Have you ever seen a UFO?
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Los Angeles freaked out last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
I was once driving along a country lane when I spotted a single extremely bright light dashing across the sky. It was too high to be something small but moving far too fast to be a plane (and the lights weren't blinking) so I just couldn't quite work out what I was looking at.
I was so mesmerised that I almost failed to notice that I was about to crash into a bloody big hedge.
I stopped the car, got out and listened for any clues while I watched it skate across the sky, but there was just silence.
About ten years later I started getting interested in space stuff and realised it was the ISS, so I mentioned that on here, and was told that it was unlikely as the dates didn't quite match up (it was late 90s I think).
So it seems it was Mir or or a big satellite.
I was so mesmerised that I almost failed to notice that I was about to crash into a bloody big hedge.
I stopped the car, got out and listened for any clues while I watched it skate across the sky, but there was just silence.
About ten years later I started getting interested in space stuff and realised it was the ISS, so I mentioned that on here, and was told that it was unlikely as the dates didn't quite match up (it was late 90s I think).
So it seems it was Mir or or a big satellite.
MrCarPark said:
Los Angeles freaked out last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
That'd be pretty damn cool to watch! Would have imagined a Trident missile to be moving a lot quicker than that though, although it's hard to judge the speed from that video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
MrCarPark said:
Los Angeles freaked out last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
"Trident Test"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
Brother D said:
"Trident Test"
Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
Sometimes there are effects like this - sometimes not. Sometimes they are even more spectacular.Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
It depends on all sorts of factors - atmospheric conditions, sun angle, time of launch etc.
Essentially, as a rocket climbs higher into the sky, the exhaust plume gets broader and broader as the air gets thinner. If the sun angle is just right, the plume will glow quite spectacularly.
Eric Mc said:
Brother D said:
"Trident Test"
Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
Sometimes there are effects like this - sometimes not. Sometimes they are even more spectacular.Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
It depends on all sorts of factors - atmospheric conditions, sun angle, time of launch etc.
Essentially, as a rocket climbs higher into the sky, the exhaust plume gets broader and broader as the air gets thinner. If the sun angle is just right, the plume will glow quite spectacularly.
MrCarPark said:
Los Angeles freaked out last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
Sorry for the daft question, what actually is that?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
No. Well yes, but it was only briefly unidentified. I was running in the Pentland hills, south of Edinburgh one particularly grey and foggy day in 1998. Probably less than 10m visibility, when all of a sudden a small grey disc silently floated over my head. I freaked out a little at this and stopped running to listen. I could hear the faint hum of machinery and then a few seconds later was a second one. Then a third and it finally clicked.
I had run onto the dry ski slope. It was too foggy for anyone to be skiing so I imagine they were doing some testing/maintenance on the chair lift. The discs were the bottom of the seat bases.
I had run onto the dry ski slope. It was too foggy for anyone to be skiing so I imagine they were doing some testing/maintenance on the chair lift. The discs were the bottom of the seat bases.
Mr Trophy said:
MrCarPark said:
Los Angeles freaked out last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
Sorry for the daft question, what actually is that?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7mNmqJJ10&sn...
It was a Trident test
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/08/us-usa-c...
Brother D said:
Eric Mc said:
Brother D said:
"Trident Test"
Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
Sometimes there are effects like this - sometimes not. Sometimes they are even more spectacular.Not saying it's not... but surely there should be very similar spectacular footage taken from the many, possibly 100's of previous test launches no?
It depends on all sorts of factors - atmospheric conditions, sun angle, time of launch etc.
Essentially, as a rocket climbs higher into the sky, the exhaust plume gets broader and broader as the air gets thinner. If the sun angle is just right, the plume will glow quite spectacularly.
