I saw a UFO in Thailand Last Night…
June 18, 2008 by admin · 9 Comments
UFO s and Aliens in Thailand?
Last night I went to the beach for sunset and took some photos of the islands and the sky as it turned orange and then pink. The moon was almost full and there was a lot of light left in the sky though where I was it was almost dark, the mountains blocking the sun.
Everyone that was on the beach started walking toward the parking lot and I noticed a bright light above me to the left. Hmm. Strange. It was white light - not yellow or orange. It didn’t seem to be focused at all as the intensity of the light never changed. It wasn’t clearly defined either. I’m guessing it was a circle - as the intensity around the object seemed to be the same too. It just looked like a floating white circle.
The light was bright. I’d guess 30 times more bright than the brightest star. It was brighter than the moon, though the diameter of the object was, at its closest point about 1/5th the size of the almost full moon at 6:30pm.
The light was moving. My first thought was - plane. A plane has white lights. There was no noise and the light never changed in intensity so I ruled out plane. Likewise, helicopter - which would have been heard, and which doesn’t have a light hanging off the bottom (usually) with intensity that doesn’t change. Though - I guess if it were high enough - like 5km high or something like that - and the props were impossible to hear - it could have been one. I’ve never seen a helicopter with a light hanging off the bottom. If it were a spotlight - as in a search and rescue helicopter I think I would have seen the beam focused downward of such a bright spotlight. There was no beam. The air was humid and thick - I think a beam would have been apparent. I’m sure it would have.
The light moved from about an 11:00 position the entire way across the horizon in about 90 seconds.
It didn’t seem to be moving fast when it was directly overhead, but faster than a jet would at 30,000 feet. Much faster than that. It wasn’t moving nearly as fast as a shooting star, just very slowly and on the same line. It didn’t change line. I held my hand on my head and lined up a finger on it to see how it moved in relation to my hand. It moved in a straight line. Though, just looking at it without this aid - I thought it was zigging around a little bit. Perhaps an illusion.
I watched as it went from 11oclock position to 1 oclock position. There were some low level clouds and I tried to guess how high it was. I could still see the white light clearly through these low level clouds. I’m guessing the object was anywhere from 2km to 20km vertically though it’s a weak guess. There just was no real way to get a handle on the height.
I looked around to see if anyone else was staring - but people were so far from me - about 60 meters and it was so dark by the time I looked down out ofthe sky that I could just make out the outlines of bodies - not see what they were looking at.
Soon the light passed under the moon and behind some clouds that were very far off in the western sky. It went behind those clouds too, but disappeared when it did so.
I’ve pretty much ruled out airplane, helicopter, hot air balloon, weather balloon, those lanterns Thais make out of plastic or paper bags that gave me a scare one time as I saw about 25 of them in the 11pm night sky by my mansion. I wouldn’t say “missile” because the light was so pure white. Would a missile have a yellowish flame? I’ve seen the afterburners on F-4 phantoms and F-15 fighters while in the Air Force - the light was nothing like that - with a trail pointing away from where it was moving forward.
Slow moving shooting star? Is there such a thing?
Ball lightening? I’ve heard that it moves erratically - this was smooth and bright and silent.
Any ideas?
Oh - the photo has NOTHING to do with the UFO sighting except that I saw these on the way home and had to have a photo.
Photo of the group that saw the floating alien - and the debunking of it (scroll down on this linked page) >
March 22, 2006 Patong Beach, Thailand UFO Report >
Cha Am, April 2004 Sighting UFOs in Sky >
Oct 22, 2004 - Patong Beach Lights in Sky >
Oct, 2001 - Chiang Mai UFOs >
I can’t load either of these videos on my slow connection, but maybe you can?
9 Mar 2007, UFO in Krabi Skies >
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Thai Girl Moving to America with Expat Hubby? Read this…
June 16, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
A really HORRIBLE story from a Chinese woman who found a guy online and married him. They lived in America… the guy was really not interested in her at ALL, just her little daughter….
Man, a really sick story… and reminds me of a friend I have from Isaan - a Thai girl of Chinese background… she met a train engineer from Kentucky online… he was about 60 years old, smoked, drank and hit her and was promising her the world when they went back to the USA. Glad she didn’t go.
Sick story, Chinese woman marries pedophile American >
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Blindfolded Kids Muay Thai Boxing (photos and video)
June 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Flipping through one of Richard Barrow’s many sites landed me on this page:
Thai kids boxing with blindfolds on >
It’s worth the time it takes to load the video - and it’s a riot… only too short. I could watch that for 30 minutes or more!
Great stuff from 2006… I don’t think you’d see this in your country!
My Thailand Photos at Flickr (links)
June 14, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
I haven’t shared my Flickr photos yet. I just realized they were there, as I’ve not been able to login there for months - some cookie screw up. But, I logged in today and saw a lot of photos I uploaded a while ago - high resolution.
Page 1 > Buddhist temples around Surat Thani, including Suan Mokkh, Ko Samui.
Page 2 > Much of the same as page 1.
Page 3 > Some Krabi temples and then some Khon Kaen temples.
Page 4 > Khon Kaen and Sisaket Temples.
Page 5 > Khon Kaen and Sisaket Temples.
Page 6 > Almost all Sisaket Temples.
Page 7 > Mostly Sisaket Temples.
Anyone want to share their Flickr pic link?? - email or comment.
The American Attitude… What is it?
June 12, 2008 by admin · 3 Comments
I wrote an article a while back here, The American Attitude….
I am very interested in the idea, being an American and starting to realize myself that we have a certain predisposition… or a certain attitude that stands out - is different from those in many other countries. Anyway, being a psych grad I’m interested in it.
I’m going to write a much more comprehensible article and post it at one of my other blogs, but before I do I wanted to ask if anyone reading would care to let me know what you think about Americans…
Let it all loose. You can email, or comment - up to you.
