Posted on 02/09/2023 6:16:38 AM PST by janetjanet998
Above the islands of Hawaii on January 28, a green laser was seen piercing the night sky, silently tracing a path towards the horizon like a stutter in the Matrix's code. The scene was caught on camera from a telescope atop Hawaii's tallest peak.
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Suspected Chinese “environment monitoring satellite” beams green laser from space over Hawaii
“environment monitoring satellite”
yeah right — libs say no problem
Was it going UP or DOWN?........................
Environmental monitoring? Panda heal thyself.
Green is them and Red is us ?
Cue the “it’s Aliens”.
“We’re being scanned, Captain”
Green-hued laser pointers are a thing, and they’re not illegal to own. I have one for stargazing, but I also keep an eye on FlightAware to know if there are any inbound flights and avoid using the laser when there are.
This strikes me as much ado about nothing.
It looks like someone was doing some mapping.
Or some weather control if you really want to go down the rabbit hole. LOL.
"...watchers compared the sight to 'digital rain' due to its sci-fi appearance. The laser lights flashed in the sky on January 28 over Mauna Kea, a 13,800ft dormant volcano on Hawaii's Big Island..."
Detailed maps of the US are available to the public.
Certainly PACOM is aware of anything in the area.
They also shouldn’t discuss sensitive information with the public.
If you watch the video, its a very fast mover, not likely sourced from the ground. Lasers from spacecraft in LEO are used for environmental and atmospheric sensing. I have never seen a visible one like this before, but i imagine someone in the atmospheric sensing world could explain its utility. My experience is that by looking at the laser return scatter from space in different frequencies and their Doppler shifts, you can do things like determine winds at different altitudes (useful for fling balloons) as well as constituent gases in the atmosphere.
It wasnt from the ground up but from the sky down
It’s cool being at that site.
Did you watch the video? The pattern from the laser did not show ground-based people shining something up. It was several "shots" and it traversed across the sky with a single point of origin from above and several points of "impact" below.
Reminds me of the plane over Long Island Sound after 9-11. The conclusion was internal tank explosion due to gas fumes however many claimed to have seen ( and captured on tape ) a fireball rising out of the water hitting the plane. Government assured all that it was an optical illusion and that even if the Navy was performing ‘’simulated missile launches” in the area it would not be possible for such an event to occur.
TWA Flight 800 was in 1996..................
I wrote that because it looked like the process I use when scanning stuff.
The laser is used to measure distances from the base to the peak. I imagine the color of a laser is determined by what it has to penetrate.
I would think that refraction plays into it. If you are mapping something through sea water it would require a different color than mapping through the air.
For example, if you are looking to track a submarine through a few hundred feet of seawater, I imagine you would use a scanning system like that. It would move back and forth and “changes” in returns would provide you with the moving image of whatever is below the water.
Pure speculation on my part.
And you are correct...PACOM is under no obligation to explain itself to us.
Honestly, I think its cool that we would be able to create the tech to do that.
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