It’s easy to understand why everyone from Texas LOVES Texas, especially with the weather and scenery here in El Paso the past two days. Black Team performed a night jump last night into the Amigo Air Show evening social event, then did two mass formations with the beautiful desert and mountains as a backdrop. Tomorrow’s weather promises to be as spectacular as today’s was…which makes our job AWESOME!!
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There are videos of you in youtube where people are thinking it was ufo’s..
Even you were on tv :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEtTl9cGrJc
Could you please respond back so we can say that the guys were you in the video?
Thanks..
Hello,
Yes, that was us! This is something that happens quite often when we do twilight or night jumps…people for miles around who don’t realize that there is a pyrotechnic jump going on think that there is a meteor or a UFO! The local law enforcement and news agencies get frequent phone calls from people who think that it’s anything from a UFO to a nuclear missile. It’s just the Golden Knights, doing what we do best and wowing the crowd, while demonstrating the precision and discipline that the Army has taught us. Thanks for your concern!
Blue Skies!
SGT Rachel Medley, Black Demonstration Team, Golden Knights
So SGT Medley, was that also you guys over Manhattan a couple days ago in broad daylight, in the same formation?
Looks like the UFO nuts are out in full force, desperate to convince themselves that lights in the sky haven’t been explained away already.
the NY sighting was wedding balloons that got away
I believe that was determined to be a bunch of helium balloons.
Photoshop.
Balloons. Look at the Manhattan video again. Mylar balloons. For real. Get a life, or religion, or drugs – something to fill the lonely void…
Where you also in Richmond, VA?
Msgt. Bob Medley, USAF, Retired
Nice try.
Rachel, let me know when you’re going to jump again at night and I’ll fly out from Utah to video tape it,…then maybe I’ll believe your lame story.
St. Medley, that was a pretty cool trick how you guys were able to suddenly stop motionless in mid-air during freefall.
Please answer this question… were you also in NY?
Yes, that’s nice, but are you going to take over earth and enslave the human race?
For one, aren’t you supposed to leave this kind of communication up to the military affairs officers in your command? Especially when it comes to any kind of announcement that is representing your unit and branch of service in corporate communications.
Two, Having been around many, many Army soldiers, you seem to have good written aptitude unlike 98% of your colleagues.
Sir,
First of all, thank you for the compliment. I enjoy writing very much, and try to do it often. I was an English major in college, and I feel like my college years are not in vain, as long as I write!
Secondly, it’s a very good point you bring up about matters of public communication being left up to the officers in our command. In a conventional unit, you are absolutely right on. In our unit, however, we have a much wider interface with the public, due to the nature of our job. If every matter regarding our interactions with the public was handled by our officers (we’ve only a few in the unit and they are very gainfully employed!) nobody would ever know what was going on because it would be so overwhelming. Each section has a person (for the Black Demonstration Team, it’s me) assigned to post updates, photos, and information about the whereabouts and activities of that section, in order to keep the public informed about where the public can see us perform, and if they so choose, where they can have to opportunity to meet us. Additionally, recruiting is a large part of our mission, so getting the word out about where we will be and what we are doing is extremely important. Some exceptions to this could include a serious incident in which a jumper was injured, or if an incident somehow compromised our national security. In those instances, we most definitely would defer any public statement to an official in our command.
Thanks for your interest, and please always feel free to ask questions any time!
Blue Skies!
Were You Guys In NY
The thing in NYC was balloons inside big clear bags. Already been on TV news.
As you are guy’s are desending, can you please describe how you keep your feet locked together as you are forming the one single light then how do you come to a complete stop. When you open you chute’s or glider’s, how do you come to a complete stand still in mid air forming a triangle. Once the chute is openned, you continue on a downward motion. Please explain!!!!
They are all together in formation holding hands coming down @~120mph (terminal velocity). At a distance you can only resolve one light with your eyes. Then they break, turn and max track (google it) away from each other before they dump. Then you see all 3 or 4 lites. They get several hundred yards separation and when the canopy opens they rapidly go from 120 down to about 10 mph. Looks like they stop. A couple seconds later the magnesium flares burn out.
Your’e stupit, vot efer Obama didja?
LOL physics are so complicated, eh?
So you guys also had a show in manhattan?
who were you performing for? You say crowd loves it, where was the crowd that knew you were jumping? Was there a known veiwing area? Why didnt local law enforcement know there was a jump at night in the area? Do tell.
