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To: JoeProBono

Bright light on the horizon, slowly moving down for most of an hour. My guess is bright star or planet. When I get home, I’ll run date and location against “Stellarium”. It can show the sky at any location or time. There were some sightings in Pennsylvania recently documented on a Discovery channel UFO special. Stellarium showed that they were describing, very accurately I might add, the normal sky and stars, visible that night. There observations were spot on, but their interpretation left something to be desired.


3 posted on 03/20/2009 9:57:13 AM PDT by 75thOVI ("The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged". Sir Arthur Wilson)
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To: 75thOVI
The article seems to describe several bright lights low in the sky that night. Without any sort of azimuth info, it would be almost impossible to pin it down with certainty. However, Sirius is low in the western sky, and Betelgeuse and Rigel are both setting. 3 very bright stars in fairly close together. There's nothing in the video that suggests anything but a bright, very out of focus, point source of unmoving light.
12 posted on 03/20/2009 3:49:32 PM PDT by 75thOVI ("The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged". Sir Arthur Wilson)
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