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VANITY: UFOs over South West Utah last night.
Vanity | August 29, 2021 | Swordmaker

Posted on 08/29/2021 12:42:39 PM PDT by Swordmaker

My Lady and I frequently sit out on our front porch in Saint George, Utah, which is located in the south west corner of Utah. It is an almost ideal place for watching star.

Unfortunately Saint George’s growth in population means we are starting to get some light pollution from street lights and commercial growth. We have also been the unfortunate beneficiaries of California’s Forest and Wild Fires of late which degrade our ability to see the stars and other astronomical sights above our fair city and state.

Last evening had singularly good viewing among the nights we’ve been having lately. Zero clouds and California must have decided to export its Liberal and Progressive Mistakes in Forest Management somewhere else for a change, at least for a short time. In any case, the stars were glorious and the viewing of multiple satellites in the orbits were easily spotted as the traversed overhead. In other words the viewing was great!

We went out about 9:00 PM and settled in our rocking chairs to enjoy a fairly cool breeze watching for what could be seen. I was easily spotting several orbiting satellites at once—it’s getting crowded up there—finding several heading east and a few vectoring north.

At about 9:13PM, I spotted a particularly bright object close to Arcturus heading East fairly rapidly. Due to its velocity and brightness, I thought it was fairly large and low Earth orbiting. I brought my Lady’s attention to it and we both followed it as it moved across the sky all the way through Scorpius, into the middle of Sagittarius where it suddenly made a sharp 60° turn South (no curve) and then vanished! About five seconds after the object disappeared, something burst and flashed extremely, brighter than Vega or Venus, about 5° due north of where the object vanished… and as the flare subsided it flared up again a half-second later about half as bright and half as large as the first burst which had appeared to span about 1° and the second about 1°. When this double burst died away, there was no residue or evidence of any debris where the double bursts had occurred.

This could have been a meteor coming directly toward us, because there was no plasma trail and we saw only the burst from front-on. That’s possible. However, it was almost instantaneous, with no buildup.

About 20 minutes later, around 9:35, we saw ANOTHER single burst/flare/flash about five degrees above the last tail star. Shaula, in Scorpius, did the same thing, without the secondary flash. Odd.

Around 10:24PM, I noticed an what I thought was an odd satellite, a low brightness, East to West orbiting object… but then I noticed it was NOT following a typical orbit but was actually following a parabola! I pointed it out to my Lady. As we followed its flight, it suddenly started doing loops to the north! It did three rounded loops, all about equal size, then it started doing zig-zags back to the East, then West, about six of those, going north with fast, sharp changes of direction… It then went straight, heading west, appeared to approach the position (from our viewpoint) of Arcturus and started just moving around in random directions just to the East of Arcturus. This continued for about five minutes until both it and Arcturus were occluded by the tree line and we could no longer observe them.

About 10:45PM, my Lady spotted something moving around in the Southeast through a palm three across the street. We started watching it and soon discerned there were three lights in the distance moving around each other over a mountain in that direction. They acted like they were dancing. They were not airplanes, but could have been drones. They eventually took off toward the South.

We finally went inside about 11:05 PM when a high level mist started forming that caused the stars to start looking blurry. Weird night.

Saint George is about 75 miles from Nellis Air Force Base and probably 200 miles from Area 51…


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: satellites; starwatching; ufos; utah
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To: Swordmaker

Can’t wait for our vegetarian white light space brothers to tell us how to fix everything.


41 posted on 08/29/2021 5:10:02 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: roving

No they removed the Book of Enoch that deals with this very subject. Now why would they want to do that? Fallen Angels procreating with human women and having offspring.

An Angel is just another name for extra terrestrial (meaning not of the Earth). Angels are aliens.


42 posted on 08/29/2021 6:28:14 PM PDT by zaxtres (`)
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To: Swordmaker; TermLimits4All

SM, speaking of which, how far are you from the Uintah Basin?


43 posted on 08/29/2021 6:39:08 PM PDT by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)
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To: Swordmaker
Please ignore my #43...

A quick check with Google Earth shows that you (St. George) really are 'way down in the southwest corner of Utah!

The Uintah Basin is 300 miles to your northeast, and Area 51 is only ~115 miles to the WNW ...

TXnMA

44 posted on 08/29/2021 7:05:05 PM PDT by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)
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To: Kickass Conservative
I believe that photo was from the Movie “Queen of Outer Space” with Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Queen of Venus.

Correct.
45 posted on 08/29/2021 7:13:59 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: dragnet2

lol no doubt- they do not look safe at all


46 posted on 08/29/2021 9:16:26 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: TangoLimaSierra

i type liek that as a service to folks- it exercises the brain to read wordfs spelled a b it differently- keeps them ind sharp=- you’re welcome-


47 posted on 08/29/2021 9:17:24 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: yesthatjallen
The lights I saw were extremely bight-white and passed behind high clouds. It was also a windy night. The first light I saw was perpendicular to the wind. The others were flying into the wind that was blowing from the north-west.

Unless you've got access to Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAF) you can't go by the wind on the ground. It can be coming from completely different directions and speeds at different altitudes. As far as passing behind clouds, I've encountered those mylar party balloons at unbelieveable altitudes.

48 posted on 08/29/2021 11:16:06 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Swordmaker
I don't think there's any annual meteor shower just now, the Perseids last a long time but A) come out of Perseus and B) ended the 26th.

49 posted on 08/30/2021 8:05:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Swordmaker

Swordmaker: have you seen any more strange lights in the sky? Was that just a one time thing, or have you seen strange lights on several nights?


50 posted on 10/08/2021 5:34:31 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (If the votes are a lie, they must de cert i fy!)
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To: Bob434

Photo appears photo shopped as each lantern has the same flame shape and orientation. Looks like a burning angel looking down.


51 posted on 10/08/2021 5:37:44 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Swordmaker

It just means geopolitical stuff is heating up. You should have seen the stuff working out during the night over Fort Sill’s Western ranges during YugoNam. Straight out of X-Files. I took 2 hr. evening walks on south boundary road at the time and saw incredible stuff going on.


52 posted on 10/08/2021 6:20:49 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Cvengr

great catch- i didn’t even notice that - wonder why they photoshopped it? There was no real need to-


53 posted on 10/08/2021 9:26:15 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Swordmaker: have you seen any more strange lights in the sky? Was that just a one time thing, or have you seen strange lights on several nights?

With the unexpected death of My Dearly Loved Lady Kathy Elizabeth on Tuesday so fresh for me, I can’t do much of anything except grieving right now. Sorry.

54 posted on 10/09/2021 2:24:29 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

Swordmaker, I am so sorry to hear this.

May God comfort you and give you peace.


55 posted on 10/09/2021 6:23:59 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (If the votes are a lie, they must de cert i fy!)
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