Hi Walker, According to your description, you saw a ufos rendez-vous : satellites never stop their course, nor planes. You will be explained you observed two met balloons. Have a great day ! Patrick, Paris, France ----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Walker, Wynne" <Wynne.Walker@elpaso.com> À : "'SeeSat-L@lists.satellite.eu.org'" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Envoyé : jeudi 15 novembre 2001 21:31 Objet : new subscriber with a question > Hello All, > > I'm a new subscriber, a 42 year old geologist living in Houston, TX. I've > been fascinated with astronomy and night sky gazing for a long time, and > last night I saw something I can't readily explain. > > At approximately 6:45 CST, I saw a satellite approaching from the NW. It was > on a path to go directly overhead. I could distinguish only one other star > in the sky at that time, due to light pollution and weather; the sat. was > just slightly brighter than the star. > > About 10-15 degrees before it reached it's maximum altitude, it stopped > moving completely. It remained stationary for several minutes; I had > positioned it relative to a phone line and it had no apparent movement. Then > it started moving again. Then I saw a second satellite approaching from the > W-NW. It too stopped moving completely for a couple minutes then continued. > It's maximum altitude was ~ 70 deg. > > I saw a third satellite a few minutes later, which acted quite normally. I'm > sure there are good explanations for what I saw and would greatly appreciate > hearing them. I checked H-A and can't quite match what they listed with what > I saw,let alone that stationary business. > > My apologies for the length of this message. > > Many thanks and happy night watching, > > Wynne Walker > 29.763 > -95.363 > > > > > > ****************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it from the ElPaso > Corporation are confidential and intended solely for the > use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. > If you have received this email in error please notify the > sender. > ****************************************************************** > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html >
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