I spottted a strangely behaaving object in the sky
this evening around 7:00 PM CST.
I live near Memphis, TN (35.0 N, 89.6 W).
The sky was clear and I had gone out to my car to retrieve something.
This looked like a star of medium magnitude except that
it was moving in an irregular motion. It was not moving
much relative to other stars but every 10 - 15 seconds
it would move jerkily in a seemingly random direction.
I watched for around 15 minutes and called my wife out to verify
what I was seeing. I wondered if this might have been some country
testing a space plane. This could not have been the regular orbit of a satellite
due to the irregular movement of a degree or so of arc.
It was located about 30 degrees southeast of Orion almost aligned with the belt.
It did seem to get a little brighter as we watched and my wife said she saw
color shifts, though I really could not see that (looked white).
I have degrees in chemistry and math and have never seen
anything like this before in my 64+ years.
Comments or suggestions will be appreciated - thanks.
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To: ironwill333
2 posted on
01/30/2011 5:38:36 AM PST by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: ironwill333
3 posted on
01/30/2011 5:39:36 AM PST by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: ironwill333
I hope there were no alien abductions and anal probes involved in this!
4 posted on
01/30/2011 5:40:30 AM PST by
jmckay8497
(Cut Government)
To: ironwill333
5 posted on
01/30/2011 5:41:28 AM PST by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: ironwill333
ironwill333
Since Jan 30, 2011
Welcome to FR.
I have degrees in chemistry and math and have never seen anything like this before in my 64+ years.
Perhaps a degree in astronomy would have helped.
6 posted on
01/30/2011 5:42:04 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: ironwill333
7 posted on
01/30/2011 5:43:18 AM PST by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: ironwill333
Irregular sky object seen Saturday night.Metamucil will make everything regular again.
9 posted on
01/30/2011 5:44:35 AM PST by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: ironwill333
10 posted on
01/30/2011 5:44:41 AM PST by
shibumi
(I am the Astro-Creep, demolition style an American Freak!)
To: ironwill333
11 posted on
01/30/2011 5:45:40 AM PST by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: ironwill333
You signed up today to post this? Ok.
14 posted on
01/30/2011 5:48:09 AM PST by
TheZMan
(Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
To: ironwill333
15 posted on
01/30/2011 5:48:18 AM PST by
humblegunner
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To: ironwill333
It was Elvis, checking on Graceland.
16 posted on
01/30/2011 5:50:32 AM PST by
digger48
To: ironwill333
I have degrees in chemistry and math and have never seenSince there was only one of them and you didn't get a chance to pour acid on it, how would the degrees have helped?
19 posted on
01/30/2011 6:00:06 AM PST by
Stentor
( "All cults of personality begin as high drama and end as low comedy.")
To: ironwill333
I stopped one night in West Memphis last December. There were some really um...uh..unique people there. This must have been their Mother Ship.
20 posted on
01/30/2011 6:03:39 AM PST by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: ironwill333
21 posted on
01/30/2011 6:03:39 AM PST by
sonofagun
(Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
To: ironwill333
Swamp gas
Or maybe a Chinese missile
23 posted on
01/30/2011 6:05:50 AM PST by
JRios1968
(This is me, in a nutshell: "Let me out of here...I'm trapped in a nutshell!!!!")
To: shibumi
It was located about 30 degrees southeast of Orion almost aligned with the belt."And don't forget my dog, fixed and consequent" ping.
25 posted on
01/30/2011 6:13:11 AM PST by
Salamander
( I think I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest......)
To: ironwill333
...klaatu barada nikto*
*Andromedan for "IBTZ".
To: ironwill333
Welcome to Free Republic.
28 posted on
01/30/2011 6:20:15 AM PST by
cc2k
(If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse?)
To: ironwill333
It was a giant spaghetti monster.
I heard the spaghetti monster was on the prowl in your area.
29 posted on
01/30/2011 6:23:03 AM PST by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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