rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (08/15/84)
I saw a curious sight last weekend which I'd like explained as I am not one to believe in UFO's. I was staring at the sky at about midnight. Nice and dark so I had a terrific view. All of a sudden I noticed one of the stars on the eastern horizon moving rather quickly. It traveled in a straight line and disappeared over the western horizon in about two minutes, three at most. Now the question is, what did I see? I was not aware that satellites move so quickly in orbit. It was not a plane(no noise, no other lights other than a white speck as indicated by high powered binoculars). It was not a shooting star because they travel faster and tend to burn up rather quickly. It definitely appeared to be rather large because it was giving off a reflection yet it also appeared to be in orbit. Can anyone help? Robert PS. It was about 10-15 degrees to the south from directly overhead.
sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) (08/17/84)
Holly Martians, Batman!
It was just YAU (Yet Another UFO). No big deal. If NorAD computers
are programmed to ignore them, then we can too.
UFOs are real: the Air Force Project Blue Book doesn't exist.
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{ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)