanisavich, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14Hahah I wouldn't be surprised.

      LOL at the people who are wetting their adult diapers over these things.
      • tyywebb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Here's what I don't get: Why would Bungie go through all this trouble to create hype for a game that you'd have to be in a coma for the past 7 years to not know about?
    • noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -2/+43Seems to be the case. http://www.nowpublic.com/ufo_unmasked_marketing_campaign_for_halo_3

      The things look very obviously CG-ed, besides, if these sightings were real, I think it'd be in the mainstream news a bit.
      • ophello, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5no. no it wouldnt. everyone friggen says that. nothing this insane would make the news. sorry. i dont trust our media or our goverment and neither should you.
    • EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1Oh, so it is back to the Halo viral marketing campaign...

      I remember some of the campaigns for Halo 2...the biggest one I remember for Halo 2 was that bee site (wish I could remember the url of what the site was).
    • Harbinger67, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9If this is Halo 3 ARG stuff, I'm now not buying Halo 3. I wasn't terribly excited to begin with, but getting my hopes up like this is enough reason for me to keep my 60$ :p
    • OsiVert, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Is it just me or does the symbol on the wing look nothing like the symbol from Halo 3. There is a connection with the hello kitty website with the backgorund pic, so has anybody called the contact info on the whois? If it is a marketing campaign, I would expect better CGI from the halo team, since a lot of the shadows and contrast are poor.
    • imeep, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I've played Halo 2 a few times with friends and what not, and the first thing that came to mind when I looked at the language on the parts in the photos was 'Damn, that looks like Halo.'
    • bluezinc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18I knew it was fake. What alien would put spikey ***** all over their ship? Is there a galactic New Jersey somewhere? Some place where douchebags put douchebag things on their douchey spaceships?
      • ophello, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3so you have a degree in extraterrestrial technology?

        idiot. how the hell do you explain advanced technology we have to a caveman? you cant -- it wouldnt make any sense to them (What is this "cellphone"? and why doesnt it have such a skinny arm? does it use it to walk with?)

        therefore, if this is real, you dont know jack about how it "should" look.
        • sholt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9wait... wait... all this time that I've spent in my CS program in college, then working in the tech industry afterwards hoping that someday, if I'm really lucky, my brilliant methods and ideas, though laughed at by mainstream science, will be confirmed by the military and I'll be asked to join them in a top-secret project underneath cheyenne mountain.... You're telling me that all that time was wasted, and I could have just gotten a degree in Extraterrestial Tech!?

          ..well, *****...
      • Shananra, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1This "spiky *****" can easily be explained away as some sort of antenna, projector, etc.

        Just because something looks fancy doesn't mean it has no function. But yes, since this is from a video game, that stuff is clearly for looks- but when it comes to *real* alien technology make no assumptions.
    • g00dETH3R, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Correct, they're copying (NIN) year zero's viral marketing campaign.
  • codywalton, on 10/11/2007, -8/+57Weren't these pics already proven to be a hoax a few weeks back?
  • lsatkins, on 10/11/2007, -7/+49Isn't this thing viral marketing from Halo 3? Could have sworn I saw it related to MS before.
    • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I'm pretty sure this is part of some sort of thing Top Cola.com is doing. I don't know what it is, but it seems to be unrelated to Halo 3.
      • Vigilo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Ha ha what makes you think bungy designers didn't design halo 3 model based on the tech from caret. If i put a flying car in a game and there is already a flying car in real life then i am not inventing the car. i doubt bungy invented this.
    • tyywebb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I'm going to kill someone if this is viral.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -5/+44John titor lives.
    • KillaJazzBass, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0LOL!!! I was going to say the exact same thing.
    • existent, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5How does this relate to John Titor?
  • supermanred, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3It's all true. I know. Believe.
  • yoos, on 10/11/2007, -4/+31I thought the docs were well written, regardless of them being a "hoax" or not... good writer...
    • BertFegg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2 Well written but the author has either never actually put together quarterly reports for a research program or at least assumes the reader won't know what they look like. No f***ing way are they going into page after page of utterly basic introductory material for the field - this is the biggest giveaway really. That kind of thing gets a short paragraph at best and then on to the important stuff - showing just how important, productive, and cutting-edge your work is and how masterfully you are hitting all of your milestones, and how those huge problems and planning oversights that are built into the project aren't really anything to worry about.
      • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Well they seem to have a grasp of how the stuff operates at a basic level. Maybe that was covered in the prior reports.
  • Alex74447, on 10/11/2007, -10/+50So basically... The aliens "write" on specific material and suddenly that material acts accordingly? Bull.... *****?
    • theworldisround, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3It would be more believable if he would have said there was some sort of "touch screen" technology, but the writing goes directly on the "microcomputers" with no logical interpretation device.
      • existent, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12So basically... The aliens "push" on specific buttons and suddenly my food is heated? Bull.... *****? (referring to a microwave) The fallacy you are committing is one of interpreting according to the lens of your current understanding. That is, unless you claim to have total knowledge?

