Aliens in Dealey Plaza: The Stupid Burns!
April 27th, 2010
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Earlier this year, something amazing and baffling happened in Fort Worth Texas. A box containing dozens of generally unknown historical photos was found discarded under a highway underpass. The photos were apparently stolen from the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society several years ago by persons who remain unknown. The collection includes photos from numerous historical events during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Some were published in news papers but most were not. Some of the subjects photographed include political campaigns, sports and cultural events. A few photos show a young George H. W. Bush during his early political career.
One photo, however, has gained a great deal of attention, with much of it being for dubious reasons.
This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer in Dealey Plaza shortly after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Some of the spectators in the photo appear to be those from other photos taken that day. However, most telling is the fact that there are no memorial flowers or wreaths in the area of the shooting. By November 23 1963 numerous individuals had turned the area into a makeshift shrine. This and other items in the photo confirm that it was taken the day of the assassination, November 22, 1963.
This photo can be placed very precisely because it contains its own time stamp. The clock on the Hertz billboard can be seen (although is difficult to make out in this copy.) It reads 2:09. It is an unusual stroke of luck that the photo can be so surely dated and timed.
Clearly, the photograph has historic value. It shows how the investigation began and the stunned spectators who continued to mill around the area even an hour and a half after the shooting. It would be a significant find even without the added idiocy of some UFO chasers.
Here is where Richard Hoaglund gets involved and, needless to say, it gets dumb from here on.
You may notice that there’s a defect in the photo. It looks like a small area that may have gotten wet or been smudged. It could be a defect on the film or the print. While it’s hard to tell exactly what it is, even to the untrained eye, it looks more like a photographic defect than an actual object in the image.
But according to Hoaglund and others, this is nothing short of an alien UFO! In fact, this is nothing short of a misshapen alien craft, apparently blowing out a lot of smoke (UFO’s didn’t have catalytic converters in those days and emissions standards were not what they are today, you see.)
According to Hoaglund, Kennedy had many connections to UFO’s and various conspiracy theories. Perhaps the aliens were somehow unhappy about their dealings with Kennedy and decided to shoot him and blame it on Oswald? Or maybe they were just there to observe the historic event. In either case, Richard Hoaglund also takes credit for the photos discovery, noting he had given a lecture on UFO’s shortly before it was found, apparently this is what caused someone to decide to reveal the picture… to a highway overpass.
You can listen to Richard Hoaglund talking about the find and the evidence of alien visitation here, if you can stomach it.
Hopefully it should not be necessary to debunk this one, but it’s worth mentioning that the events that occurred that day, at least after the shooting, were quite well documented. News crews from television and radio stations and newspapers rushed to the location and hundreds of people in the area went to the plaza to see what was going on. There are no reports that anyone saw a big ring-shaped smokey UFO or any UFO buzzing the area. Had it been doing so, there were hundreds of amateur and professional cameras waiting for something significant to snap a photo of. There are, of course, no other photos showing this apparent object.
This photo was taken about 45 minutes earlier. Nope. No UFO’s
This image was taken around the same time as the “Ufo” photograph give or take 20 minutes or so (actually it’s a frame from the Hughes film)
Not long after the photograph was taken, associated press photographer Harry Calbruck took a series of photographs of the area from a helicopter he managed to secure on very short notice. No, neither Calbruck nor the pilot saw any UFO’s in the area. The photo bellow was taken sometime around 4 o’clock. The police had now roped off the grass areas and asked spectators to leave.
No, that bright spot is not a UFO. It’s sunlight reflecting off one of the railroad tracks in the freight yard.
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April 27th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Ugh…
Hoaglund is such an idiot. Anyone can see that it’s the ghost of a bent penis wearing a crown.
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April 27th, 2010 at 7:07 am
How dare aliens not use catalytic converters. Don’t they think of the children!?
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April 27th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Actually, the aliens had picked that exact day to make “first contact” with Earth. Unfortunately for them, with all the excitement of the Kennedy assassination, nobody really paid them much attention. They just sorta milled around for awhile, then gave up and went home.
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April 27th, 2010 at 10:21 am
MrNiceguy said:
Don’t be ridiculous. Oswald was geniunely just a bit of a loon trying to shoot Kennedy. The guy on the grassy knoll, however, was call Zforlyzax and comes from somewhere on the outer rim.
I’m more inclined to wonder why the photo appears to be finely divided into a cartesian grid – can anyone enlighten me before I become convinced that the Earth is being attacked by aliens who can camoflage themselves as squared paper?
