> A friend of mine reported me that at around 22:00 GMT June 1, 2004, one > object was seen in the sky in North Portugal and several Spanish > locations. Hello Oscar, There has been a mail exchange on this topic on both the 'meteorobs' and the 'meteorite-central' mailinglists: www.meteorobs.org (but the archive for June seems currently unavailable) www.meteoritecentral.com (where several of the meteorobs messages were forwarded too by Bob Verish) There are Radar detections of this object, pointing to altitudes between 2100 and 12100 meter and speeds near 800 km/h. It appeared on the south coast coming from the Spain-Portugal border, then turned towards Lisbon, and flew northwards just inside the coastline. You can exclude this being a decay (and certainly not Progress M1-11). Instead, this must have been something of an aircraft of some sort. Maybe something going from Gibraltar to the UK. Different sightings in the south and north of Portugal are spaced some 20 minutes. There are some definite oddities regarding this object (e.g., why did the Portugese Air Force apparently not try an interception?): but it is nothing satellite related IMHO. Even though the video image shot looks a bit like a satellite burn: see http://sic.sapo.pt/index.php?article=873&visual=3&area_id=5 - Marco ------ Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) Leiden, the Netherlands 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org DMS website: http://www.dmsweb.org priv. website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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