        Just because there is no observed 'logical interpretation device' doesn't mean that there isn't one, somehow, nor that it is necessary for this type of technology.
      • TheMrFlibble, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0I take it you've never glued circuit components to paper using a conductive glue and drawn the circuit paths in pencil ? It works quite well however when you get more complex circuits you have to figure out how to draw the paths so that non intersect.

        I'm not saying it's not a hoax however, too obvious
      • unitedstatians, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You don't find the "U.S. Government and friends" reverse engineeering of Artifacts of extraterrestrial origin obtained from crash sites recovery operations like invisibility, 3D projectors, Anti-Gravity generators, and advance nanotechnology amazing and cool? Do you know your on digg.com? A technology Enthusiast's heaven.
    • ophello, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3RTF...stuff.

      it says "specific material, with a specfic field active". not your tabletop.
    • meez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3How can you be sure this "technology" isn't available somewhere?

      It's unlikely yes, unlikely because of how we think and how we interpret objects and matter, but it doesn't make it impossible. Yes this is just a snippet of an ARG, but still.... doesn't make it impossible :).
    • tyywebb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"Any suitably advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clark
  • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4http://www.earthfiles.com/headlines.php?category=Environment
    They have a lot of articles about these sightings as well.
  • funkychikensays, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8He's in trouble..
    unless this is all bs
  • elgoth2003, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5I think it's probably something to do with the Halo ARG. Looks like some of the styling from Halo and I think one of the wings is shown on one of the ARG sites...
    • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Has nothing to do with Halo ARG. Bungie has specifically denied connection with the source behind these "UFO sightings" which seem to stem from TopCola.com, lyca.com, 24.com and a certain Matt Ashar
  • KillaJazzBass, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5When they actually fly that thing and there is actual PROOF beyond reasonable doubt. Then I will believe it.
  • Autologic, on 10/11/2007, -14/+6FAKE. you know why? because those pics were taken from little clips made for MTV Canada television.
  • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -11/+5http://www.earthfiles.com/headlines.php?category=Environment
    Not trying to spam links or anything... but they have a ton of articles about these sightings, if you scroll down just a little.

    *forgive me if this is a double post... I had some kind of session error and my first post didn't show up... at least not yet.
    • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3dam, it was a double post... stupid digg comment errors... oh well. -_-
    • datatribe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2most of the links, older ones, are by subscription only... seems a bit odd. I smell a fake website.
      • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1thats weird... I dont have any accounts on those sites... and I can see them just fine ... O_o or at least they worked back when I posted them... lol
  • legendxx, on 10/11/2007, -14/+3I dont have time to read that.. summary plz
    • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5RTFAOSTFU.
    • SonicRush, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2It's worth the read, even if it's not true.
    • Kr4t05, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1tl;dr -- Some guy under the assumed name "Issac" rambles on about some technology he work on with a corporate entity as created by the government. Basically, the species is advanced enough that we all could die before I finish typing this sentence.

      ...

