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To: Beowulf9

The top three look like a blurry image of large choppers flying in formation towards the camera. Probably CH53s painted white. The bottom one would also then be a helicopter, but I can’t tell what kind it would be.


6 posted on 04/11/2009 10:53:24 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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I like the helicopter idea. Note that the lighting on the objects shows the same phase as the moon, which it ought to.

We can estimate the angular size of the objects by comparing them to the 30’ angular size of the moon. Using

object/inset X inset/moon X 30’ =

25/300 X 43/81 X 30 ‘ = 1.3’

and estimating an object size of 3 meters, I get a distance of just about 8 km.


29 posted on 04/11/2009 3:07:11 PM PDT by dr_lew
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The bottom one would also then be a helicopter, but I can’t tell what kind it would be.

Or the bottom one could be a slingload under the middle object.

37 posted on 04/15/2009 8:52:24 AM PDT by Terabitten (To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
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