Pygar2
Paranormal Maven
I've spent the last week or so reading all over the forums. They're pretty interesting, and I have already caught on that total noobs should not spam web pages or stuff for sale, neither of which I have. And posting Final Answers on the topics around here is a bad idea, too. I don't have any Final Answers either.
I'm not going to post any major opinions, either, just yet. Sticking your toe in the water is one thing; doing it while chumming is quite another!
At this time I simply have some questions that don't really fit in elsewhere, which are not, each, worthy of a thread. I suspect this is the kind of place in which answers could be found.
My first question: Back in the late Sixties I saw stock footage on TV of a huge, lifeboat-orange A-shaped "dirigible-thing". Each bar of the A was a humongous cylinder, at least 15 feet or more in diameter. Given the number of triangles in the sky lately, I have to wonder what this thing was. It was obviously some form of A-shaped helium balloon or dirigible. Oh, I'll come clean. the footage was stock footage used on a "Man From Uncle" episode about THRUSH faking UFOs. Any ideas what it was?
I have a bad habit of reading books standing up in bookstores and libraries. It saves money, but makes it hard to find things again. Around 25 years ago I read a book in a library. I remember it as being by an astronomer, and it had a chapter about the KLEE hoax, including pics of the phony TV ID cards used by the conmen as bait to sell a phony trans-ocean TV antenna. Love to see the book again- any ideer what book it is?
In one of the last Lexx episodes, they are in an Earth lab-- the one trying to make a getaway craft. On a locker or something is a nifty poster showing various types of aliens, where they are from, their habits. Any idea where I can find this, or a good pic I could use on my desktop?
And I am also looking for a pic I saw elsewhere on the Net. It was a set of black and white drawings of various real and fictional aircraft etc., all labeled "weather balloon". Except for the weather balloon; it was labeled Swamp Gas! That'd also be a neat desktop image. Any of you kind and helpful folks have any idea where it might be found?
TIA for any help!
I'm not going to post any major opinions, either, just yet. Sticking your toe in the water is one thing; doing it while chumming is quite another!
At this time I simply have some questions that don't really fit in elsewhere, which are not, each, worthy of a thread. I suspect this is the kind of place in which answers could be found.
My first question: Back in the late Sixties I saw stock footage on TV of a huge, lifeboat-orange A-shaped "dirigible-thing". Each bar of the A was a humongous cylinder, at least 15 feet or more in diameter. Given the number of triangles in the sky lately, I have to wonder what this thing was. It was obviously some form of A-shaped helium balloon or dirigible. Oh, I'll come clean. the footage was stock footage used on a "Man From Uncle" episode about THRUSH faking UFOs. Any ideas what it was?
I have a bad habit of reading books standing up in bookstores and libraries. It saves money, but makes it hard to find things again. Around 25 years ago I read a book in a library. I remember it as being by an astronomer, and it had a chapter about the KLEE hoax, including pics of the phony TV ID cards used by the conmen as bait to sell a phony trans-ocean TV antenna. Love to see the book again- any ideer what book it is?
In one of the last Lexx episodes, they are in an Earth lab-- the one trying to make a getaway craft. On a locker or something is a nifty poster showing various types of aliens, where they are from, their habits. Any idea where I can find this, or a good pic I could use on my desktop?
And I am also looking for a pic I saw elsewhere on the Net. It was a set of black and white drawings of various real and fictional aircraft etc., all labeled "weather balloon". Except for the weather balloon; it was labeled Swamp Gas! That'd also be a neat desktop image. Any of you kind and helpful folks have any idea where it might be found?
TIA for any help!
