Posted on 01/29/2007 8:00:04 AM PST by maquiladora
It's hard to draw a surfer's attention away from the next wave, but whatever was in the northwest sky Friday evening around 6:20 p.m. drew a crowd along Kewalo Basin and Ala Moana Beach Park.
Honolulu resident Peter Hollingworth described as two lights circling in the sky, about 45 degrees above the horizon.
Video of one of the lights was recorded from the Channel 2 SkyCam.
“These two little fireballs with a stream behind it,” said Hollingworth. “Looked kind of like a shooting start but it just kept going. They changed directions a few times, at first it was coming in then it turned, then it went out then it came back in again"
Hollingworth was surfing with his 12 year old son when the unexpected show began.
“I was a little concerned. I told him come over and sit with me - this might be the last surf session we ever have together because this thing's coming straight for Honolulu. It looked deadly to me it was kind of spooky.”
So what was it?
The National Weather Service says nothing showed up on their radar at the time of the sighting and the Federal Aviation Administration didn't report anything unusual.
The U.S. military conducted a missile defense test off of Kauai Friday evening but the test didn't begin until 7:20 p.m.
“This in a sense is an unidentified flying object,” said University of Hawaii astronomy professor Gareth Wynn-Williams. “It's something in the sky that's moving that we haven't identified.”
Wynn-Williams believes there's a simple explanation behind the UFO’s.
“It's probably a contrail of some kind,” he said while watching video of one of the lights at his Kailua home.
The professor says contrails are caused by high flying airplanes burning hydrogen based fuels. One of the byproducts of the fuel exhaust is water.
“The air is very cold so the water condenses and forms like drops very quickly and then these drops stay behind the plane until eventually they warm up and they evaporate.”
Wynn-Williams doubts little green men from Mars are behind the UFO’s.
“Some people just think differently than scientists and they like to look for the fanciest most exciting explanation. Those people would like to think it's little green men, I think that's very unlikely."
According to published reports this is not the first time a UFO has grabbed the attention of Hawaii residents.
In December of 2004 an unexplained streak of light was captured by a camera on Haleakala moving southwest to northeast. No official explanation has been given for that UFO either.
Quisp? Wow, that is an oldie!
now that's a good question. lol
where are the little green people whne you need them?
Stitch is being picked up.
Your post is well thought out, reasonably stated, and clearly rooted in a deep and abiding love of truth.
It has no place on this thread.
Area 52?
Whoops sorry.
That was definitely Lilo and Stitch going up in their respective space crafts.
"1) What kind of man has a hyphenated name?"
My guess would be.,.. his mom got married, and thereby took a hyphenated name.. then maybe divorced and then had a child who then took her hyphenated name instead of the father's name....or something.. *shrug*.. good catch, though.
"2) Aliens are grey, duh!"
Ckearly. That's why they call them the "greys"... "duh" indeed.
Im glad those aliens are still using running lights so we can see them.
Same as ever, the difference being they are now threads on FR. There was a time when such threads were deleted immediately.
It's just Hubbard checking up on Cruise and Travolta. Making sure they are keeping the money flowing.
You are forgiven. We'll not speak of it again.
As opposed to an expensive "pallor" trick?
Extremely simple answer: weather balloons, used for measuring upper-level winds. Almost certainly they used them before this test, as with any other launch. There's typically a "launch minus 1 hour" balloon.
"Extremely simple answer: weather balloons, used for measuring upper-level winds."
Changing direction, circling and leaving contrails? It's some sort of black project, imho, and this isn't the first sighting in recent weeks of a similar nature with photographs. PsyOps directed at China.
Forgot about the contrails.... No explanation for that.
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