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UFO identification help please?

Red collision lights top and bottom are pretty standard on aircraft- generally with a red port light , green starboard one and white light at the rear.

Internally lit airships look very spooky at night, especially seen at a shallow angle.
 
kittynh said:
OK on the UFO site....this question came up. It sounds like something man made (of course!) but what exactly? Pronto help would be very welcome!

here is it...


It was about the size of a blimp. pretty close to the ground, about the height a blimp would travel. It was bright. It radiated a whitish, somewhat blue color and it was a ovalish, fat-disk shape. It almost seemed like it illuminated the immediate area around it as well. It reminded me of a very bright glow stick. There were no "lights" shining down or onto it or anything else... the entire surface of the object was emitting a soft, but strong, glowing light.

I thought it maybe just a blimp lit up like a lantern, but it wasn't. There were no letters or signs... the light was too bright for them to be visible anyway. Plus it wasn't a fat blimp shape. It was a bit more elongated and skinnier, like a disk, but not so flat. There was no soil outline of the object. The light was too bright to see that.

It moved smooth and straight like a blimp would but faster. it traveled at a steady speed maybe 30-40 mph then sped up to about 60-70 mph.

Once the distance between us and it increased we could see the entire thing clearly. The color was more white now and then we defiantly seen a red light on top of the object and then another red light on bottom.
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Interesting. You have estimates on the size, altitude, and speed but my question is what are you basing your scaling on? Are there specific fixed references that let you establish these values? In other words, how sure are you on the accuracy of those estimates?
 
CosmicDP said:
Interesting. You have estimates on the size, altitude, and speed but my question is what are you basing your scaling on? Are there specific fixed references that let you establish these values? In other words, how sure are you on the accuracy of those estimates?
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Kittynh tries to answer queries from folk who think they saw UFOs.
She's not the one claiming the sighting.

ETA- But your point is valid. Claimed estimates of speed, size altitude etc are generally plucked from the imaginosphere.
 
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ferd burfle said:
Kitty, was this sighting in New England? If so, could it be the Hood blimp? It's lit from inside and is white(ish). I know this doesn't match some of the details you gave but maybe it's close enough (??)

See day and night images at http://www.redsoxblimp.com/ (Sorry no images, I'm unsure on rules 4 and 5).


Regards,

ferd
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I believe the Hood blimp is no longer active. I haven't seen it in several years even though it used to make appearances in NH quite regularly.
 
Astrophotographer said:
I believe the Hood blimp is no longer active. I haven't seen it in several years even though it used to make appearances in NH quite regularly.
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Thanks Ap, I should have looked at the dates on that web site more closely.:o

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Never mind!

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MG1962 said:
Where is Biggles when you need him
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Nobody could argue against a blimp with the requisite vehemence as our old friend Dirk Biddle.

Since he left the forums, the anti-blimp contingent is totally unrepresented. The blimpologists now have free reign to float their pro-blimp rhetoric unopposed on all blimp-related issues.
 
Gawdzilla said:
Anybody said "Oh, the huge manatee!" yet?
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