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The pictures explain a lot. First of all there is a low sun, this lights up clouds or water vapor on the bottom, hence it will stand out a lot more than during the day. The low light also allows for a good backdrop, it is not blinding the vapor.

So what you see is propulsion in action. A jet engine produces a lot of heat and this heat blasts out the engine. As it cools it condenses briefly before the moist evaporates.

How long trails are visible depends a lot on the amount of moist and the ambient temperature. Sometimes a trail is very short, sometimes a lot longer. In your case it is a short ex

The pictures explain a lot. First of all there is a low sun, this lights up clouds or water vapor on the bottom, hence it will stand out a lot more than during the day. The low light also allows for a good backdrop, it is not blinding the vapor.

So what you see is propulsion in action. A jet engine produces a lot of heat and this heat blasts out the engine. As it cools it condenses briefly before the moist evaporates.

How long trails are visible depends a lot on the amount of moist and the ambient temperature. Sometimes a trail is very short, sometimes a lot longer. In your case it is a short exhaust trail from some airplane.

Keep curious !

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Most likely, you saw a Starlink satellite deployment.

SpaceX does a Starlink launch every 2–3 days. If the timin...

Most likely, you saw a Starlink satellite deployment.

SpaceX does a Starlink launch every 2–3 days. If the timin...

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I guess that it is a vehicle. Because, it has two distinctive trails.
If it is a space debris, it should have only one trail.

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To me, looks like a man made contraption high in the atmosphere producing a, maybe, unusual contrail.
Thanks!

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At this point in time the case is closed, UFOs are real.


So in the 1940s and 1950s there are a bunch of sightings of UFOs- the most famous being Roswell (which is actually not a UFO). The US Airforce comes out and downplays the whole thing as just misidentified balloons and whatnot.

Yet internally, the Airforce was very concerned about these UFOs and even commissioned multiple studies of them.

In 1948 the first government-funded study was done on UFOs, called Project Sign. The conclusion was interesting. While the study concluded that most UFO sightings were ballons or optical illusions but that

At this point in time the case is closed, UFOs are real.


So in the 1940s and 1950s there are a bunch of sightings of UFOs- the most famous being Roswell (which is actually not a UFO). The US Airforce comes out and downplays the whole thing as just misidentified balloons and whatnot.

Yet internally, the Airforce was very concerned about these UFOs and even commissioned multiple studies of them.

In 1948 the first government-funded study was done on UFOs, called Project Sign. The conclusion was interesting. While the study concluded that most UFO sightings were ballons or optical illusions but that a minority of cases were unexplainable and that the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” is the most probable explanation.

The government rejected it outright. They refused to accept the results in any form.

A new study was thus done, called Project Bluebook. Project Bluebook was specifically created not to explain UFOs, but to debunk the extraterrestrial hypothesis. They did a bad job and just made the blanket statement that it was all just misidentifications and optical illusions.


In 2004 the USS Nimitz was patrolling off the coast of Mexico with an armada of advanced warships when strange things began to happen.

For days, radar was tracking a cluster of objects moving too slow to be aircraft but too fast to be birds. The objects moved erratically- seemingly breaking the laws of physics. Occasionally more objects would appear at extremely high altitudes and drop down to sea level in seconds to join the other objects.

Those on the ship were able to physically see these objects as well using high-strength binoculars.

After days of this multiple F-18s were sent out to investigate these objects.

The F-18s went over to the objects and noticed a weird thing on the surface of the ocean. It was oval-shaped and just cresting the water. The object was not detected by sonar of nearby submarines.

An F-18 decided to close in and get a better look. As they got closer they noticed a white circular craft buzzing above the ocean disturbance. It was jetting back and forth very quickly like a wasp. The object was perfectly smooth.

The UFO seemingly notices the F-18 and begins to climb as the F-18 was circling down to get a good look. The F-18 makes a steep bank angle to keep up but the UFO then takes off at hypersonic speed, disappearing in mere seconds.

Now we have 2 sets of pilots from 2 F-18s who witnessed this. These are F-18 pilots too, men well versed in aeronautics.

The planes return and another few are sent out. The pilots who witnessed the UFO tell the new pilots to keep an eye out for anything strange. These pilots would head out with an extremely sensitive camera and make for the UFOs.

They would soon find one and record it.

Then in 2014, the Theodore Rosevelt started tracking UFOs. They began to follow them and track them, and 2 jets even almost collided mid-air with a UFO.

These UFOs made physics-defying maneuvers and were witnessed by dozens of pilots over many months. Eventually, they caught these crafts on video using hyper-sensitive cameras mounted on the jets.

Now the US government is upfront on this (kinda). They fully admit this happened and they have no explanation for it.


Now, this isn’t all. There have been hundreds of UFO sightings from the late 1940s to today that cannot be explained by anyone.

  1. A number of Aeronautical engineers were fishing in 1952 when they noticed a weird thing in the cloudless sky. They used the binoculars to get a better view and witnessed an ovular silver object moving into the wind quickly and then disappearing at lightning speed. These guys never went public with this information FYI.
  2. On a number of occasions, teams of scientists launching weather ballons saw a UFO while tracking their ballons.
  3. A police officer noticed a bright light and loud sound in the desert and went to investigate. He saw an oval craft in the desert. When it noticed him it took off and then shot away at an insane speed. The officer was considered reliable even by those who interrogated him and he never capitalized off the attention. The scene of the take-off also left tons of physical evidence confirming Lonnie’s story.

There are hundreds of these stories that cannot be explained.

Now are these aliens? I don’t know. These could be high advanced experimental craft.

But these pieces of evidence are VERY hard to dismiss outright. Something is strange here.

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Not a UFO. (Well… a UFO to you but no longer)

Those were recently launched Starlink satellites. The launch them in large groups and they will spread out to their final position over the next several weeks.

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“This” video? I see no video here.

is it an object? Probably.

Is it in the sky? If yes, then it is flying.

Do you know what it is? If no, it is unidentified.

