RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
ortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting? I wrote: " If the object was ever in a direction approximately due north or south of you, i.e. on a line perpendicular to the sunset location, then the altitude h I provided fairly closely applies to the object f

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2010-01-02 Thread Horace Heffner
A Falcon project remnant? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Force_Application_and_Launch_from_Continental_United_States#FALCON http://tinyurl.com/ydsfv7r Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2010-01-02 Thread Horace Heffner
I wrote: " If the object was ever in a direction approximately due north or south of you, i.e. on a line perpendicular to the sunset location, then the altitude h I provided fairly closely applies to the object for that time t in the table. If it was mainly east or west then another calcu

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-30 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rick Monteverde wrote: > We don't get many sightings out here, we're a distinct dull spot on the UFO > observation map. Someone searching for Obama's birth certificate? Terry

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-30 Thread Rick Monteverde
13.84 degrees below the horizon at the time, a bit after official marine twilight (pretty dark). R. -Original Message- From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:00 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Personal:

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-30 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.fastwalkers.com/ On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > From: Terry Blanton >> >> Sounds like a Fastwalker. > > Aurora? > > Regards > > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From: Terry Blanton > > Sounds like a Fastwalker. Aurora? Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Terry Blanton
Sounds like a Fastwalker. Terry On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Rick Monteverde wrote: > > Horace – > > My sighting wasn’t just after sunset, it was just after nightfall -  total > darkness. There was just a vague hint of fading light on t

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
On Dec 29, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Rick Monteverde wrote: Horace – My sighting wasn’t just after sunset, it was just after nightfall - total darkness. There was just a vague hint of fading light on the horizon, but the sky surrounding the object, which was relatively low in the southwest, wa

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Rick Monteverde
Sunset at my location in Honolulu that day was 5:59 PM, sighting was at 6:58 PM. I'll look for a star chart to get the sighting angle for the object. - R.

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Rick Monteverde
r 29, 2009 8:08 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting? In case there is any doubt, the following is my final answer - unless of course I find other mistakes! 8^) On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: Hi Rick, Coincid

[Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
For background information, the attached is a graphic showing my derivation of the formula used below. The umbra line, shown as horizontal, and the line segment x directly above the viewer is roughly the same as the altitude to an object on the umbra line, depending on the latitudinal dist

Re: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
In case there is any doubt, the following is my final answer - unless of course I find other mistakes! 8^) On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: Hi Rick, Coincidentally, I saw something similar yesterday (Dec 28, 2009) around noon AKST, (about 11 orbits later) west of Palm

[Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Rick Monteverde wrote: Saw an orange fire colored UFO last night just after nightfall. The path was that of an object flying in a curved path at high altitude (a u-turn, basically), definitely not a satellite, and a bit brighter than a good space station sighti

[Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Rick Monteverde wrote: Saw an orange fire colored UFO last night just after nightfall. The path was that of an object flying in a curved path at high altitude (a u-turn, basically), definitely not a satellite, and a bit brighter than a good space station sighti

[Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Horace Heffner
On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Rick Monteverde wrote: Saw an orange fire colored UFO last night just after nightfall. The path was that of an object flying in a curved path at high altitude (a u-turn, basically), definitely not a satellite, and a bit brighter than a good space station sighti