Posted on 06/01/2009 8:53:13 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A bright and fast object seemingly "overtook" the International Space Station May 29, according to several witnesses observing from two different states, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness database.
The first case was reported from Texas, where a man and two other witnesses were out watching the International Space Station fly over, and then observed this second object - moving at between two and-a-half and three times the speed of the space station.
A second group is reporting in from the RMCC Observatory, Mounds, Oklahoma, who say they saw the same event.
Not long after watching an International Space Station pass this Saturday night (May 30th) from New York City, we saw an incredibly fast moving apparent satellite traveling roughly north to south. I’ve never seen one moving so quickly across the sky, and I’ve been doing this for close to 15 years now. The fairly bright object was oddly unlisted on heavens-above.com schedule. They generally list satellites far dimmer than this one as ‘visible’. HA is a website which gives schedules for space station and satellite passes for any particular area on Earth. You have to provide them your general location so that they can give you accurate info.
Looks like the quarter Moon and the space station.
Actually it’s Venus and the space station. Check the image url. That makes a lot more sense than it being the much larger Moon. Venus goes through crescent phases just like the Moon.
PING TO THE LIST.
"An insect and the Moon? A UFO near a streetlight? A Photoshop job? Nope. It’s the International Space Station, passing near Venus in broad daylight.
How cool is that? It was taken yesterday by the accomplished photographer Etienne Simian of Saint Martin de Crau from the south of France. He was using a relatively modest telescope and a webcam, which amazes me. You can actually make out details on the station! Venus, if you have been living in a basement the past few weeks, is glowing like a beacon in the west after sunset, incredibly bright. You can see it fairly easily in the daytime if you know just where to look.
The space station orbits the Earth, and you can find out if it passes overhead at your location by using any number of planetarium software packages (my favorite way is to go to Heavens Above). I go out several times a month to see it pass across the sky, in fact. For M. Simian, it happened to sail very near Venus… I looked up Venus’s stats, and it’s about 17 arcseconds across, so the ISS was about 5 arcminutes away when this image was taken. For comparison, the Moon is about 30 arcminutes across in the sky, so this was a very close encounter! But only apparently: the station was a few hundred miles from the photographer, but Venus was about 90 million miles away.
Some close encounters aren’t as close as you might think."
How cool is that? It was taken yesterday by the accomplished photographer Etienne Simian of Saint Martin de Crau from the south of France.
The pic was taken in 2007.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/08/not-so-close-encounter/
The other, unidentified object overtook and moved past by the ISS. The UFO was moving 2.5 - 3 times faster than the ISS. They were moving in the same general direction but not the exact same heading. It was definately not an airliner as it was moving much faster. It had no colored lights. It had a much dimmer appearance when compaired to the ISS. The UFO was not a constant light but did not blink, more of a random dimming and then back to bright appearance. It was moving in a strait line. We watched them both until they moved out of sight.
I saw the Station go over Friday night, (actually for the last three nights), and at one point, in the same general area of travel, an Iridium flare appeared. I'm still kicking myself for not setting up the camera for a time exposure.
just never has grasped the concept of giving credit where it's due.
You should double-kick yourself for not posting it afterwards.
Huh?
Really, that flare was a good one, and being so close to the Station... And the sky was really dark too. (The next two nights it appeared earlier).
Covering it with double-sided scotch tape would be easier.
I bet it was spectacular. I saw a pass of the ISS on Saturday night myself. It was great, even with some clouds.
I live under the flight line from Jacksonville, Fl. (I’m in Savannah, GA). From the beach, we can watch planes from shortly after take off at Jax International. They move very slow at first (it’s about 120 miles). But as they get closer, they speed up, until they are overhead. It takes about 20 minutes for them to get here.
It’s rather entertaining on a iffy astronomy night.
Lost In Space: "Wild Adventure"
John Robinson saves the day when Dr. Smith inadvertently sets the Jupiter 2 on a direct course towards the sun — but not before Smith can be enticed by a seductive (green) interstellar Lorelei.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/lost-in-space-wild-adventure/3558291399
Yeah, and your ex was dead on the money.
Ever see this program? It’s lightweight, (doesn’t need a gorilla processor) and works with 9X. Tracks most any satellite you’d want to see.
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