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Cylinder With Lights Near
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George A. Filer
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Director, Mutual UFO Network
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MUFON Skywatch Investigations
Filer's Files #46 10-10-2

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The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. This week's files investigate a series of Orbiting Astronaut Sees Mystery Lights, Biggest Solar X-ray Flare Classified As X28, NORAD - Investigates Vapor Trail Reports, and the Leonid Meteor Showers Are Coming.
 
UFO reports: Maine -- Cylinder UFO Seen Near Base, Vermont - Silver Metallic Disk, Massachusetts - Unknown Objects During Lunar Eclipse, New Jersey - Transient Lunar Phenomenon Seen During Lunar Eclipse, Pennsylvania - Huge Flying Triangle, Rhode Island - Large Hovering Flying Triangle on Halloween, Virginia - Cigar With Two Lights, North Carolina - Triangle Shaped Object With 3 Round Lights, Georgia - Hovering Tarnished Bronze Sphere, Florida - Black Cloud Vortex Appears and Witness Loses Ten Minutes, Mississippi - It Was a Disk Larger Than Our House, Indiana - Bright Orange Light, Illinois - Green UFO Spotted, Missouri - Flying Triangle Sightings Continue, Kansas - I Was Driving And Saw A Silver Disc, Arizona - Several Bright Triangular Objects, California - Video Of UFO Shot by R. David Anderson, Washington - Saucer Plus Strange Black Cloud, Canada - Large Craft And Disk Seen On Halloween Venezuela - More UFOs Sighted, Greece - The Light Was Too Fast For A Plane, India - UFOs Sighted In Valley, and South Korea - Disk Found Among Photos.
 
Significantly less UFO sightings in October (367) than September (426) or August (454) possibly due to solar flares. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter.
 
 
Lights, Smoke Observed On The Moon
Transient Lunar Phenomenon
 
During the last week a series of moving lights, smoke trials, and strange objects have been seen on our Moon. This is not a new phenomenon. In 1869, after a series of bright points of light in geometric patterns had been seen, the Royal Astronomical Society assigned to scores of astronomers the task of observing and recording this amazing phenomenon. In a two-year period, they recorded more than a hundred such light patterns, rectangles, straight lines, triangles - many of them around Mare Crisium.
 
Our moon is the only moon in the solar system that has a stationary, virtually perfect circular orbit. The moon's center of mass is about 6000 feet closer to the Earth than its geometric center which should cause wobbling. However, the moon's bulge is on the far side of the moon, where many strange structures have been spotted. Someone or something" had to put the moon in orbit with its precise altitude, course, and speed. How do we explain the "coincidence" that the moon is the right diameter and the right distance to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? There is no astronomical reason why the moon and the sun should fit so well unless of course it was placed in its position according to plan. Only our Moon among all the moons in the Solar System is set apart in this way.
 
France - Smoke Trail Over the Moon During Eclipse
 
METZ - The evening of November 7, 2003, the photographer while traveling 17h13 autoroute Longway? (49 20 34- 06 03 03) saw a smoke trail over the Moon for less one minute. By chance, he had his camera and made two photographs on silver film. He reported the anomalie on the astronomy newsgroups in the US, UK, France, and to Harvard University PM.
 
Data: Apparent geocentric position right rise 1h 25m 52s Declination 6° 18' 48" outdistance 402,517 km Constellation fish Appearance Diameter 29.69' Illumination 96% Libration in longitude 4.051° Libration in latitude 3.260° He developed the film with the microphen into 800 ASA not to have the overexposed lunar disc, such an amount of worse for the other photographs. The Moon made 1mm on the negative one, while waiting for the silver images, here are reconstitutions lunar formation, the trainée black one seemed behaves like it was projected on the top of the lunar disc and falling down. Thanks to Thierry Speth
E-mail was in French and data may be lost in translation. See photos at: <http://membres.lycos.fr/aalenia/ltp071103.htm>http://membres.lycos.fr/aalenia/ltp071103.htm:
 
NORAD - Investigates Vapor Trail
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- Fighter jets scrambled in an unsuccessful attempt to investigate a contrail of unknown origin first seen over the Caribbean and later reported over the Midwestern United States, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled the jets soon after unverified reports were received around 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 5, 2003, that the contrail, seen near the Turks and Caicos Islands, was headed northwest toward the US, said Lt. Commander Curtis Jenkins, a spokesman for NORAD. A contrail is a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft. The jets were scrambled from more than one base and more than one location.
 
