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originally posted by: PRSpinster
a reply to: Bhadhidar
Your project was destroyed but the reverse engineered product is clearly still out there. They're sneaky bastards, don't ya think? Is there anything you can do about it?
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: Bhadhidar
So in your opinion, what are these folks observing?
Walsall,
UK
29-09-11 23:30
I had been observing Jupiter with my son. It was clear, though there must have been a very thin haze of cloud because the seeing wasn't brilliant. We stopped to watch a low-flying plane pass over the house on its way to Birmingham airport. The plane approached from roughly SW and as it passed overhead turned to a more easterly track in the direction of the airport. As it disappeared over the house I saw three yellow/orange lights out of the corner of my eye.
The lights were not sharp, they were dim, slightly fuzzy and a thin oval shape, with the centre brighter than the edges. Each was the same length (about half the diameter of a full moon). All three followed a parallel course from south to north. Two were close together, about two moon diameters apart, and the third further away and slightly behind.
They travelled very fast. From first observing them almost overhead to them disappearing (fading out in unison about 20 degrees above the horizon) took only 3 to 4 seconds.
I shouted to my son who also saw them. When I asked him to describe what he saw, he described the same as I had observed.
My initial impression was that it was some kind of reflection onto a thin cloud layer, but I can't see how it could be connected to the plane we saw given the relative directions and the speed difference.
Pretty sure they were not Chinese lanterns, satellites or meteors (all of which I have observed before)