Comments on: Airliner collides with UFO https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24713 podrock Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:40:12 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24713 and I'm just arm waving here, but it's just as good as hitting an alien craft. At the speed of this aircraft, a falling object will be coming at a nearly horizontal angle, terminal velocity of a falling object verses jet speed. When you are driving a car in the rain, which way do the rain drops hit your car? As for the second question, if read carefully, you'll note that the plane was climbing up from 26,000 feet, which means it had just left the airport, which means there was probably a plane a mile or few in front of it, on basically the same path. Also, the climbing angle lifted the cone of this craft well above horizontal. Check the wiki page on blue ice, an you'll find references to blue ice damage to airplanes from ice falling off the same plane, due to a leak in the drainage system, usually on the climbing portion of the flight, as that is when the cabin is being pressurized, placing stress on the outlet valves of the sewage system. Find the plane that took off before this one, and I'll bet a beer it had a leak in the drainage plug. Cruising altitude is well above 26,000 feet. Long distance flights are 40K or more. (minor post-post edits...damn typos...) and I’m just arm waving here, but it’s just as good as hitting an alien craft.

At the speed of this aircraft, a falling object will be coming at a nearly horizontal angle, terminal velocity of a falling object verses jet speed. When you are driving a car in the rain, which way do the rain drops hit your car?

As for the second question, if read carefully, you’ll note that the plane was climbing up from 26,000 feet, which means it had just left the airport, which means there was probably a plane a mile or few in front of it, on basically the same path. Also, the climbing angle lifted the cone of this craft well above horizontal.

Check the wiki page on blue ice, an you’ll find references to blue ice damage to airplanes from ice falling off the same plane, due to a leak in the drainage system, usually on the climbing portion of the flight, as that is when the cabin is being pressurized, placing stress on the outlet valves of the sewage system.

Find the plane that took off before this one, and I’ll bet a beer it had a leak in the drainage plug.

Cruising altitude is well above 26,000 feet. Long distance flights are 40K or more.

(minor post-post edits…damn typos…)

]]> By: johannes https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24703 johannes Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:40:48 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24703 The aliens have a way of disintegrating their so called observation drones. ;-) The aliens have a way of disintegrating their so called observation drones. ;-)

]]> By: johannes https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24702 johannes Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:35:32 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24702 The scratches on the metal are under the curvature of the nose cone, if the object was falling, I do not think that it could have made scratches in such an area, also, if the object was falling how did it get up above 26,000 feet? The scratches on the metal are under the curvature of the nose cone, if the object was falling, I do not think that it could have made scratches in such an area, also, if the object was falling how did it get up above 26,000 feet?

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24688 Jody Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:29:35 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24688 Aliens don't have sexes. Aliens don’t have sexes.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24687 ER Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:31:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24687 The pilot of the jet? Or of the UFO? The pilot of the jet? Or of the UFO?

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24686 Jody Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:54:48 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24686 That would explain a lot. That would explain a lot.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24681 podrock Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:46:15 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24681 Urine Frozen Object Urine Frozen Object

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24680 podrock Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:23:42 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24680 No. But that's a UFO Unidentified Falling Object No.

But that’s a UFO

Unidentified Falling Object

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24679 ER Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:05:42 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24679 Well, there's no alien hardware or tissue embedded in that radome, either. Well, there’s no alien hardware or tissue embedded in that radome, either.

]]> By: johannes https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/26/airliner-collides-with-ufo/#comment-24674 johannes Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:28:22 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=34186#comment-24674 UFO's do exist, at least until they are identified. I would imagine that a bird hitting the metal with such force would leave some blood behind, even if the feathers were blown off by the wind. UFO’s do exist, at least until they are identified.

I would imagine that a bird hitting the metal with such force would leave some blood behind, even if the feathers were blown off by the wind.

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