In reply to fznidar...@aol.com's message of Tue, 1 May 2012 21:29:26 -0400 (EDT): Hi Frank, [snip]
Could it have been an inversion layer reflection of the road sign? Eventually disappearing when the inversion layer dissipated (or broke up)? > >I saw something strange in the sky tonight over Johnstown PA. It was a light >several times brighter than Venus. It was far away and appered just a little >bigger than point like. The diameter was bigger than a star. It was at an >angle of 70 degrees up in the sky south of Johnstonwn PA USA. If I had to >guess I would say 10,000 feet. The sky was clear. The moon and Venus were >showing. The time wave 8:50 PM. > >What attracted it me was its color. It was not the color of any aircraft >landing light. It was redish orange in color, sort of like the color of a 12 >volt incandescnet bulb run on 6 volts. The color was a good match for one of >those solar powered road signs. There was a road warning sign near by and I >matched the color. It was a good match. > >It did not move like an aircraft. It meandered around at a low velocity for >about one minute. Then it got dimmer and cycled off and on on random >intervals of about two second intervals.. An aircraft would have to be >traveling in circules to do this. Then it vanished. It had not moved for its >positon when it vanished. If it were a helocopter it should had still been >visible. > > >I know not what it was. > > >Frank Znidarsic Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
