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Re: star like object seen breaking up

Started by reconair, 05/12/2009 10:11AM
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Louis Busby
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I have seen the very same thing on two occassions - once with a telescope. It was a weather balloon. Both times it was in the same area of the sky you describe and the same time of day.
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Yeah, I saw the same thing two years ago and got a couple of hand held pics through the scope. Not the best quality but it shows what happened.

Jess: Looked more like the death star than Vulcan. In the second pic you can almost make out the Luke's X Wing fighter escaping the blast.

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Weather balloon??? How many times will the people fall for that old canard? Don't cry to me when the 'probe' begins.... shocked

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I'm sorry Dave.......

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(actually, I know I was being a goofball.....and was relieved when you got a serious response. It is not good when all of us are goofballs. Of course, then it all went goofbally again!!!)
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Louis Busby said:

I have seen the very same thing on two occassions - once with a telescope. It was a weather balloon. Both times it was in the same area of the sky you describe and the same time of day.


S u r e it was... The government said the same thing about Roswell.
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