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UFO help needed!!!

kittynh

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usually I have no problem with the UFO questions I get on another site. Since I'm probably the only skeptic on there I like to answer the questions as well as I can. I've got all the Phillip Klass books and stuff, but HELP!!!

I can't quite make my mind up about this one...birds, kites...

I know I need more information like was it summer, where was it...

I do find that people are usually quite happy to get a reasonable explaination.

Any clues for me?


here it is.......................................


Question:
Hi, about 2 years ago me and some friends were walking to another friend's house and me and another person saw something in the sky. It was about 10pm and it looked like to brightly coloured objects (brighter than stars) were rotating around eachother. At this point everyone was watching and what was so weird was that these objects started rotating the other way around eachother. This must have lasted for about 15 - 20 seconds and then these objects flew off and faded in different directions. have you any suggestions to waht we saw that night? Some people i have told suggested it could have been a sattellite doing something but if was a very clever satellite if it was one!!! please email me back soon :)
 
I doubt this was it, but that sounds similar to something that really freaked me out while driving once...but then turned out to be a fancy spotlight display for an auto dealership in Exeter (yup, the home of Betty and Barney Hill, for those in the know...)
 
When my brother flew fighter jets they would do night excercises and would get UFO reports all the time from their afterburners. This sounds like it could be a possibility. Two jets circling then changing direction and leaving in different directions. Ask if there are any military bases around and what colour the lights were.
 
I'd go with Mercutio as to the most likely cause. It's certainly consistent with a similar experience I had in Northe Carolina last year
 
I've seen two things that fit the description.
1. Lasers (or very bright lights) used at an outdoor concert, projected on low cloud.
2. Two insects- likely moths- doing exactly what the observer said. At night, if they were catching a light shining at a particular level, they seem to fade rapidly as they separate.

I've seen both and been momentarily disconcerted. And I know my way around the night sky fairly well.
 
I'm with Mercutio, the idea that they rotated around each other in different directions supports the spotlight theory pretty well.

Also, do you have any people who insist that it was an alien ship they saw even though you explained that alien ships wouldn't have something like "American Airlines" painted on the side of their ship?
 
Dragonrock said:
Also, do you have any people who insist that it was an alien ship they saw even though you explained that alien ships wouldn't have something like "American Airlines" painted on the side of their ship?
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That's just part of their fiendish disguise
 
Don't laugh, I did a thread here quoting snippets from a book by a woman who believes that alien craft disguise themselves as airplanes. Her prime viewing area is in NJ, where she claims to have seen UFOs just circling around and around. Planes do not do that (well, planes I have been on do! ) . This all seems to happen in the direction of Newark airport!

Most people that pick me to answer their question really do want a truthful answer. Those that come to me with the "I was kidnapped" get not laughter, but an explaination about sleep and the many stages. If they still insist, I reccomend they seek help, as they may be suffering from PTSD. I know they aren't. But, they are very upset people, and others have been feeding into their fears. I also warn them NOT TO BE HYPNOTISED. I've had email back from people that are feeling much better since starting meds, and thanking me. However, the people who want to keep their fantasy won't ask me a question.
 
Kitty, You're such a sweetheart. It's obvious you really care about people. I've decided that I love you instead of pillory now.
 
I have seen something like this myself, on a couple of occasions. On each occasion, the event was a group of advertising aircraft flying around a stadium that was hosting a nighttime sporting event.

Over the 1999 All-Star game in Boston, for example, there were no fewer than four illuminated blimps over Fenway Park.
 
well, even the Bad Astronomer was stumped on this one. The duration was so short, it's hard to know what you've seen.

But thanks everyone! I passed on your answers to the person.

REally, a lot of sane people see stuff they can't explain. If they ask the wrong person...they get the stupid answer (aliens).
 
Just for future reference you might want to be aware that there are very powerful green laser pointers available now that cast a very visible beam into the sky. If the beam happens to fall on a power line or something it shows up like a green flash.

Green lasers

I attended our astronomy club's annual star party last weekend and one of the highlights was a laser-guided tour of the universe by one of our local astro-celebrities. I was surprized at how many other people also had green lasers, some of them quite powerful. At times there were 6 or 7 beams criss-crossing the sky at once.
 
kittynh,

What I'd like to know is, when will you write me an article on UFOs? :D
 
I was stumped, but now that Mercutio mentioned it, I have seen exactly what he is saying, and it matches the description perfectly. In fact, last Halloween a local group put together some sort of evening show, and had bright spotlight aimed upwards. They lights would circle each other and then move outward. As they moved out, they faded, due to their illumination of the cloud layer being spread out.

This seems to me to be the very likely answer.
 
The Bad Astronomer said:
I was stumped, but now that Mercutio mentioned it, I have seen exactly what he is saying, and it matches the description perfectly. In fact, last Halloween a local group put together some sort of evening show, and had bright spotlight aimed upwards. They lights would circle each other and then move outward. As they moved out, they faded, due to their illumination of the cloud layer being spread out.

This seems to me to be the very likely answer.
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(pokes The Bad Astronomer...you could clean out your desk too...I'm sure there's an article there too....)
 
CFLarsen said:
kittynh,

What I'd like to know is, when will you write me an article on UFOs? :D
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Claus, you short-sighted Flodin, you... :) The real article here, I humbly suggest, is on Kitty's work as the UFO expert, and her experiences with the individuals who come to her. It sounds like there is quite an art to telling people "yes, you saw something, but it was most likely not what you thought it was" without them hearing an implicit ", you idiot". And it sounds like Kitty does it well.

Anyway, that's the article I want Kitty to write...maybe as a chapter in the book G6 proposed...remember that?
 
wow! That would be fun, if Kitten would edit it for me. When you are an art major all you need to learn is to sign your name in the corner!
 
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