Magical Realist
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Did it look like a sky rocket too?
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Did it look like a sky rocket too?
Looks can be deceiving. I saw a while back what looked like a meteor shower falling to Earth. It was actually the discarded former space station Skylab.
Magical Realist
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Yeah I saw that too. Looked just like the discarded former space station too.
Did you?
It was only visible from Western Australia, and of course it looked nothing like anything constructed by human hands: It simply looked like a meteor shower. You aren't telling porky pies, are you?
Magical Realist
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Did you?
I saw it on TV. The pieces broke into many different smoking fragments. Nothing like a meteor.
Rubbish...the pieces were indistinguishable from a meteor shower.Of course "IF" you did see it on TV, you were well aware of what it was and so consequently had confirmation in your own mind.
http://www.history.com/news/the-day...s-about-the-first-u-s-space-stations-re-entry
"On the 33rd anniversary of Skylab’s fiery return to terra firma, find out more about the causes and fallout of the crash, as well as how NASA scrambled to cope with it"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
"and people on earth and an airline pilot saw dozens of colorful firework-like flares as large pieces of the space station broke up in the atmosphere"
Yep, just like any meteor shower!I saw it on TV. The pieces broke into many different smoking fragments. Nothing like a meteor.
Xelasnave.1947
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I was/am a keen astronomer and once would stay up all night for a week at a time observing and taking photos.
The first time I saw an iridium flare I thought it was a supernova.
Of course supernova won't be observed with the naked eye but it has happened...so it was exciting.
But when I reported on the astronomy forum was told all about them.
Interestingly I captured one in a wide field shot of the Milly way. It showed up as a streak that tappered "on and off".
I have seen fire balls break up and the first time thought it was something man made breaking up.
Never seen anything (at night) you could call a UFO.
But once in daylight I thought I was looking at a " flying saucer" but it was a jet reflecting on a small clould...but for a moment it had me fooled.
Sailing at night I mistook a wave along side the boat for a whale coming up under the boat..it was dark and I always held a fear of being hit by a whale.
So it is these isolated events that cause me to think hard about what I am really seeing and moreover what other people think they have seen.
Alex
The first time I saw an iridium flare I thought it was a supernova.
Of course supernova won't be observed with the naked eye but it has happened...so it was exciting.
But when I reported on the astronomy forum was told all about them.
Interestingly I captured one in a wide field shot of the Milly way. It showed up as a streak that tappered "on and off".
I have seen fire balls break up and the first time thought it was something man made breaking up.
Never seen anything (at night) you could call a UFO.
But once in daylight I thought I was looking at a " flying saucer" but it was a jet reflecting on a small clould...but for a moment it had me fooled.
Sailing at night I mistook a wave along side the boat for a whale coming up under the boat..it was dark and I always held a fear of being hit by a whale.
So it is these isolated events that cause me to think hard about what I am really seeing and moreover what other people think they have seen.
Alex
Magical Realist
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Have you had your eyes checked lately?
Magical Realist
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Yep, just like any meteor shower!
Here's what a meteor shower looks like. Note this is time lapsed:
Meteor showers come in many different arrangements obviously, and also quite different from a meteor break up in the atmosphere.
In reality again, the Skylab re-entry incident was indistinguishable from a meteor show and/or a meteor break up, no matter how you need to deny those facts to support your own confirmation bias re UFO's misinterpetations of sightings, delusions and illusions, or similar mistaken identity episodes re UFO's.
Magical Realist
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I see. So we started out with "meteor", then we went to "meteor shower", and now we're at "large meteor breaking up"..Still looks more like space junk to me..
Of course it does, as does a meteor shower.
Passing through a meteor show [like the Perseid's] is far different from a meteor shower, initiating from a large meteor break up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Either way, the Skylab was the first man made large object to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, and you watching it on TV, already knew what it was.
Space junk as you put it, depends on the construction and how big it is: It may look like the meteor shower when passing through the tail of a comet or meteoroid, or if large enough, like the breaking up of a meteor in the Earth's atmosphere...or perhaps even a Bolide.
Magical Realist
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The Perseids event IS a meteor shower, not a meteor show. But then you knew that..
me·te·or show·er
noun
ASTRONOMY
- a number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky at a particular date each year, due to the earth's regularly passing through a field of particles at that position in its orbit. Meteor showers are named after the constellation in which the radiant is situated, e.g., the Perseids.
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Xelasnave.1947
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Yes like a lot "eye witnesses" I found I needed glasses...recently.
But I talk of days where my sight was perfect...if you are into astronomy you are very conscience about your sight.
How many "eye witnesses" of UFO,s are able to boast good eye sight.
How many could find their interpretation of a sighting was not emotionally processed by their brain as per my whale encounter.
I know you don't know and how could you know and yet you assume their eyes and emotional baggage need not be considered.
I would be surprised if a man of your obvious intelligence could overlook those factors.
Alex
Xelasnave.1947
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I have only seen one really good shower.
It was wonderful.
At my dark site and they passed in 2,s and 3,s coming from North and passing near overhead.
One of the most wonderful things I have ever seen.
I expected an prepared for the event so I did not think space junk etc.
Alex
It was wonderful.
At my dark site and they passed in 2,s and 3,s coming from North and passing near overhead.
One of the most wonderful things I have ever seen.
I expected an prepared for the event so I did not think space junk etc.
Alex
Magical Realist
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So you can count on your hands the times when you mistook something visually, compared to the millions of times you have seen exactly what was there. And that makes seeing just so unreliable, and especially with ufos, because you just know for a fact that they don't exist. Got it..
Magical Realist
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So your eyes actually worked right that time. Amazing!
You play semantics well.
Again it fails to show how anyone, even yourself, could distinguish between a meteor shower, meteor break up, or Bolide, from the re-entry of Skylab.
And of course you couldn't [without prior knowledge] and just another example of your obfuscation, semantic games and delusions for the reasons we all know.
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