Religious Skywriting over Epcot
13Apr2007 Filed under: Disney Author: RickyI took this photo this morning:
http://flickr.com/photos/insidethemagic/457850762/
The whole bit of skywriting wouldn’t fit in my camera’s frame. To the left of Jesus was a giant smiley face (probably as large as Spaceship Earth, if not larger). It then read “Jesus Loves You” next to the face.
The skywriting stopped everyone in their tracks throughout Epcot, as everyone pulled out their cameras to snap a photo of a rare religious sight in a Disney park.
Edit: Looks like this may not be “rare” afterall. Evidently various religious messages are written in the skies over Walt Disney World and the surrounding areas on a semi-regular basis. I guess I haven’t been watching the skies enough.
Edit #2:Â It appears that the skywriter also has a web site, www.turntojesus.net. (as noted on Boing Boing)
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Santosh
April 13th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I took one like that on March 11th while on my way to Downtown Disney.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/desiamerican/418890172/
Bob
April 13th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Since the airspace over the Disney World resort is restricted airspace, I wonder if we’ll be hearing more about this in the news. If not, perhaps we SHOULD be.
Sully
April 13th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Rare?
You mean like those readings from the Bible and religious choirs they run every night for a month at Epcot?
Ricky
April 13th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Rare for this time of year! ;)
H.C.
April 13th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I saw the same thing, written by 1 plane, when I was at Disney’s Animal Kingdom last October. Not so rare apparently.
An of course, Disney has “Mormon Days” and I have seen many Catholic School Kid’s Days…..etc.
Of course, I was an annual pass holder, so I guess I was there more than average.
samantha
April 13th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
ah, i was there also around march 14th and saw the same thing.
that guy is wasting way too much gas if he’s doing this so often. boo.
antinous
April 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Can I pay somebody to write “Satan wants to sodomize you”? Please.
Sully
April 13th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Nah, “Satan wants to sodomize you” is probably something this guy would agree with.
Better: “Sacrifice your babies to Cthulu and they shall be eaten first!”
Matt
April 13th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I’ve seen the religious writing above Disney World quite often in the last few months. Most days it’s so windy that by the time he gets to the last word or letter, the first part has blown away.
RavenG4
April 13th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Matt, same here. I’ve seen the Jesus Loves You about 5 times the past couple of trips going to Disney World. And yes, it does get blown away, haha.
I rather they keep these out of the park skys, but whatever makes them happy I suppose…
Jose
April 13th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Saw the same thing over Expedition Everest last December :)
Laura
April 13th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
As someone who is at Disney daily and lives in Orlando, I can tell you that these messages are not actually written over Disney property. Thus, Disney has no control over what is written or how often. I would imagine that these groups think that they are reaching and “inspiring” the most people by putting it in a place that in sight of a tourist area which is so widely visited every day. I found it annoying at first, now I just laugh.
Manny
April 13th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Laura is right. I live in Orlando (5 minutes from Disney property). This guy is not flying directly over Disney. In fact, you can see the sky writings all over Orlando. It’s a normal thing. He’s mostly out on weekends. And obviously on clear days.
In fact it happens so often we don’t even look up anymore. It has become normal.
kurt
April 13th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Hey, we have been Boing Boing’d. Better have bandwidth.
Ricky
April 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
I submitted it to BoingBoing after I posted it here in hopes of it giving us a good bandwidth test for the new web host. It seems to be holding up well.
Ryan
April 13th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
We see him above animal kingdom pretty often, whenever it’s nice out he’s usually up there writing in the sky.
You can probably hit Animal Kingdom, Epcot and Blizzard Beach all at once depending on from how far away you can see sky-writing, since you can see the odd firework from IllumiNations from the Animal Kingdom.
hugh
April 13th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
yeah i work at epcot it happens ALL the time usually daily on busy days if not a few times in a day. does not truly bother be and never had any one complain to me about it so i guess more power to him
j
April 13th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Technically he’s not over WDW. He actually flies around the area just above Celebration Ave & 192. He’s high enough up that it’s visible from most of WDW.
deekayen
April 13th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
That guy does religious sky writing fairly frequently and Jesus isn’t the only thing he writes. On occasion, he does more than one word.
