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24. US helicopters fly directly over sailing vessels in the Persian Gulf, unnoticed ...

Sat Apr 5, 2014, 01:26 PM

Apr 2014

saw this on the news years ago. Helicopters with special silencing mechanisms were spying on small boats near Iranian waters. Most of the boats were fishing vessels, with no motors, or motors off while they fished. Helicopters descended to mast-top height without anyone on board noticing. Sounds from the boats were easily heard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_helicopter

There is a price to be paid in speed and maneuverability -- if spotted, the choppers can kill the noise reduction and bug out.

Of course, it might be dirigibles.

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It's Sarah Palin "hunting" again ... nt eppur_se_muova Apr 2014 #1

hmmmm??? Botany Apr 2014 #2

Could be another Slender Man incursion! randome Apr 2014 #11

Looks like a couple looking for their 15 minutes of fame. Vashta Nerada Apr 2014 #3

The guy said he didn't know what the light was, but it was real. Octafish Apr 2014 #4

Of course you like this ridiculous fucking OP! zappaman Apr 2014 #57

zappaman, my own personal stalker dude. Octafish Apr 2014 #61

Interesting. Thanks for posting. John1956PA Apr 2014 #5

No doubt that the first place a technologically advanced sufrommich Apr 2014 #6

Have you noticed that virtually all COLGATE4 Apr 2014 #9

The aliens usually don't want any witnesses pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #12

I also notice that these highly advanced aliens still use headlights. sufrommich Apr 2014 #14

kind of condescending G_j Apr 2014 #23

It's like Bigfoot , you have 99.99 % of hoax pics then one comes around that's hard to explain watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #10

You realize that there are literally millions of sufrommich Apr 2014 #13

The government would of course release it to the general public watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #16

How many thousands of humans are involved sufrommich Apr 2014 #18

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Which asteroid was that? Thanks. uppityperson Apr 2014 #44

It was pretty big news the day it was announced watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #59

US helicopters fly directly over sailing vessels in the Persian Gulf, unnoticed ... eppur_se_muova Apr 2014 #24

Here's one that is hard to explain mockmonkey Apr 2014 #37

no! where better MFM008 Apr 2014 #46

ATVers out jack lighting jpak Apr 2014 #7

Those lights are pretty high for it to be people on ATV's , look at the angle of the light watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #8

Those deer could very well be trained to recognize the sound of sufrommich Apr 2014 #15

It's in the sky it's not lights on the ground watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #17

Like the good old boys in Mississippi don't have "flying ATVs?" Botany Apr 2014 #19

OMG! The South IS rising again! pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #21

LOL!! maddezmom Apr 2014 #22

DUzy! n/t winter is coming Apr 2014 #48

Oh FFS! mockmonkey Apr 2014 #25

You noticed that too. arcane1 Apr 2014 #26

It's lighting up the field it's not bugs close to the lens watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #28

Deer Anus happens to be my favorite altrock band pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #27

Not an ATV watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #29

So what is it? maddezmom Apr 2014 #30

I don't know I can only tell you what it's not watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #31

It's obviously a visit from a planet so advanced sufrommich Apr 2014 #33

It's not an ATV or bugs close to the camera lens as has been suggested watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #36

And you know this how? maddezmom Apr 2014 #38

Watching the video and knowing how trailcams work watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #49

It's not a UFO either. Unless we are going to believe that aliens sufrommich Apr 2014 #40

it is a UFO azurnoir Apr 2014 #50

No,it's not. It's a film taken by a couple who then called the media sufrommich Apr 2014 #55

do you understand what UFO actually stands for? Then tell us what was it indentified as? azurnoir Apr 2014 #58

How can we tell it is flying? Or flew away? maddezmom Apr 2014 #60

How do you know it isn't an atv and it isn't bugs close to the camera? uppityperson Apr 2014 #45

watch the video and I know how deer would react if it was an ATV watchingoveryou Apr 2014 #52

Ah. Thank you for the technical explanation. uppityperson Apr 2014 #54

It's an infrared camera Scootaloo Apr 2014 #32

Flaming Swamp Gas mockmonkey Apr 2014 #43

IF only.... mockmonkey Apr 2014 #34

Alien UFOs are like Bigfoots wheniwasincongress Apr 2014 #35

If anyone claimed this was aliens, I missed it G_j Apr 2014 #39

They reported that "it" flew away. mockmonkey Apr 2014 #41

the report was decidedly unscientific also G_j Apr 2014 #51

Too many people mistakenly think UFO means alien spacecraft pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #42

im sensing a disturbing amount of disbelief here. MFM008 Apr 2014 #47

I know what that thing or those things are. Are_grits_groceries Apr 2014 #53

best explanation I've heard so far nt G_j Apr 2014 #56