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The mystery continues...

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Okay so what's the deal with this thing that supposedly is flying around the skies in Denver so fast that you can’t see it with the naked eye but you can see it on a video tape that has been slowed down to a frame-by-frame speed? An aviation expert says it's not a plane or a helicopter. A bug expert says its not an insect. Some think it is a government or military drone but do we really have that kind of technology? And why would this UFO appear regularly at the same time each day, landing in a residential neighborhood? This is a true mystery that has gathered the attention of the world...

Denver TV station KDVR did a story on it not long back and the news staff found out what all newsies learn eventually and that is that you can report all manner of serious, somber important stories with the best elbow grease journalistic flourishes available, and not blow the doors off in terns of viewer interest like one simple UFO story.

Fair disclosure: almost every news operation including this one publishes one of these eye candy pieces every so often because quite frankly it juices our readership numbers like crazy.

We could break a new Watergate quality political scandal after six months of grueling work, sweat, tears and hours and hours of reporters getting paid time and a half and paying for outside research help... and not get the numbers jumps we get from one of these UFO from outer space pieces.

People come out of the woodwork to read this stuff. Don't ask us why as we have not a clue but it happens all the time, every time and we just have to thank the big guy above for small favors now and then.

Call us shallow if you will but we're just like Sixty Minutes and the ABC Evening News -- ain't above juicing the old numbers now and then. Squeeze-squeeze, Juice-juice. That’s us.

So the update on the Denver UFO piece is that the reporter who did the first story has been inundated by people calling and emailing them from all around the world telling them they have the mystery figured out.

One guy says the object is an insect. Another says secret military drone being tested by the government. Everybody has an answer for what it is. But are any of them correct?

The KDVR story appears to say the jury is still on out on what the thing is. Check the video update bellow.

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Flying objects over Denver: UFOs or bugs? (Update) 29 Nov, 2012

In early November, an anonymous man gave KDVR Fox 31 in Denver, Colorado a video showing what he claimed were UFOs over the city. He claimed these objects appear "a couple of times a week," but the objects fly "too fast to see with the naked eye."

A photojournalist from the station went to the same location as the anonymous man, set up his camera, and managed to capture footage of a UFO for himself. The station then showed this video to aviation expert Steve Cowell who responded, "That is not an airplane, that is not a helicopter, those are not birds, I can't identify it." He also concluded that "the objects are not insects."

ABOVE:Insect expert Mary Ann Hamilton. (Credit: KDVR)

KDVR Fox 31 continued investigating the mysterious object by asking local entomologist Mary Ann Hamilton to analyze the video. Hamilton watched the video and commented, "This is a toughie. I've never seen anything like this." According to KDVR Fox 31, she concluded, "I do not believe it's an insect. The shape is inconsistent with an insect." But Hamilton was apparently basing her opinion on limited, and potentially inaccurate, information.

Astronomer Phil Plait with Slate Magazine contacted Hamilton to ask her about her "not insects" conclusion. She told Plait that she was only shown a few clips of the objects and was told that the objects were far away from the camera. She explained, "I did the best I could with what was shown to me."

Plait, like many others, is astonished that these UFOs over Denver have received so much media attention. He is confident the objects in question are no longer UFOs, but simply insects (Maureen Elsberry and I discussed the likelihood of bugs as a possible identification for these UFOs on the November 16 episode of Spacing Out! – http://youtu.be/VJxyLJ8ypt8?t=6m45s). He recently stated, "And yes, I know: UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, and since no one could identify them, these are by definition UFOs. Except they aren't. They're insects."

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Above: Google-earth view of the alleged landing zone in Denver suburb.

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Reader's Comments:

Why try to explain what it is not. I think it is an actual UFO. This is definitely a real entity and seems to fly faster than the eye can see it. It looks like an inanimate object that seems to have the capability of controlled movement. It seems that several people who have captured it on footage and film are not known by each other and have no connections to any type of influence or making any profit from it. I would call it like it is a cow is a cow a car is a car this is a UFO. I am not surprised as there may be many more of these things that we do not see maybe in front of our own homes above our heads. I would like to have some people remember the space walks and flights around Earth where astronauts have recorded very fast movement of object that seemed to have controlled flight as well. This would match this type of flight in some way.

RB