UFOs entering into the ground?

[dhatz]

Has anyone researched the idea that UFOs supposedly can go into the ground?

Quoting from a recent article:

Source: The Courier Mail - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Feb 07-08 2009
The Truth Is Out Here
by Will StorrThere are many rational people - pilots, astronauts, physicists - who believe in aliens. Will Storr's always been a sceptic, but will a 'nightwatch' with Queensland's UFO spotters change his mind? There are three words that make Rita Haden's storybelievable. Three magic and yet perfectly ordinary words I won't hear again until the very end of my journey into the darkly troubling parallel world of Queensland Unidentified Flying Object spotters.

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"THERE ARE CERTAIN TYPICAL AMBIGUITIES AND anomalies that all UFOs display," says Dr Martin Gottshall, a consultant mechanical engineer who has been studying the subject for 30 year. "They move at supersonic speed or stop in an instant. They can enter straight into the ground without making a crash."

Hang on I say. They can travel through things? I've joined
martin, 71 and his wife Sheryl, 50, for "nightwatch" at a
campsite in Goomburra near Warwick, two hours' drive south-west of Brisbane. They're senior members of a group known as UFORQ (UFO Research Queensland), founded in 1956 with a brief to "receive, record and research UFO sightings". Members meet every month at the Australian College of Natural Medicine in inner-Brisbane Spring Hill to exchange ideas and listen to speakers. They also produce a bimonthly journal called UFO Encounters and arrange biannual special excursions like this one. Tonight, with 20 UFORQers who've pitched tents in a reserved plot away from families, we're going to sit in a circle in picnic chairs, eat potato chips and attempt to lure alien spacecraft out of the crystal country sky.

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Huh? Is there any evidence suggesting that UFOs can actually move into the ground?

 

[Bixyboo]

Wow, now THAT's a new one....I've heard of 'em going in water, caves, things like that, but never just boink, straight into the ground without making a crash or an impression being there...Hmmmm.

Would love to hear more info on this one!

 

[Ezechiel]

[snip]
Huh? Is there any evidence suggesting that UFOs can actually move into the ground?

It makes sense if a race has managed to counter Einsteinian limitations by rendering its ships 'massless'.

Accelerating any mass to the speed of light takes an infinite amount of energy and the mass would be infinite (thus you'd actually create a black hole and start warping space).

However if you are 'massless' (less than a neutrino) then you are able to pass through ordinary matter undisturbed and travel without Einsteinian restrictions. This might be a trick we might master a few decades down the road

Having fun with gravity may be a bit closer to current technology though. Look at this GCT project

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[dhatz]

Perhaps I wasn't clear in my initial question.

I have spent a considerable amount time doing data-mining of UFO reports (e.g. all the NUFORC files) and I haven't come across any credible reports of UFOs actually going into the ground (or passing through physical objects like trees).

Before speculating how UFOs might achieve some incredible feat (e.g. fly supersonically without sonic boom), I'd like to first check if the reported phenomenon is actually part of the "UFO pattern".

There are many reports of UFOs going into water and moving through the air. Sofar I'm not at all convinced that "going through solid things" is an attribute of UFOs.

 

[Stillborn]

Some debunkers say the Belgian Triangle case, the one where it was tracked on radar and had jets chasing it, went into the ground given what the radar indicated. They then use that as reason to dismiss the case.