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Aneirin -> The International space station (7/16/2009 7:16:06 AM)
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Last night, I believe we saw the international space station zipping overhead. I was down the pub, and one of the astronomers there had the calcs for when it would be over us. So we all stood out in the beer garden waiting, (it was also an excuse to hang around after time too). Well,according to this chaps calcs, got from NASA, the ISS should come over at 23:40. But, at 23:30 something came over, and it was the brightest thing in the sky, and it was shifting, far faster than an aircraft. This object had something trailing it, smaller, and not as bright, but it had an orange type tinge to it. We thought maybe the calcs were wrong, and the ISS was coming earlier than was supposed, until someone mentioned the shuttle was up there, and that might be it, chasing a satellite. Well, ten minutes later we nearly gave up looking, believing the earlier thing was the ISS and the times were wrong, but bang on the time, over came another bright thing moving fast, it was in a different section of the sky, but moving in the same direction, but not quite as fast as the earlier objects, it was bigger though. The objects in the sky were moving roughly west to east, a few degrees either side, but roughly that direction.
Can anyone suggest what were the two earlier objects, could it be likely or was it the Shuttle chasing a satellite ?
And no, I won't think UFO in the little green men sense, but until identified, it is an unidentified flying object or objects. In fact, anything flying in the sky is a UFO until the point it is identified.
And just to add, has anyone else looked for the ISS as it has come over ?
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