My Favorite Bug?

What does this look like to you?

What you see here is a still photo from a video shot by a local news outfit (Denver CO's local Fox affiliate), responding to a report of 'something' flying over Denver during the noon hour or so, for the past several weeks or so.

The Fox people thought they were responding to a hoax, until they filmed...whatever it is.

I certainly don't know what it is.  And I can't say, with absolute certainty, all of what it ain't.  More on that to come.  But I get a kick out of a couple of notions put forth by "experts" referenced for a Yahoo News article on it.

One -- a reputed UFO expert -- is quoted as having written on his blog, "The 'UFOs' appear at least several times a week [for months], we are told, usually around noon to 1 PM. Most flying insects become more active during the warmest part of the day."

Another tends to echo that observation:  "There are many obvious holes in the spacecraft explanation, not the least of which is that it's amazing that no one in Denver apparently noticed the extraterrestrial spacecraft launching and landing in the skies over the downtown area in the middle of the day. The most likely explanation? A bug or insect, probably a fly or bee."

Did I really want to go on MY blog and challenge the opinions of professed 'experts' on what it is in the picture?  Not really...but my pet rock, Seymour, used a magnifying glass he claims he used to warm himself with during the winter months when he lived outside (before I adopted him), and said that what he sees when he magnifies the photo above is this:

So that's three votes for it being a 'bug'.  Two by reputed 'experts', and one by a pet rock with dubious eye sight or a warped magnifying glass.

"Do and is NOT!!!"

Now, I don't claim to be an entomologist or to play one on Orkin commercials, but as I look at the top picture, and then the one Seymour dug up, I do NOT see a definitive resemblance.  Still, to dismiss the opinions of reputed experts and a pet rock without something substantive to offer by way of rebuttal is, well....accepted practice in the lamestream media.

I mean, we do have evidence of rather large insects that exist in nature.  Why else would certain states have posted such warning signs:

Then again -- and it is here that the reputed experts are a bit seasonally-challenged -- it's November in Denver.  And today, it was in the 50s around noon.  At whatever altitude the 'thing' was at (knock off an average of 3 degrees for every thousand feet of altitude), you'd think we see the 'bug' wearing a coat or something. 
At the very least, antennae muffs.

No, the more I ponder the top photo, the less impressed I am with the opinions of two reputed 'experts'.  I never was impressed with Seymour's.

"PHFFFFFFT!!!"

So if it isn't a 'bug', and it isn't perhaps an alien UFO, then what in the Sam Hill herniated horsefeathers is it?

I have several theories, none of which are borne out by substantive evidence, a lack of which never stops the lamestream media from speculating, so they can avoid doing serious journalism:

-  something being tested by the govmint out of Buckley (where lots of secret stuff doesn't go on, 'cuz if they admitted it did, it sorta kinda wouldn't be secret).
-  someone playing with an RC toy and having a great time with all the speculation they're creating.
-  a military test drone.
-  a weather balloon.
-  a weather balloon disguised as a UFO.
-  a weather balloon disguised as a flying penguin.
-  Nancy Pelosi on her broom.
-  the national debt...no, ain't high enough.
-  Hollyweird doing pre-filiming for Indiana Jones V-- The Quest For The Next Sequel.
-  Cheech 'n Chong, getting ready for legalized recreational pot in Colorado and their own sequel, Up In Smoke II -- The Mile Higher.

Or maybe it's an space alien shuttle service, sending all those illegal nobama voters back to the planet Numbskullion, now that the 'election' is over.

Whatever it is, it ain't bothering me.  And if it starts to, I'll just inflict Seymour upon it.  He has gas.

"Do NOT!!!  PHFFFFFFT!!!!"