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Select your city here for exact time. ISS stands for International Space Station and STS-122 is Atlantis.

http://www.heavens-above.com/

1 posted on 02/17/2008 7:07:28 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares

FR bookmark , .. .. ((”down to the beach!”))


2 posted on 02/17/2008 7:16:42 PM PST by Dad yer funny (FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

We saw the ISS go by on Saturday night, and it was just awesome! The sky was absolutely clear, and we got a full five minutes unobstructed view of it. I don’t know if we’ll be able to see both on Monday night, because it’s supposed to be cloudy, dang it!


3 posted on 02/17/2008 7:21:06 PM PST by SuziQ
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piing


4 posted on 02/17/2008 7:22:22 PM PST by r-q-tek86 (If your not taking flak, your not over the target.)
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To: Names Ash Housewares
In the summer of 2005, a friend and I were out late night fishing on Richland-Chambers Lake in Central Texas. This was just after the shuttle Discovery had separated from the space station on a mission STS-114. It was the first one after the Columbia loss. Both Discovery and the ISS were very visible in the sky that night. It was a wonder to watch them until they disappeared when they went out of sunlight and into the earth's shadow.

A little later, I looked up and saw another object above. It was not as bright as the shuttle or ISS. It looked for all purposes as a satellite in orbit. However, instead of a steady, straight trajectory as all the satellites I'd seen before in orbit, this one was juking all about moving in a rough northeast to southwest direction.

I told my friend to look up and he saw it, too. The UFO continued to juke around on a zigzag path as it travel across the sky for several minutes before it too disappeared as it went into Earth's shadow.

To this day, I wonder what it was I and my friend saw up there. It was not like anything else I've ever seen in the nighttime sky.

I can recall as a child watching Sputnik (actually it was the satellite's trailing booster rocket also in orbit) in the Fall of 1957. That bright pinpoint of white light marching across the sky in a steady, straight line is seared forever in my memory. Yet over the next 50 years, I have seen many other space payloads, but never another like that juking one of Summer, 2005.

Over the years I've thought often about what the devil the dang thing was and why was it doing that jitterbug dance?

My best guess was it was a military payload doing that juke dance as avoidance to any possible hunter/killer satellite, but that is not something I have ever been able to find in any articles about space warfare.

I cannot believe what I saw was an alien spacecraft chucked full of little green, gray or polka dot guys and/or gals here to steal our secrets, babies, ice, water, molybdenum, supermodels or our only working copy of the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. It was not a scout for an invasion or a first cook sample tasting us before writing To Serve Man in his native tongue.

In truth, I do believe there is intelligent life out there in the universe. All those uncountable billions and billions and billions of galaxies and their googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeros) plus number of stars cannot help but over the billions of years since the Big Bang to produce several, if not, millions or billions of different intelligent lifeforms.

In my belief, they do not sit up nights worrying about us. I don't believe they are constantly coming here to watch us, but it would not be a life changing event for me if they showed up one day before I pass away.

Matter of fact... where are you guys? I want to know what that was I saw back in 2005 and I ain't getting any younger!!!

5 posted on 02/17/2008 7:23:57 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

I’m staying awake for that.


6 posted on 02/17/2008 7:25:13 PM PST by wastedyears (This is my BOOMSTICK)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Also here:

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States


10 posted on 02/17/2008 7:48:28 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Thanks for the heads-up - partly cloudy here tomorrow, but the last time we looked for a satellite, we had a break, 80% cloud cover, but a clear track for the ship.


11 posted on 02/17/2008 7:51:12 PM PST by heartwood
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To: Names Ash Housewares

I once observed two space shuttles flying simultaneously. THAT was cool.


12 posted on 02/17/2008 7:52:10 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Thanks for posting. BTTT!


16 posted on 02/17/2008 8:01:04 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Names Ash Housewares; neverdem

ping


22 posted on 02/17/2008 8:21:58 PM PST by sweetiepiezer
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ping


24 posted on 02/17/2008 8:41:07 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Just watched the show. Thanks for the heads up.


39 posted on 02/18/2008 1:14:14 AM PST by Ezekiel
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Triple header in Boston tonight.

ISS / Atlantis at 5:45 PM from the west, followed by USA 193 at 6:20 from the southwest.


40 posted on 02/18/2008 6:09:46 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Action is eloquence. - Shakespeare)
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“If It Ever Stops Snowing & The Sky Clears” Bump!


42 posted on 02/18/2008 6:21:17 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

After moving to Oceanside, California in 1992 I was startled to see a dark lightless bat-like object pass through my peripheral vision while gazing up at a moonless sky. It was not until I heard what I assumed to be the sound of jet engines did I realize what I had just seen. Amazing technology.


51 posted on 02/18/2008 2:23:35 PM PST by Cyman
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I saw them from the Florida Panhandle this evening. They were farther apart than I thought they would be and moving really fast.

Either they are not very high or they really are moving fast.

52 posted on 02/18/2008 7:03:46 PM PST by yarddog (`)
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SPY-SAT UPDATE: Rumor has it that the US Navy may make its first attempt to hit USA 193 this Wednesday evening as the satellite passes over the Pacific Ocean. http://spaceweather.com:80/


53 posted on 02/18/2008 8:15:05 PM PST by JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT ("I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde / "It;s the same when yer too old!" - JJ)
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