Just our backyard, roughly 27th south and 3rd east in South Salt Lake, and we were looking south. It was really intriguing. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+blanchard-a=ugs.utah.edu@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+blanchard-a=ugs.utah.edu@mailman.xmission .com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:28 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Odd objects Ann, that's so cool -- where were you? Thanks, Joe
Ok, so now you're getting us to admit seeing something odd as well, but we had decided not to describe to others (figuring suggestions of eye surgery or other forms of medical treatment). Early this summer Craig and I were viewing from our back yard and also looking through binoculars. Two nights in a week period, Craig said he saw a moving ark shaped dark shape (through the binoculars) that you did see it as much as you saw the shape blocking out the stars. I politely said nothing, because I didn't see it. The next week, to my surprise, I had the same experience through binoculars, and it lasted for several seconds. That shot my unsaid theory of Vietnam flashbacks for Craig, but I have no idea what we saw and we haven't seen it since. We both drew on paper what we saw and then showed them to each other to see how similar they were. Our best guess was some stealth military plane working on a Bush-like spy on your own people project.
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+blanchard-a=ugs.utah.edu@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+blanchard-a=ugs.utah.edu@mailman.xmissio n ..com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:12 AM To: Utah-Astro Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Odd objects
On more than one occassion, and over a span of decades, I have seen completely dark objects, "flying" in straight-line paths at night. Detected only by their silhouettes, as stars and the Milky Way winked-out when they passed. Always very fast, 10-20 degrees per second. At first I thought about bats, owls or some other nocturnal bird, but they usually fly in a formation of 3. Completely soundless, even minutes afterwards- so I don't think they could be supersonic jets. When they were detected, it was usually several times during the same night, sometimes multiple passes over parallel courses. Then no sightings for years and years. I have seen them mostly over the desert, can't recall seeing them over an alpine location.
Anybody else ever notice these things? Any ideas besides hallucination?
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