Commercial airline pilots later reported the contrail over Florida and then over Indiana, he said. The jets attempted to intercept and identify the source of the contrail, but no visual or confirmed radar contact was made, he added. "I don't know that anybody was predisposed to think it might be something or the other," he said. "We don't even know that it was a thing. It was just simply reports of contrails. We don't even know that it was the same one. We had reports from different places and NORAD did its job and tried to find out."
 
Leonid Meteor Showers
 
The morning of November 13, and 19 there will be two periods of possible good meteor falls. The first date is during the daylight, but there will be possible fireballs at 12:25 AM- and peaking of meteors at 2:28 AM on the 19th. Thanks to Tom Sheets
 
 
Maine -- Cylinder UFO Seen Near Base
NAVAL BASE KITTERY - The witness saw a set of five white lights, with very bright beams on November 6, 2003, at 9:09 PM, a mile from the Navy base. The beams were at a 34 to 45 degree angle and hovered through the cloud cover. The witness states, "I watched it come closer through the clouds for about five minutes when part of the object broke through the cloud cover exposing two of its five lights. There was a crescent or cylinder shape behind the lights that was darker in appearance than the sky. It hovered for minutes, slowly retreating into the cloud cover. I watched the five lights for ten more minutes. The width of each light was twice as large as any airplane I've ever seen. Finally I watched the lights disappear, remaining in circular shapes and all moving simultaneously until completely disappearing from sight. Thanks to Peter Davenport
 
 
Vermont - Silver Metallic Disk
 
BURLINGTON -- On November 5, 2003 at 12:20 PM, the Father was called outside by his 12-year old son who was pointing up in the sky "What is it?" My wife who was in our yard with our dog was looking up in the sky, too, said "It's a UFO". First I thought they were joking until I looked up and to my amazement saw a flying silver metallic disk navigating in and out of the clouds, it was turning upside down then right side up. I said "that's a flying saucer." We had a visual on it for no longer than 1 minute at which time it disappeared in the clouds headed east over Colchester. Too bad I didn't have enough time to get my camcorder. Thanks to Peter Davenport
 
 
Massachusetts - Unknown Objects During Lunar Eclipse
 
West Chatham - Two observers were watching the lunar eclipse on November 8, 2003. One is a 63 year old floor covering salesman who noticed four white to "reddish" lights move into the area of the sky close to the eclipsed moon at 8:50 PM. The lights would move quickly then stop, then move quickly again. They were generally together but obviously moved independently of one another. One light then moved quickly in a northerly direction while the other three moved quickly in a southerly direction and out of sight. The entire episode lasted about 30 seconds. The lights were not pinpoints, but rather had some small area to their origin. It was clear and cold at the time of the sighting. Thanks to UFO Casebook on-line reporting <mailto:Ufocasebook>Ufocasebook@aol.com
 
Rhode Island - Large Hovering Flying Triangle On Halloween
 
WAKEFIELD -- At 10 PM, two witnesses were driving on Route 1 south on October 31, 2003, when they noticed a large object with four large white circle lights kind of hovering over them. They both saw lights and about five seconds later, the four white lights went off and one of them turned green. All the lights disappeared and then the four white lights came on again. At first, it looked like a rectangle from the side, but when it started moving at a very fast rate, it looked like a triangle. It started to go over some trees then just completely disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
New Jersey - Transient Lunar Phenomenon
 
 
SICKLERVILLE - The witness who just completed his grad diploma in astronomy reports photographing an object moving across the Moon on November 9, 2003, during the Lunar Eclipse using his Sony digital camera. I happened to notice that in the series of photos, I had captured a small red star-like dot which first appears on the lunar horizon, and then moved several degrees across the face of the moon and slightly north. A blow up of the object from several shots reveals the same structure. Something like two red donuts stuck together. I suppose some people may say its an artifact caused by the camera, but I doubt an artifact would look like donuts. I should add, I am somewhat familiar with the subject of Transient Lunar Phenomenon. Thanks to WUFOD and Bruce Cornet
 