Seems simple enough.

Depending on wind conditions, my house is under one of the landing paths to our major airport. Planes regularly, several time an hour, pass overhead. They are often above the clouds. Or it’s night. Are they objects? Yes. Are they flying? Yes. Can I identify them? No. UFOs.

There are no extraterrestrial beings piloting vehicles anywhere near Earth. If extraterrestrials are piloting vehicles, they are doing so on their own pl

“This” video? I see no video here.

is it an object? Probably.

Is it in the sky? If yes, then it is flying.

Do you know what it is? If no, it is unidentified.

Seems simple enough.

Depending on wind conditions, my house is under one of the landing paths to our major airport. Planes regularly, several time an hour, pass overhead. They are often above the clouds. Or it’s night. Are they objects? Yes. Are they flying? Yes. Can I identify them? No. UFOs.

There are no extraterrestrial beings piloting vehicles anywhere near Earth. If extraterrestrials are piloting vehicles, they are doing so on their own planets, which are tens of millennia to billions of years of travel time away.

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Many of you might thing what I'm about to tell false and some of you might put up hate messages in the comments. So better I answer this as anonymous.

I was travelling during a summer evening of 98/99 with my family and relatives in a fiat padmini car. Being a 4year old kid I was lying in my mom's goad(lap) with a clear view of a sky. I don't have much memory whether we were going to or returning from Lonavla as we stay in Mumbai.
The cassette player was giving a background music of Lata Mangeshkar's 90s songs such as
Dil toh pagal hai as I was staring at the beauty of the sky.
Suddenly I sa

Many of you might thing what I'm about to tell false and some of you might put up hate messages in the comments. So better I answer this as anonymous.

I was travelling during a summer evening of 98/99 with my family and relatives in a fiat padmini car. Being a 4year old kid I was lying in my mom's goad(lap) with a clear view of a sky. I don't have much memory whether we were going to or returning from Lonavla as we stay in Mumbai.
The cassette player was giving a background music of Lata Mangeshkar's 90s songs such as
Dil toh pagal hai as I was staring at the beauty of the sky.
Suddenly I saw something going moderately fast in the sky which somewhat resembled this:






Then I remembered my mom had taught me something called as an उडती तबकडी (
Udati tabakdi) in Marathi which meant a flying saucer.
So I started saying that word to my mom again and again as I was seeing it go from one side of the sky to other. My mom ignored me by nodding her head. As it disappeared I stopped saying and began to do what I was doing.

I am 99% sure of what I saw and I wasn't sleepy or dreaming.
Due to this incident I have always believed in UFOs and aliens.
And thus this answers your question whether there are UFO sighting phenomenons in India or not.

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UFO sighted at 3.30am Durban South Africa, Kwa Zulu Natal on the 24th of January 2022.

I was taking my dog outside to do his business and I noticed these flashing lights in the sky. At first I thought it was a plane but this thing would hover and then dart side ways. The type of flight was sporadic. It would move up and down and side ways. It wasn't a sattelight. I tried to video it and my phone went all staticky. I actually thought I was dreaming and went to wake up my daughter who witnessed it as well. It came out as a big blue bubble blob on the photo’s that we took but in actual fact there

UFO sighted at 3.30am Durban South Africa, Kwa Zulu Natal on the 24th of January 2022.

I was taking my dog outside to do his business and I noticed these flashing lights in the sky. At first I thought it was a plane but this thing would hover and then dart side ways. The type of flight was sporadic. It would move up and down and side ways. It wasn't a sattelight. I tried to video it and my phone went all staticky. I actually thought I was dreaming and went to wake up my daughter who witnessed it as well. It came out as a big blue bubble blob on the photo’s that we took but in actual fact there were flashing lights. If you zoom in you can make out a bubble craft. If you believe in aliens. Here's your proof! All origninal pictures. Not been photoshoped in any sort of way.

Durban is a costal area. I live about three blocks from the beach. The suburb of this sighting was in Amanzimtoti in the Doonside area.

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A meteor breaking up in the atmosphere. Or a line of Starlink satellites. It might have been “unidentified” to you, but not to anyone who is familiar with the night sky and the behavior of meteors or Starlink launches.

I've updated the blog post with the original shots (with exif data) and GPS coordinates.

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I am from India and work as an engineer in very prestigious government organization. It was the month of April or early May 1982 and I was in my 8th standard then. I lived in a remote village Senduria, my native place in UP State. Nepal border is just 25 kilometers from my village and the mighty Himalayas is visible from there on any clear day. It was around 8.00 in the evening and I was studying for my exams under a kerosin lamp outside my house. My father was listening news on his radio and my grandmother was on the roof of our single storey outhouse to breath some fresh air. There was no qu

I am from India and work as an engineer in very prestigious government organization. It was the month of April or early May 1982 and I was in my 8th standard then. I lived in a remote village Senduria, my native place in UP State. Nepal border is just 25 kilometers from my village and the mighty Himalayas is visible from there on any clear day. It was around 8.00 in the evening and I was studying for my exams under a kerosin lamp outside my house. My father was listening news on his radio and my grandmother was on the roof of our single storey outhouse to breath some fresh air. There was no question of electricity in the villages then, hence there was complete darkness all around my house and the entire village.

All of sudden, my grandmother started calling me upstairs to see a large strange thing hovering in the sky. I rushed immediately to the roof on grandma's call and awestruck to see a large illuminated object in the sky coming from the eastern side. I was quite familier with shapes and looks of aircrafts, helicopters etc. as Gorakhpur Air Force Station was not far from my village. A numbers of fighter jets, helicopters etc. often used to practice flying around the area even during the nights. Roaring sound of jets and sonic booms were common for us. But ‘that thing' was all different in shape, illumination and pace. A disc shape object with semi-spherical hump, glowing in bright yellow light was gliding in the sky without making a single decible sound. It was hovering over our head at about 500 feet height and suddenly it turned towards the North. I started calling my father in panic and to make him understand the situation. Before my father could come upstairs to see the matter, it quickly moved towards the North and disappeared in the horizon, probably in the mountains of Nepal. Several villagers had witnessed the event and it was a matter of curiocity for all. No one in the village had ever seen such object in their life. With passage of time, every one from the village and even I had forgotten about the incident.

