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Hot air balloon?
Not a bad guess - warmish. But this glowing ball was far bigger than a flame and far brighter than a balloon could be.
flame? glowing? hot? the Mythbusters visiting home?
2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
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Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
#22CDR Fravor was a simulator instructor of mine when I went through training a decade ago. He was also featured in the PBS Special “Carrier” a few years ago. Somehow ends up in the limelight over and over! His callsign is most certainly NSFW.
He looks exactly like Robin Williams.
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
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Reflection of some light source in the window?
Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h. || me brdge giantball | || v ||
Reflection off a specific vehicle also moving south on the bridge.
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
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Reflection of some light source in the window?
Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h. || me brdge giantball | || v ||
Ok here it is since I have to go ...
It was the reflection of the sun in an airplane's cockpit window. The airplane was actually maybe five kilometres away but the extreme brightness played with my sense of distance. The window must have been flat for the reflection to be so bright.
It didn't appear to move because its speed north relative to the bridge matched my speed south -- i.e. the line between me and the airplane crossed (just west of) the bridge at the same point for a long time. The point of reflection must've been tiny. But it was right on me. I suspect no-one else in the ferry saw what I saw. And it must be extraordinarily rare for the circumstances to be maintained for so long. The illusion disappeared after the ferry and airplane made their turns.
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
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Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h. || me brdge giantball | || v ||
because it’s the reflection of the sun, and it’s far away, so if you move, the reflection moves too? Which if true lets me guess you live in Manly?
Well done. I was commuting to work at North Head (near Manly).
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
#26The key question here is not if these stories are true, or what the objects may be. The question is... Why does the government want to bring UFOs to the fore at this time?
I was wondering that too -- also in the news recently, the "interstellar object" that for some reason has attracted enough attention to scan it for "alien life", whatever that means. https://www.space.com/39100-interstellar-object-oumuamua-ali... Is this leading up to some big news story to deflect news from something else?
Look over there, Chrome Space Puppies!
https://harvardgazette.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/jeff-koon...
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
#27CDR Fravor was a simulator instructor of mine when I went through training a decade ago. He was also featured in the PBS Special “Carrier” a few years ago. Somehow ends up in the limelight over and over! His callsign is most certainly NSFW.
He did look very familiar. Now I know why. I remember him saying near end of the series that he was retiring instead of having to take assignment that would have him pilot desks.
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
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Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h. || me brdge giantball | || v ||
Reflection off a specific vehicle also moving south on the bridge.
Not bad but I would have seen movement of the vehicle against the bridge metalwork. And the reflection appeared on the other side.
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
#29The key question here is not if these stories are true, or what the objects may be. The question is... Why does the government want to bring UFOs to the fore at this time?
POTUS is going after the soecial counsel.
Re: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
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Very warm. But why didn't it (appear to) move in relation to other things. It should have since I was moving south around 20km/h. || me brdge giantball | || v ||
Ok here it is since I have to go ... It was the reflection of the sun in an airplane's cockpit window. The airplane was actually maybe five kilometres away but the extreme brightness played with my sense of distance. The window must have been flat for the reflection to be so bright. It didn't appear to move because its speed north relative to the bridge matched my speed south -- i.e. the line between me and the airpl…
The bigger point here is that if you have people self select and report visual illusions it would be amazing if you didn't hear about something inexplicable.
So all this stuff about UFO sightings means about zero.