UFOs

[irv]

Sounds legit.

JUST IN - Pentagon says "no debris" has been recovered from the 3 downed objects in Alaska, Canada, and Lake Huron — Austin
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/statu...RfLAsg26s%3D19

[ALR-bishop]

Scratch from list

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Scratch from list

That is hilarious.

[D. Bergin]

I saw a Starlink Satellite train fly over my house last night. Didn't know what the hell it was at first, and thought I was getting the first confirmed sighting of Santa Claus running his reindeer herd in a mid-February test run.

Then my wife Googled it and 3 minutes later told me it was a string of satellites working up their elevation until they got high enough to spin off from each other into higher orbit.

You can imagine my disappointment when I found that out.

Then I heard a noise coming from our woods, and asked her if she thought that might be Bigfoot.

She just rolled her eyes at me.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I saw a Starlink Satellite train fly over my house last night. Didn't know what the hell it was at first, and thought I was getting the first confirmed sighting of Santa Claus running his reindeer herd in a mid-February test run.

Then my wife Googled it and 3 minutes later told me it was a string of satellites working up their elevation until they got high enough to spin off from each other into higher orbit.

You can imagine my disappointment when I found that out.

Then I heard a noise coming from our woods, and asked her if she thought that might be Bigfoot.

She just rolled her eyes at me.

That would be very cool to see. I will have to look it up but it is supposed to be cloudy here for a few days.

The coolest thing I have seen looking into the night sky was the 2001 Leonid meteor shower. It was raining meteors.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by bnorth

That would be very cool to see. I will have to look it up but it is supposed to be cloudy here for a few days.

The coolest thing I have seen looking into the night sky was the 2001 Leonid meteor shower. It was raining meteors.

Yeah, it was pretty cool. I was outside with the dogs and looked up, and my first thought was "Why is the exhaust from that jet Fluorescing at night?", then I noticed the exhaust trail was a bunch of single lights moving in unison...and the next thing that crossed my mind was a jet plane pulling along a huge light up banner in the sky...like the small planes you see pulling advertising banners in touristy beach locations.

Once I found out they were satellites it made more sense...but was somehow less fun once you knew what they actually were. The fun was in actually not knowing what they were...which is a weird psychology I think we have as humans.

I remember the Leonid showers. Me and my wife woke up our then 6 year-old daughter around midnight to drive up to a lookout point at a state park that was open for just this occasion.

We get there around 1am thinking we'll have the place to ourselves, and the road up to the lookout was just packed with cars. At first we were disappointed, but then we ended up having a sort of surreal, communal experience with hundreds of other people at the top of a mountain around 1 to 2am in the morning. Reminded me of one of the earlier scenes in "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", with all those people drawn to the same lookout area at once.

We watched with all those other people as it looked like flaming boulders were falling out of the sky.

Been lots of meteor showers since, but I've never seen or experienced anything close to that...before OR after.

On the flip-side, I do still get excited when I look up and see something I haven't seen before. Even if it's just a satellite, a space station...or a string of 50+ satellites all in a row.

[steve B]

The space station was the most fun. Found the schedule and took my daughter out to see it.
Pointed out planes, stars, planets (Not bad for an urban area!)

Then the space station. Hey, that one there. That's a spaceship, a big one the astronauts spend a long time on doing science stuff.
Wow, a space ship!
Know what else makes it special?
No, what?
Daddy made a few parts for it.
What?! really? You built a spaceship?
No, just a few small pieces of one. It was fun.

[irv]

It's not aliens

I wish it were aliens

But it's not aliens

It's just the olé' engineered panic, an attractive nuisance ensuring natsec reporters get assigned to investigate balloon bullshit rather than budgets or bombings (à la Nord Stream)

Until next time...
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