Delaware- Pictures Of Unknowns During Eclipse
 
GUMBORO - The photographer reports, "I captured a series of images on digital camera-which I could not see with my naked eye-but it looked like a pattern of lights in the camera." I have clear pictures of these objects and lights. The pictures were taken looking at the eclipse. While trying to capture an image on my digital, I noticed a pattern of flashing lights in my display mode, so I snapped a few shots and downloaded them to my computer for a closer look by zooming in. Thanks to B J Booth UFO Casebook <http://www.ufocasebook.com/login.html>UFOcasebook
 
Pennsylvania - Huge Flying Triangle
 
DUNMORE -- Frank Scassellati, reports, "I sighted a huge triangular-shaped UFO on November 3, 2003, with fiancé." It was 6:30 PM, and we were traveling to a local Sunoco gas Station. We were near the Dunmore Cemetery, when we noticed a huge, triangular-shaped UFO in the evening's sky. It was black, or dark in color, with three huge, glowing lights on each edge of the triangle. The object was approximately 500 feet in length, and about 300 feet above the ground. The object did not move. It remained motionless in the clear sky. My fiancé also saw the UFO and we gazed in amazement at this wondrous vehicle. My fiance exclaimed, "What's that? It doesn't look like an airplane. It's not moving. Maybe it's a UFO?" I agreed with her. I believed it to be a UFO. As we entered the Sunoco gas station, I rolled down my window and put my head outside to get a better view, but the UFO. had vanished, it was nowhere to be seen. Thanks to: Frank Scassellati and <http://www.ufowisconsin.com/>UFO Wisconsin.com/
 
Virginia - Cigar With Two Lights
 
STAUNTON - The observer noticed an object in sky southwest of Staunton, at about 11 PM on October 26, 2003. He watched for over an hour as the object moved in every direction in short bursts, but stayed in the same general area. The observer states, "It looked like two long slender lights parallel to the ground, like this - -. The object was quicker and more agile in the air than I can explain. It would take off real quick in a straight line, then seem to turn 90 degrees, then up and down and left and right. There were no blinking lights on the craft. I don't know what this thing was, but it was pulling off maneuvers that I think are beyond human technology at this time. I viewed the object in sky until I fell asleep around 12:30 AM." Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
North Carolina - Triangle Shaped Object With 3 Round Lights
CHARLOTTE - The viewer was star gazing around 9 PM on the back deck of my home on November 3, 2003. I looked straight up and saw 3 round lights moving in unison from the West to the East horizon. The circles of gray light were located at each end of the triangle shape, and I estimate this triangle was about 100 feet across. I looked away from the lights several times to make sure I was really seeing what I saw. I was able to locate this moving object over and over again. It took about 30 seconds for this object to move to the Eastern horizon. This was no illusion! I went to bed and dreamed of UFO's darting in and out of the clouds and across the sky. These UFO's in my dream were both triangle shaped and rod shaped. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Georgia - Hovering Tarnished Bronze Sphere
 
ALPHARETTA - The observer was traveling on the Old Alabama Connector Road on October 29, 2003. I was stopped at that intersection and was looking over the North Point Mall at 5:45 PM, and saw a cell tower to the left and a radio tower just north of it. I noticed what I thought was a globe on one of the guide wires, similar to the globes that are sometimes placed on high tension wires to prevent them from touching each other during high wind conditions. I paused because this seemed unusual, but the light changed and I had to continue driving. Later I realized that the size was completely off, and that the sphere was actually about three times the width of the radio tower. The tarnished bronze or brown sphere was about half way up the tower. I went back later to verify that my perception was correct but the sphere was no longer there. I am certain that the sphere was not a tethered balloon of some type. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Florida - Black Cloud Vortex and Witness Loses Ten Minutes
 
MILTON -- On Friday, the eyewitness was driving to Pensacola to visit my parents on October 31, 2003, at 3:15 PM, when he saw a strange black cloud in the beautiful sunshiny sky. The witness states, "The cloud seemed to be moving like a vortex and I could not take my eyes off of it, so the next thing I remember is crossing the bridge on the interstate going into Pensacola...I lost TEN minutes." I do not even remember driving those ten minutes. My daughter was with me, but she was asleep during all of this. Could this be an abduction? Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Mississippi - It Was A Round Disk Larger Than Our House
 
PASS CHRISTIAN - On November 5, 2003, at 5 PM, a couple observed a strange disk in the sky that had bright lights on the bottom so they decided to follow. The object continued to move easterly directly along side of the interstate for several miles, so they followed speeding along the highway at 85 mph, as darkness began to fall.
 
