[djf]

Kool pic! Whatever. Wish there was some kind of scale indicator

[Reaganesque]

That's Al Gore's ego.

[JerseyJohn61]

ping

[nmh]

Meteorites?

[LiteKeeper]

We are getting close to April first.

[Dog Gone]

Their great size is sure to challenge generally accepted size ranges for UFOs, which are usually approximately the size of human-piloted aircraft.

Where are the "generally accepted size ranges" for UFOs established?

Why can't we have some midget invaders from outer space, or something as big as the Starship Enterprise?

Who makes up this crap, and then asserts that it's "generally accepted"?

[Toggameid]

In other "news":
Did Bush Jets Influence Hurricane Katrina?

Photographic evidence leaked to ecoEnquirer shows what are claimed to be Texas Air National Guard jets flying in formation in and around the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina twenty-four hours before it devastated New Orleans.

The photograph was e-mailed to us by a National Security Agency employee who provided the information on condition of anonymity. The employee's e-mail contained a claim that one of the nation's spy satellites was tasked to the Gulf region to help monitor and guide a squadron of Texas Air National Guard jets that were used to influence the movement and intensity of the hurricane.

How is it I've never come across this legit news source?
Believe it, or not

[Candor7]

Its Al Gorp!!!

[Dad x 3]

Hey, did someone say there's a party to be pooped?

http://www.redorbit.com/images/images-of-the-day/img/10343/shipwaveshaped_clouds/index.html

[NeverEVERKerry]

fullsize image from nasa:
http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/6545/Crozet.A2004307.1015.250m.jpg

and the page it was found on:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=6545

[blam]

The wake of a US Aurora aircraft. See the donuts from the ion engines.

[Fierce Allegiance]

LMAO, if the pic is even real. it'a of an object breaking a 2 dimensional plan, not UFO's ripping through our atmosphere!

[treffner]

I think that I have seen this picture before. The Last time I saw it they described it as islands with mountains on them breaking the cloud cover that was passing by.

[LongElegantLegs]

My kid made a salt-dough sculpture that looks just like that...Maybe she's an alien plant. 0.0

[TChad]

famed image analysis expert William B. Davis

[DeFault User]

Scale indicator? How about this with a bit more weight and a leader?

[SunkenCiv]

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The Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, the Death of the Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itself by Louis A. Frank with Patrick Huyghe

Sigwarth and I analyzed over 10,000 images and learned a good deal about the black spots in the process. Our interpretation of the events continued to involve meteor impacts into Earth's upper atmosphere.By counting the spots in our images we were able to estimate the rate at which these objects appeared. This was the simplest measurement to do. We saw ten holes per minute on the daylight side of Earth. So we doubled that figure to obtain the rate of these objects over the entire face of Earth. There had to be about twenty such objects entering the atmosphere every minute. That was an alarming number of objects.

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[SunkenCiv]

Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Posted on 10/20/2004 2:13:25 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1250694/posts

[SunkenCiv]

not UFOs, IMHO.

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[Brujo]

... famed image analysis expert William B. Davis his opinion of the image. "This is truly amazing", said Mr. Davis, between long drags on his trademark cigarette ...

William B. Davis is the actor who played "Cigarette Smoking Man" on the X-Files.

[Rebelbase]

From the NASA page:

“In the wake of the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, disrupted air masses have formed patterns in the clouds. This pattern is similar to that seen when eddies form in water running over a pebble on an otherwise smooth surface for much the same reason. In this case, air that had been flowing smoothly over the ocean’s surface is disrupted by the islands, and the clouds, controlled by air currents, have assumed the shape of the disrupted air. Two distinct patterns have formed in the clouds. In the west, left, the clouds have taken a “V”-shaped pattern called ship-wave-shaped wave clouds. To the east, center and right, cloud vortices swirl delicately behind the last of the islands.”

Google map Crozet Islands and see the last two islands in the chain to the east.