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April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 am
I don’t think you really need to bother debunking this by providing other photos (which only prove the aliens arrived late and didn’t stay too long anyway) Seriously, that is so obviously a defect in the photo or a spot where the print got damaged and bubbled up, it’s ridiculous anyone would not see that.
I don’t think even Hoaglund takes this seriously. He just saw an opportunity to leach off of a legitimate news story to try to get some attention. It is pathetic.
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April 27th, 2010 at 11:39 am
It’s not aliens fools, it time travelers, come back to see the great event. Too bad for them their cloaking device failed for a moment there, just when that shot was being taken.
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April 27th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
DV82XL said:
Time travelers? Nonsense! They’d know when the picture would be taken and avoid it. It’s extradimensionals, come to check on their agreement with the lizard royal family of Britain.
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April 27th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Isn’t there a rule against time travelers being observed and altering the past in any way? I think I recall hearing that somewhere. It’s considered pollution to the time stream to ever interact or be seen or filmed.
Someone could be getting in some real trouble for this one. That’s not to even mention the lack of a catalytic converter and poor emissions standards. Uh.. when you travel back in time, do you have to stick to the environmental standards from your era or can you use the ones of the day? Eh, either way, no visible smoke I’d assume.
Someone is getting a big fine on their time travel license when they get back for this!
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April 27th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Gordon said:
Eh … who cares? It isn’t going to happen until a long time from now.
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April 28th, 2010 at 1:25 am
BMS said:
But do they charge interest on the fine from the time of the offence? Compound interest would be a pretty efficient way of scaling the penalty to the period of time affected.
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April 28th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
My father was there. He was not there during the assassination. He worked about six blocks away and when the shooting happened nobody knew exactly what was going on except there were a lot of sirens and big co motion and people running in the area. He left around one thirty to see what was up and he said some people said the president had been shot and others said he had been shot at but not his and others said the secret service shot a man (nobody seemed to be sure) so he just walked around trying to find out the facts. He said he could not go near the book depository because there were cops keeping everyone back. One of the cops told him that the president was shot and in the hospital (so he thought the president was going to be okay)
He might very well be one of the people in the photograph. I can’t tell because its too small and poor quality.
Of course I asked him and he is absolutely sure that there was no UFO in the area that anyone saw. HE worked in the direction behind the records building, so if the ufo came from that direction then he’d have seen it or someone he worked with would have and nobody seemed to.
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April 28th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Another thing that might be off topic. My father though not there for the time that Kennedy was shot says he is 100% sure nobody shot him from the knoll or the area where most conspiracy theories say he was because he thinks there’s no way a shooter could have been there and not gotten caught and been able to escape without being seen. There was no cover and no way out and too many people. (but a lot of people get angry when he even says that)
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April 28th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Jeffery said:
Yeah, people don’t like their pet theory refuted with something like simple observations or obvious flaws pointed out.
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May 3rd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
But, but… Catgirls! (LOL yeah logic in their fantasies kills them according to webcomic lore)
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May 17th, 2010 at 12:24 am
Not really related but I was wondering how many you’d think would take this photo seriously?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3326/4614580872_8ce3575fa4_o.jpg
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May 21st, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I must be stupid. I just see a constellation and related artwork. The pyramid builders were obsessed about geometry. I mean, that’s kind of why they made pyramids. I don’t know if they knew it at the time, but a pyramid with a square base is essentially like a 3D “shadow” of a 4D simplex (5 points in 4D space all connected to each other by lines). I read that in a book on geometry that explored why there was such a limited amount of regular hyperhedrons. I just looked up “4D shapes” and found this site: http://www.tilings.org.uk/shapes/factsheets Look at factsheet 4. It’s essentially the same ideas that the author of that old book wrote about.
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May 21st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
What the hell does that have to do with anything?
By the way, the pyramid builders choose the simplest and most effective shape. If you want something sturdy and achieves height while keeping the structure simple, you stack things wide and then make it smaller toward the top. The simplest way to do it is a block-step structure, which is how the pyramid builders started, only later trying for smooth surfaces.
It’s just the simplest, most natural way of doing it.
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May 22nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
Math and religion… they have a history together. There’s more than one shape to use. The concept of East and West for the sun’s daily cycle most likely was the reason for the square base. North and South are the other obvious axis for surface travel. But it’s still kind of neat that they essentially had the projection of a 4-simplex built in 3D. The smoothness was not essential to the shape. What’s interesting is how the _tip_ evolved.
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January 1st, 2011 at 1:56 am
I have heard alien theories in the JFK assasinations before but I dont see or think there anything significient in these photo but some of these comments are very funny.
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