Posted on 07/02/2018 9:05:11 AM PDT by messierhunter
A huge amount of "UFO" videos were posted to YouTube this weekend regarding an object seen in the morning twilight skies over Florida on Friday morning. Popular UFO channels like Third Phase of the Moon reported it as a UFO incident. The real cause? A SpaceX launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule to orbit to deliver cargo and supplies to the International Space Station for CRS-15.
Despite some who think that "SpaceX is FakeX" and that all of spaceflight is a hoax (including a number of Freepers), the real hoax is the belief that this was a UFO and that the SpaceX launch was invented after the fact as an excuse. Third Phase himself tries to make this argument, claiming the launch was not announced ahead of time. Of course it was, which is why I drove out there that morning with my equipment to track the launch from the moment it came off the pad to the moment the second stage shut down occurred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11xIQ_mlS2g
I knew this launch would cause a ruckus because of its timing; as the vehicle ascended past about 100 km altitude, it reached line of sight to the sun (thanks to the fact that earth is round, again in contradiction to certain freeper beliefs) illuminating the rocket and its exhaust against the dark background of the twilight sky. This is what caused the brilliant display and why the rocket suddenly increased in brightness dramatically towards the end of the first stage burn.
Got it, still amazed.
You may be giving them too much credit -- cognitive dissonance implies cognition. ;^)
Low IQ, talking to you is like talking to my 3 year old.
Report this...please LOL!
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Your a dumbass. Every morning a new sun rises out of the Atlantic and every night it dies in the Pacific. How can the man-made climate change people ignore the fact that we get a new and different Sun everyday? No telling how much the different Suns factor into the equation.
Messierhunter is right. She get’s way too worked up and personal with these knuckleheads. But there are a few who actually do believe their nonsense about flat earth and fake space travel and moon landings. I actually went back and reviewed some history. They are certifiable.
You try to dox your three year old? Maybe you should lose your parenting rights. But in all seriousness, there’s no need to report your childish posts, as long as you don’t try to stalk me again. And now you know not to do that, so at least you’re smart enough to be trained.
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