Topic 'UFO?' in forum 'General Questions' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/UFO-22652406 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:02:20 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:02:20 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22676120 said by TexasPlus:

Flying (the "F" in UFO) indicates operating within the atmosphere. A satellite is governed by "Orbital Mechanics" outside of the atmosphere. So if what the OP saw was a satellite, it could not be a uFo.... should we refer to it as a USO (Unidentified Satellite Object)? :D
According to NASA, the Space Station 'flies'. ;)

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said by NormanS:

However, given the technical definition of the term, "UFO", it definitely was a UFO that you saw. Unless you can match the time of the event to the expected courses of the various objects in orbit around this Earth.
Flying (the "F" in UFO) indicates operating within the atmosphere. A satellite is governed by "Orbital Mechanics" outside of the atmosphere. So if what the OP saw was a satellite, it could not be a uFo.... should we refer to it as a USO (Unidentified Satellite Object)? :D
Probably. Or "UOO", ("Unidentified Orbiting Object").
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However, given the technical definition of the term, "UFO", it definitely was a UFO that you saw. Unless you can match the time of the event to the expected courses of the various objects in orbit around this Earth. Flying (the "F" in UFO) indicates operating within the atmosphere. A satellite is governed by "Orbital Mechanics" outside of the atmosphere. So if what the OP saw was a satellite, it could not be a uFo.... should we refer to it as a USO (Unidentified Satellite Object)? :D
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However, given the technical definition of the term, "UFO", it definitely was a UFO that you saw. Unless you can match the time of the event to the expected courses of the various objects in orbit around this Earth.

As long as you remember: "UFO" != "flying saucer", or "alien spacecraft". Since either determination is an, "identification" of the object, and automatically removes the adjective "unidentified" from effect.
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Space Shuttle or ISS might explain the appearance and speed, but there were two of them. Also, I'm not sure the dates coincide - this was the last weekend in June.

I guess satellites could explain it, assuming they look like that. I've never seen this before though.

No abductions or other bizarre occurrences on the ground, thank goodness!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22672659 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:58:30 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22656149 said by tim_k:

I saw something similar a couple months ago. Only it didn't go across the sky, it appeared about in the middle of where I was looking and then I lost sight of it behind some trees.
Shortly after, was there any pain in, "Uranus"?

Matt
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But he said a second one crossed the sky a few minutes after the 1st one. Don't think the space station orbits that fast.
SatelliteS]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22654412 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:31:27 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22654240 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22654240 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:31:20 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22654201 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22654201 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:20:52 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22653643 said by maartena:

(happens to be down this weekend)
holy krap! the space station is down?!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22653643 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:27:56 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22652978 www.beloblog.com/KVUE_Blogs/weatherblog/ ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22652978 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:13:12 EDT Re: UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22652918
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Check here for the orbit the ISS takes around the earth:
»spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

(happens to be down this weekend)
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What is an SO ? .. nevermind.. got it]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-UFO-22652463 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:22:33 EDT UFO? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/UFO-22652406
While we were there - maybe in the 11pm or midnight hour - something that looked like a star moved right across the sky. It was about the size and brightness of a medium star. It moved and shone steadily, not arcing or tracing like a meterorite or "shooting star". It was very clear and unmistakable, though we could not discern any detail.

Speed-wise, it went all the way across the sky, treetops to treetops, in about two minutes. That's a huge distance if it was high, so it must have been very fast if it was very distant. We thought it must be distant because there was no sound at all.

We saw a plane too and it was different: flashing lights, red and white, and slower and made a distant drone.

Another one of the mystery lights moved across the sky a few minutes after the first one, in a somewhat different direction. In other respects it was just like the first.

We went out again the next night at about the same time, but there were only the stars and a plane and no star-looking lights moving.

Any ideas of what this was?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/UFO-22652406 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:01:59 EDT