{"id":14416,"date":"2014-03-23T22:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T03:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=14416"},"modified":"2014-03-23T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T03:57:23","slug":"from-a-better-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2014\/03\/from-a-better-source\/","title":{"rendered":"From a better source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about this <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2013\/12\/too-cool-part-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>, with my own feeble efforts in illustrating, but here&#8217;s a better version, courtesy of Bob King at <em>Universe Today<\/em><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/110605\/sirius-ufo-trickster-extraordinaire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sirius, UFO trickster extraordinaire<\/a>. It features a brief but very cool video.<\/p>\n<p>Note also the image in there of Kenneth Arnold with the sketch of what he saw. In case the name is unfamiliar, Arnold is the guy who sparked the UFO &#8216;craze,&#8217; and established the term &#8216;flying saucer&#8217; by being misquoted &#8211; he said that the objects <em>flew<\/em> like a saucer skipped on the water, but as you can see, he didn&#8217;t consider them to <em>resemble<\/em> anything at all like a saucer. Remarkably, though, from that point on many people began seeing saucer-shaped craft. Imagine the odds of that.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold&#8217;s description of the shape of the objects also changed in later years &#8211; still not into a saucer, though. Undoubtedly, the aliens suppressed his memory of the actual shape and substituted another<strong>;<\/strong> it all make sense if you try really hard.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the post at <em>Universe Today<\/em> &#8211; it&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about this before, with my own feeble efforts in illustrating, but here&#8217;s a better version, courtesy of Bob King at Universe Today: Sirius, UFO trickster extraordinaire. It features a brief but very cool video. Note also the image in there of Kenneth Arnold with the sketch of what he saw. In case the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2318,2319,2119,2120,2126,156],"class_list":["post-14416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-bob-king","tag-kenneth-arnold","tag-scintillation","tag-sirius","tag-sparkle","tag-ufos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}