'UFOs' filmed leaving Earth just before NASA cuts feed

[kiseca]

genuine

[Eric Mc]

I can see the ISS.

[kiseca]

Eric Mc said:

I can see the ISS.

You mean in the picture, or you just happen to be staring out the window and you're making an observation?

[jmorgan]

ISS is predictable, so you can watch it pass. With the right kit you can make out the shape, and with a scope, make out a lot of detail.

Even the spy mini shuttle thingy was tracked by the amateur spotters.

[MrCarPark]

This website shows the debris (and satellites etc.) in real time.

url = stuffin.space

Quite addictive

[Eric Mc]

kiseca said:

Eric Mc said:

I can see the ISS.

You mean in the picture, or you just happen to be staring out the window and you're making an observation?

The picture.

It was a joke.

As jmorgan says, in reality, spotting the ISS is quite easy - once you know at what times it's visible. There is a separate thread on here that covers those times when it can be seem from the UK.

[kiseca]

Eric Mc said:

kiseca said:

Eric Mc said:

I can see the ISS.

You mean in the picture, or you just happen to be staring out the window and you're making an observation?

The picture.

It was a joke.

As jmorgan says, in reality, spotting the ISS is quite easy - once you know at what times it's visible. There is a separate thread on here that covers those times when it can be seem from the UK.

I know you meant the picture. I was making a joke too

[hornet]

Mr Trophy said:

Here's a question... Lets just say Nasa / the government knew there was something "out there"

Would they tell us?

In terms of this discussion, if they did indeed know something was out there, given its propensity for photobombing mission footage at every given opportunity, why would they ever risk broadcasting live footage? Entrusting secrecy to some bloke sat on a kill switch seems absurd for a secret of that magnitude. If they had any inkling their footage was going to reveal things, they'd never broadcast it to start with.

[Astacus]

Eric Mc said:

Absolutely. Interesting to those in whom the "woo" is big.

Rather dismissive Eric,

I doubt NASA are concealing anything here, but the phenomenon is interesting

I am certainly not a fan of what you call woo woo, but I would certainly like to know what those things were. Even if they are some sort of fakery, it's interesting, no?

Any sensible explanation of what they might be?

[Zad]

This is the best shot I got of the ISS



I don't think the aliens have anything to worry about from my 200mm lens

[jmorgan]

Zad said:

This is the best shot I got of the ISS



I don't think the aliens have anything to worry about from my 200mm lens

They would not stop for me.

International Space Station pass over S Wales 19/2/13 by Jeff, on Flickr

[Eric Mc]

Astacus said:

Eric Mc said:

Absolutely. Interesting to those in whom the "woo" is big.

Rather dismissive Eric,

I doubt NASA are concealing anything here, but the phenomenon is interesting

I am certainly not a fan of what you call woo woo, but I would certainly like to know what those things were. Even if they are some sort of fakery, it's interesting, no?

Any sensible explanation of what they might be?

I did mention some at the start. The trouble, as I said, is that there is no scale available to judge its speed, distance, true angle of direction etc. It could be a speck a of paint a few inches from the camera or a huge mountain sized rock thousands of miles away.

There is a lot of debris, dust, paint etc floating around in earth orbit. The ISS, Shuttles etc have been struck many times by such tiny particles. I would put my guess that it's more likely to be something like that.

[Hooli]

jmorgan said:

kiseca said:

jmorgan said:

Eric Mc said:

In a nutshell -

UFO's!!!!

Well, can you identify all of them?

Weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, Lord Lucan, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon, weather balloon,......

[Einion Yrth]

Eric Mc said:

There is a lot of debris, dust, paint etc floating around in earth orbit

Well it's not really "floating", is it? More sort of "hurtling".

[Eric Mc]

Relatively speaking it may just "float by" - or it may impact you with the momentum of a freight train.

[jmorgan]

It is all relative. As it is in view then perhaps it's relative place in the universe is around the space station. Then you have the space station relative to the earth, or rather falling around it constantly and not hitting the earth. The earth is constantly falling around the sun..... The sun is falling around the Galaxy........

[jmorgan]

Seems a fitting place to leave this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-33479808

[Eric Mc]

"Welsh Government responds in Klingon".

How could anyone tell it was Klingon?

How do Klingons spell "Ambulance"?

[MarshPhantom]

Chinese Lanterns? Off to set fire to the moon.

[jmorgan]

Wonder who was after the info. There have been a few sightings over the years but with St Athan, Cardiff airport, police heliopters (thee is a base near Cardiff, not the airport) and indeed Chinese lanterns, it has to be et. Stands to reason.