Patterico's Pontifications

9/4/2010

UFO

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:02 pm



The “f” stands for “floating.”

Monstrous boxy-shaped object floating in front of San Nicholas Island.

Bigger than any ship I have ever seen by an order of magnitude.

I just had one glass of wine with dinner. I swear.

57 Responses to “UFO”

  1. My kids saw it too, and their beer was A&W Root.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  2. The Visitors just want lizards. Give them some.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  3. We have lizards to spare.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  4. Post a photo?

    Eric Blair (58b0cf)

  5. USN Amphib…… either that or the Sea Launch people

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  6. and are you sure its Nicholas, you tourist?

    8)

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  7. No photo, sorry.

    I think it’s San Nicholas, yes. You disagree, native? (or should I say nativist) (or racist)?

    Patterico (c218bd)

  8. Patterico’s losing it. Commenter amnesty and now this.

    Whatever will he do next?

    Christoph (8ec277)

  9. Someone called it a mid-life crisis.

    If so, it could be worse.

    It could be raining.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  10. Maybe Patterico will join the Public Defender’s Office now

    Ringo NOva (d14de5)

  11. “No photo, sorry.”

    You didn’t have a mobile?

    Christoph (8ec277)

  12. Who knows what the Navy is up to.

    A floating temporary sub pen? That would be pretty cool.

    Or perhaps this is the social security lock box I’m been hearing about? Sounds like it’s about the right size we’ll be needing.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  13. Was it Michael Moore out for a swim?

    JD (ffe6ea)

  14. I’ll go with the Social Security Lock Box–its second chakra has been released and it now appears–10 years after the debate.

    Mike Myers (3c9845)

  15. I think it’s one of the tankers of the Stromberg line

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  16. Your system doesn’t seem to like my comments

    Calfed (c9fe79)

  17. it might could be Chris Christie’s credibility after endorsing that Castle poofter

    happyfeet (19c1da)

  18. Did it say “GOODYEAR” on the side?

    Calfed (c9fe79)

  19. It is someone’s way of “getting serious about illegal immigration”, 100,000 at a time.

    Then again, ian could be correct. I looked it up. 😉

    We’ll stay tuned for further developments, Orson.

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  20. To fill some people in on the joke;

    http://www.kosmix.com/topic/karl_stromberg

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  21. ian, I found the info on the “MI6” website:
    http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/villains/stromberg.php3

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  22. Did it say “GOODYEAR” on the side?

    We get the blimp here many weekends. If that was it, it had crashed and assumed a boxy rectangular shape.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  23. “I’ll go with the Social Security Lock Box”

    It could be Hillary’s testicle lock box if the thing is really ginormous. That thing is bigger than the Social Security Lock Box.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  24. I saw Chicago floating upside down in the sky over Lake Michigan, once. Mirage. The air can become like a mirrored prism.

    Or … just what is that brand of wine you were drinking? 😉

    nk (db4a41)

  25. Patterico – Are the Chinese coming to repossess America? I don’t mind them starting with California.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  26. Maybe a floating dry dock

    But it’s probably really that social security lock box. Smart guys they were, pretending we didn’t keep one so we’d just find it in our national coat pocket, like that $20 bill I found last week.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  27. It may have been the Borg mothership coming to take Harry and Nancy home.

    Ag80 (2f74a7)

  28. Could it be the Baby Ruth bar from Caddyshack???

    reff (176333)

  29. Midnight, eel shushi, and two glasses of Chardonnay. No UFOs. Dang, some people have all the luck.

    nk (db4a41)

  30. Al Gore…got dark, missed the last wave in.

    PC14 (4a4ed3)

  31. Maybe the crate our last aircraft carrier came in. Someone forgot to recycle it.

    Machinist (497786)

  32. I saw Chicago floating upside down in the sky over Lake Michigan, once.
    Comment by nk

    — I think you were seeing Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

    Icy Texan (c067d2)

  33. “Al Gore…got dark, missed the last wave in.”

    It would be snowing if he was there too.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  34. Perhaps Paul Conrad’s coffin, so bitter and tasteless that not even the dirt of the cemetary could accept it?