Appreciate it!
Vern
Which Mobile Phone to use in Thailand? Nokia 3110 Classic.
June 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
I’ve used a Motorola L7 for over a year now and it’s been ok. It doesn’t have EDGE - high speed GPRS capability so I thought I’d get another phone - a Nokia, that does. I bought at Tesco - this being where I buy most electronics. Really I just want to avoid the hassle of buying at a mobile phone shop where they could have parcelled out the good parts of my new phone and replaced them with garbage parts.
I looked at all their phones and decided on the Nokia 3110 Classic. It was about 3,500 baht. It has the specs below. It didn’t say on the box or the display ad whether it had EDGE - and this was a necessity. A quick check through 3 mobile phone magazines they had showed that the Nokia 3110 Classic has EDGE. This one at Tesco was named a 3110c. Hmm. I’ve been fooled before - but finally decided I’d get it and try my luck. I’m glad I did.
When I got home and fired it up - It DID have EDGE and it was working immediately. That was unexpected because when I used my e70 from my home last year - there was no EDGE service. Apparently DTAC increased their coverage to include me now. Nice. I registered downloads in the 28-32kBps range which reminded me what I’d been missing with EDGE service. The Moto L7 gave me consistently about 4kBps.
I ran to the internet shop and connected to their wifi with my notebook and downloaded the Nokia PC SUITE software which included an update to the one I had from over a year ago. I then went to the Nokia europe site and installed some functionality for the email, mms, and other things that apparently don’t come standard in Thailand phones sold here. I plugged in my phone number and the site called my phone 6 different times to push the software to it - so I could install it. That all went very smoothly.
I fired up the browser on the phone and went to gmail.com/app
This told me that I needed a specific Gmail software for the phone and it was available. I grabbed it and installed it in about 2 minutes. Then I had a nice interface for my Gmail on the phone that allows archiving messages, deleting, composing, replying, etc. - rather easy to use. It shows up in my “APPS” icon in the menu - i just click it open and I am looking at my gmail within about 9 seconds.
I went back home and opened PC SUITE and set up a USB cable connection to the computer and phone -and was online with Firefox 3 browser in about 5 minutes of configuration. Speeds were nice… bearable anyway. I can live with anything over 15kBps I’ve decided over almost 4 years in Thailand. That’s a couple hundred less than I thought I could live with in the USA.
I went to 7-11 and picked up a 300b DTAC card. Called 1678 and spoke to cust. service about plans for GPRS minutes (Internet minutes). There was a 15 hour/month plan for 107b. I took it. It’s pay as you use - and it auto renews at end of month I believe. I’m usually surprised at the end of the month with the auto- fee. This woman didn’t say it was monthy auto-renew but I assume it is.
The phone has video (176×150 or something microscopic), it has a 1.2MP camera which does OK - won’t win any awards. 8x zoom which did ok. The coolest thing for me was the voice recorder that records for up to an hour - which I missed on the Moto L7. I like to record podcasts for some of my other sites - and this will work well. Nokias PC SUITE does a good job of converting videos into different formats- Nokia’s proprietary one - or M4a - which QT (Quicktime) opens.
There’s a memory slot for up to 2GB extra mem. The phone has FLASH and RAM memory totaling around 72MB if I remember correctly - I don’t think I do… should be in specs below.
Anyway - a basic phone that does everything you’ll probably need. Oh - it has Bluetooth, Infrared, and a standard mini-USB connector. FM radio… uhm, some other stuff. Overall I like it a lot - you won’t go wrong if you get one for basic Thailand living if you can live with a Tri-band phone. It was clear enough for me over the last couple days.
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Nokia 3110 Specifications & Features
ScreenTFT 262k Colour Screen (128 x 160 Pixels)Imaging1.3 Megapixel Camera8 x Digital ZoomVideo RecorderVideo PlayerVideo Streaming (3GPP)ScreensaversWallpapersThemed DisplayMessagingSMS (Text Messaging)MMS (Multimedia Messaging)MMS Audio MessagingEmailSoundMedia Player (MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, enhanced AAC+. H263, H264 & WMA)FM RadioMP3 & MIDI RingtonesEntertainmentEmbedded Java™ GamesDownloadable Java™ Games
OrganiserPhone BookAlarm ClockClockOrganiser with CalendarTo Do ListNotesCalculatorCount Down TimerPush to TalkVoice DialingVoice CommandsVoice RecordingHandsfree SpeakerConnectivityBluetooth®Infra RedUSBGPRSEDGENetworkTri Band (GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900)InternetXHTMLMemory & Talk Time32 Mbytes Flash Memory & 16 Mbytes RAM plus MicroSD™ Memory Card Option4 Hours Talk Time370 Hours StandbyWeight & Size87 g108.5 x 45.7 x 15.6 mm
YouTube: We’re sorry, this video no longer available.
June 9, 2008 by admin · 3 Comments
Anyone else getting this in Thailand when you attempt to view YouTube Videos? Are they blocking again? I’ve had this since yesterday - two different browsers… no, wait - three. Firefox 2, Firefox 3, IE 6.
Update - an excellent comment by “WiseKwai” gives a solution to seeing the YouTube videos! He said, just add “&fmt=18 ” to the end of the url of the YouTube video. Apparently it then grabs the full resolution version of the movie clip that was uploaded. Otherwise YouTube disburses rendered clips. Great comment- thanks for the help… I’m now viewing the video I wanted to see for 3 days.
Thais’ Beat Couple of Grandpas Unconscious after Traffic Accident
In Pattaya of course…
Welcome to Thailand - here’s a beatin.
http://www.pattayaone.net/news_03_06_51_2.html
Story there.
Is it bad enough yet?
