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vanity | boarn

Posted on 06/25/2019 7:53:10 PM PDT by BOARn

lights in southern sky


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: anotherstupidvanity; drunkpost; lightssouthernsky; thengone; ufos
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To: CJ Wolf

My suspicion, too. That Falcon can carry quite a load. Eventually, the satellites will have to spread out, unless they are controlled to remain together for some military reason.


21 posted on 06/25/2019 8:35:03 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: BOARn

I am not joking with you. It’s just, as an amateur astronomer, I spend a LOT of time out looking at things. Most of the time everything is as it should be, but, occasionally, they are not. It’s the not normal things that get your attention.

The Falcon Heavy went off Tuesday morning at 2:30am from Florida. Probably not what you saw.

Unless it was going VERY fast (meteor), it was either an aircraft or satellite.

That part of the sky doesn’t have a lot of bright stars in the sky. Spica would be the only star you might have noted.
Jupiter would just be rising in the east. Arcturus would be overhead.

When you go out at night, always take a good pair of 7x50 binoculars with you. 99 times out of 100 you can see what it is from there.


22 posted on 06/25/2019 8:46:44 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: BenLurkin
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
23 posted on 06/25/2019 8:47:05 PM PDT by moovova
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To: BOARn

One thing that Satellites do is “flair”. If you get the angle off of a solar panel in the right place, you can get quite a bright reflection off of them.

Could have been ISS with a Russian supply ship trying to catch it. Also fairly common.


24 posted on 06/25/2019 8:49:00 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Inyo-Mono

That was Venus. You were drunk and staggered to the left and thought the object darted to the right. You also were late to work that morning.


25 posted on 06/25/2019 8:52:48 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: BOARn

If you can give me an exact time, I may be able to give you a satellite name. I set my Sky Safari program for Dallas


26 posted on 06/25/2019 8:54:09 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: BOARn

What color were the lights? If they were orange, I think I know what they were.


27 posted on 06/25/2019 8:58:46 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Investigate! Investigate! There are charges yet to fabricate!)
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To: Jane Long

28 posted on 06/25/2019 8:59:28 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: moovova; BOARn
"Come in through the door..."


29 posted on 06/25/2019 9:01:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BOARn

I believe you.

I was stationed at a NAS in Georgia, 73/74 working in the control tower. It was a clear night, I was by myself, no traffic. It was a VFR tower but we had an ASR scope (air surveillance) to watch any approaching traffic. There was also a ground control approach unit across the street. Like I said, there was no traffic. Suddenly, to the south, I see two lights in the sky kind of hovering. They’re a long way off but were high enough they had to be air traffic. I see nothing on ASR so I called GCA...nothing. At that point, they literally streaked across the clear sky and disappeared.

That was also about the time Jimmy Carter and others reported seeing UFOs all across Georgia

So, I’m not laughing at you! I’m a believer.


30 posted on 06/25/2019 9:02:31 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Innovative
There are at least sixty US Navy aviators who have witnessed multiple craft on both coastlines.

Google “US Navy” and “tic tac” shaped aerial phenomena.

PROTIP: they’re not ours.

31 posted on 06/25/2019 9:08:23 PM PDT by Skywarner
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To: CJ Wolf

Yes, you may have seen today’s Falcon Heavy launch.


32 posted on 06/25/2019 9:20:44 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: BOARn

A few days ago here in Tampa I saw small (relative to the jet) shiny object darting around a passenger jet in flight. The jet left a contrail, however the small object did not. It was really quite strange.


33 posted on 06/25/2019 9:45:32 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
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To: BOARn

It could be the results of the Beta Taurids is a meteor shower which is going on at this time.


34 posted on 06/25/2019 10:10:39 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: jonrick46

I am messing up big time tonight. Correction:

It could be the results of the Beta Taurids meteor shower which is going on at this time.


35 posted on 06/25/2019 10:12:51 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: All

ISS moves west to east across the sky, his report says the objects were moving south. For the same reason this would rule out bright planets. Sounds too slow to be meteors.

Not sure what to suggest. Any chance it had something to do with hot air balloons moving away to the south?


36 posted on 06/26/2019 12:11:34 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: BOARn
Here is all the stuff in space. You will have to figure out which satellites you where looking at:
http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1987-055A
37 posted on 06/26/2019 1:23:58 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: BOARn

Though only low orbit satellites you should be able to see.


38 posted on 06/26/2019 1:24:51 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: BOARn
I see them every night. there were two strange lights south. they were very bright. same as stars. I watched them move south and fade. one behind the other. I've never seen this before. i live in the north DFW area. anyone know of anything or have any idea what I saw?

Could be related to this: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-night-sky-visibility-guide.html

39 posted on 06/26/2019 7:28:16 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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