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Unidentified Flying Objects
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| 12-1-1
Posted on 12/01/2001 7:50:13 PM PST by jungleboy
Just witnessed two very fast traveling objects in the sky that had very colorful, streaking objects following them. This WAS NOT meteor activity as the local TV station guessed. These objects came out of the Southwest sky heading Northeast. My wife and I watched them for about one minute as they dissappeared over the horizon. Northeastern Kansas. Anyone else see this?
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To: jungleboy
Interesting...I observed something very similar about an hour and fifteen minutes ago (approx 9:00 PM Mountain Time) while traveling home, East out of Albuquerque through Tijeras Canyon.
It was just above the horizon, walls of the Canyon, and seemed to be traveling NE...two objects, at first I thought Helicopters with search lights, flying out of Kirtland AFB...Just didn't get enough of a look to be sure, as they soon were hidden from view by the high walls of the Canyon.
KOB TV just reported many calls of sightings in Santa Fe and say astronomers say it could be meteors or "space junk."
They seemed to have a tail more like a comet, and didn't move anywhere near fast enough to be a shooting star, as I observed them for maybe five or ten seconds, in approximately the same location.
Definitely have to say I couldn't "Identify" them.
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:25:24 PM PST
by
moonhawk
To: jungleboy
I know that NASA was talking about separating the mis-aligned supply pod from the space station. Was this it?
To: jungleboy
Santa?
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:26:15 PM PST
by
SirChas
To: SirChas
I know they canceled the missile test this even. But did someone pass that along to the dudes on the other end?
Maybe we just got shot at?
To: Gordian Blade
There was some red, it was so colorful the kids said it looked like fireworks, and it did look like pieces burned out or trailed off, and others would flare up and change colors.
To: SEVENCROSS
Angular shape or movement? Triangular?
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:29:13 PM PST
by
Stentor
To: Channel_Islands_EANx_Diver
What's an "http://www.srtbell.com?"
Use you're left pinkie, not you ringfinger.(grin)
To: SirChas
And who busted Free Republic?
Where is the breaking news???
To: jungleboy
You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy. ; )
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I didn't post this.
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:30:28 PM PST
by
SirChas
To: RightWhale
The solution is that once you click "Post" even if it doen't refresh your screen right away, don't click again 'cause it probably did post. I do it often also (impatient)) and try to not do it anymore.
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:30:54 PM PST
by
JSteff
To: moonhawk
These flew over Northeast Kansas at approx. 10:30 Central time. The two lead objects were traveling in tandem. The trailing colorful streaks of light following behind were beautiful.
To: Stentor
The brighest light was ahead of the other dimmer lights which followed behind on both sides like a flock of geese, with some lights directly behind, there was no definite triangular pattern although. Just a group of beautiful lights moving SW to NE directly over our heads.
To: SEVENCROSS
I've been following UFO news off and on since I was a kid. (Longer than I'd like to admit, but not quite back to Roswell.) I'd like to think we aren't alone in the universe, but I haven't seen truly compelling evidence yet. I hope in my lifetime to see astronomers identify a planet of another star that has conditions more similar to earth than any planet in our solar system. That's about as close to finding alien life as I think I'm likely to get, unless something astonishing is found on Mars.
To: jungleboy
Could have been a comet fragment(s). The one I saw over Detroit a few years ago ( I believe 1999, about this time of year) sounds alot like the thing you saw. It streaked from one end of the sky to the other untill it was too far away to be seen. Behind it were broken pieces trailing behind at a slightly slower speed and decending slightly from the line the lead fragment travelled on. It was big and bright and was visible for about 30 seconds as it crossed the sky on a very flat trajectory.
I read about it in the paper the next day. They said it was a comet fragment.
To: jungleboy
I subscribe to a meteor mailing list and people have reported seeing it from Texas; consensus is it's almost certainly the re-entry of a satellite or space debris.
These pieces, while much, much larger than the rice or pea sized grains of a typical meteor, move much, more slowly, so you'll get a long-lasting trail and assorted pieces breaking off, flaring, etc.
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:41:44 PM PST
by
John H K
To: jungleboy
bttt
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posted on
12/01/2001 8:52:59 PM PST
by
_Jim
To: jungleboy
Leave the psilocybin alone!
To: StockAyatollah
It's that mushroom soup again, eh?
To: SEVENCROSS
Vandenburg was going to launch a rocket sometime this evening, could that possibly be it?
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