      Or not.
  • RagnarRok, on 10/11/2007, -10/+29I'm pilot, I fly.
  • TheMoose16, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9I'm pretty sure it's viral, but those docs are really well done. Somebody or some company put a lot of time into writing them and making them seem legit. Some of the pictures ever have scratches and stuff on them, but still it's nothing photoshop can't handle.
    • nutzngum, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0i've rendered many 3d objects using a program called Brazil, which has an infinite plane on which it's will render, and this looks JUST like that....i'd love to believe it was real, but even *I'm* sceptical...
  • Bob042, on 10/11/2007, -5/+22I've seen these pictures before, and there were a lot of things making them pretty fake looking. Just because it's DETAILED doesn't make it true, it means someone was very bored.
    • existent, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Just because it's fake looking doesn't mean it's fake. Who's the one jumping to conclusions here?
    • unitedstatians, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3If you don't want believe, no one can make you believe. What are you afraid of?
  • illycoffee, on 10/11/2007, -19/+26Dumbasses - this has been proven a photoshop hoax already.
    • sandfish, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17It has? ... You got a link to that proof?
    • BearToy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Actually, no it hasn't.
      Several of the Photoshop regulars on Fark gave a lot of evidence showing that the images are of an actual object rather than being digitally created. They were in rare agreement that if it is a Photoshop, its like nothing they have ever seen before. Nobody is ready to say what the object in the image is, just that it isn't a Photoshop trick.
      • neonsky99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The thing that surprised me the most was the high level of language it was written in, however, there were a number of spelling errors I noticed.
        Something that scared me abit was, different races of et, or "sources", wtf! if this is a hoax it's a dam good one... It wouldn't surprise me about the whole Mountain View - South Cali area R&D grounds for military/gov., its common knowledge CIA has established a private enterprise there, it was in Wired in 2000 or so... maybe this isn't so farfetched... who knows??
      • ophello, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3finally, some logical though amidst the Halo-3-photoshopped bunch.
  • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4Can someone save all the files and mirror them or something, just in case this goes down, for one reason or another... If it's real, then this stuff is important.
    • zybch, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5Of course its not real you stupid muppet!!
    • Vegabondsx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Even if it happens to be real it's unlikely that the government would take it down. Most people wouldn't believe it's true anyway.
  • ryanvsrobots, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12i'll believe it when i see it
  • stewils, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5This is part of the alternate reality building hype for Halo 3, smiler to the I Love Bees campaign for Halo 2. More info can be found on the bungie forums.
    • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2The info I found on the Bungie forums say, by bungie representatives that they are not related to the sites producing these extra terrestrial theories (27.com/ar.jpg mainly). This is part of some Top Cola thing (look the company up).
  • muffins, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2halo 3
  • padlock7, on 10/11/2007, -14/+9I have to agree. That whole thing is so fake. The pictures don't even look real. Being surrounded by CG images 24/7 I can spot the flaws. What an ass.
    • scuzzman, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12Can you tell from the pixels and from having seen some 'cho... CGs in your day?
  • Jayvis, on 10/11/2007, -5/+80I can't remember the last time I actually read something that long on the internet and was sincerely intrigued the entire time. Dugg.
    • BearToy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Same here.
      I know it is most probably fake, but the idea of a holographic language where the only real meaning is from interpreting the entire symbol interaction is very interesting. That the whole thing functions as some sort of program makes the idea even more fun.
    • Gareshra, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3Definately. It's obviously fake, but the style of writing and the way it's told as a story makes me appreciate it on the same level as a well written science fiction short story. Dugg for intrigue.
    • vrillusions, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Being the typical person I am I completely ignored the document and just clicked away at the images. Some of the images definitely look fake. The quality is just too good and the ones that appear to shot behind an "infinite wall" that are used for product pictures wouldn't make sense. this is the government, not some world renowned photographer. I would have expected the images to be more grainy and just on an exam table (like other pictures are). that being said, the actual story is really fascinating and I still read the whole thing. It was written very well with a lot of small things that make it more believable, like references to the emotional impact it had (well known "hook" for stories) and admitting only working on a small part of a much larger operation. Even though it is feeding into the viral marketing, dugg on the creativity aspect alone.
      • DarKnight90, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"just on an exam table (like other pictures are)"

        Yeah cause if we really found a piece of a UFO we'd just slap it on a table.
        • grantmoore3d, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Where else would you put it? On the floor?
  • TH3W1R3D, on 10/11/2007, -10/+9halo arg related!!
    look: (and look at links in this link)
    http://www.destructoid.com/a-look-at-the-new-halo-arg-iris-i-love-bees-it-ain-t-33281.phtml
    • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Looks more like someone just grabbed some random UFO related images and attached them to that article... =/
    • allengeer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Does NOT have to do with the Halo ARG. Theres a company called Top Cola. Does this number game online to which people who figure it out get the response (3^3). That leads them to 27.com where one can find an ar.jpg. These two sites are owned by Matt Ashar. Bungie denies affiliation with this company.
  • zeal2k7, on 10/11/2007, -11/+2Viral marketing crap
  • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5Nevermind. I think posting this will actually get some people in black suits at my door.
  • stewils, on 10/11/2007, -10/+0have a look here, read the story, follow the links http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/796/796753p1.html It's Halo 3.
    • NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2all that proves is that bungie made a secret link to some UFO pics to mess with people... how could that explain the numerous people in different area's seeing these things?
  • observer1, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18The photos of the drones are from different submitters, proving one photo as a fake does not prove the entire story as a fake. The photos started pouring in after the first was submitted, so I'm sure that at least one of the subsequent photos is most likely a hoax. If you go to unknowncountry.com or earthfiles.com you can hear recorded interviews with eyewitnesses that are fairly convincing, one was a soccer mom, a chiropractor and an engineer I think.
    • devolve, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Did you mean on the internet they claim they are a soccer mom, chiropractor and an engineer?
      • AntiScurvyLg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I'm not a doctor, but I play one on the internet!
  • maanwi, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0What is that - some sort of antenna with an egg whisk on top? Fakest pics ever.
  • MrKrinkleDude, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1Old news here, like 2-3 months since it was reported on C2CAM?
  • DestroyFascism, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Someone call Sculley......
    lol Would be nice if it were true, would be even niceer if it were ours invented by some backyard hack....
  • avanrogers, on 10/11/2007, -9/+6wtf. someone uploaded photos of this same "craft" to a ufo website a few months back.. i thought they were fake but looked pretty cool so i saved them. but the back story of the guy who uploaded them said that he was out camping somewhere and snapped photos of it. now heres a different story using some of the same photos. makes me think hoax hoax hoax
    • BobSutan, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4"Once they are drawn, so to speak, on a suitable surface made of a suitable material and in the presence of a certain type of field, they immediately begin performing the desired tasks. It really did seem like magic to us, even after we began to understand the principles behind it."

