At 12:11 26/06/01 , Terry Pundiak wrote: in part >This evening at 9:16 EDT a group of us were watching a few astronomy objects >near Allentown, PA's (lat 40.6, long -75.5) Lehigh Valley International >Airport, when an odd sight was seen 30 degrees in the south. Particularly >weird was I was just starting on my story about a UFO I had seen several >years ago (which was easily identified through a telescope as two large >planes in the act of refueling quit neat) At that moment what we saw was >really strange. At first it was surely an airplane shining its landing >lights as if it were flying to the right in a fog so as to see its diverging >Could this have been a fuel dump? Was it too large? Were any new rockets up >there this evening? There were no scheduled launches today or yesterday Terry. I suggest you saw a short rocket burn, from a member of one of several constellations of LEO satellites, Iridium, globalstar, orbicom. Tony Beresford Adelaide, So. Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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