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A humbling experience...seeing a UFO

PleasantValley

PleasantValley

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OK, I don't need any meds, had not been drinking...yet, and I was with my hiking group as a member set up his big azzed telescope so we could look at the night sky.
The telescope was the size of a hot water heater and was powered by a 12VDC power supply.

Anyway, we are taking turns looking at a foggy star through it.
Those of us that had already seen it were hanging around and I was telling three members about starts used for navigation.
I pointed up to a very visible Orion's Belt and drew their attention to Mintaka, the last star to the right on the belt.
I was pointing at it for all of them and it happened.

Whoosh! A celestial object zipped across at a pretty good clip right across the belt and passed directly over Mintaka.
but (now get this)...instead of keeping a steady orbit path it appeared to go out into space and away from earth.
Taking a path like a plane would until it got dimmer and faded away.
No, it did not have flashing lights. It was no aircraft.

Do we have satellites that have an elliptical orbit that would appear to move out to space and then come back?
I saw it along with the three other members and even the guy with the telescope saw it whoosh past, but he did not have much filed of view to be helpful.

Maybe some of you astronomers might have an answer.
here is some data...+6 time zone...1945 local...3/8/18 date.

I have to tell you, it was very humbling looking up at the stars and seeing what might just possibly be a craft built by another civilization streaking by.
Actually it was kinda awesome!
 
PleasantValley said:
OK, I don't need any meds, had not been drinking...yet, and I was with my hiking group as a member set up his big azzed telescope so we could look at the night sky.
The telescope was the size of a hot water heater and was powered by a 12VDC power supply.

Anyway, we are taking turns looking at a foggy star through it.
Those of us that had already seen it were hanging around and I was telling three members about starts used for navigation.
I pointed up to a very visible Orion's Belt and drew their attention to Mintaka, the last star to the right on the belt.
I was pointing at it for all of them and it happened.

Whoosh! A celestial object zipped across at a pretty good clip right across the belt and passed directly over Mintaka.
but (now get this)...instead of keeping a steady orbit path it appeared to go out into space and away from earth.
Taking a path like a plane would until it got dimmer and faded away.
No, it did not have flashing lights. It was no aircraft.

Do we have satellites that have an elliptical orbit that would appear to move out to space and then come back?
I saw it along with the three other members and even the guy with the telescope saw it whoosh past, but he did not have much filed of view to be helpful.

Maybe some of you astronomers might have an answer.
here is some data...+6 time zone...1945 local...3/8/18 date.

I have to tell you, it was very humbling looking up at the stars and seeing what might just possibly be a craft built by another civilization streaking by.
Actually it was kinda awesome!
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Since you are going to be dreaming anyways DREAM BIG!
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*Quote inspired by TRUMP*
 
I am fully expecting some amateur astronomer to come back and say it was satellite LUYGHLJH that crossed at that time, but hey, like you said.....right now the awe is still here. Humbling awe. We all saw it, because i was pointing out Mintaka to them when it made its appearance, almost as if on queue.

I am going to say it was Space Freighter Icara on a straight course to deliver diylithium crystals to some distant outpost and had a course tangent to earth.
That's my story and I am sticking to it.

We did all meet for drinks after the meeting.
 
PleasantValley said:
I am fully expecting some amateur astronomer to come back and say it was satellite LUYGHLJH that crossed at that time, but hey, like you said.....right now the awe is still here. Humbling awe. We all saw it, because i was pointing out Mintaka to them when it made its appearance, almost as if on queue.

I am going to say it was Space Freighter Icara on a straight course to deliver diylithium crystals to some distant outpost and had a course tangent to earth.
That's my story and I am sticking to it.

We did all meet for drinks after the meeting.
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After all if we were not having fun then what would be the point......
 
PleasantValley said:
OK, I don't need any meds, had not been drinking...yet, and I was with my hiking group as a member set up his big azzed telescope so we could look at the night sky.
The telescope was the size of a hot water heater and was powered by a 12VDC power supply.

Anyway, we are taking turns looking at a foggy star through it.
Those of us that had already seen it were hanging around and I was telling three members about starts used for navigation.
I pointed up to a very visible Orion's Belt and drew their attention to Mintaka, the last star to the right on the belt.
I was pointing at it for all of them and it happened.

Whoosh! A celestial object zipped across at a pretty good clip right across the belt and passed directly over Mintaka.
but (now get this)...instead of keeping a steady orbit path it appeared to go out into space and away from earth.
Taking a path like a plane would until it got dimmer and faded away.
No, it did not have flashing lights. It was no aircraft.

Do we have satellites that have an elliptical orbit that would appear to move out to space and then come back?
I saw it along with the three other members and even the guy with the telescope saw it whoosh past, but he did not have much filed of view to be helpful.

Maybe some of you astronomers might have an answer.
here is some data...+6 time zone...1945 local...3/8/18 date.

I have to tell you, it was very humbling looking up at the stars and seeing what might just possibly be a craft built by another civilization streaking by.
Actually it was kinda awesome!
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Sometimes meteors hit our atmosphere at an oblique angle and rather than burning up, "bounce" off our atmosphere and back into space.
That's all I've got.
 
radioman said:
Sometimes meteors hit our atmosphere at an oblique angle and rather than burning up, "bounce" off our atmosphere and back into space.
That's all I've got.
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Wouldn't they have a tail, though, and look like a streak?
Just asking.
 
What makes you so sure you saw a craft of sort, and not some celestial object?

Just wondering?
 
Many possibilities, but no certainties.
 
