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Yes to a good camera...night vision, maybe?
I did have a "pilot" friend that told me about a "strange sighting" back in the mid 80's. Out for a ride on his Goldwing with a group. Upstate NY, "pitchblack" night, and pulled over waiting, while someone in the group had bike trouble. He said, at first he thought he was looking at "landing lights" until the light did a 90 degree turn and accelerated super fast and was gone. Several in his group saw it, too.


Honestly, pilots are about the best witnesses "to something not right" that you can find. I've seen a couple of shows years back about WWII pilots reporting them (from both sides). Everyone thought that the other side had some 'high tech' stuff they didn't know about...Foo Fighters was the reference (also a favorite band of mine). I seriously have no idea what they are, but I do consider myself fairly up on what's flying...love aircraft, study aircraft, dug them as far back as I can remember. I can actually tell you what fighter jet is taking off at an air show just by the sound of it's engines (especially McDonnell Douglas/Boeing jets since I hear them daily). I live fairly close to an airport, and work right next to Lambert Field (St. Louis international airport). Expert? Probably not by some standards. But I know what I know, and these things don't fit into what's logically, legally, or possibly flying. Really doesn't matter if I do get a good camera set-up. Someone will say I Photoshopped it, or faked it somehow. But I promise you (and my cousin's husband can attest), something totally wrong with the way it looks and moves. Didn't see a thing in the first 47 years of my life that made me think that UFO's were anything more than an active imagination...I have been converted.
 

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OK, you got me there! I did see this on Sept 29th at 5am. It was in position of the constellation west of the big dipper. I only saw about 10seconds of it before it faded out. Your description was perfect for that.

Being that it was right in front of a dim star, and didn't move, made me wander about a super nova or something. But that orange color, very strange. It could be consistent with an object reflecting the morning sun from space or high altitude, but still it didn't move. It should have moved at least a little for any craft I can think of.


That's exactly what I thought the first time I saw in in November 5 years ago...Supernova? I've seen shooting stars and asteroids (same thing more or less). Thought, "If it's an asteroid, it's heading straight at me.", because there was no movement...even when it blinked out, came back, and blinked out again (might have been several times...we were mesmerized.) Strange subject, and very subjective for sure. :)
 

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AMEN .... glad that's settled .. :) .. anything else you could use some assistance with ..:confused:

Jim


Well JEBar, there was this sighting of a Bigfoot riding a sea serpent when we were down at Lake of the Ozarks....:D. But that turned out to be my buddy Nick (very hairy individual!) floating on my daughter's raft. :rolleyes:
 

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Well JEBar, there was this sighting of a Bigfoot riding a sea serpent when we were down at Lake of the Ozarks....:D. But that turned out to be my buddy Nick (very hairy individual!) floating on my daughter's raft. :rolleyes:

understandable, I've got a couple of friends like that

Jim
 

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I live in a B'ham suburb. Years ago, a UFO was sighted by dozens of movie goers not far from my house. They were standing in line to buy tickets and saw a large, dark shape hovering directly overhead. After a few minutes, it took off without a sound. For the last 25 years or so, I look up just about every night. I haven't seen anything other than the moon, planets, stars and man-made aircraft. If the thing comes back, I want to see it. ;)
 
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