OOps here goes trouble .
In the Bay of Plenty near a town called Whakatane , I built a house , 20km's from there , it had beautiful dark skies , nice.
One night in july 1995 the milky way was running true east / west at 11pm and a movement caught my eye low in the west .
What! , as I had been out for hours with zero light this side on "V" shape was slowly moving under the milkyway and slowly blocking the stars , nebular , from view .
I had time to think ,, either this thing is huge and travelling really fast at 30000feet of bat sized and travelling really slow ( silently) at 25 feet ?
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I slowly backed up to my silent and dark house because this thing gave me the willies .
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I watched this thing , totally BLACK! blot the stars from east to west for 4 minuits .
I have this documented in one of my diaries .
The reason for the 30000ft comment was at Whakatane the USAF Starlifters used to pass over head on there way to Antartica ant the sound took 15 miniuts to reach there , long after the lights of the plane had gone . A "V" on its side totally BLACK and SILENT. mmmmm
Still to this day wonder ??
My 1st and only.
Brian.