    Mike (9f035a)

  35. The “f” stands for “floating.”

    Beyond an instance like that, whenever people start talking about seeing a “UFO” and the media reports it, I always wanna ask, so do think the object was non-terrestrial or not? The only thing that makes “UFO” seem interesting to me is if it doesn’t appear to involve secret experimental technology from the military. Although I guess that can be interesting too.

    It may have been the Borg mothership coming to take Harry and Nancy home.

    Tell them to include Barack while they’re at it.

    Mark (3e3a7c)

  36. Ted Kennedy.

    Dmac (d61c0d)

  37. I can relate to it. I went to my dictionary and it defined UFO as an “Utterly Failing Obama”! Who says UFOs aren’t real?

    Bill Fabrizio (5abdd8)

  38. @Bill, clever. 🙂

    No-bs! (6e616b)

  39. “Mostly harmless.”

    JEA (797ad1)

  40. Hmm. Is Patterico trying to be a troll on his own blog? Trying just a little to fit in with the other trolls? Or maybe after the first glass of wine he got so drunk he doesn’t remember the big binge after that point. I don’t buy the borg idea though. The borg would be smart enough to know that Obama, Reid and Pelosi would be nothing but trouble if assimilated. They’d want people good at teamwork and not totally into themselves.

    Lets hope Patterico explains all after he gets over his hangover.

    Jeff M (0204be)

  41. Navy and other U.S. personnel on St Nicholas Island are involved in laser defense and missile defense technology testing. Global Security profiled the Navy’s use of St Nicholas Island in a 2005 article:

    San Nicolas Island Navy Outlying Field is capable of supporting C-5’s, the 10,000 ft runway, 2 hangers, and associated airfield support facilities are located near the southwest edge of a 500 ft mesa. The runway is lighted and equipped with arresting gear and has a ground control approach systems (ILS). The Barge Landing Area beach landing area is used to barge cargo to large or bulky for aircraft. Cargo can be off-loaded and trucked to the main compound or one of the many project areas.

    Could it have been a very large cargo ship?

    DRJ (d43dcd)

  42. Maybe a giant cover to hide a super-sized nuclear stealth sub? It’s obviously hiding something very large.

    Chris Hooten (7fcd81)

  43. DRJ:

    It was getting dark and it was far away. But it’s not impossible. It would have had to have been very, very tall.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  44. I have seen the new UL car carriers one’s that carry over 6,000 cars’s off of Doha they are extremely tall boxy and wierd and one came in in May this year that caused several accidents along the corniche as people gaped at them

    EricPWJohnson (2925ff)

  45. Hey, hey, DRJ!

    Dmac (d61c0d)

  46. THe ship was easily 20 stories high out of the above the waterline – people cold have mistaken it for a building floating on the water

    EricPWJohnson (2925ff)

  47. EPWJ: That sounds a lot like what I saw. It was WAY out in the ocean but 20 stories tall and boxy sounds about right. It was definitely attention-getting.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  48. Thing is, I have seen massive cargo ships on the water many a time and this thing absolutely dwarfed them. It’s as if a regular cargo ship was a shoebox and this was a banker’s box, if that makes sense.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  49. sorry about the fragmented sentences the new sat hookup is preventing me from actually seeing what I type

    annoying

    EricPWJohnson (2925ff)

  50. That thing sounds huge! 6,000 cars on a gigantic floating building? Wow.

    Chris Hooten (7fcd81)

  51. Pat the new ones have very strange angles they are beyond describing I saw the Fiat ship being fitted out in the port of Venezia, they dwarf the largest cruise ships – its almost like they could fit a cruise ship inside them –

    EricPWJohnson (2925ff)

  52. but like SPQR said it maybe prudent to have a ready supply of lizards – just in case

    EricPWJohnson (2925ff)

  53. Space for 6,000 cars? I wonder if they could bring it up the Delaware River, dock it in Philly and use it as a new parking garage.

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  54. This website shows where every commercial ship is:

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

    If it happens again, take a look and see what ships are out there.

    TomHynes (2e563b)

  55. LOL, MD in Philly.

    That actually could be a very lucrative idea. I’m thinking more Manhattan, though.

    Didja know 2 of these huge freighters sink every week?

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  56. Maybe it was Elin Woods taking HER ‘new’ yacht out for a spin.

    Icy Texan (1d82f6)

  57. 2 freighters sink every week, of this size??

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)


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