PleasantValley said:
Wouldn't they have a tail, though, and look like a streak?
Just asking.
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A meteor with a high iron content I doubt would leave a trail. Based on your description of only one directional change a meteor makes sense.
 
PleasantValley said:
OK, I don't need any meds, had not been drinking...yet, and I was with my hiking group as a member set up his big azzed telescope so we could look at the night sky.
The telescope was the size of a hot water heater and was powered by a 12VDC power supply.

Anyway, we are taking turns looking at a foggy star through it.
Those of us that had already seen it were hanging around and I was telling three members about starts used for navigation.
I pointed up to a very visible Orion's Belt and drew their attention to Mintaka, the last star to the right on the belt.
I was pointing at it for all of them and it happened.

Whoosh! A celestial object zipped across at a pretty good clip right across the belt and passed directly over Mintaka.
but (now get this)...instead of keeping a steady orbit path it appeared to go out into space and away from earth.
Taking a path like a plane would until it got dimmer and faded away.
No, it did not have flashing lights. It was no aircraft.

Do we have satellites that have an elliptical orbit that would appear to move out to space and then come back?
I saw it along with the three other members and even the guy with the telescope saw it whoosh past, but he did not have much filed of view to be helpful.

Maybe some of you astronomers might have an answer.
here is some data...+6 time zone...1945 local...3/8/18 date.

I have to tell you, it was very humbling looking up at the stars and seeing what might just possibly be a craft built by another civilization streaking by.
Actually it was kinda awesome!
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Sounds like it could be explained by a meteor. It might have either bounced off the atmosphere a bit and then fallen back or managed to get some areodynamic forces to steer like a plane a bit. Before it disintergrated that is.

Or it's aliens.
 
Chomsky said:
What makes you so sure you saw a craft of sort, and not some celestial object?

Just wondering?
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Controlled steady flight on a steady course at a pretty high speed, and NOT orbiting the earth.
Oh, and wishful thinking.
 
Tim the plumber said:
Sounds like it could be explained by a meteor. It might have either bounced off the atmosphere a bit and then fallen back or managed to get some areodynamic forces to steer like a plane a bit. Before it disintergrated that is.

Or it's aliens.
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Radioman and I believe it was the Space Freighter Icara making its usual run making its usual trek back and forth from a classified remote outpost monitoring the activities of the dreaded Giajwcuj's. You know how those guys are.
 
PleasantValley said:
Controlled steady flight on a steady course at a pretty high speed, and NOT orbiting the earth.
Oh, and wishful thinking.
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Then I think I'd be more careful about the self-foraged mushrooms you put on that last pizza! :2razz:
 
Chomsky said:
Then I think I'd be more careful about the self-foraged mushrooms you put on that last pizza! :2razz:
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No worries. A stuffed teddy bear came in the window after i ate them and told me I would be OK.
The indoor plants all agreed.

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If it was just following a linear path--or even one where it seems to disappear and then reappear but is still traveling along the same basic trajectory--it's probably nothing more than a satellite or meter catching some reflection off the sun. But, if it's jumping around and doing crazy stuff which makes no sense----now you may have something worth pondering.
 
calamity said:
If it was just following a linear path--or even one where it seems to disappear and then reappear but is still traveling along the same basic trajectory--it's probably nothing more than a satellite or meter catching some reflection off the sun. But, if it's jumping around and doing crazy stuff which makes no sense----now you may have something worth pondering.
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You are right. had i seen actual course changes, ....now that would have been something.
I have to tell you and everyone else though, just looking up and seeing something, even briefly, that MIGHT be a UFO was kind of awe inspiring....and humbling.
It left me with a strange feeling I had not felt before.
 
PleasantValley said:
No worries. A stuffed teddy bear came in the window after i ate them and told me I would be OK.
The indoor plants all agreed.

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my most humbling experience was working with physically challenged people of all ages but most were retired age. This was a six month assignment I did about four years ago.
It was extremely eye opening, rewarding, and it lead right up to the time frame when both of my parents went into a nursing home & eventually hospice.
It all happened for a reason ............
 
See if you can find it listed here:



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Two of the strangest things I've seen through a telescope: I was looking at the moon with fairly low magnification when something passed in front of it. It took only a couple of seconds to traverse the moon. It was just a silhouette of course, round but with a square protrusion on one side, and was approximately the size of Jupiter as seen through my scope. I can only assume it was a high altitude weather balloon.



The second object was a geosynchronous satellite. My scope is not powered, so the stars slowly drift through the field of view as the earth turns. But this object stayed perfectly centered while the stars all drifted past it. Its brightness pulsed like a flashing light, due to it spinning I suppose. It took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at.
 
I have a 6" F4 reflector with clock drive, and a 10" F2 Dobsonian "light bucket" for telescopes.

I have seen on a number of occasions things that were definitely not aircraft in flight.

I don't think we are alone, nor has our civilization for a very long time..

Antarctica is now off limits once again for some thing like another 40 years, form permanent inhabitants. No explanation why.

I believe there is much to discover down under..
 
Blkdirt Farmer said:
I have a 6" F4 reflector with clock drive, and a 10" F2 Dobsonian "light bucket" for telescopes.

I have seen on a number of occasions things that were definitely not aircraft in flight.

I don't think we are alone, nor has our civilization for a very long time..

Antarctica is now off limits once again for some thing like another 40 years, form permanent inhabitants. No explanation why.

I believe there is much to discover down under..
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I have also heard NASA has a full-time staff of Photoshop people to remove all the aliens, spacecraft, and things like that from their photographs before they are made public.
Yo9u make an interesting point about Antarctica. I had no idea.
 
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