      The last line is the hallmark of a hoax. In other words: amazing claims with absolutely no evidence to support it. If there was any truth to this there would have at least been a minimum of *something* scientific in the reveal pertaining to this "discovery". Pictures and video hasn't qualified as proof since the term "flying saucers" was coined. In short, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence/proof.
      • ophello, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4and yet...if he offered his scientific reasoning, you would still call it a 'hallmark of a hoax" for the theories we havent discovered, and the science we cant yet measure.

        you cant handle the truth.
  • FlamingWombat, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1The Chad and Ramjan photos (central to this whole thing) are proven fakes. A telephone cable went right through the "UFO" in one of them. Taken as fiction, though, it's still pretty good. Almost feels a little like Heinlein.
  • stringerbell, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2OK, this is the 3rd time we've seen this over the last couple months - and each time the PhotoShopping gets a little bit better. Come back in 3 years and maybe they'll be finished...
  • noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -13/+34It is viral avertising for Halo. Go get some sleep tin-hatters.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ2uHcwSBc0

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread287946/pg1
    • kageki, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Interesting how the only supposed debunking proof comes from abovetopsecret.com only. That site has some dubious origins.

      That youtube clip proves nothing. Hell they even tossed in a drawing of the stonehenge. I'll believe the viral marketing thing when Bungie themselves come out saying so.
    • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6He didn't claim to see any complete craft. He doesn't claim that the images were his rather he stated that some of the things that he worked on looked similar.
  • valis, on 10/11/2007, -4/+37I will say that the 'document' is very well written. In fact, it is so well written that it is easy to accept it at face value. However - I dabble in creative writing (short stories and the like) and read many books a month (as I'm sure many of you do.) There is nothing in the 'document' that could not have been conceived by a good writer. My feeling is that it is fiction (as in - Science Fiction - as in - Issac Asimov. Interesting choice of pseudonym, don't you think?)

    Whatever it is, it's an interesting read. It could work as a good short story, but seems much more likely to be the back story of a video game.
    • Radionesiac, on 10/11/2007, -13/+3i can't read.

      also you are pretentious.
    • Aythun, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Indeed. This is pure fiction; entertaining fiction, though.
  • thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -7/+681.) anyone who believes we are alone in the universe ignores mathematics

    2.) this smells of such a hoax, I have to hold my nose.
    • phenolholic, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4explain 1.
      • felyduw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
        • Synthos, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Ahahaaaa Those numbers are ridiculous that they use in the equation on the wiki page.
          ne is nowhere near 0.5.
          And although the equation takes time into consideration... How the hell do we know there wasn't already an intelligent civilization that came and went even before us.

          I'll believe in ETs when I get abducted or some such... Not before. (although it's nice to imagine)
  • diizy, on 10/11/2007, -10/+14It's viral marketing... fortunecity site would have died instantly...
    • kageki, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5If you consider the fact that the webpage is literally mostly text on a white background then it doesn't seem too crazy that it didn't crash due to a digg effect.
  • soot, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4I made a thread on the Bungie.net forums a few weeks back after seeing a frontpage story on Digg that linked to a page on ufocasebook.com with a bunch of the same photos... I've left it since to die from lack of proof, but I'm still in the gray area whether or not its related.. If anyone else here is a loser enough that they're also curious about the Halo 3 ARG, here's my thread with some evidence, check it out if you want: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11299627&viewreplies=true

  • LucasKane, on 10/11/2007, -12/+3I SEE THEY STOPPED SHOWING THE PHOTO WITH THE STARCRAFT WRITING ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SHIP
  • EelfinnTy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I also found this web site referenced here.

    http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2095.html?theme=light
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