Only once for a split second did I ever think UFO (in the sense that it was an object in the air and I couldn’t identify it for a brief moment, not that I had seen aliens). I was crossing the Humber (in car) and I spotted a bright white disk/ellipse in the distance (looking from the bridge towards salt end) with a slight reddish tinge on the right hand edge, it then flashed much brighter momentarily and the tinge was now greenish, on the back edge. Putting two and two together; Humberside airport isn’t far and the colours are consistent with landing and navigation lights so it was obviously an aircraft of some description with its landing light on.
The problem with the term UFO is it automatically gets jumped on by the wooo brigade and that means if you ever mention UFO people think you mean aliens visiting us. Which couldn’t be further from the truth in most cases.
I have to admit to often watch UFO programs for a bit of a giggle the one or two cases where there actually might be a bit of merit in them being of terrestrial origin is jumped on and it becomes aliens. I quite enjoy picking them apart. One of the best ones I ever saw was actually a program about the development of the A12 and later the SR71. One of the old guys was saying how they would get Project Blue Book officials asking questions like “Did you have anything in the air that day” were met with “No” (or words to that effect), they did of course but weren’t going to admit it. So many sightings of A12’s and SR71’s 40,000ft+ above the height of an airliner and moving four times as fast were forever recorded as ‘UFO’.
The problem with the term UFO is it automatically gets jumped on by the wooo brigade and that means if you ever mention UFO people think you mean aliens visiting us. Which couldn’t be further from the truth in most cases.
I have to admit to often watch UFO programs for a bit of a giggle the one or two cases where there actually might be a bit of merit in them being of terrestrial origin is jumped on and it becomes aliens. I quite enjoy picking them apart. One of the best ones I ever saw was actually a program about the development of the A12 and later the SR71. One of the old guys was saying how they would get Project Blue Book officials asking questions like “Did you have anything in the air that day” were met with “No” (or words to that effect), they did of course but weren’t going to admit it. So many sightings of A12’s and SR71’s 40,000ft+ above the height of an airliner and moving four times as fast were forever recorded as ‘UFO’.
Strange event when I was 18 or 19, I was driving along a dark road one night, when suddenly what had looked like the light of a plane at cruising height very suddenly shot the other way with no plane-like turn, and at a speed far faster than it had been going. I wouldn't have really thought much of it but my friend who wasn't driving asked if I had seen it.
No anal probing or visits to the planet Zog but it was apparently a flying object which we never really identified nor came up with any satisfactory explanation for.
Answers on a postcard.
No anal probing or visits to the planet Zog but it was apparently a flying object which we never really identified nor came up with any satisfactory explanation for.
Answers on a postcard.
AJS- said:
Strange event when I was 18 or 19, I was driving along a dark road one night, when suddenly what had looked like the light of a plane at cruising height very suddenly shot the other way with no plane-like turn, and at a speed far faster than it had been going. I wouldn't have really thought much of it but my friend who wasn't driving asked if I had seen it.
No anal probing or visits to the planet Zog but it was apparently a flying object which we never really identified nor came up with any satisfactory explanation for.
Answers on a postcard.
Meteor I would have thought.No anal probing or visits to the planet Zog but it was apparently a flying object which we never really identified nor came up with any satisfactory explanation for.
Answers on a postcard.
I saw one the other night as it happens, when looking out of the window to see some fireworks.
Eric Mc said:
Sometimes there are effects like this - sometimes not. Sometimes they are even more spectacular.
It depends on all sorts of factors - atmospheric conditions, sun angle, time of launch etc.
Essentially, as a rocket climbs higher into the sky, the exhaust plume gets broader and broader as the air gets thinner. If the sun angle is just right, the plume will glow quite spectacularly.
Are these blue spirals rocket launches?It depends on all sorts of factors - atmospheric conditions, sun angle, time of launch etc.
Essentially, as a rocket climbs higher into the sky, the exhaust plume gets broader and broader as the air gets thinner. If the sun angle is just right, the plume will glow quite spectacularly.
I'm thinking the Norwegian spiral.
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