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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:07 PM
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I saw the strangest thing a few minutes ago...
I came back from the grocer's with food and another $7 of peeps. The last ones too, wow - they had tons more just 2 days ago.

Anyway, I parked the car and looked up. There's a constellation, one I'm not familiar with but it's to the east of Orion. All the stars were white and so-so brightness. Except for one at the lower left corner. It was yellowish-white, very bright, seemed to be stationary but then slowly move in one direction - and then it made some erratic moves. Then it became stationary. But after another minute, it started moving slowly in another.

Whazzup?! Stars usually don't do that sort of thing...
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:09 PM
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1. had you eaten the whole thing of peeps already?
sounds like a bona fide UFO (at least in terms of being unknown)

Neat!
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kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:09 PM
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2. Now, now.....
lay off the booze and drugs.... :evilgrin:
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:09 PM
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3. No, they don't...
but airplanes do.

It appeared to stop because it was coming in your direction for a few moments.

(Or, you saw a you-know-what)

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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:09 PM
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4. Where are you?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:16 PM
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11. Minnesota, United States, Earth, this dimension, no dementia
:D
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:10 PM
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5. That's the constellation Uforius
That star is named Alpha Uforius. the Greeks called it Stelplanetos, or wandering star.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:10 PM
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6. $7 worth of Peeps?
Good lord your dentist must love you!!!!! i got my kid 2 small packages of them, they were 3 for a buck. I hope you have alot of kids or i'm sending insulin to your house! That 3rd package, i ate that one!
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:10 PM
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7. Lay off the Peeps
They are laced with mind-altering substances injected by the BFEE to destroy political resistence.

You have been warned.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:10 PM
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8. Obviously, a weather balloon.
Now you get to be a crackpot forever.
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Delano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:11 PM
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9. I saw the strangest thing too
Some guy/girl at the store with groceries and a bunch of peeps. He seemed totally wacked out on the confections and was shouting something about "the lights! the lights!"

;-)
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Indiana_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:15 PM
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10. I've seen something like that before this winter.
I was outside during a SMOKING break at 4am in a gazebo outside the place where I work (I work nights). It was me and two other people and the security guard. We saw 3 lights that looked like stars all of a sudden move real fast in unison with each other! It was definitely a UFO but we came to the conclusion they must've been maybe military aircraft of some kind. There was no noise but then they might have been so far up we couldn't hear them. They did move real fast all of a sudden though and then they were gone in an instant. We were freaking out! IT was one of those crisp cold clear winter nights, too, where ALL the stars are out. Who knows?:shrug: 4 of us saw it so we weren't imagining things....
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:19 PM
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12. Congrats! You just saw your first (?) UFO!
Some friends of mine saw an amazing display one night (the whole neighborhood did, in fact) when a huge circle of bright white lights appeared at about nine PM, with one light in the middle. The middle light went to each of the lights in the circle, and circled around it. Then, all the lights moved into the center and burst outwards, disappearing across the horizon. The local paper ran an "explaination" the next day titled "Columbus residents treated to rare locus mating display". :shrug:
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Indiana_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:19 PM
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13. By the way, I like your peep website! n/t
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:36 PM
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14. It was obviously close to the horizon.
A star may look like it's blinking or even moving when it is close to the horizon. It's color will often vary, too. So, I suspect that it was the star Sirius if it was to the east of Orion.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:48 PM
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15. it was a sign
I think Nostradamas had a prophecy: "when the sign is seen over the cold land of many lakes and mosquitos, the King of the Con-Neos will fall. He of small brain who wished to ruled the world will be fucketh-ed."
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 11:56 PM
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16. It's an Easter Miracle!
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