"You are only given a little spark of madness......You mustn't lose it" - Robbin Williams.
Well, that must be the bravest explanation one should give it to oneself when you deplete all your defence tactics. In short, when you cannot give a satisfying explanation about a spontaneous or a much more slow-motion deliberate act, you may resort to this quote. And yes, I always have it, and i believe that makes me, my mannersisms, my acts and my words into a different branch of madness!
All these while, i used to believe in alien theory, UFOs, Rosewell incident, Area 51, Finger prints of Gods.....so on and so forth. I even had a wish to see it in real although i was sceptical to witness one in this lifetime. I was proved wrong; this 22nd November of 2016 I-WAS-PROVED-WRONG! The following is a short note on (what i prefer to call) The Closest Close-encounter of a 3rd kind (in my life)!
My ship was deployed for patrolling south of Andaman &n Nicobar islands. We follow a 4 hour watch roster at sea and it was my turn to do the 'Middle watch' i.e 0001 hrs to 0400 hrs. On that night my ship was crossing the 'ten degree channel' and as part of th duty i was checking my lookouts. The lookouts are those whose duty is to keep a lookout for other vessels, lights, objects.etc at sea. At around 0115 hrs my lookout reported about an 'aircraft' in elevation about 40 degrees heading to South-South-East. It was nothing serious about this aircraft, as the international flights operating those times use the Andaman & Nicobar corridor. I came out of bridge to the bridge wing to have a look at the aircraft. I saw a normal aircraft's strobing lights (Red & Green) , possibly of a 747 heading to Malaysia or Singapore (high probability of Visakhapatnam-Singapore aircraft). As me and my lookout was having a little chat, we saw another light appearing close to the south east bound aircraft, appeared as if around 2000 ft above us on an elevation of 45 degrees.
Usually, at nights one can spot satellites which will be constantly moving in their orbits, and may appear bigger also. But not this one; it was brighter than any aircraft lights, distinctly we saw 3 lights, like LED lights in a line. It took about 30 seconds to realize its not a fixed wing aircraft, not at all a helicopter as there were no rotor sound and since a chopper hovering at such height is highly unlikely....then what is it??? It could not be identified, and for me its an Unidentified Flying Object...a.k.a UFO ! Then in next 60 seconds it just zipped past in a southerly direction fastly and vanished. It was defenitely not a normal aircraft, it was different; th lights, the hovering ability, the absolute silence, and the enormous speed with which it vanished. Meanwhile i checked my Nav-Radar and couldn't find anything also there is a limitation since it is a navigational radar and not a air-radar.
Remember the opening statment on 'madness'?? i think it was the spark.....me my lookout, my sideboy and communicator...four of us froze...quickly grabbed the binoculars but it was fogged.I was excited, thrilled to bits....and couldn't sleep post watch! Shared the story to everyone and as usual everyone shunned me. Finally me and my three crew nearly ridiculed. But, that's what has been happening all around the world upon anyone who has seen it.
All these while i devoured it with a kind of curiosity about the unexplained things, me and my best friend @chackophilip used to spend hours and hours about discussing these phenomenons, excerpts from reports, books.etc. and there it was and i froze. For me, it was a part of my #bucketlist. I saw it...and i'm carrying it with me. Maybe i wont explain it to anyone as it can be easily shunned as another piece of my madness. The spark .......let it move with me.....may it remain in my memory till my last.
Well, that must be the bravest explanation one should give it to oneself when you deplete all your defence tactics. In short, when you cannot give a satisfying explanation about a spontaneous or a much more slow-motion deliberate act, you may resort to this quote. And yes, I always have it, and i believe that makes me, my mannersisms, my acts and my words into a different branch of madness!
All these while, i used to believe in alien theory, UFOs, Rosewell incident, Area 51, Finger prints of Gods.....so on and so forth. I even had a wish to see it in real although i was sceptical to witness one in this lifetime. I was proved wrong; this 22nd November of 2016 I-WAS-PROVED-WRONG! The following is a short note on (what i prefer to call) The Closest Close-encounter of a 3rd kind (in my life)!
My ship was deployed for patrolling south of Andaman &n Nicobar islands. We follow a 4 hour watch roster at sea and it was my turn to do the 'Middle watch' i.e 0001 hrs to 0400 hrs. On that night my ship was crossing the 'ten degree channel' and as part of th duty i was checking my lookouts. The lookouts are those whose duty is to keep a lookout for other vessels, lights, objects.etc at sea. At around 0115 hrs my lookout reported about an 'aircraft' in elevation about 40 degrees heading to South-South-East. It was nothing serious about this aircraft, as the international flights operating those times use the Andaman & Nicobar corridor. I came out of bridge to the bridge wing to have a look at the aircraft. I saw a normal aircraft's strobing lights (Red & Green) , possibly of a 747 heading to Malaysia or Singapore (high probability of Visakhapatnam-Singapore aircraft). As me and my lookout was having a little chat, we saw another light appearing close to the south east bound aircraft, appeared as if around 2000 ft above us on an elevation of 45 degrees.
Usually, at nights one can spot satellites which will be constantly moving in their orbits, and may appear bigger also. But not this one; it was brighter than any aircraft lights, distinctly we saw 3 lights, like LED lights in a line. It took about 30 seconds to realize its not a fixed wing aircraft, not at all a helicopter as there were no rotor sound and since a chopper hovering at such height is highly unlikely....then what is it??? It could not be identified, and for me its an Unidentified Flying Object...a.k.a UFO ! Then in next 60 seconds it just zipped past in a southerly direction fastly and vanished. It was defenitely not a normal aircraft, it was different; th lights, the hovering ability, the absolute silence, and the enormous speed with which it vanished. Meanwhile i checked my Nav-Radar and couldn't find anything also there is a limitation since it is a navigational radar and not a air-radar.
Remember the opening statment on 'madness'?? i think it was the spark.....me my lookout, my sideboy and communicator...four of us froze...quickly grabbed the binoculars but it was fogged.I was excited, thrilled to bits....and couldn't sleep post watch! Shared the story to everyone and as usual everyone shunned me. Finally me and my three crew nearly ridiculed. But, that's what has been happening all around the world upon anyone who has seen it.
All these while i devoured it with a kind of curiosity about the unexplained things, me and my best friend @chackophilip used to spend hours and hours about discussing these phenomenons, excerpts from reports, books.etc. and there it was and i froze. For me, it was a part of my #bucketlist. I saw it...and i'm carrying it with me. Maybe i wont explain it to anyone as it can be easily shunned as another piece of my madness. The spark .......let it move with me.....may it remain in my memory till my last.
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