UFO

From the same people that brought you The Alien Landing Strip we get Alien Spacecraft over Florida. Yes, folks, we now have evidence that alien spacecraft are visiting our planet, because we all know that satellite photos don't lie - just ask Colin Powell.

It has been quite interesting watching the conspiracy nuts go wild over this photo. Not that they need much prompting.

At the risk of sounding even more geeky than I usually am, this photo reminds me of an episode of UFO, an SF television show made in the early 70s. For those that don't know, UFO was about this super-secret group called SHADO that were defending the earth against alien invasion. Each episode silvery UFOs would appear and one of SHADO's ships would vector in and shoot it down. Other things happened as well but that was the crux of each episode. That and girls in short silvery dresses and purple wigs.

Anyway in this particular episode SHADO manages to attach a probe to one of the alien ships so they can track it back to its home planet and take some photos of it. Everything works swimmingly right up to the point where it's sending the data back to Earth and from memory I think it is shot down. As a result some of the data is lost.

I remember the series' protagonist coming in jubilant to look at the photos only to be told they're useless. He claims they must be of some value. So he's shown some photos. Alien landscapes in wonderful detail. He's over-the-moon. Until he's shown the final photograph: a woman's thigh. Then he's told that every photo was a closeup of that thigh and that without a sense of scale the photographs are useless.

Likewise the UFO pic lacks any real sense of scale, but of course the conspiracy nuts don't care.

For the record, it's probably a weather/scientific balloon.