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What just happened in sky over Los Angeles?
finny

Posted on 06/19/2005 8:27:21 PM PDT by Finny

About ten minutes ago, Husband in hills behind Brea, between Brea and Chino Hills, spotted in the northwest what looked like something entering the atmosphere. We grabbed binoculars, and it was extremely high altitude, coming in, not going out. Anybody see it? Can probably still spot it further north, as in Pasadena, etc. Grab binocs and look.


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To: smonk

221 posted on 06/19/2005 10:08:23 PM PDT by ATCNavyRetiree (I can most times spot a liberal...they look weak, cowardly and undisciplined.)
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To: Kirkwood

Kirkwood, the contrail of the shorter one is much, much longer than what we saw. There was NO contrail. You couldn't even tell it was forked into a V unless you looked through binocs.


222 posted on 06/19/2005 10:08:24 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: KneelBeforeZod
---swamp gas---

reflecting the light from venus.

223 posted on 06/19/2005 10:08:40 PM PDT by smonk
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To: MrStumpy

Where are you located?


224 posted on 06/19/2005 10:09:54 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: ATCNavyRetiree

LOL! exactly.

225 posted on 06/19/2005 10:09:59 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Irving Two Smokes

Isn't the U-2 single engine?


226 posted on 06/19/2005 10:11:02 PM PDT by null and void (You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
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To: smonk; null and void
POOF! I am now wearing your hat.
Oops - sorry those are my skivvies - but don't worry - its the latest thing in Gitmo, or so I've read. ;-)
Ahh - guilty pleasures - smoking on the porch with an adult beverage, Bose PC speakers lightly cranking out my MusicMatch Jukebox selections - and now I gotta go in and watch Season 1 Disk 4, #3 "24" with my son and then go to the beach tomorrow. Not a bad Father's Day! Nite Nite.
Think I'll change my handle to "Lucky" ... ;-)
227 posted on 06/19/2005 10:11:10 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (In memory of our bravest in armed service to our nation.)
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To: null and void

Hmmmm ... this thing was so high it was way, way past Edwards after five minutes. But an Aurora ... wonder if that's what it was?


228 posted on 06/19/2005 10:11:51 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: Graybeard58

See my post 103.


229 posted on 06/19/2005 10:12:28 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: Irving Two Smokes

Besides, they add chlorofluorosulfonic acid to the fuel to suppress contrail formation.


230 posted on 06/19/2005 10:12:36 PM PDT by null and void (You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
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To: Finny

---See my post 103.---

or any of the 12 subsequent posts directing you to post #103.

yeesh. complicated thread.


231 posted on 06/19/2005 10:13:56 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Finny

Disneyland fireworks? :)


233 posted on 06/19/2005 10:14:03 PM PDT by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (The UN did such a fine job with "Oil for Food" in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country!)
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To: bobbdobbs

An object reentering like a capsule will have a plasma ball around it in the extreme upper atmosphere due to the surrounding upper atmospheric atoms being ionized (getting electrons stripped off) plus ablated material getting ejected. When speed is cut as the object enters lower atmosphere, you will see a contrail formed by that object as the water condenses out of the air. The persistence of the contrail will vary with the humidity of the air. You may have seen jets with contrails that go on and off and that is due to passing through different altitudes with layers of air with different humidity or else passing through "rivers" of air at a given altitude that hold relatively more moisture, but not enough to condense out as a cloud.


234 posted on 06/19/2005 10:16:39 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Irving Two Smokes

That's what google says, so it must be true...


235 posted on 06/19/2005 10:16:58 PM PDT by null and void (You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
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To: TXnMA
have you observed a shuttle reentry or a SR-71 return from max altitude/speed?

Nothing special from an observer's point of view about an SR-71 (or U2) descent.

OTOH, 50 years of R&D following the X-15 design program would probably result in a spectacular re-entry.


236 posted on 06/19/2005 10:19:52 PM PDT by steve86
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To: null and void

237 posted on 06/19/2005 10:20:52 PM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: Finny

I just saw some black helicopters in the sky over where I am.


239 posted on 06/19/2005 10:21:41 PM PDT by Allegra (But It's A Dry Heat...)
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To: TXnMA

"I've read through the whole thread, and am inclied to take your observation seriously."

I don't and here are a few reasons:

1. she is knowledgable about this kind of phenomenom.

2. She has the vocabulary to explain this kind of phenomenon.

3. She know of sites (she mentioned what I think was an airforce base) and has knowledge of other similar phenomena.

4. She had binoculars handy to look at the phenomenom.

If you read all of her posts, I'm sure you will find other reasons as to why there is nothing to what she saw. Mind you, I'm saying that she may have actually seen something in the sky, but it's of no particular importance.


240 posted on 06/19/2005 10:23:40 PM PDT by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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