It was only when I went to the city for engineering degree, read in magazines and watched in tv shows , I came to know about the UFOs. After studying about dynamics of moving objects, I wondered how that object was moving so fast without making a noise. It disappeared in the North horizon covering about 20 kilometers within 25–30 seconds.

I have travelled almost every parts of India and even Europe during the past years. However, I have never witnessed any such thing in my life after that. I did not tell this incident to anyone to avoid being bullied by them as no one would have believed my words. I am sure, I had witnessed an UFO that day.

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imagine you could go back in time say 5,000 years ago and all you had with you was a flashlight. You are walking through some brush and as you flash your light ahead of you and you see a human. What would he think? How would he reference the light your are shining on the bush? He might say you made the bush burn yet it was not consumed, since at that time only fire, ,lightning, the sun. and the full moon, could cause something to light up.

Well that’s how Moses describes God on Mt Sini. Think about this. The creator of the whole universe runs across a human and the only way he can prove to him

imagine you could go back in time say 5,000 years ago and all you had with you was a flashlight. You are walking through some brush and as you flash your light ahead of you and you see a human. What would he think? How would he reference the light your are shining on the bush? He might say you made the bush burn yet it was not consumed, since at that time only fire, ,lightning, the sun. and the full moon, could cause something to light up.

Well that’s how Moses describes God on Mt Sini. Think about this. The creator of the whole universe runs across a human and the only way he can prove to him that he is God is to play a silly parlor trick like you might do with your cat! He could have tuned Mt SINI inside out. taken moses of a tour of the solar system. turn the desert into an ocean, made 100 people appear on the mountain with him. You get my drift.

The ancient Sumerians have clay tablets that recount a narrative that has an alternative creation story. It mentions a race of beings called the Annunaki. They came here before humans and did some genetic manipulation on a primate and the end result was Human Being. In the Bible it says we are created in God’s image. the same passage would apply to the Annunaki. we are created in their image.

Its very possible that UFO sightings go back before humans inhabited the Earth. Alexander the Great describes a UFO, Ezeckial describes a UFO, The native americans and just about every indigenous group around the world describe beings who come from the stars. Renaissance Art abounds with references of UFOs. Read Zacharia Sitchin, Eric Von Diniken, Rev Barry Downing, you will get a different perspective

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Can you take the word of a clergyman and his family? My Dad and Mum were witnesses to my sighting, along with our family and some friends. Dad was Anglican vicar of the Wiltshire country village of Heytesbury.

I spotted a stationary, tiny bright object high in the clear blue sky on a June evening 1964. It stayed long enough for me to drag out a 30x astronomical telescope, and perch it on a car roof, with the aid of a wire coathanger. The image was astounding - a long cylindrical metallic shape glinting in the sunlight. I had no idea what it could be and asked everyone to come and take a look.

I

Can you take the word of a clergyman and his family? My Dad and Mum were witnesses to my sighting, along with our family and some friends. Dad was Anglican vicar of the Wiltshire country village of Heytesbury.

I spotted a stationary, tiny bright object high in the clear blue sky on a June evening 1964. It stayed long enough for me to drag out a 30x astronomical telescope, and perch it on a car roof, with the aid of a wire coathanger. The image was astounding - a long cylindrical metallic shape glinting in the sunlight. I had no idea what it could be and asked everyone to come and take a look.

I since find that other people have seen these 1000ft monsters and dub them ‘motherships’. They are often seen with the smaller saucer craft entering or leaving the lower entrance. The mothership remained stationary for half an hour but rotated its angle until I could no longer spot her.

Following this sighting we reported it to the press and were indundated with reporters. My Mum even gave an interview for BBCTV South. Our story also ended up in a book The Warminster Mystery, written by the local journalist Arthur Shuttelwood. My photo is of the copy of my own sketch, drawn by a News of The World reporter.

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I would like to stay Anonymous for reasons best known.

UFO sightings in India are rare. There are some prominent reasons for it. We do not have an air base equipped to guide alien ships to land safely. Commercial and Defense ATCs are not enough.

There were funds allocated to build that. Being a confidential project, the money didn't quite land where it should have.

Some ships do wander around our Air Space. But quite unintentionally. The frequency is so less, that our apathetic jaanta barely notices anything.

Aliens don't really fancy India for that reason. We are just an ill-equipped village for

I would like to stay Anonymous for reasons best known.

UFO sightings in India are rare. There are some prominent reasons for it. We do not have an air base equipped to guide alien ships to land safely. Commercial and Defense ATCs are not enough.

There were funds allocated to build that. Being a confidential project, the money didn't quite land where it should have.

Some ships do wander around our Air Space. But quite unintentionally. The frequency is so less, that our apathetic jaanta barely notices anything.

Aliens don't really fancy India for that reason. We are just an ill-equipped village for them. Plus, the US of A has an exotic location for Aliens to frequent just 6 hours drive from the Nevada Air Base. Apparently, Aliens are into the idea of Las Vegas. Probably because the place allows them to move around freely without being identified as Aliens, but just weirdos.