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jal
April 15th, 2007 at 9:58 am
faa should be notified……
Danny B
April 15th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
It would be really fun to hire a plane, and run through his messages as he creates them.
do they make white out that large? ;)
Kurt Nelson
April 16th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Why are people attacking this guy for spreading a good message? Jesus does love you whether you acknowledge it or not, and there is not a single reason why you should be against his message, its not hurting you. NOTE: I do NOT condone sitting on street corners telling everyone they are going to hell, but I do condone a policy of passive evangelism.
Julia
April 16th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
> Why are people attacking this guy for spreading a good message?
That’s assuming it is a good message….which I don’t agree with. Just as I wouldn’t want to see an ad for any other commercial venture, I don’t want to see someone trying to advertise their religion when I’m on vacation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to folks who love their religion and want to do their own fantasy in the sky, but I like to choose which fantasies in the sky I’m looking at. ;)
The Orlando metro area has two Christian-based theme park attractions that I know of…why doesn’t he go to show his support for those of his kind instead of pestering those of us who have no desire to be part of his religion? Then again, we spent nearly a half hour snarking the guy while waiting in line last winter, so maybe it is cheap entertainment.
I’ll make a deal with him…I won’t try and evangelize him about my religion, and he doesn’t evangelize me about his. Sounds fair, I think…
ghost1000
February 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Here’s some information about this from the Orlando Sentinel Theme Park Rangers blog:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_orlando/2007/04/the_message_fro.html
kate
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:11 am
i am ashamed to say the message that was meant to inspire just scared my family! we figured since no one was suppose to fly over disney it must be a sarcastic terrorist, we left the park pretty bummed, i am a proud Christian but i would never “advertize” my spirituality that way, i thought it was creepy.
Sheri
January 4th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
My family saw this during Christmas this year. While we were watching this,my mom motioned to two women walking by. One apathetically said “Yea, I’ve seen that before”. A few minutes later, my 5-year old said how it was not very nice that those ladies did not even care about God. How inspiring it was to know that my child did care, but such a reality check that such a young child would already become aware of an unconcerned world towards God. Thank you, Skywriter, that you stand boldy for our Lord.
MM
January 13th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I can’t believe the tone of the comments on this post. This guy is doing something that is perfectly legal and just sending a message of hope. The thought of “advertising” spirituality and getting a plane to white it out is ridiculous.
Even complaints about how much gas he’s spending. If you’re not paying the bill, it shouldn’t be a concern!
The airspace over Disney is restricted, but he is not in that airspace. Regardless of your religious belief or lack there of, this guy is doing what makes him happy and he’s not hurting anyone or anything doing it.
PE
January 14th, 2009 at 12:12 am
I cannot believe most of the comments that I read here. People call this annoying and take the time to actually write about it? If you feel that looking “up” to read what he writes is annoying, then don’t look “up”. You obviously don’t spend much time looking “up” anyway. I was personally inspired by the acts of this pilot and I thank him for his time and energy. I am annnoyed at drug abuse. I am annoyed at child abuse. I am annoyed at truancy and the stock market and the state of the economy. I am annoyed at CEO’s who spend millions on vacations and then ask for bail-outs. I am annoyed at liars and thieves and animal abuse. I am annoyed at the housing market and the number of people that MY taxes support. I am not annoyed by a pilot who writes inspiring messages in the sky. I would not be annoyed if he was writing Donny Osmond lyrics or Eagles lyrics in the sky. I WAS blessed by the message and to the people who are complaining, why don’t you do something productive. It’s a good thing our God is full of mercy and grace.
Ricky
January 14th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Why has this 1.5 year old post suddenly received 3 comments in the last 10 days?
Kurt Nelson
January 14th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Probably suddenly went up in page rank or got linked to somewhere.
crystalspark
January 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I saw the sky send a blessing to God’s people today, giving hope in this time of all of our lives here on earth. When hope seems to be slipping away, behold… God Loves you :) We are at the eve of a change that this nation needs, and looking up can give you afformation that change is coming. Are you ready?