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Originally Posted by bokglob
In the summer of 1974, while camping with my father and some friends on the bank of the Clyde river at Batemans bay N.S.W, I was lying on my sleepingbag amazed at how bright with stars the sky looked, compared to my home in Canberra. As I lay there, I noticed a bright "spotlight" coming towards us from up the river, my dad said it must be a helicopter. As we watched, the light kept coming down the river toward us at a hieght of about 200 ft, untill it stopped directly over the bridge in front of us. What I, my father, and maybe a dozen fishermen saw then, was to this day, the most incredible, amazing, and totally AWSOME thing I have seen in my 46 years of life. Hovering motionless and totally silent above us was a perfectly symetrical luminous triangle about 100ft long, with a small "nipple" on it's front (which I remember thinking at the time "thats it's spotlight). The object sat motionless for 2 or 3 mins above the river, scaring my father and Co into a locked car, and sending fishermen running off the bridge. I sat up and stared, I couldn't take my eyes off it, I was mesmorized, and even at the age of 10, I knew what we were seeing,shouldn't be actually happening...apparently... What happened next was even more jawdropping. It began to move forward slowly, and then suddenly,and silently accelerated impossibly quickly,climbing with a beautiful right hand banking manouver, and dissapeared amongst the stars. When I say quickly,
>>> I mean fast, like 10kmh to 5000kmh in 1sec,the whole leaving thing was over in under 3 secs, and I watched it to a starpoint. I've no rational explanation as to what we wittnessed that night, but it was not of this world,either advanced alian technology, or future human technology,thats all I can think of. Either way, it was the start of a 35 year obsession with the universe, and I'm thankful for that  |
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This paragraph just shows that most people have no idea of size or speed
If as you have said this object was 100ft(30mt)long and had traveled 5000kms in 1 second it would have disappeard before your eyes not sailed up through the stars.
You would not see a 30 meter long object at that distance.
I one had a person tell me he could see the wing lights of a 747 at 10,000 meters at night, but when I showed what the size of a Boing 747 at that hight would look like, he still would not admit
that he could not
