why do ufo's have running lights?

[lips]

does anyone ever wonder why pictures and videos of UFO's usually have flashing and or running lights of some sort. it would seem too me that the only reason would to be seen?

[gort]

You bring up a very good point here. The fact that the human race has engineered our craft to have signal lights or running lights is done as a safety device.

I have asked myself the same question many times.

Logically if we have done this for safety and identification reasons it would stand that another race capable of flight might do the same thing.

Or it could just be that these craft belong to us in a super secret program, with advanced flight.

Either way it is very interesting.

[isaackoi]

Oct 9, 2011 21:58:17 GMT -5 lips said:

it would seem too me that the only reason would to be seen?

Well, a report released by the British Ministry of Defence report on UFOs ("UAPs") concluded that reports of glowing UFOs are due to a naturally occuring plasma.

Other theories in relation to lights associated with UFOs (particularly reports that UFOs surrounded by a "glowing" layer) have included:

(a) Paul Hill states that there is an "illuminated and illuminating sheath of atmosphere [around UFOs which] is a sheath of ionized and excited air molecules often called a plasma" which Hill asserts is caused by a "power-plant-connected, ionizing, wave type radiation from the UFO" [1]

(b) James M Campbell has written a book which discusses reports indicating the presence of plasma, contending that this plasma is the result of "the propulsion system of UFOs [involving] the emission of microwave energy". [2]

(c) A different connection between vehicles and plasma was put forward by Stanton T Friedman in his written statement evidence to the Roush hearing. He referred to publications relating to "interactions between vehicles and plasmas", stating that "there is a body of technology which I have studied and which leads me to believe that an entirely new approach to high speed air and space propulsion could be developed using the interactions between magnetic and electric fields with electrically conducting fluids adjacent to the vehicles to produce thrust or lift and reduce or eliminate such other hypersonic flight problems as drag, sonic boom, heating, etc". [3]

References:

[1] Hill, Paul R in his "Unconventional Flying Objects : A Scientific Analysis" (1995) at 53-54 (in Section III) of the Hampton Roads softcover edition.


[2] Campbell, James M in Chapters 3 and 6 of his book "Ufology". The text of the relevant book is available online at:
www.nicap.org/ufology/ufochap3.htm

www.nicap.org/ufology/ufochap6.htm

[3] Friedman, Stanton J in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at page 217 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his "Aliens in the Skies" (1969). Complete transcript available free online at the following link:

www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

Hope this helps you.

Of course, the lights could simply be the lights from aircraft etc...

All the best,

Isaac Koi

[lawsinium]

That's a good question.

This also provides you solid proof that the great pyramids were not of extraterrestrial origin since "lightbulbs" were nowhere to be found in any chambers of the dead.

[spike001]

Assuming that by UFO you mean alien ships, and not anything manmade, I would guess that maybe the running lights could be an attempt at disguise. If a ship can look like a run of the mill jet at an distance, it would attract less attention. Just a guess.

[sagittarius]

hi all new here so just reading up on things etc,

my rather basic answer's to this would be the fact that lights would be a more universal way of communication with others perhaps, after all any basic type of electrical engineering would result in a light appearing it's pretty basic to make a bulb glow and when where talking about plasma and other high-end voltage etc it isn't at all strange. If our civilization needed to board a craft and go searching for others in a hugely vast never ending universe the last thing your going to want to do is a miss another by a few miles so to speak? Not only that but if there willing to enter our own atmosphere anyway i don't think there to bothered if we notice them in-fact there probley testing our own hostility to-wards them, after all most of them seem to be able to appear and re-appear without putting themselves in to much danger so i guess what I'm trying to say is if is wasn't for the lights just how many reports would there really be? most are at night so with a back ground of stars,planets and other lights in the night sky what a perfect way of being able to say hello,hide and still not cause mass panic ?