This past March, I was traveling home from Mexico City onboard a passenger jet when we heard a woman in front of us looking out the window screaming, "Oh my God! What's that?" Everyone looked out and saw this object zipping wildly around our plane. It was like nothing I'd seen before. It was on one side of the plane then the other, practically flying circles around us. Several passengers were yelling, announcng its moves while others were panicing and crying. It must have wanted to be seen as it maneuvered around us for maybe a minute when I realized I had a camera in my backpack. I took it out as fast as I could and started snapping pictures. It was almost too late but I managed to capture these shots of it climbing really fast, up and out of sight. For the rest of the flight, everyone was glued to the windows. The captain spoke over the intercom and said he didn't know what it was. He instructed everyone to return to their seats and buckle up. The flight attendants found it difficult to convince a few people to sit down. It was a very strange experience. After we landed, the pilots were nowhere to be seen, which is unusual. Also, I thought I might hear about it on the news later and watched, but either it wasn't reported or I missed the story. With so many witnesses, I'd be surprised if someone somwhere didn't hear about it.

So what really happened?

Looks pretty cool, eh? Real? Fake?

Truth is, as I was on that plane, reading one of my favorite in-flight magazines, I looked out the window (I always choose a window seat) and an idea came to me. It was an idea simply too good to resist. The poor girl sitting next to me had no clue what she was in for. We shared the obligatory hello and some fun small-talk as the flight began, but otherwise retreated to our own worlds as she watched the in-flight movie and I read my magazine.

When snacks and sodas came by, I selected the pretzels. Having my tray-table down, I opened the pretzel package, and rather than eat them, I proceeded to crumble one of them into pieces upon my tray. Not saying anything to the girl at this point; I just kinda stayed in my own world, crumbling, sculpting, and sorting the crumbs of a pretzel. I'm sure she was watching out of the corner of her eye but she also said nothing, trying to focus instead on the movie. I continued crumbling several more pretzels, trying to achieve a sliver that would make the perfect UFO. I arranged a row of likely candidates in varying sizes along with an ever-growing pile of unusable crumbles.

I selected the best sliver. About half an inch long, it was thin and cigar shaped with rounded ends. I picked it up and then began licking it, trying to moisten the flat side of it, hoping my saliva would act as a sort of glue. After an adequate moistening, I then reached over and pressed it against the window. It didn't stick. Again I licked it until the piece was soaked. Again I pressed it against the window and this time it stuck. I slid it around and adjusted it until the alignment and position was just right. I scraped the remaining pieces and crumbles from the tray into my hand, and popped them into my mouth, chasing them down with a swig of Pepsi. The lady kept her eyes straight ahead on her movie and we said nothing.

I reached down and removed my camera from my backpack under the seat. I aimed it at the window and began snapping shots. What proved to be really cool was that the windows are all double-pane. The crumb is stuck onto the inner pane, while the outer pane provides the visually apparent window framing. As I shifted the camera position, parallax-shift made it appear that the object moved in relation to the outer window-pane and thus appeared to be actually moving.

After a few practice runs, I captured this really cool sequence of four images. It would probably also work for video, which I plan to attempt on my next flight. I then removed that sliver from the window, and ate it. The lady sitting next to me never asked or said a word about it, and I certainly didn't bring it up.

At the end of the flight, we said our appropriate goodbyes, and never saw one another again. Whatever she thought about it, I'm sure she ended up with quite a colorful and interesting story.

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why so far and small
written by Manik on October 12, 2006

why is picture of the UFO so small and far away i mean why not for once someone gets a clear and upclose picture once and for all.

Re: why so far and small
written by Xtester on October 12, 2006

Because pretzels are small, and their crumbs are smaller.

?
written by shenae on November 18, 2006

SO BASICALLY YOU MADE THIS WHOLE THING UP ABOUT A PRETZEL TO SCARE A GIRL. THAT SOUNDS PRETTY EXCITING.

Re: ?
written by xtester on November 18, 2006

Read it again. Nobody was scared by anything. Are YOU scared?

to Mr.Xtester
written by Nebelung on April 12, 2007

welll i have to say that really gay ....you are no X-tester you are a bunch of nerds pulling hoax on people your not proving anythin .....but the fact that you are a bunch of hoaxters....look if you want to prove that there is no paranormal don go out there making hoaxs ....go to the places were the sightings are reported several times and document what you see ....be serious about...look there are one-too many hoax vids already , and trying to prove that paranormal is fact by saying " how easy is to make a apranormal vid" doesnt work, youre simple making a fool of yourself and besides its the lile old story of the Peter and the wolf.....he cried out several times "Wolf!", fooling the people but when he really saw the wolf and cried out to warn the people nobody believed him ....i hope that you understand the point of this history , hope you correct your path otherwhise nice hoaxes.

Good Job
written by Charlie Fripp on June 6, 2007

I looked at the pictures before reading the text, and I guess that it is my photography instincts, but I noticed the object was out of focus in relation to the window pane and the background clouds. That was my cue that something man-made was in play. Good job at re-creating an UFO. If it was in of focus, you would have had me fooled.

not nice
written by Jan on June 13, 2007

that was not nice to say he is gay.

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written by George on August 7, 2007

I really think we are not along they have to be some one or some thing out there looking at us.. seen us doing damages to our self and the word they might be waiting for the right time to come out and expose them self.. The goverment are really covering everything they know and i think is time for some one to tell the word that we are not along and that.We are not the only Planet with life in it I have a gut filling that they might be something out there far far far from us. That are enjoying life like we are but sooner or later the bomb of true will come out and we have to be ready for whatever it happend.. we need to know how to defend our self from what ever is coming to our Planet.. I;m 100% we are not along ....

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