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Jupiter: It’s a planet, not a UFO

by on Oct. 02, 2010, under UFOs

The Associated Press has reported an interesting UFO sighting story out of Port Angeles, Washington. It seems that several residents in Clallam County called in to their local law enforcement agency to report a UFO on Thursday morning.

Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrin described callers as “worried” that a bright, shiny object might be a UFO. Dispatchers went outside to take a look. With the aid of binoculars, dispatchers identified the object as Jupiter.

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is shining very bright lately due to its closest approach to Earth since 1963.

Scientists predicted a rash of “UFO sightings” due to both Venus and Jupiter shining bright, and they were right.

Law enforcement agencies, as well as local news stations, are typically flooded with calls when unusual objects are spotted in the sky.

The  residents of Clallam County have received a valuable lesson in astronomy, and they shouldn’t be making any more worried calls about Jupiter any time soon.


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  • bwilson

    Interesting how the lamestream media never misses a chance to report a story like this and the story is usually written  just ambiguously enough that some readers will interpret the reporting to mean that all people interested in UFOs will make this kind of mistake.  I’ve come to the conclusion that almost all MSM UFO reporting is either filler or clowning for the public with a suitable dose of open mockery thrown in.
     
    Cheers
     

    • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

      What you say is true for the reporting on all paranormal/unexplained subjects, in my opinion. As you point out, not all people interested in UFOs will make this mistake.  I am surprised how many articles manage to get that term into their stories, even if the article has nothing to do with UFOs. It seems like everyone’s house was haunted last year, now everyone is looking for UFOs. Those who do not research what’s visible (or occasionally visible)  in the sky, will continue to think that that planets and satellites are UFOs.

      • bwilson

        On the way the term “UFO” gets into articles, I was amazed to find a football player named Will Ta’ufo‘ou who managed to come up in UFO-oriented article searches.  Sheesh.

        • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

          A clever (but irritating) one was an MSNBC article about how to deal with flight delays. It threw in the China UFO-Xiaoshan Airport shutdown from July 7th as an example of inconveniences faced at airports…

        • terry the censor

          I was so happy when Ta’ufo‘ou was cut by the Bears. My google alert got a little tidier.

    • terry the censor

      > Interesting how the lamestream media never misses a chance to report a story like this
      Untrue. It is small, local papers that report — and consequently debunk — UFO sightings, especially in England. There are UFO sightings reported every day of the year and the MSM rarely touches them.
      The source of this particular story — and its explanation — is the Peninsula Daily News in Washington State.
      http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20101001/NEWS/101009999/jupiter-mistaken-for-ufo

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