Posted on 06/18/2012 10:21:11 PM PDT by jongaltsr
Well, now I'm a believer.
What I saw this evening tells me that there IS something out there that isn't a star, isn't an airplane and definitively isn't a normal fluctuation in the atmosphere.
I noted a "star"? in the SSW at about 30 degrees from the horizon.
At first I thought it was just a star jumping around due to atmospheric fluctuation. After a few minutes I noted that it "jumped" from time to time. About every 3rd or 4th jump I noted a second light jump with it and then immediately return to blend with the brighter object (star)?
I spend a fair amount of time in the evenings looking for satellites passing over and then checking with my NASA satellite tracking program to see just which one it was.
This was not a satellite. I don't know just what it was but it was not normal. Stars do fluctuate somewhat from time to time, but in this case ONLY this one was fluctuating and none of those nearby moved one iota.
It continued for more than 15 minutes or so until I couldn't strain my neck anymore.
It wasn't a star. If it was the ones in the immediate vicinity would have been jumping about in the same manner.
What it is I don't know but I'll make a educated guess. I won't tell you what I guess it was but I did want to report this for the purpose to elicit though as to what kind of object could possibly act in a manner independent from ALL other objects in the night sky.
It stayed relative to where I first viewed it.
It didn't streak across the sky - it merely "jumped" from spot to spot. The smaller object did seem to streak in response to the brighter objects movement (and) it always fell into the glow (behind or beside) the larger object.
I will post this and see what others might have to say on the subject.
Maybe one of you will have thoughts on the subject that might be of interest.
Thanks
Probably a military craft.
I just can’t schpell...
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I was checking out the eye of God for a while but I got tired. LOL! |
Sorry... just nustin yur chops.
I spent alot of my younger years reading things and watching the skies at night.
MOST PEOPLE are not professional sky watchers. By professional, I mean meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, aviators, that sort of thing.
MOST PEOPLE will, sometime during their lives, see very convincing evidence of something they cannot explain.
And I would have to agree with the various assesments that say 98% of these incidents are nothing unusual or extraterrestrial, just something the observer is not familiar with.
That still leaves the two percent that are unexplained.
When you tell me you saw something, I say that’s unusual, hope you figure it out...
If a pilot with 20,000 hours says he saw something I really, really start to wonder!!!
Don’t let ‘em abduct you, whatever you do. They always do that “anal probe” thing.
I have seen a UFO. Probably terrestrial, though.
20+ years ago, looking at the stars. A large object, darker than the sky, blotted out the stars as it passed overhead.
Had to have been huge. And series.
Was also a witness to the Phoenix lights. We were up to something, whatever it was.
I saw something many, many years ago, I was about 17.
My bed was situated sideways next to the bedroom window, I often slept with the window open and no screen.
In the middle of the night, 2 or 3 AM, I abruptly woke up and immediately looked out the window. Don’t know why.
Far above, in the sky there was this thing. Not anything I would call a ship or a plane, the nest way I can describe it is:
Take a soccer ball.
Glue a bunch of pyramids onto it.
Make it a glowing, translucent purple.
It came straight down at me, and whether it was real or just my imagination, I was so scared I ducked - looked up, and never saw it again.
I can say this much - for those brief moments (and the whole incident probably took maybe five seconds), for those few moments, and for ALL THE DECADES I have lived since then, THAT THING WAS REAL.
And at least part of my study I have tried to see if anyone else ever saw a similar thing, but never heard of it.
Whatever it was...
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh! Purple!
Never mind.
(Just messin’ with you.)
I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s been there for years, at least in my area. It never varies like other stars and planets, it always rises in the same spot 24/7. There’s another like it in the east, and it’s NOT Serias (the star)
It weaves and bobs, brightens and flares, and pretends it belongs there. Sometimes it seems to come in closer and sometimes it seems to back off but stays in the same relative area. I’ve tried to view it through a cheap telescope but all you could see was a weaving, bobbing, sparkling (throbbing it seems..each throb a different color) and I couldn’t make anything out of it. Same with good binoculars.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s just there and has been for at least 20 years or so. No seasonal changes...has to be man made.
I’m really glad you mentioned it though.
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