UFO sighting ....

[GPW]

Saw something else this morning .... at first it looked like a plane (very high) .... had my binoculars handy to check it out this time .... it was a satellite ... going from S>N at a good clip...

[Corwin C]

Saw something else this morning .... at first it looked like a plane (very high) .... had my binoculars handy to check it out this time .... it was a satellite ... going from S>N at a good clip...

About what time (local) was it? I'll try to look it up.

[vreihen]

If we were an experiment and turned out this way,they may not have tried another.....

My feeling is different. If whatever calamity that made the dinosaurs go extinct millions of years ago did not happen, there is a chance that dinosaurs could have evolved into intelligent life long before humans did. If there was a similar timeline and cold-blooded base of animals on other planets, then they could have evolved into intelligent life that's advanced by at least a million years from us. Because of whatever made the dinosaurs extinct, humans may be an oddity in the universe because we evolved from warm-blooded creatures. This could explain why there are so many reports of so many UFO encounters that involve medical examinations, as we are the rare pandas of the intergalactic zoo.

Back to this original topic, there were some sightings in Kansas City last week as well. Some were explained, but not all.....

[GPW]

CC, about 05:00 ...

Vre, things Could have gone a lot different ... The dinosaurs we have today fly around our yards...

[Corwin C]

GPW,

The information about the object is here...(passes and orbit links in the upper right corner) and here... I'm not sure if the links will work for you because of my account/login at heavens-above, but worth a try, let me know if it works. Oooops...links removed because they gave direct access to my account.

If I'm right, it came out of the Earth's shadow at 4:54a in the south, and set at 5:07a in the NNE (local time and assuming New Orleans as your location)

SL-16 R/B
USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 31793
International Designation Code: 2007-029-B
I believe that this is a Russian (CIS) rocket body in a somewhat high circular orbit that was launched on 29 Jun 2007. It is travelling at about 16,650 miles per hour. Also, there are at least four trackable pieces of satellite debris associated with this launch. Just out of curiosity, were you able to see it well enough to tell if it was tumbling or not?

[GPW]

CC, the one I saw was going from N to S ...

[Corwin C]

There are several possibilities then ... these would have been very dim.

Okean 4
USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 23317
International Designation Code: 1994-066-A
Rise at 04:51a in the N, highest point at 04:55a 44° above the horizon in the E, set at 04:59a in the SSE
Russian/Ukrainian oceanic/meteorological spacecraft launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome by a Tsiklon rocket. This may be one of the last of the Tsiklon launches since it uses highly toxic fuel. Launched 11Oct1994.

Cosmos 2227
USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 22284
International Designation Code: 1992-093-A
Rise at 05:02a in the NNW, highest point at 05:06a 88° above horizon (almost overhead) in the SW, set at 05:12a in the SSE
Russian (CIS) satellite launched 25Dec1992

Cosmos 1867
USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 18187
International Designation Code: 1987-060-A
Rise at 05:03a in the NNW, highest point at 05:08a 47° above horizon in the ENE, set at 05:13a in the SE
Russian (CIS) satellite launched 11Jul1987

[GPW]

They were kinda’ small .... Reading about all the Stuff we have circling the planet , I guess increases the chances of seeing something ...

[pete42]

among my many hobbies I am a amateur radio operator (Ham radio).
one aspect of the hobby is amateur satellites most are launched into space on rockets as ballast
where they are released into space using explosive bolts.
The radios and housing's must be built and pass all the requirments just like the million dollar sats.
but at a cost of less than $100,000.
some if not all are in a north south low earth orbit up link on one frequency down link on another.
it could have been one of those that you saw then again I haven't done any sat-radio in years so I'm not sure they still do it.
pete KB8EMD

[Corwin C]

They were kinda’ small .... Reading about all the Stuff we have circling the planet , I guess increases the chances of seeing something ...

The closest one of the three would have been over 380 miles away. Makes 'em look small. Yes, there's lots of stuff up there. It is rare not to have 5-6 potentially visible objects overhead at any given time. Actually having the sunlight conditions & etc. to be able to see them is a little more rare.

Pete42,
Most of the amateur radio satellites are too small to see without knowing where and when to look and usually take at least binoculars. I tried to spot one that a college friend of mine helped build (it has decayed and come down now), but I didn't have any luck. I was told that it takes about $1,000 per pound to get something into orbit, just for launch costs, so they're pretty small.

[vreihen]

it could have been one of those that you saw then again I haven't done any sat-radio in years so I'm not sure they still do it.

Ham radio operators have probably contributed more to the space junk threat than any other non-governmental agency on the planet. According to Wikipedia, there are several new birds under construction around the world, and OSCAR 7 has come back from the dead. These are all well-known objects, and the orbital element sets are readily available. Don't know if any are big enough to see, though.....

[BigAl]

In the middle of the day on the motorway (freeway) while driving, I saw with clarity what I can only describe as a yellow ball similar but not exactly like a small sun moving slowly in a straight line. It was not the sun which was also visible in another part of the sky at the same time.

It was not refraction or reflection of the sun's image as it maintained a steady trajectory in the sky while we drove past. I would have said it was less than a hundred feet relative altitude and moving slower than us.

My wife and friend also in the car saw it also and we watched it for a while until the motorway took us out of the area.

It was for us at least an unidentified flying object. We were within five miles of a large coal fired power station and the largest oil refinery in the country. I do believe this was a natural phenomenon or some man made object rather than aliens from outer space.

Surely if you were an intelligent alien with the ability to travel to Earth you would avoid us AT ALL COSTS. I mean several Billion humans will screw you and your beautiful purple planet up real fast.



You wouldn't even need to come as a space tourist or probe a farmer to discover that. You could simply decode the radio waves from the 1930s rippling out from our beautiful planet to hear the speeches of Hitler or numerous other unfortunate episodes in human history. At some point our alien visitors would decode the film 'Aliens' and think to themselves "Sh*t, if the humans kicked those guys asses..."

[GPW]

Kinda’ makes you think , doesn’t it !!!