Proving,
once again, what a wonderful tool that the Internet can be, it seems that we
have a solution for the pictures that Rob Swiatek mentioned on the radio show
and that I posted to my blog. Remember, I mentioned, several times, the blog’s
address and that the pictures were there for all to see.
Also
remember that both Rob and I believed that the solution was something manmade
and something on the ground. The pictures and later the video showed, basically,
the same array of lights. They were taken months apart which argued for a mundane
solution, not one that involved alien visitation.
Less
than 48 hours after posting the pictures, we have the answer. Someone named, or
rather identifying him or herself as Rossome, posted the following:
I am quite certain that
the photographs are of the Ivanpah Solar field near the Nevada/California
border north of I-15. The design is not based on solar collectors, but rather,
thousands of mirrors that aim the sunlight toward a tower (the center of each
of the three arrays of mirrors). The focused sunlight then heats the water
system to turn to turbines and make electricity. This facility is in fact
visible from the ground as well (seen a few times) and look pretty interesting.
I have photos from the ground if anyone is interested.
Well,
I would have been interested, but then I learned of pictures of the Ivanpah
Solar Field from the Internet and recovered several pictures from various
sites. There seems to be little doubt that Rossome was correct with the
information. One of the pictures shows an aerial view of the array, minus the
bright lights, in about the same “formation.”
I
passed the information along to Rob because I don’t know how often he visits
the blog, but he responded in a couple of hours. He wrote:
Wow!
That cinches it, beyond the shadow of a doubt. I compared online
pictures of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility with the lights and terrain in the
CMS photos and it’s a match. It can’t be anything but the Ivanpah
Facility. It also appears the towers of the Facility generate a certain
amount of light—at least at times during their operation—so this would account
for the brightness across a long slant range during the day. As Bruce
Maccabee depicts in his recent book on the Arnold sighting, a square of highly
reflective material (the Ivanpah towers have a square cross-section) appears as
a circle when seen from a distance.
We
can now write this off as a true IFO – Identified Flying Object – which, of
course, is merely the vernacular for UFO sightings that have been identified. I
suppose we could call it an Identified Grounded Object, but whatever the term,
this is no longer part of the UFO phenomenon.
The knee-jerk is always to assert it's a UFO before first exploring mundane, terrestrial, logical explanations to eliminate them. No wonder Ufology has a bad name outside of itself. Thanks to Rossome for taking the rational approach.
ReplyDeletepurrlgurrl -
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that is fair. Both Rob and I assumed that was was in the pictures was terrestrially based. We just didn't know what it was and it was of sufficient interest that the guy in the airplane photographed it. Just took a few hours, after I posted the pictures and got the interview with Rob posted that we had an answer.
That is a long way from the location given. Another instance where incorrect information was supplied by the witness, which made identification difficult.
ReplyDeleteKevin, nice to see this.
ReplyDeleteI cannot remember purlgurrl ever saying anything I disagreed with. No exception here.
Lance
That's good work right there.
ReplyDelete"Brilliant" work, pun intended. :-)
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