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Of course now, human nature being what it is, being unable to determine for certain just how early, let alone primitive people, managed to construct such amazing and enduring structures, leads a percentage of people to naturally presume that some ‘alien presence’ provided the required knowledge, perhaps even the ‘equipment’ to do the job. But, then did these ‘astral beings’ simply finish the job and blast away into space never to return? Com’on now, really ? For example, just how was ‘Stone Hinge’ managed, or, just how on earth did the early Egyptians know how to build the pyramids so amazingl

Of course now, human nature being what it is, being unable to determine for certain just how early, let alone primitive people, managed to construct such amazing and enduring structures, leads a percentage of people to naturally presume that some ‘alien presence’ provided the required knowledge, perhaps even the ‘equipment’ to do the job. But, then did these ‘astral beings’ simply finish the job and blast away into space never to return? Com’on now, really ? For example, just how was ‘Stone Hinge’ managed, or, just how on earth did the early Egyptians know how to build the pyramids so amazingly accurately, let alone how did they physically accomplish the job? We could enumerate dozens of examples and not have the slightest of an idea of just HOW they were managed so very long ago, … but then, there’s an easy ‘out’ in the question. It was all handled with assistance from ALIENS, who if you think about it, would have had to travel to our insignificant little ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’ at multiples of the speed of light just to GET here in the first place, let alone having first of all made the decision to travel to US and not someplace else. But, once here, or wherever else something huge was constructed, they seem to have ignored the rest of our planet as being unworthy of their efforts, gone ahead to complete the project, and then just ROCKETED away, never to return until, .. until, .. oh boy, until it seems to me the ‘atomic age’ became popular, and Sci-Fi movies gave us all a look at the ‘unbelievable’, and monster aliens became the fodder of late night television programing. I cannot fathom just why the majority of these alien appearances seem to center around the United States, for the most part at least it seems, rather than about any other place around the world. I know we consider ourselves to be terribly ‘special’, compared with anyone else of course, but consider this one thought before you give up completely; if you represented an actual ‘alien race’, and possessed the capability of ‘faster than light’, or ‘inner-dimensional’, or ‘warp-speed’ travel, just why, or how, did you make the decision to travel to our planet in particular? And once here, why just make brief, high speed passes above some cities, dashing here and there, changing directions at will, confusing observers on the ground, or in the air, and then seemingly just ‘fly away’ to disappear within only seconds. It’s rather like choosing a grocery store way across town, making your way there through rush hour traffic, then decide at the last moment to only drive past the store entrance a couple of times and then return to the street out front and never return again, .. no reason, no explanation, nothing remaining but questions raised by persons who stood outside the store and watched as your car appeared a couple of times and then disappeared.

As to whether or not these ‘sightings of UFOs’ is increasing, .. of COURSE they’re increasing. One person ‘sees something’ and makes the evening news, locally of course, and the advent of ‘one-upmanship’ comes into play. You know, ..”Hey, that guy only saw one UFO the other night, but get this, .. I saw THREE of them myself, and two of them hovered right over my garage for most of an hour.”

But then, the more completely religious persons, lacking the knowledge to even begin to understand how ‘things came about’ from ancient to present times, simply resort to the thinking that, “God did it, .. caused it to HAPPEN, .. and how do I know that? Well, I have FAITH that it came about this way, etc., etc.,” That’s an easy out whether it be God who caused things to come about, or ALIENS who appeared, caused such and such to be accomplished, and then LEFT just as quickly. How did that happen? Well, I don’t know, it just DID. (snicker)

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Unknown technology. That’s all we know. And that’s quite something.

Had it been the department of defence of Congo that published the recent report by the Pentagon, I’d consider the possibility that these things are Russian or Chinese; but when something like the Pentagon comes forward with that sort of statement, Congo is done.

These things must be from some place else.

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I would recommend you go to a science fiction movie. Another option is a fictional television show or a fictional location on the internet.

If you are looking for a UFO flown by an alien not from this planet, then a fictional location is the only place you can find one.

Every creature we know exists has been born on this planet.

Don’t get me wrong, I would LOVE to be wrong, but I am not.

Unfortunately

I would recommend you go to a science fiction movie. Another option is a fictional television show or a fictional location on the internet.

If you are looking for a UFO flown by an alien not from this planet, then a fictional location is the only place you can find one.

Every creature we know exists has been born on this planet.

Don’t get me wrong, I would LOVE to be wrong, but I am not.

Unfortunately

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How large did the object appear to be? And in what way was it “descending”? Can you describe how it moved across the sky? Did it move in a straight line, did it appear to maneuver at all, in what direction was it moving? And when did this happen? In the middle of the day, or just before / after sunup or sundown?

I’m sorry for the barrage of questions, but what you describe can be a lot of different things.

If it was barely larger than a star but square-ish, and moving in a straight line from West to East at dawn or dusk it may have been the International Space Station. Of course the ISS does not

How large did the object appear to be? And in what way was it “descending”? Can you describe how it moved across the sky? Did it move in a straight line, did it appear to maneuver at all, in what direction was it moving? And when did this happen? In the middle of the day, or just before / after sunup or sundown?

I’m sorry for the barrage of questions, but what you describe can be a lot of different things.

If it was barely larger than a star but square-ish, and moving in a straight line from West to East at dawn or dusk it may have been the International Space Station. Of course the ISS does not descend as such, but if you saw it slowly move towards the horizon it may have given the impression that it was descending, while in reality it was curving over the horizon.

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I Believe I just saw it before an hour to be precise!!

I live currently in Chennai. Today, it seemed it would rain. I was getting the scent of that mind-blowing sweet fragrance of soil before the commencement of rain. So, I went to spend few moments in my balcony as it was a hot scorching day. There was cool breeze around. I just looked up casually and found a star (I didn't pay much attention). Then it strike me that there couldn't be a star in the sky when it was supposed to rain. So, I looked up closely to find out the following data:-

  • The sky was completely clear of stars except this one obj

I Believe I just saw it before an hour to be precise!!

I live currently in Chennai. Today, it seemed it would rain. I was getting the scent of that mind-blowing sweet fragrance of soil before the commencement of rain. So, I went to spend few moments in my balcony as it was a hot scorching day. There was cool breeze around. I just looked up casually and found a star (I didn't pay much attention). Then it strike me that there couldn't be a star in the sky when it was supposed to rain. So, I looked up closely to find out the following data:-

  • The sky was completely clear of stars except this one object.
  • It was initially arrow shaped then on closely seeing it me and my friend found it to be triangular shaped.
  • When we were just about to take the picture of it as we found it unusual and amusing, It started fading away, i.e. its brightness reduced.
  • Within a span a 10 minutes from 11:00 to 11:10 pm all these events had occurred.
  • The change of shape was from an unclear arrow to clear visible triangle to a faint spot much like a star.

