Daniel, what I saw about ten years ago probably has nothing to do with any technology such as audio phase cancellation or holographic imagery technology, but it may in fact point to our having technology we know little or nothing, about, making your suggestion worthy of some consideration. I know, almost everyone denies that we have any of the more seemingly magical technological wonders as yet, but we also have a history of naysayers being proven incorrect over time.
So here's where I go a bit off topic. I was driving the roughly twenty-five miles into work in Houston where the land is flat and, save a few tall buildings scattered here and there, the sky was
wide open to the viewer. Storms were in the weather forecast so I kept an eye on the sky all around me. Around here it pays to know when to pull into a parking lot to avoid flash flooding.
What I noticed about the cloud cover was that it was broken into four distinct quadrants as to shapes of the clouds. I actually stood outside my car, when finally parked, to watch these clouds which weren't moving in any direction, but just hanging there.
One quadrant was occupied by what my girlfriend and I call "testicle clouds," the round spheres that seem to sprout from stems in an upper blanketed cloud layer. Another quadrant had a rippled look to it with extremely long, layered ripples extending for miles. One quadrant had regular looking thunderheads and the last, the smallest quadrant to my eye, because I wasn't under the center of whatever mechanism which created the four quadrants, was another set of rippled layers of clouds which extended in a different direction from the other set.
In the smaller, to my eye, set, a line seemed to have been drawn down through part of the layered ripples that eventually formed what began to look like huge wings attached to some center cord. Whatever caused the wing making was a slow process, but I watched it for quite a long time and that cord deepened as the wings took on greater shape and consistency. The ripples outside the wings broke up and I couldn't see where this process might have eventually stopped in the sky, but I know the huge wings hung in the sky as unmoving as the cloud formations in the rest of the sky. The ripples inside the wings were drawn down and didn't break up at all.
I eventually went into work and had a girlfriend come out to observe what I'd seen, just in case I'd flipped my lid and gone blind or something. She confirmed my visual and the clouds eventually broke into a normal stream of thunderheads that never issued a drop of rain.
I've been a sky watcher since I was a kid and I have never seen such an eerie display before or since that day, but I felt as though the sky were being manipulated by some technological wonder. For some time after, I watched never before seen cloud formations in my part of the country, but after a time, they stopped happening on a regular basis and have dwindled in part because I no longer make that long commute.
All that because I think we are working on things that will never get in the press. Those things are something to consider even if we can't be sure of what we think we see.
So here's where I go a bit off topic. I was driving the roughly twenty-five miles into work in Houston where the land is flat and, save a few tall buildings scattered here and there, the sky was
wide open to the viewer. Storms were in the weather forecast so I kept an eye on the sky all around me. Around here it pays to know when to pull into a parking lot to avoid flash flooding.
What I noticed about the cloud cover was that it was broken into four distinct quadrants as to shapes of the clouds. I actually stood outside my car, when finally parked, to watch these clouds which weren't moving in any direction, but just hanging there.
One quadrant was occupied by what my girlfriend and I call "testicle clouds," the round spheres that seem to sprout from stems in an upper blanketed cloud layer. Another quadrant had a rippled look to it with extremely long, layered ripples extending for miles. One quadrant had regular looking thunderheads and the last, the smallest quadrant to my eye, because I wasn't under the center of whatever mechanism which created the four quadrants, was another set of rippled layers of clouds which extended in a different direction from the other set.
In the smaller, to my eye, set, a line seemed to have been drawn down through part of the layered ripples that eventually formed what began to look like huge wings attached to some center cord. Whatever caused the wing making was a slow process, but I watched it for quite a long time and that cord deepened as the wings took on greater shape and consistency. The ripples outside the wings broke up and I couldn't see where this process might have eventually stopped in the sky, but I know the huge wings hung in the sky as unmoving as the cloud formations in the rest of the sky. The ripples inside the wings were drawn down and didn't break up at all.
I eventually went into work and had a girlfriend come out to observe what I'd seen, just in case I'd flipped my lid and gone blind or something. She confirmed my visual and the clouds eventually broke into a normal stream of thunderheads that never issued a drop of rain.
I've been a sky watcher since I was a kid and I have never seen such an eerie display before or since that day, but I felt as though the sky were being manipulated by some technological wonder. For some time after, I watched never before seen cloud formations in my part of the country, but after a time, they stopped happening on a regular basis and have dwindled in part because I no longer make that long commute.
All that because I think we are working on things that will never get in the press. Those things are something to consider even if we can't be sure of what we think we see.
