What do you think...


We have an "invisible fence" to keep the dogs in the yard. It works by transmitting a very short range radio signal from the wire that incompasses the yard. Whenever the dogs' receiver collar gets within range of the signal they will hear a beep or get zapped.

The transmitter for the wire is located in my house. It is set up so that if there is a disruption, such as the wire gets cut, the transmitter will beep. Anyway, an electro-magnetic field can also disrupt the signal being sent out over the wire and cause the transmitter to beep.

Whenever we have an electrical storm in the area, the lightning will cause the transmitter to beep. Kindof cool and kindof annoying, too.

Well, last night it was drizzling rain and all of a sudden that transmitter starts beeping like crazy. Usually I get one or two beeps with each lightning strike, but last night the thing was going crazy, I guess the way it would if the line had been cut.

I walked outside on the back porch to see if it really was lightning that bad. Nope, no lightning out back. So I walked out under the carport to see if it were lightning out front. Nope again.

But I did see something in the distance that caught my eye.

At first I thought it must be a low flying airplane, flying beneath the low cloud cover. So I watched it. It didn't move, but it did get brighter. Maybe a star... no cloudy and raining. It continued to grow brighter, becoming blue and then a big bright green. Then it was suddenly gone! And, at the same moment that it disappeared, the invisible fence transmitter quit beeping.

I went back inside, sat down to watch some TV and stew over what that light could have been. It was obviously causing some sort of electro-magnetic pulse. Then, about 15 minutes later, the transmitter started beeping like crazy again. I ran out to the carport and sure enough, the light was back in the sky, in the same location. I watched it again for a few minutes and then, just like the previous time, it disappeared and the transmitter quit beeping.

What was this mysterious light?

That's kinda creepy & scary. Did you report any of this or ask your neighbors if they saw anything weird?

A flying Dog perhaps?

A ghost? Spirit maybe?

-Sushi of the fisherKings

It was probably Erik or Greg on a night cache hunt, those LED flashlights can look weird.

What you got there is genuwine UFO. It was unidentified, it was flying, and it was an object.

UFO

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Actually, the second time it happened, I considered jumping in the GeoRanger and seeing if I could track it down. Then I realized I had no idea how far away it was. But I had an idea! If I started walking toward the light I could get an idea of how far away it might be by how watching how fast it rose off the horizon as I walked toward it.

I must've been quite a sight in the pitch dark with the mist swirling all around walking across that field staring at a light in the sky!

As I walked, I could tell that the light wasn't very far away at all. Then, I began to make out a faint shape, just to the right of the light...

(to be continued...)

Ooo, oooh!

Dum dee dum dum dum

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Mystery Solved!
Jim and I see these all the time!


"Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you'll have a fine pig and a bad child." -Proverb

Phat.Bak

That is a great picture of you.

These posts are too funny! I think I'll let this thread ride a little longer to see what else you guys come up with. Besides, you'll never guess what I discovered out in that field last night.

Phat-bak tending one of these?



(Sorry PB, I just had to!)

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Originally posted by Slayerette:
A flying Dog perhaps?

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Too funny....


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Actually it was God opening and closing his refridgerator....hense the cold snap.

Kenneth


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Flying pigs and God opening the 'fridge? Well, I guess I have to take a stab at it. My guess is it has something to do with a tower. Perhaps a malfunctioning antenna or aircraft avoidance strobe.

Very good A+K, but not exactly correct.

Turns out that there was a power pole down the road that had some sort of bracket that had borken loose. It had apparently cut into the power line enough to start a pretty powerful arc. It really was an awesome display in the dark, but what amazed me most is how much of a magnetic field that thing must have been putting off to disrupt my underground dog fence!

I am guessing you were seeing a high-voltage power pole or support tower, and there was some arcing. That would spray electromagnetic garbage all over the spectrum, and account for the light coming and going as well.

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Have you ever been around a transformer when a fuse blew? In the old neighborhood we had above ground utilities. There was a transformer on a 4,500 volt main on a pole on the street in front of the house.
One quiet morning a squirrel got between the input terminals on the transformer and blew the fuse. It sounded like the biggest cannon you ever heard. I think I came 2 feet off the floor. After I recovered my heart from the kitchen sink I went out to look. Wasn't much left of the poor lil' squirrel.

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Originally posted by Aksor+Raskol:
One quiet morning a squirrel got between the input terminals on the transformer and blew the fuse. ... Wasn't much left of the poor lil' squirrel.

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Pretty much the exact same thing happened across the street from my place a couple years back. Went out to take a look. Well... I don't want to get to graphic here as some readers may be squeamish... but let's just say the orangatang scene from "The Fly" came to mind.

In my lifetime, I've actually seen two transformers blow. Once in my adolescent years and once when I was in my early twenties.

The first time I saw it happen, it was my fault! Me and a couple of other kids were walking down the street and I had a piece of wire that was about 4' long. I was whirling this wire around and just let it go. It flew out of my hands and up to the top of the nearest power pole. The pole had a transformer on it. At first it started making quite a racket and sparks were flying everywhere. We started running away, more in fear of getting in trouble than getting hurt. We hadn't run more than 50 yards when that thing blew. Wow, what a sight!

The next time I saw it happen, it was during an electical storm. I was picking up my girlfriend for a date. She came running out to my car carrying an umbrella. I got out of the car to try to make her put the umbrella down because of all the lightning. When I took the thing out of her hands, I felt a tingling and then, BOOOOM! Lightning struck the transformer on the pole at the end of the driveway! As you can imagine, I couldn't get rid of that darn umbrella soon enough! Quite scary, to say the least. BTW, I ended up marrying that dumb 'ol girl that nearly got me killed.

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Originally posted by Btouch: BTW, I ended up marrying that dumb 'ol girl that nearly got me killed.

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Good Lord was trying to tell you something!!!

I had the misfortune to live across the street from a transformer blow up about 6 years ago. Middle of the night in the middle of a summer strom. Wow what a sound and quite a FLASH!

The rainbow thief...

Bob