I googled about what I had seen and the first thing that popped out was the UFO object supposedly spotted by UFO hunters over Melbourne. The object I had spotted had 80% resemblance with the above stated one at Melbourne.

I just reported about this incident to the usual UFO agencies and am waiting for a reply from them and thought to share my experience here meanwhile!!

NOTE: “Trust me, Its not a Hoax. Either its an UFO or something which needs an explanation at the earliest.”

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Everyone has ignored the most obvious explanation.

First off, Venus does appear to be extremely bright and starlike and can be seen during the day … but ONLY around sunrise or sunset … not the afternoon as you stated and thus this is not Venus.

Nor is it Jupiter which cannot be seen during the bright daytime.

Nor are geostationary satellites seen during bright daylight.

Some iridium flares are bright enough to be seen during the day, so is a decaying satellite reentering and burning up in the atmosphere. But these are obviously moving and you said it was stationary.

Unless there was a supernova tha

Everyone has ignored the most obvious explanation.

First off, Venus does appear to be extremely bright and starlike and can be seen during the day … but ONLY around sunrise or sunset … not the afternoon as you stated and thus this is not Venus.

Nor is it Jupiter which cannot be seen during the bright daytime.

Nor are geostationary satellites seen during bright daylight.

Some iridium flares are bright enough to be seen during the day, so is a decaying satellite reentering and burning up in the atmosphere. But these are obviously moving and you said it was stationary.

Unless there was a supernova that just happened relatively close to our solar system (within several hundred lightyears), there is no celestial cause for the light you saw. I just checked and there is no new supernova that just took place.
The last time a supernova was naked-eye visible was way back in ancient times, seen by the Chinese and was the formation of the Crab Nebula today.

So what is the obvious explanation?

Most likely it was sunlight reflecting off a weather balloon or some other type of radiosonde. The mylar balloon as well as the metallic instrument package can be highly reflective, almost mirror-like in some cases and if the sun is just right, you could be seeing a brilliant point of light, starlike in the daytime sky.

It would be moving, but very slowly, and at that altitude and without any other visual cues for reference being so high in the sky, would appear to you as being stationary. It would take some minutes to notice even a slight change in position.

Without any further evidence to prove or disprove any other explanation … this is the most likely one.

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China and India both know about the underground UFO base in the Himalayan border area deep into the tectonic plates.

Kongka La is the low ridge pass in the Himalayas (the blue oval in the map). It is in the disputed India-China border area in Ladakh. In the map the red zone is the disputed area still under Chinese control in the Aksai Chin area. The Chinese held northeastern part is known as Aksai Chin and Indian South West is known as Ladakh. This is the area where Indian and Chinese armies fought major war in 1962. The area is one of the least accessed area in the world and by agreement the t

China and India both know about the underground UFO base in the Himalayan border area deep into the tectonic plates.

Kongka La is the low ridge pass in the Himalayas (the blue oval in the map). It is in the disputed India-China border area in Ladakh. In the map the red zone is the disputed area still under Chinese control in the Aksai Chin area. The Chinese held northeastern part is known as Aksai Chin and Indian South West is known as Ladakh. This is the area where Indian and Chinese armies fought major war in 1962. The area is one of the least accessed area in the world and by agreement the two countries do not patrol this part of the border. According to many tourists, Buddhist monks and the local people of Ladakh, the Indian Army and the Chinese Military maintain the line of control. But there is something much more serious happening in this area.

According to the few local people on the Indian and Chinese sides, this is where the UFOs are seen coming out of the ground, According to many, the UFO underground bases are in this region and both the Indian and Chinese Government know this very well..

Recently, some Hindu pilgrims on their way to Mount Kailash from the Western pass, came across strange lights in the sky. The local guides while in the Chinese territory told them that this was nothing new and is a normal phenomenon from Kongka Pass area - the tensed border region between India and China. This strange lighted triangular silent crafts show up from underground and moves almost vertically up. Some of the adventurous pilgrims wanted to look into the site. They were first turned back by the Chinese guard posts as they were refused entry from the Chinese side. When they tried to approach the site from Indian side, the Indian border patrol also turned them down in spite of their permit to travel between the two countries.

The pilgrims at that stage started quizzing the Indian border security personnel. The security personnel told them that they are ordered not to allow any one near the area of interest and it is true that strange objects come out from under the ground with amplified and modulated lights. India’s Special Operations Forces and the intelligence agencies are in charge of that area.

The locals start laughing in that area when they are asked about these UFO sightings. They get surprised why the Governments are so eager to hide these obvious facts. According to them the extra-terrestrial presence is well known and is in deep into the ground. They believe neither the Indian or Chinese Governments do not want to expose the fact for some reason. When they bring up this matter to local Governments, they are told to keep quiet and forget the same. This is the region where the Euresian plate and the Indian plate have created convergent plate boundaries. Convergent plate boundaries are formed where one plate dives under another. Consequently, this is one of the very few areas in the world where the depth of the earth's crust twice as thick as in other places. The opposite is found in hot spots like Yellow Stone National Park in America where the earth’s crust in thin.

The double thick earth-crust allows the creation of underground bases very deep into the tectonic plates.

Kongka La has beautiful rocks and granites. For some strange reasons neither the Chinese nor the Indian authorities ever excavate, dig or mine in this area. The area is pristine and untouched.

Recently, both India and China have moved forward to solve all border disputes and start the Sino-Indian relations all over again. The Aksai Chin area is still disputed. But interesting while negotiations both the Governments are indifferent on this area. India and China as shown in the accompanying maps have huge border areas along the Himalayas and they are negotiating on all these regions. Though India claims that Aksai Chin is part of India, the common belief in the Government is that it is not a show stopper. On the other hand, Chinese after winning Aksai Chin from India in 1962 war, built a strategic military highway. Now they are using an alternate highway not to bother with the area in Kongka La.

