SkydiveJack 1 #1 January 8, 2011 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-no-its-parachute-jumpers-lighting-up-the-nighttime-sky-at-lake-elsinore.html It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's parachute jumpers lighting up the nighttime sky at Lake Elsinore January 7, 2011 | 9:27 am Skydivers taking a nighttime jump over Lake Elsinore prompted nearby residents to call authorities about fireballs falling from the sky, authorities said Friday. Emergency dispatchers were “inundated with calls” Thursday night, reporting something in the sky around the lake area, said Cheri Patterson, spokeswoman with the Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department. “There were varying reports of what people thought they were seeing and an increased number of 911 calls,” she said. It turned out to be skydivers making their jumps while holding flares, said Melissa Nieburger, a spokeswoman with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff's deputies heard the skydivers were members of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, more commonly known as the Golden Knights, she said. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #2 January 8, 2011 It must be an Elsinore thing (see attached pic).... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GreenLight 8 #3 January 8, 2011 QuoteIt must be an Elsinore thing (see attached pic). In the last 10 years the Elsinore wuffo population has grown tremendously and let's be real here. They are not the most intelligent looking population to come together on the planet. I started jumping there in 1981. Did my first night jumps there when there were hardly any lights to see around the lake. Now it looks like a huge jewelry box with a big black hole in the middle. People will see what they wish to see and nothing an intelligent, well informed person can say will change it.Green Light "Harry, why did you land all the way out there? Nobody else landed out there." "Your statement answered your question." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scrumpot 1 #4 January 8, 2011 Pffffffffft.... Dude.... Give me another hit off that bong, and oh yeah, dude, dude.... Look.... check THIS out! coitus non circum - Moab Stone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DSE 5 #5 January 8, 2011 The interesting thing is that one of the reported UFO sightings actually went to the media, police, fire from residents. The other one...media, police, fire never heard about. There have been other instances in other cities where skydivers at night have been mistaken for UFO's. This isn't the first, won't be the last. People in Chicago, Deland, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Houston...they all must be as unintelligent as the rest of us here in Elsinore. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #6 January 9, 2011 Quote. There have been other instances in other cities where skydivers at night have been mistaken for UFO's. The 68-way wingsuit "UFO"at Elsinore was in broad daylight.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bofh 0 #7 January 9, 2011 Well, are they not UFOs until they have been identified? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #8 January 9, 2011 Quote http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-no-its-parachute-jumpers-lighting-up-the-nighttime-sky-at-lake-elsinore.html It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's parachute jumpers lighting up the nighttime sky at Lake Elsinore January 7, 2011 | 9:27 am Skydivers taking a nighttime jump over Lake Elsinore prompted nearby residents to call authorities about fireballs falling from the sky, authorities said Friday. Emergency dispatchers were “inundated with calls” Thursday night, reporting something in the sky around the lake area, said Cheri Patterson, spokeswoman with the Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department. “There were varying reports of what people thought they were seeing and an increased number of 911 calls,” she said. It turned out to be skydivers making their jumps while holding flares, said Melissa Nieburger, a spokeswoman with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff's deputies heard the skydivers were members of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, more commonly known as the Golden Knights, she said. 20 some years ago we were doing R&D on the pyro demo act down at Z-hills...basically high CReW with 20,000 candle power flares. Got quite a few locals on the phone THAT nite..."first they were in a diamond formation, then they went in a line...then they stacked on top of each other and Whoosh they were GONE! -um, the flares went out. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jbrasher 1 #9 January 10, 2011 20 years ago I did a night demo into Elsinore High School for a homecoming game and used magnesium pyro. When I was back at the airport packing the police showed up saying they had reports of a plane that went down on flames. Go figure :-) Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
