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.
Those things streaking in the skies are called entrails, I think.
Yeah. Some day I'll even tell you how high is up?
Aw cummon, she didn't pull a LittleJoe...
I didn't see or hear anyting, and I was in the hills earlier that day to the west a bit.
Did anything come of that?
-Jerry Fletcher.
Sorry .. guess I'm getting a little sensitive! *sigh* My apologies ... at least my Worthy Master didn't make me sleep in the shed for burning dinner, after all. ;^)
Sounds like a UFO to me. Wasn't there a post a few weeks ago where a TV news crew filmed some guy summoning UFOs? They actually showed up on film plain as day. He said they would be everywhere in a few weeks, I had a feeling that guy was legit.
Here's the link, did it look at all like this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414683/posts
Husband, who's the one who first spotted and watched this thing with binocs for three to five minutes from upstairs window, with panoramic view, says:
How far north it had traveled before it started its eastward turn? Would say probably started eastward turn 50 miles north of here (Carbon Canyon, between Chino Hills and Brea).
Have not observed shuttle or SR-71 reentry, only shuttle and missile launches.
As for contrails vs burn: it was definitely a surface heat burn -- it was a heat color, a contrail of condensation. Without moisture or condensation, jet engine exhaust is invisible from that altitude; all you can see is jet afterburner if you're close, but you won't see it from this altitude, which he guesses as upper regions of the stratosphere. And it was descending, not going up; it gained speed as it got lower, when first seen it was hardly moving at all, it was so high. Looked to him similar to what you'd see in Gemini reentry where the heat was flaring around the object so it came out in two long curving fingers. There was bright flash momentarily, and snuffed out and kept its burn, and then started making gradual turn to the north. Burn color wasn't white, it was like a pale warm yellow, bright.
Sidenote: SR-71 pilot Bob Gilliland once told husband that it took half the state of Texas to turn the craft around. This plane was over Edwards part of the time we saw it, maybe preparing to angle back for a landing. Who knows. Husband is presently creating a drawing of what it looked like, which I will try to post here later.
Didn't hover, didn't zip around -- seemed entirely too pedestrian to be an alien UFO. Looked man-made, high tech.
Pretty hard to see how something like this could simulate appearance of stationary illusion due to high altitude, then traveling due northward at same altitude to disappear over horizon line. Maybe for one-shot pics or short videos, but not for prolonged minutes of observation.
it was a heat color, NOT a contrail of condensation
Ummmm, any [unmarried] sisters?
Kewl! Looking forward to the drawing.
I have friends that work(ed) at Skunkworks and Area 51 and Edwards, etc.
They have told me that everything you see in the sky is one of ours.
But - if it's easier (or more fun) to believe in little green men - go right ahead.
If that's a compliment, it's a very nice one! Thanks! But no sisters ... got a bunch of brothers, but don't think you or they would be interested! ;^)
Of course it is one of ours. If it was from another world it would be able to enter undetected by any human on the planet.
No. Not at all. But that's SPOOKY!
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