Another UFO?

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Another UFO?

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Was scanning the rich star field around canis major using a low-power eyepiece on my TV85 when I spotted a rapidly moving object moving near to Sirius. Tracked the object with the scope and noticed that it is disc-shaped and dark-brown in colour; reminds me of a red-blood cell. The object took about 30 seconds to move from Sirius to just south of Canopus before disappearing from view. Time was about 10.45pm. Rather late to be a satellite and a check with www.heavens-above.com confirmed that no satellite pass is visible from my observing location at that time. Any guess as to what the object is? (I am very sure its not a meteor or aircraft).
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since u said that it's shaped like a disc, it's quite unlikely that it's gonna be an aircraft. furthermore, i dun think that it will be a meteor either(gone less than 2s). Might be the 2nd sighting of UFO since u guys spotted the previous 1 at dempsey =p



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woah..sounds exciting! but could it be space junk? Maybe you can draw it out and show how it looks like?
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scary ! makes u really ponder about the existence of life out there ..
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Tonight I shall go for a UFO hunting ;)
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haha where u planning to look for them? around the pleiades region? :lol:
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acc wrote:Was scanning the rich star field around canis major using a low-power eyepiece on my TV85 when I spotted a rapidly moving object moving near to Sirius. Tracked the object with the scope and noticed that it is disc-shaped and dark-brown in colour; reminds me of a red-blood cell. The object took about 30 seconds to move from Sirius to just south of Canopus before disappearing from view. Time was about 10.45pm. Rather late to be a satellite and a check with www.heavens-above.com confirmed that no satellite pass is visible from my observing location at that time. Any guess as to what the object is? (I am very sure its not a meteor or aircraft).
as usual, cc is a magnet for UFOs...I would not be surprised if one day he gets abducted by aliens...then we can all inherit the Portaball.... :D
what you see could be a weather balloon or worse, a balloon left over from the NY party...
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as usual, cc is a magnet for UFOs...I would not be surprised if one day he gets abducted by aliens...then we can all inherit the Portaball....
what you see could be a weather balloon or worse, a balloon left over from the NY party...
Not entirely ruling out the balloon theory but the object was moving in a straight line at a constant speed.... seems to be more of an object in orbit. I am thinking its some sort of space junk or satellite but I am wondering how could these objects be visible at 10.45pm without the illumination of the sun?
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Hi ACC:

Specular reflection from a flexible body like a weather balloon will result in 'red-blood-cell' discs seen. I hv seen this effect through a C8 when viewing the evening weather balloon. So the brown object you saw could very likely be balloon-class object. But a drifting balloon does not leave a linear trajectory. (Integration video stills can easily reveal the non-linear tracks..)
Since the 25mm video lens used on Jan 01 2004 can even resolve the shape of the object - it must be at a very low altitude range then.
What do you think?

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Since the 25mm video lens used on Jan 01 2004 can even resolve the shape of the object - it must be at a very low altitude range then.
What do you think?
Hi YK
The object gave me the impression that its at high altitude, but that's juz based on my intuition and I could be wrong. But I am sure that the object travelled in a straight/slightly curved line at a constant speed. You saw the object at about 10.45pm on Jan 1 as well?

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