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Old 28-04-2015, 07:07 PM
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Unidentified object tonight

First thing i saw at around 6:20 pm in the constellation Virgo was a flash, similar to an iridium flare, which I have seen before, this was bright too though, so i scan the sky for another flash but see nothing, so it's definitely not a plane, and i'm just staring at virgo waiting for another flash and this grey/white object 'moves' through Virgo toward the moonlight and disappears, lots of satellites are light specks and easy to distinguish, this had shape and no lights on it at all, almost as if the moonlight reflected off the ships hull.
Definitely wasn't the ISS, wrong location and going a different direction to the current path, that's very interesting because I was 100 percent certain it would be the Space Station, now I'm intrigued.

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Old 28-04-2015, 09:58 PM
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maybe it was a cloud
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Old 30-04-2015, 08:59 AM
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I have seen a cloud with a plane reflecting sunlight upon it which helped me understand why folk see flying saucers.
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Old 01-05-2015, 02:03 AM
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Perhaps the Russians can answer this one? ;-)
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Old 01-05-2015, 07:57 AM
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Perhaps the Russians can answer this one? ;-)
нет! ищи́ на http://heavens-above.com/
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Old 06-05-2015, 06:27 PM
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нет! ищи́ на http://heavens-above.com/
Yeah I checked that site immediatley after, wrong direction, wrong place and passed over Australia that time well out over the coral sea, couldn't have seen it that night from here. sceptics will always say it was a cloud, pretty cool cloud if it was.
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Old 08-05-2015, 06:06 AM
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Or perhaps a weather balloon or a SMP (Secret Military Project)?
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