Good question! Was it public knowledge?
Do it again this week to provide it was you.
This should end the debate… another of your night jumps nearly identical to the “UFO version” on youtube.
Actually I was almost convinced that the lights in El Paso were a BK jump until I watched this video that ‘proved’ it…the bit with the descending fire looks very similar but once the parachutes deploy the difference is very noticeable.
In the BK video the flares continue to spout fire and continue to descend, whereas in the El Paso ‘ufo’ video the lights contract to single points and hover. I’ll say the jury is still out because BK parachuters are inherently a more reasonable explanation than UFOs, but to me these two videos still don’t match up well enough for me to think the case is closed.
The difference of being very close or several miles away makes light appear in different manors. This should be evident to anyone with common sense. Does a car from very far away in the dark seem to have a single headlight or 2 distinct lights? Depends on the distance, doesn’t it? Think about it. Then again, maybe that’s a lost cause.
are you mentally challenged?? seriously that in no way resembles what happened in el paso or NY
Black Knights! Back in high school (79-81) – Colonial High School / Orlando, FL – We had the Knights do a jump and land on our football field. AWESOME!
yeah, well, how do you guys explain that you were not even in the area on the 15th of october and yet there was still a sighting with the same formation…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwTq1Ri-vJk
You are very stealth indeed. Have you been booked already for December 21, 2012?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZENpw632E
Here is the actual video of a night performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqvrv-8jIY
Yall should check out Stan Fulham’s site, he sounds crazy but he did predict these sitings. Oh ya black team are a bunch of lying a holes who are telling us they have superman powers. Wow what a bunch of pricks!
What a load of crap! This story is so far fetched that its insulting that its even been presented to the public. It cannot account for so many things. Just read the previous comments. “Night jumps” yeah right!
Your stunts over those Chinese airports were unbelievable! That Phoenix thing a few years ago was truly awesome. Funny how you can make yourselves appear to be 2 city blocks long, travel silently at 200 feet and zip away at such high speed. That trailing smoke always fools us into thinking your aliens. Thanks for the explanation. Oh, was that you guys on all of those Shuttle and moon missions following along in those crazy parachutes…you rogue party animals!
Everyone……..CHILL! Watch the youtube video of the “UFO” and then watch a youtube video of the GN’s doing a night jump, its obvious that its them. Stop demanding answers to your stupid questions, you’re embarrassing yourselves.
To the Goldel Knights, you guys and girls are amazing at what you do. Thanks for your service!
Can you provide your own video evidence of the jump you just did in El Paso? Show us what your night jump looks like from your own video footage? As you can tell, a lot of us are hesitant to believe it was really you guys performing a jump, considering the same looking formation was seen in Manhattan on the 13th.
Forgive them Golden Knights, for this topic of UFOs is like a religion to them, and they know not what they see and hear.
Sorry…not buying it. Night jumps are magnitudes more dangerous than a
daylight one. The ground comes up fast in the dark!!! Nobody saw your
lights floating all the way down…had to hurt. Practicing parachuting at night, my foot. Rangers and special ops guys do it because they have to.If you plan to lie for your Goverment, prove it. recreate the video we saw on the news. Fat chance of that!
Something is coming…don’t propagate the big lie because you are not in
Control of the phenomenon
That’s what I say. When you are ready to do another jump just like the last one at night, please inform the media so they can capture all this on film…..And if you don’t, well, then I’m going to say it wasn’t you guy’s after all. So please put this to rest….1 light turning into 3 lights with sparks then the 3 come to a complete hover motion with no sparks to form a triangle..then hover…thanks guys
BTW, Rachel is awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcgYURc6lu0
Could you explain how exactly it was that you stopped completely in midair and then proceeded to spin horizontally around a radial that is probably about 3 miles in diameter. That’s the first time I’ve seen a parachute do that.
Where’s my shovel? I’m knee-deep in something. Maybe it’s the Stupid pills you guys are pouring on me.
We. Are. Not. Alone.
And that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Oh, Jeff, so desperate! Do you really think they’re not making these jumps? Hahaha!
Jeffrey, in the UFO vid, it looks like they hover, but in fact, they were moving forward rather than down, making it look like they were hovering.
And please explain how you’re able to maintain a stationary formation?
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