strange siting.

[RED]

During my Navy years I eyeballed things at night that were obviously unknowable and my long range radar was essentially useless because of trash returns. The radar in those days were kinda like AM radio (I could as a kid listen to WLS radio in Chicago on my crude crystal radio in Ark) at night. There were words for that back then, bounce was one, second time around is another.

I also watched Sputniks in the 1950s and they were not lighted.

A UFO is simply something that you cannot identify but there are usually a simple answer. Here is one example.

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-sky-spiral-aurora-northern-lights-90e767058f328bb95bab62c3f5bed1cc

Just my $.02.

[Vern Humphrey]

Do I believe in UFOs?

Of course I believe in Unbelievably Fat Objects -- Whoopi Goldberg and Hillary Clinton, for example.

[pcox]

Low earth orbit satellites that attain an altitude of 150 miles must travel at more than 17,000 MPH to maintain that altitude.

The International Space Station is one such satellite. I think it's orbit is around 120 miles. I've observed it many times and it takes it a lot longer to cross the sky than what I saw Friday night. UFO? Probably could call it that, but it's bound to be of terrestrial origin, because as I've said before, if there were aliens out there we would be sending them foreign aid by now.

[Phloating Phlasher]

During my Navy years I eyeballed things at night that were obviously unknowable and my long range radar was essentially useless because of trash returns. The radar in those days were kinda like AM radio (I could as a kid listen to WLS radio in Chicago on my crude crystal radio in Ark) at night. There were words for that back then, bounce was one, second time around is another.

I also watched Sputniks in the 1950s and they were not lighted.

A UFO is simply something that you cannot identify but there are usually a simple answer. Here is one example.

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-sky-spiral-aurora-northern-lights-90e767058f328bb95bab62c3f5bed1cc

Just my $.02.

There's a Sci Fi short story based on this! They're doing an orbital discharge of material for scientific research purposes, but someone in the project has been bribed by "a major soft drink manufacturer" the venting nozzle has been micro etched into the company's logo! Being in hard vacuum the shape is maintained for a long time as the ejecta slowly dissipates. Its the world's largest lit up banner advertisement for the product every time it passes the solar horizon!

[Vern Humphrey]

The International Space Station is one such satellite. I think it's orbit is around 120 miles. I've observed it many times and it takes it a lot longer to cross the sky than what I saw Friday night. UFO? Probably could call it that, but it's bound to be of terrestrial origin, because as I've said before, if there were aliens out there we would be sending them foreign aid by now.

And they would be registered Democrats.

[PWC]

First off, I don't believe in aliens.

1972 to 1975 I was stationed at Langley AFB, VA. which shares a common runway with NASA Langley. The NASA side of the base was nearly as big as the AF side. Anyway, I have a hobby of amateur astronomy and the NASA library allowed us to check out books. I spent many lunch times there. They had a set of "Project Blue Book", appropriately enough in blue hard bound books; don't remember how many, but at least 6. I looked at them in random fashion, and must say they were interesting, and MANY of the investigations, accompanied with pictures, were unsolved open ended with no conclusion. Sometime around 1974 the books were removed or checked out and never came back for the rest of the time I was there.

Now, the library check out policy was once checked out you could keep material until you were thru with it or someone else asked/needed it. I had their Norton Star Atlas for almost 3 years.

As an aside; there was a Program on TV called Project Blue Book. Also, The Invaders....watch out for people with crooked little fingers.

[Vern Humphrey]

First off, I don't believe in aliens.

Go to the border and you can see them coming across by the tens of thousands.

[RED]

FYI: the ISS orbits at about 256-262 miles and that varies by orbit. It?s speed is about 17,100 MPH.

[dryheat]

You are probably seeing some of the 3,000 Earth-Link satellites Musk has launched. We were camping in a dark area when about forty of them "flew" by us a year ago. They must have been recently pooped out and were all in a line.
Speaking of speed, Voyager that's been traveling for 45 yrs now, is moving at about 40,000 MPH.