Hi, I'm Dave :^)
I've learned that Art is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration! I started CGA as a hobby early 2004. This site is huge, so if you have seen any of my material, then thank you for taking the time.
BIO:I'm a widowed Electronics and Software design Engineer living in Southern California, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
My late wife Robin.. passed in 2003 after 31 wonderfully married years, the last 7 of which Robin was in poor health. I miss my Babe so much...
I'm working with Poser5, Bryce5.5, Wings3D, PSP-10 and CorelPaint8.My mother (Elnor) is also on this site as Silkylady. If you get a chance, please drop by her gallery and see her work.
Finally, remember these words of wisdom:
1) Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff.2) If your only tool is a hammer then all your problems will look like nails.3) It's amazing what can be accomplished when one doesn't know what one can't do.4) Very few know how much one must know in order to know how little one really knows.5) Give a man fire and you heat him for awhile. Set a man on fire and he is heated for life.6) Complexity is a set of things that we figured how to do right, one built on top of the other, until failure is achieved.7) Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.8) Marriage is a place where you can be wrong in ways you never thought possible.9) If a man speaks his mind in a forest and no woman hears him.. is he still wrong?10) If at first you don't succeed, then cover up all previous attempts that failed.
Please enjoy your visit! Dave :^)(AKA: 'davidoblad','DLO')
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Comments (23)
davidoblad
Note: The image above is from my own close encounter about 30 years ago. This was no darting light out of the corner of my eye. This was observed by me, my late wife and some teens that were with us. It lasted about an hour. The UFO was close enough to hit with an arrow from a bow. It was really huge, made no noise and was taking it's time. This render is the best I can do to simulate a photo of what we saw. I filed a UFO report with NUFORC. This type ship is the most common one most folks see. It very well could be a stealth triangle shaped blimp. It did nothing spectacular, like shooting off at Mach 5. But many have seen just that. Who knows? But I do believe the hundreds of folks that have been working with the aliens need to be listened to. To quote a popular TV show.. "The truth is out there!" Also, another quote.. "The absence of evidence is not because evidence is absent." Best to all from Dave :^)
hotracer2
Who would really believe we are all that exist in this vast universe?
Burpee
That's an amazing story Dave. I do believe that UFOs exist but not too sure I can believe the information in the 3rd paragraph where we have shot down UFOs and they wonder why we are so far behind telepathically. I don't doubt for a moment that the government/governments have wreckage from crashed UFOs. Witnesses from the Roswell said they handled strange metals with strange designs on them and the army confiscated the pieces. These people were just ordinary folk with nothing to gain by lying and did not claim anything fantastic. They just described what they saw and what happened. What they held in their hands is awesome. I would love to hold a piece too...to see it once.
magnus073
Well Dave just like Nancy I do believe in UFO's and know the gov. hides almost everything from us thinking it is in our best interest. This render of what you saw that night is incredible and you did a first class job on it and I totally believe you and your right I think you could have hit it with a arrow from a bow. I'll check out the links also, thanks for sharing Dave
buzz-69
i have seen a strange object in the sky that i could not explain about 30 years ago so i believe that it would be selfish of us to think that we are the only beings in this widely expansive universe but one question i must ask you Dave is why is it that ufo's always want to go to America?? maybe the climate eh? ;o) i really love this image and the story and i am looking towards the skies right now ;D good on ya buddy! all the best Martin ;)
Minda
well i agree with u and my bf dave (magnus073) i do believe in UFO and u did a great job on this..like the image and your story ..thanks for sharing....
Silkylady
This is interesting and unique Dave. Wonderfully written. This is a real keeper. The lighting is perfect. Really farout image. I remember seeing one and not knowing too much about them, when I was carrying you, in 1950. The year your Dad and I was married. Was a bit scary. It darted, hovered, darted, hovered, many times. Very unusual because planes and helicopters can't do that. Huggs... Silkylady...
Blush
Very interesting... I believe their are UFO's and the gov hides the truth from us... They can't be trusted... We are just humans relating what we see that isn't ordinary & unusual... Excellent capture sweetie.... I had an encounter but never got to photograph it.... Hugs Susan~
myquad Online Now!
How can we possibly be alone in this huge galaxy? A great render and facinating story. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, Dave! Live long and prosper! lol Hugs, Holly
DennisReed
I like this under Science as apose to SciFi! ;) Bravo Dave! I'm with any species that wishes not for war, and is for environmental health. I don't believe the government hides information from us thinking it is for our best interest; More like for their best interest. ;)
coolcatcom
Gee Dave I've been listening to an alien for years now he's known as George Bush I'm sure you've heard of him. He started a war to prevent us from using the oil they have in the Middle East because he knows it's bad for us all. Thing is we just don't want to listen to him. I've been seeing all kinds of UFO objects myself in the last couple of years. Matter of fact I can pin point the time period and the events when this all started for me. Tripple by-pass and recuring heart attack. It's the aftermath you see. ( I take 14 pills per day) ! Talk about seeing UFO'S. (BLOODY OUTSTANDING MAN). OH, one more thing about the war thing. We need wars, it's a good way to keep the population explosion in check. Now don't you go ahead and believe that that alien "Bush" will come forth and divulge this to the popluation he's not dumb. He kmows to well that we are all just too stupid to understand a simple concept like this.So it's kept under wraps deep in the bowels ofthe Pentagon. (So I'm told by another UFO I met last night at a party). Scarry stuff isn't it. .......................Far out Buddy ! George.
TheBryster
Exellent stuff. I've actually seen one of these and it was being chased by two RAF Tornados at very high speed. As it passed overhead, my son saw it invert and keep on going! (I was driving a car att.) Interestingly, the 3 lights underneath the ship I saw were all red.
llorna
Very mysterious and interesting. Sure would be great to know what's in those secret documents. Maybe we already do!
csneller
Very interesting!! Great back story for the artwork!!
highcrow
Very cool work Dave and I concur with your observation and the cover-ups that have been occurring for decades.I have had some very telling close encounters and I know its a fact... Excellent scene and thought provoking work..I will check on the links and thanks for the info..Peace buddy!
shahlaa
This is excellent Dave...I enjoyed this very much....I encountered a similar experience while taking a night walk by the lake with my sister in Kentucky...it was enough to make us both stop dead in our tracks and just watch it....I don't know why the government chooses to keep such things from us and when we do report it, we're hallucinating....must be a lot of us crazies in this world then...too many of us have seen them....very well done Dave!
evielouise
well personally I know a few aliens myself of course, they live amoung us and some of you know them also by name that is george as coolcat///and dave lol:: dave I love it it's cool!!!!!! hugss !!
DukeNukem2005
It is the very beautiful and very good image!
JaneEden
Wow spooky, enjoyable and very interesting!! Great work!! hugs Jane xx
voske
we are not alone!! dark and mysterious scene!!!!
e-brink
Excellent commentary!
VDH
Excellent work!
dashboard_jehovah
Believable story and presentation! Had a sighting about 30 years ago myself...near Grissom Airbase in Indiana. "thought" I glimpsed something reflecting light in the sky...pulled over the car and got out to see what I was seeing. Event lasted about 15 minutes...object was stationary above a cloud, slowly changed shape from angular to sperical...or it was slowly turning in place, and I was observing it's different sides?. Not sure what it was...but have always wanted to see something like it again someday.