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Has anyone had a Twight Zone Moment?

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, October 28, 2018 6:58 AM

ugamodels

Any chance the photo was taken by someone you know, given to you, and the picture just ended up in the pile of your wife's photos?

 

No, these were pictures that she took and kept at her mom’s house tucked away with her family’s pictures. There were a bunch of pictures that she took of planes and her family at the show, me included.

We discovered it a few years later when she was going thru her old stuff.

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, October 28, 2018 7:11 AM

Hey pf, the balloon theory sounds very reasonable. When it gets hard to explain is when it does things a plane can’t like hovering still and shooting off at incredible speeds like I’ve seen twice.

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Posted by gregbale on Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:17 AM

PFJN
Eventually I found out from one guy in the office, that the government actually has (or at least was conducting trials with) some high-altitude low-observable surveillance blimps and that this may have been one of them. Apparently the combination of the later day sunlight and such may have been just enough to make it ever so slightly visible.

Second that on the surveillance blimps. We had two of them tethered over the Baltimore area a year or so ago...until one of them got loose in stiff winds and sailed up toward PA. Even knowing what they were (and that they were in fact tethered) they often looked like something highly unusual, and often appeared to be moving relative to reference points on the ground. I've seen all kinds of aircraft in all kinds of conditions...but never experieced the optical 'tricks' exhibited by these IFO's! Propeller

Greg

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 9:02 AM

After reading this thread, I now realize where those little pieces I drop on the floor go.  I used to blame it on the plastic bugs, that eat plastic parts.  Now that I know they enter the twilight zone, or else that storm featured in the Final Countdown.  Those are the parts that disappear, and weeks later re-appear in some spot I thoroughly investigated at the time I dropped the part!

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by gregbale on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 9:10 AM

Don Stauffer

After reading this thread, I now realize where those little pieces I drop on the floor go.  I used to blame it on the plastic bugs, that eat plastic parts.  Now that I know they enter the twilight zone, or else that storm featured in the Final Countdown.  Those are the parts that disappear, and weeks later re-appear in some spot I thoroughly investigated at the time I dropped the part!

 

I've joked (and sometimes fumed) for years about precisely the same phenomenon! I call them 'random singularities': mini black holes that open up just to catch a falling (or flying) part...transport it somewhere to the other side of the universe for an unspecified time...and then return it---long after the project in question is completed---back to exactly the place it was searched for, multiple times, when it disappeared!Indifferent

I have this image in my mind of bits of plastic and the occasional modeling tool all floating together in some galactic void, or in orbit around some distant planet of Tenax-breathing amphibian hobbyists.

Greg

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"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
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Posted by plasticjunkie on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 9:33 AM

gregbale

 

 
Don Stauffer

After reading this thread, I now realize where those little pieces I drop on the floor go.  I used to blame it on the plastic bugs, that eat plastic parts.  Now that I know they enter the twilight zone, or else that storm featured in the Final Countdown.  Those are the parts that disappear, and weeks later re-appear in some spot I thoroughly investigated at the time I dropped the part!

 

 

I've joked (and sometimes fumed) for years about precisely the same phenomenon! I call them 'random singularities': mini black holes that open up just to catch a falling (or flying) part...transport it somewhere to the other side of the universe for an unspecified time...and then return it---long after the project in question is completed---back to exactly the place it was searched for, multiple times, when it disappeared!Indifferent

I have this image in my mind of bits of plastic and the occasional modeling tool all floating together in some galactic void, or in orbit around some distant planet of Tenax-breathing amphibian hobbyists.

 

 

Still waiting for the black hole to spit back my darn decals that disappeared in my mancave over 2 years ago ....................Whistling

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