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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.153.24] on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 18:13:04 :
In Reply to: maybe they need a dodge posted by clueless [201.202.29.210] on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 09:22:43 :
The article has lots of grammar errors in it, and very little detail about the "mystery boxes" There's tons of blather about UFOs, some quote cribbed from the HMSC website, and little knowledge about Oregon Coast geography. "Bray's Point" is not a place anyone would recognize. It might be somewhere near Yachats, but I've spent a lot of time on the coast and have never heard of it. The name does not appear on the USGS maps. The fact that the writer uses it for a dateline tells me they don't know the area they're writing about. Stonefield beach is a real place, as is the HMSC in Newport, but I wouldn't say either is "nearby". Lastly, if anyone attempted to drag it off the beach with a motorized vehicle they did so illegally, because driving on the beach has been outlawed almost everywhere in Oregon, including that stretch.
A lot of junk washes up on the beaches. These days the high-water mark, that used to be mostly clam shells and bits of wood, is a colorful line of pulverized plastic. Larger stuff is common too, and much of it looks like boxes. If somebody really wanted to figure out what it was, they could sneak a truck with out onto the beach at 3 AM (Stonefield Beach is an easy drive-in access), drag the thing up onto a trailer (it floated in there so it has to weigh less than 63 lbs/ft^3, or 2300 lbs for the whole thing), take it home and go at it with whatever implements of destruction they have on hand. That would be a lot more satisfying to me than speculating about UFOs. They're likely shipping containers of some sort, washed overboard somewhere between here and China. It happens all the time. If they're welded up nice and tight, there might be something neat inside. If I lived nearby I'd have had my M543 down there and the thing would be opened up in my back yard by now.
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