Recently in the local school, young children of the area entered into a drawing contest. More than half of the drawings had to do with strange objects in the sky and some coming out of the mountains. Many of them even know what and when to look for.

Many UFO researchers believe that there are hidden UFO bases under the ocean and deep under the ground. Kongka La is experiencing some strange phenomenon and suspicious objects coming out of the inaccessible huge mountains (Himalayas) and both the Governments refuse to come out and say what these are.

The other alternative is that it is an underground strategic Air Force base of some one. Then why will either country allow the base on the official no man’s land in the highly sensitive disputed border area? Why is this region continuously reporting UFO sightings from various kinds of people?

source: http://www.indiadaily.com

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When I thought I had seen LOADS of UFO'S - I didn't tell anybody because I just knew to expect “eye rolling.”

And I knew what I'd seen.

It looked like a grid of stars moved in the same direction as each other + the rest remained still.

Every few minutes - it kept happening, the stars moved like a superimposed grid, over the other stars.

Very difficult to explain.

I think I was seeing “the tears of Saint Laurence” (geminids) a meteor shower!

Other than that “no, I don't think I've seen a UFO”

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Much as I fear dangling my toe into the waters inhabited by chemtrail conspiracy loons, that looks like a normal aircraft contrail to me. Sometimes the atmospheric conditions allow them to disapate quickly like this, and sometimes they stick around long enough to cross the sky - it will depend on the temperature and humidity at that altitude. The "fiery" aspect was probably just a reflection of the sun, since the sun is obviously quite low in these pictures. The fact that you could see a blinking navigation light is pretty much a clincher for me.

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Possibly you haven’t been following the UFO news lately. An earthquake happened within UFO studies. Basically the Pentagon declassified and released gun camera footage of Navy jets chasing UFOs. This happened on December 16th, 2017, a day that will be remembered as the beginning of full government disclosure of Ufos, their reality, and soon, ET presence on earth. The New York Times and Washington post both ran front-page articles on it, and it’s been covered by every major news outlet here and abroad. CNN MSNBC, Fox news, the network news shows. It’s a total game changer!

Glowing Auras and ‘Bla

Possibly you haven’t been following the UFO news lately. An earthquake happened within UFO studies. Basically the Pentagon declassified and released gun camera footage of Navy jets chasing UFOs. This happened on December 16th, 2017, a day that will be remembered as the beginning of full government disclosure of Ufos, their reality, and soon, ET presence on earth. The New York Times and Washington post both ran front-page articles on it, and it’s been covered by every major news outlet here and abroad. CNN MSNBC, Fox news, the network news shows. It’s a total game changer!

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

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You saw the International Space Station in ...

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This is the image you showed. The bright object (the UFO) on the right edge is Mercury. NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

The little white circle in the middle shows the size of the sun behind the occulter mask. The sun’s angular diameter is about 0.5°, so the field of view is about 20 degrees across. We are seeing something reflecting sunlight within a few degrees of the sun as seen from the Earth (well, actually from the spacecraft, but that’s close enough). This link shows the current positions of the planets: A live view of the solar system

Note that the objects are not shown to sca

This is the image you showed. The bright object (the UFO) on the right edge is Mercury. NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

The little white circle in the middle shows the size of the sun behind the occulter mask. The sun’s angular diameter is about 0.5°, so the field of view is about 20 degrees across. We are seeing something reflecting sunlight within a few degrees of the sun as seen from the Earth (well, actually from the spacecraft, but that’s close enough). This link shows the current positions of the planets: A live view of the solar system

Note that the objects are not shown to scale. They would all be essentially tiny points on this scale. Notice that Mercury is almost, but not quite, opposite the sun from the earth? This is how I know that object is Mercury. I made a guess and found supporting evidence.

Keep watching for a couple of weeks and you’ll see the spot appear on the other side of the mask.


Well here we are a couple of weeks later, and here is Mercury over on the left side of the sun now, as predicted.

Here you can see how both Earth and Mercury have moved around the sun, but Mercury is moving faster (because it’s closer to the sun). Imagine you are looking from the Earth towards the sun. Mercury is a little to the left of that line. That’s why the view from the spacecraft is now showing Mercury to the left of the sun.

Another thing to notice is that Jupiter is also lined up pretty well. Here is Jupiter in the spacecraft photo:

It doesn’t look as bright as Mercury because it is a lot farther away even though it’s physically a lot bigger than Mercury.

Pretty soon - another couple of weeks - we will see Venus move into the field of view from the right side.


I just checked. Venus has not yet quite entered the field of view, but Jupiter has now moved over to the right hand side and will be out of the field of view soon:

I think Venus is now in the field of view. (A few days later, no it’s not Venus) This is Antares. It didn’t move with respect to the stars in the background over the past few days, so I checked a star map. This is Antares. Venus is still off to the right. I expect it will enter the field of view from the right fairly soon.

Here’s the star map:

Sky Map Online


Aha! Here comes Venus. Finally.


A couple of months later, Venus has moved well across the field of view.

Looking at the positions of the planets, we can see that mercury should be coming into the field again soon.

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UFO'S ARE REAL!

Two nights ago a lighted, SILENT OBJECT hovered in the sky above the field right outside my window. Really! It happened. I have photographic evidence. I took these photos using my cell phone. My heart was thumping outside my chest. That would account for the blurriness.

(Why is it that when you really need your camera it won't take photos or video as you wish?)

-Camera in cool down mode-

It must have been THE ALIENS!!

That was the warning flashing on my screen as I aimed and clicked at the frightening ball of mechanical light in the sky. I managed to click off two photos before m

UFO'S ARE REAL!

Two nights ago a lighted, SILENT OBJECT hovered in the sky above the field right outside my window. Really! It happened. I have photographic evidence. I took these photos using my cell phone. My heart was thumping outside my chest. That would account for the blurriness.

