Strange UFO over Long Beach, California

What the heck is it?

That's the question ABC-7 News has posed to Long Beach police and local military experts after getting a copy of a tape that shows an unidentified object flitting through our skies last year.

The tape was made Dec. 25 by Long Beach Police Department helicopter pilots who caught sight of the glowing blob while on patrol around 11:30 p.m., said Sgt. David Cannan.

Because the officers could not identify the object, they took video that was forwarded to a local military base for closer scrutiny.

"We just asked them to take a look at it, in case it was a possible security issue," Cannan said.

It was not, however, classified as an invasion by little green men, silver ones or any other kind of imaginable space beast, the sergeant assured.

Julia Pfeiffer, a producer at Channel 7, said their news piece will take a look at the possible explanations for the item and the story will air either today or Friday.

"We are approaching it fairly seriously," she said, "but we're not doing this to scare people."

While neither military or local experts could tell the Press- Telegram what precisely the object was, theories include a possible prank or experimental military aircraft.

This was especially common in the 1960s, after an article describing their construction appeared in a science magazine. And, according to one of several Web sites that explain how to build the balloons, "they do a good job of scaring the bejeebers out of many people."

Cannan said the pilot's best guess was that it was a bag or balloon with a flare attached to it, which would explain the trailing sulfur-like light.

In the tape, the brightly lit object looks as though it's traveling fast, but it could just be the effect of the helicopter orbiting the item at its speedy pace with the background flashing by, he said.

http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_3224607

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[jonsmyth91]

What was it dropping?

[cobracommander102]

Obviously people are hallucinating, especially the video camera.

[photopicker]

@greywolf424 Actually I think Mr Sitchin's best achievement is picking up a stalker like you. Another mental nut job who thinks earth spins around the shit in his head.

[tscurlyninja]

thats the flare from the flare gun stupid!!!!

[nin131]

Fire lantern burning out! Mystery solved!!!

[BasketballMusic13]

frikin creepy

[greywolf424]

There are hundreds of space agencies around the globe and thousands of independent professional astronomers, not to mention millions of archaeologists, historians, physicists, astrobiologists, and astrophysicists NOT ONE has confirmed Zecharia Sitchin's delusional bullshit about the imaginary planet Nibiru

[greywolf424]

In fact, there is not a single text in the entire corpus of Sumerian or Mesopotamian tablets in the world that tells us the Sumerians (or later inhabitants of Mesopotamia) knew there were more than five planets. This is demonstrable through the work of scholars who specialize in cuneiform astronomy.

[greywolf424]

The Seal VA 243 has 12 dots that Sitchin identifies as planets. When translated seal VA 243 reads "You're his Servant" which is now thought to be a message from a nobleman to a servant. According to semitologist Michael S. Heiser, the so-called sun on Seal VA 243 is not the Sumerian symbol for the sun but is a star, and the dots are also stars. The symbol on seal VA 243 has no resemblance to the hundreds of documented Sumerian sun symbols.

[greywolf424]

Zecharia Sitchin was born in Baku, Azerbaijan(1922), was raised in Palestine, graduated from the University of London with a degree in economic history. He worked for years as a journalist and editor in Israel before settling in New York.

He has no scientific background or education, no training or education dealing with ancient languages and is nothing more that a washed up old man, who is a proven fraud, trying to make a quick buck selling 5th rate shit books.