Comments on: Illegible aliens

By: Dave Hall

Dave Hall — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:27:00 +0000

When I was a kid, my parents always said I watched too many cartoons. But I persisted, knowing someday the knowlege I gained in front of the TV would prove useful.
It finally paid off! Woo-Hoo!

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:52:47 +0000

Congrats to:
Dave Hall
Mang (are you merciless?)
JackC
Jack Hagerty – and I had to look up, ’cause *I* though it was Floyd, too.

Y’all get an official Jay Ward too-much-time-watching-TV award.

J/P=?

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:03:10 +0000

JackC says: “Scrootch him, Cloyd.”

G: How long did you scrooch him for?

C: I don’t know. The scrooch gun is set to “10,” but I don’t know if it’s 10 minutes or 10 years!

- Jack

PS – I always though it was “Floyd.” Another childhood memory shot to hell.

By: me

me — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:38:54 +0000

The original story on the local news was run as one of those human interest/slow news night pieces at the end of the news. There was no woo. It was just ‘hey look at this cool reflection, how weird’ and then they showed some kids comments.

They are cute though. Mr and Mrs Yoda.

By: Mapnut

Mapnut — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:47:31 +0000

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=57716

Found the one I was thinking of. Mother of Jesus.

By: aiabx

aiabx — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:57:27 +0000

They look like the cute little critters from Galaxy Quest to me…(spoiler ahead) you know, the vicious ones with all the teeth.

I wouldn’t sleep in that room.

By: fos

fos — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:55:50 +0000

It looks like an out of focus praying mantis. But, aren’t they actually invading aliens?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:33:14 +0000

I for one welcome our adorable new alien overlords. Just wook at those wittle faces, how could you not bow down and offer yourself to toil in their underground lairs building the weapons used to kill the unbelievers, they’re just so cute!

By: JSW

JSW — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:05:19 +0000

How could these be metroids? This story is from Canada.

You do know what a metroid’s main weakness is, right?

By: Kitty

Kitty — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:01:36 +0000

oh they are very cute and can come to my home and take my eggs anytime!

By: JackC

JackC — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:56:03 +0000

JohnP: Of course, someone beat me to it, but my youngest sees a Dr on Gidney Ave here, and I need to get a print of the two aliens to them the next time I am there!

Scrootch him, Cloyd.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:36:06 +0000

They are cute little smiley pareidolia aliens. Therefore I think they are from Stephen's Quintet. Happy aliens from happy galaxies. (-;

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:17:30 +0000

They are actually SMILING! What a bunch of cute little NICE aliens!

So, some people are claiming that they are aliens, and others that it’s a reflection — so perhaps, they are both right? It’s a reflection of aliens! Maybe these aliens even took the picture, too?

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:16:48 +0000

I have to thrid the motion for metroids. But only if you stare for more than a few seconds.

At least metroids are less creepy than two gopher-aliens phasing through your wall.

This reminds me of a article I read about “ghost hunters”. They were giving examples of false alarms (you know, ALL their alarms) and mentioned an old woman who always saw strange lights travel across her room every night at the same time.

She needed the super-powered professional spectre sleuths to figure out it was the neighbor’s headlights as he pulled into his garage.

I’ve saw lights like that every night for as far as I can rememebr to when my neighbor retired. I never thought, “Oh my! Must be ghosts!”. After all, the sound of an engine and an opening garage door were dead give-aways.

By: sofista

sofista — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:28:35 +0000

[...] Uno de los mejores ejemplos de pareidolia jamás vistos: En Canadá han aparecido dos extraterrestres sobre la pared de una casa: [...] Se ven dos extraterrestres con rasgos faciales reconocibles y cierto parecido a las tortugas ninjas: ojos redondos y brillantes, una boca amplia y orejas puntiagudas; además un casco espacial rodea y protege sus cabezas. También se distinguen dos brazos y una chaqueta sobre el torso. [...] Visto en Bad Astronomy.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:43:30 +0000

Haldeman and Ehrlichman.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:35:13 +0000

Quite adorable. But the NBC article is clearly biased towards “wooo look at the aliens and only silly child-hating jerks think it’s a reflection”… *vomit*

Way too cute to be Sontarans!

(You don’t have to be British to keep up with the Doctor, thanks to the intarwebs.)

By: bsizzle

bsizzle — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:24:25 +0000

they look like metroids to me, which is far more frightening

By: dennis

dennis — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:10:08 +0000

cabbage patch kids in jedi robes?

By: Ted H.

Ted H. — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:49:10 +0000

Slightly OT, but in the comments to the linked story is a link here:

http://churchofcriticalthinking.org

More burning stupid.

By: ladyvonkulp

ladyvonkulp — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:26:59 +0000

Jellyfish. That was my immediate impression.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:22:06 +0000

It would be fun to have someone tap on the glass of the window while the “aliens” are visible to see how the shapes change as the glass vibrates.

I frequently see windows reflecting an interesting pattern onto neighboring houses and it is kind of amusing to try to figure out what the shape of the glass has to be to distort the reflection into the given shape. Adaptive optics is fun!

Scott

By: Redx

Redx — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:46:17 +0000

Some of you people have very strange idea’s about cute.

Bow down before your creepy goblin overlords!

By: Mapnut

Mapnut — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:35:18 +0000

What was the similar paredoelia a year or two ago? I’m sure I saw it here – a moving reflection off a window that looked like, probably, Jesus – i can’t remember. Somebody must. There was a similar video of crowds watching it. We’d better check – maybe it was aliens too.

By: Michael I

Michael I — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:28:31 +0000

Phil says “clearly being a reflection of the Sun off a window”

That’s just what the aliens WANT you to think…