(Why is it that when you really need your camera it won't take photos or video as you wish?)

-Camera in cool down mode-

It must have been THE ALIENS!!

That was the warning flashing on my screen as I aimed and clicked at the frightening ball of mechanical light in the sky. I managed to click off two photos before my camera shut down.


​Believe it or not. I don't care. I'm not lying to you- this
actually happened.

I got the stunning photos of this floating orb.



AWESOME, RIGHT!?!
A U.F.O!!
An UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT!!

I was already cashing the photo in on social media. I thought I could sell it for at least fifty bucks to some publication, right?

WRONG.

Come to find out tonight, our neighbor's kid got a drone and was testing it out around the property. A DRONE!

But you know, come to think of it...
That does
technically qualify as a UFO, doesn’t it?

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If you had any idea about what a UFO is, you would not have asked this question.

A UFO is simply anything seen in the sky and you don't know what it is.

People have wrongly highjacked the term UFO to refer to fictional alien spacecraft.

There is no evidence of any kind that UFOs are of alien origin. People see things and for a variety or reasons, often fail to identify what the object is. Just because you don't know, doesn't make it alien.

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By your description I am almost certain it is an aircraft. The "fiery" look comes from the fact, that your location is already in the shadow of the earth but the plane above is still illuminated by sunlight. The other airplanes with lower altitudes must also have been in shadow. Here is a picture of two airplanes I took at sunrise. One is illuminated, the other one isn't. Also notice how the lower airplane has no tail at all. So probably there is an altitude at which airplanes have short tails? (I am no expert in atmosphere phenomenons, but it seems reasonable.) A pretty good thumb rule says:

By your description I am almost certain it is an aircraft. The "fiery" look comes from the fact, that your location is already in the shadow of the earth but the plane above is still illuminated by sunlight. The other airplanes with lower altitudes must also have been in shadow. Here is a picture of two airplanes I took at sunrise. One is illuminated, the other one isn't. Also notice how the lower airplane has no tail at all. So probably there is an altitude at which airplanes have short tails? (I am no expert in atmosphere phenomenons, but it seems reasonable.) A pretty good thumb rule says: If it blinks it's an airplane.

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There are several possibilities for a bright dot in the sky that appears stationary and then disappears. Here are some potential explanations:

  1. Satellite: It could have been a satellite reflecting sunlight, making it appear as a bright dot in the sky. Some satellites are visible from the Earth, especially during dusk and dawn when the Sun's rays can still reach them at high altitudes.
  2. International Space Station (ISS): The ISS is a large and bright spacecraft orbiting the Earth. When it passes over your location, it can appear as a stationary bright dot in the sky, and then disappear as it moves

There are several possibilities for a bright dot in the sky that appears stationary and then disappears. Here are some potential explanations:

  1. Satellite: It could have been a satellite reflecting sunlight, making it appear as a bright dot in the sky. Some satellites are visible from the Earth, especially during dusk and dawn when the Sun's rays can still reach them at high altitudes.
  2. International Space Station (ISS): The ISS is a large and bright spacecraft orbiting the Earth. When it passes over your location, it can appear as a stationary bright dot in the sky, and then disappear as it moves out of your line of sight.
  3. Star: It's possible that the bright dot was a bright star. Certain stars can appear as fixed points in the sky, especially if they are far away and not obscured by clouds or atmospheric conditions.
  4. Planet: Planets in our solar system can be visible as bright dots in the sky. Depending on their position and the time of year, they may appear stationary for some time before disappearing below the horizon.
  5. Drone or Aircraft: If the object was relatively close to the ground, it could have been a drone or an aircraft hovering in one spot. Drones can have lights that make them appear as bright dots in the sky.
  6. Weather Balloon: Weather balloons or other atmospheric research equipment can sometimes appear as stationary bright dots in the sky.
  7. Astronomical Phenomenon: It could have been a rare or transient astronomical event that caused the bright dot to be visible for a brief period.
  8. Optical Illusion: Sometimes, optical illusions or atmospheric conditions can create the appearance of a stationary bright dot in the sky.

Without more specific information about the location, time, and appearance of the object, it's challenging to determine precisely what it was.

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I believe I have seen a UFO, now when I say UFO, I genuinely mean an Unidentified Flying Object and I’m not implying it was an alien aircraft or anything, though it might be. It's just my rational conclusions have not yielded any rational answers and thus I’m confused to this day.

Back in 2010, during springtime, I and my elder sister were at the terrace of our apartment complex in Patna, Bihar. It was late evening, around 8 PM and the sky was dark. It was what you would call a very dark night.

I was already a big fan of the video game Mass Effect at that point in time and thus I spent a lot of

I believe I have seen a UFO, now when I say UFO, I genuinely mean an Unidentified Flying Object and I’m not implying it was an alien aircraft or anything, though it might be. It's just my rational conclusions have not yielded any rational answers and thus I’m confused to this day.

Back in 2010, during springtime, I and my elder sister were at the terrace of our apartment complex in Patna, Bihar. It was late evening, around 8 PM and the sky was dark. It was what you would call a very dark night.

I was already a big fan of the video game Mass Effect at that point in time and thus I spent a lot of time on the rooftop and always tried to find stuff in the sky. While scanning the sky that night I realised that towards the West there was a light which was changing colours, RGB pattern. I pointed this to my sister and she pointed out, it probably might be an international flight. I agreed but kept observing the same. Then I realised it didn't seem to move and was there at the same location for at least 30 mins.

Suddenly we saw a small yellow light zip past about 20–30 feet above us, it was not very quick, yet we could not identify the shape of the thing the light was attached to, but it flew West towards that light.

We were soo excited that I went down to call my fellow apartment friend who used to stay on the top floor (Just one floor below the terrace), but by the time we came back, it had completely disappeared from sight. But even he saw the light which was changing colours.

We tried to ascertain what the yellow light could have possibly have been,

  1. It was certainly not an aircraft since it was flying very low and was very quiet.
  2. We also considered the possibility of it being a Flying lantern, but I and my sister both agreed that the yellow light was certainly light and not flame since it was glowing in a very consistent manner.
  3. Drones were completely unheard of at that point in time, especially in Patna, and it seemed too silent for a drone. Though this might be the most reasonable answer.

As of the light up in the sky towards West, I genuinely don't know, it was just a little bigger than a star, and could have easily been an international flight if it hadn't stayed at the same location for the whole time.

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I personally can't say I have seen a Confirmed UFO sighting, nor can I confirm that I have ever been abducted, What I can say is years ago when I was a truck driver in Ontario Canada, I traveled the 400 series highways quite often and there are 2 occasions that stand out in my mind.

1.) For those of you who know the highways of Ontario more specifically the 400 series on one night myself with a helper working me on this night which was rare, in other words, i had a witness with me to confirm this first story as we both saw this in the sky, While driving southbound down Highway 400 towards Toron

I personally can't say I have seen a Confirmed UFO sighting, nor can I confirm that I have ever been abducted, What I can say is years ago when I was a truck driver in Ontario Canada, I traveled the 400 series highways quite often and there are 2 occasions that stand out in my mind.

1.) For those of you who know the highways of Ontario more specifically the 400 series on one night myself with a helper working me on this night which was rare, in other words, i had a witness with me to confirm this first story as we both saw this in the sky, While driving southbound down Highway 400 towards Toronto we both saw an object flying Eastward over Toronto, going faster than any airplane I have ever seen and it was lit up with very bright lights all around it. I and my helper just looked at each other in bewilderment wondering what we just witnessed, but no sooner did we see it, it was gone just as quick, That's how fast it was traveling. We both just kind of laughed it off, the funny part of this story is, Approximately 20 minutes later on the radio station we were listening to which happened to be a local Toronto Station the DJ came on the air to let their listeners know that anyone who thought they may have seen a UFO Flying over Toronto about 20 minutes ago, can breath easy because authorities have identified the object as a weather balloon... all I have to say to that is, that balloon traveled faster then anything I have ever seen in the sky, so take that as you will.

2.) Number 2 story, One night I was heading home from Ottawa Ontario, I Lived in Kitchener Ontario, again anyone who knows the 401 Highway will understand this story... I was driving my truck westbound on the 401 heading to Kitchener, I was going thru Oshawa, Ontario which happens to be east of Toronto Ontario, and Kitchener, Ontario happens to be West of Toronto, Ontario. I Passed the Young Street ramp exit in Oshawa, I remember reading the sign to myself as I passed it... This is where it gets interesting... the next ramp exit I passed, which only seemed like 5 minutes later told me I was at highway 25 in Milton Ontario, Which for those who know means somehow I missed a few smaller cities along with Canada's Capital Toronto Ontario, on a normal night driving a normal vehicle the traveling time between both cutoffs would be at least 30 minutes maybe a little more, not only that, I missed the cities, Ajax, Whitby, Scarborough, Toronto and Mississauga, apparently if I was not abducted, which i tell all my friends and family that I was since in mind it is the only reasonable explanation of driving that distance in what seemed like a very short time but I had lost a little over 30 minutes of time on my watch and like I said if that isn't what happened then I drove thru those cities on the 401 while sleeping. which I find unbelievable that I would do something like that without getting into an accident, anyway those are my stores, as I said at the beginning nothing concrete, of course, they are just my own experiences.

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This is one of those questions where the answer is hidden away under lock and key. We should all know that every TV station is owned by someone and that someone has a government agency that sets rules and regulations for them to follow. When the information is finally aired, it has been filtered at least twice. Leaving the viewer misinformed. Since so many people are too lazy to think for themselves, TV and the media is the only place they look for answers. And those answers are going to be the opinion of the owners of that tv station and the government.

If you want the truth, you can do some r

This is one of those questions where the answer is hidden away under lock and key. We should all know that every TV station is owned by someone and that someone has a government agency that sets rules and regulations for them to follow. When the information is finally aired, it has been filtered at least twice. Leaving the viewer misinformed. Since so many people are too lazy to think for themselves, TV and the media is the only place they look for answers. And those answers are going to be the opinion of the owners of that tv station and the government.

If you want the truth, you can do some research and you will find it.

Some people believe that 95% of all UFOs are identified as things like swamp gas, experimental planes, city lights and weather balloons. They think that witnesses have a wild imagination due to television shows based on UFOs. They think that these shows have influenced people to see what’s not there.

If we go back in time, before television, before “the Jetsons” and “Space Invaders” back before weather balloons and city lights and before airplanes cars and ships, we find proof that since the beginning of time people have been seeing UFOs. They have documented what they have seen in stone. Etched in the sides of mountains and painted on the ground only to be seen from the skies. This is found all over the world. Before transportation, tv, and telephones. People going to such extremes to carve in the earth and on the sides of mountains of stone, similar pictures of UFOs and aliens.

I was born with a brain that allows me to think for myself. I am able to process information and sort facts from fiction. I don’t need a TV newscaster to tell me what to believe. My mind can’t let me believe that all those people all over the world had the same dream and carved the same UFOs and aliens into the side of a rock. What reason would they do that? They had nothing to gain. Like so many people today discredit witnesses sightings as a way for them to gain attention, make money etc…

Many countries today have recognized UFOs as UFOs. They are releasing all the documents and information on these sightings to the pubic and have admitted there is something in our skies. The US is one country that is still ignoring what’s going on.

The answer to your question is unknown. I’m sure that they all have been explained. They are either UFOs or they aren’t. If only one is a UFO from another planet, isn’t that enough?

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It was during my vacation time on your planet. It is called G6-432 on our planet. They only built 3 babies like this. It was a gift to my wife on our anniversary. She wanted to a G6-112 actually, but come on G6-112 are not made for interplanetary travel and man, those babies are ugly.

You guys are taking too much photographs these days. Damm you iphones. We should be more careful next time.

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