I would never have believed what I saw, but I saw it and now I think other people should know. I am just an every day Joe, so these things really are out there. What they are or where they come from who knows. I am just an everyday mom and go to work at city hall. North of the interstate I noticed a line of flashing red lights all in a row too close to be planes or helicopters but as I got closer I starting yelling to my husband in the passengers seat, do you see that? What is it? He said I can't believe it speeds up, let's follow it so I continued north but the object remained still directly above the tree line right below the clouds almost hovering. I would say. I stopped the car and we got out. The object seemed close enough to touch but it was still atop the trees where it remained. It was bigger than a house and it seemed as if it were spinning but it wasn't moving it. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
 
INDIANA - Bright Orange Light
 
MICHIGAN CITY -- My sister, niece, nephew and I were coming home from the Humane Society on October 30, 2003, and talking about the solar flare that had just occurred when my 11-year-old niece said, "What's that orange thing?" The other three of us looked straight ahead to the horizon at 4:45 PM, (the object looked to be in the midst of some wispy clouds in a southwest direction.) I automatically said "It's one of those planes that leave streaks in the sky" until I realized it wasn't moving at all, it was just a bright orange oval shape hovering in the sky. We stopped the car to get a better look, but then continued down the road to the house. My niece and I grabbed the binoculars and hopped on our bikes, but once we got back down the road where there were no trees obstructing our view, the object was totally gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Illinois - Green UFO Spotted
 
O'FALLON -- I am now a believer in UFO's because of my experience with a Green object last night. Last night while I was waiting for my girlfriend to get home from work on October 27, 2003, I looked up to see the stars, but noticed an object that looked green with a glow at 12: 20 PM. I realized after further observation that it was not an aircraft and it was like something I remember seeing when I was about 10 years old at my grandparents' house in Ozark, Alabama. I was so full of excitement, but was realistically observing around 3 to 5 minutes. The craft flashed an orange-red color and then disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Missouri - Flying Triangle (Kite-Like) Sightings Continue
 
TROY - The observer on October 30, 2003, went outside at 10 PM, to walk his dogs and looked up to try to see the Aurora lights. There were no lights but coming out of the NW, was a strange looking triangular object. It was like an upside down kite in shape. There were four lights that were visible in the front, one in the back, and one on each side. They were also yellow lights that were not blinking as in most commercial aircraft. The witness says, "It went over my home, and moved like it was gliding, but it was quick and was flying at 750 feet." If I held my fist up in the air, it appeared to cover it. There has been a series of sightings over West Central Missouri during the fall with many reporting a strange row of bright lights hovering over fields and flying triangles. These sightings are not far from Whiteman Air Force Base, the home of the B-2 bomber. On November 4th, two more UFOs having a straight row of 3 to 6 very bright amber lights were seen over Elisnore and Greenville. On November 5, a UFO was seen over St. Joe. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Kansas - I Was Driving And Saw A Silver Disc
 
TOPEKA - The witness was driving north at 7 PM, when he noticed a large military plane in the northern sky on October 30, 2003, but higher up he saw a silver disk east of the plane. The military plane was moving away, but the silver disk was not moving. The witness said, "I drove to a place where I could park my car and watch the disk." It started to move slowly to the west. I got back in the car and drove the 4 blocks to my house. When I got there, the disk was gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
ARIZONA - Several Bright Triangular Objects
 
TUCSON - The observer was walking his dogs at 11 PM, and observed two triangular objects in the west and two in the east on October 31, 2003. Using binoculars he saw them change colors from red, to white, to blue. Often they emit beams of light. He stated, "One night I saw little crafts going off what appeared to be the mother craft that are generally in the same area." Davis Monthan Air Force Base is in Tucson. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
California - Video Of UFO Shot
 
MODESTO -- R. David Anderson reports, I was working outside the building on October 19, 2003, on a sunroom addition onto our house. As I looked up to see if the upper frame was level I saw a UFO coming from the north. It was bright, star like, and it made a loop around the house and hovered above me for about five minutes. I went into the house and got binoculars and went back outside and looked at it using the binoculars. In the binoculars the UFO appeared to be changing shapes, from a sphere to an elongated form. My daughter came out of the house and I showed her the UFO. She was surprised to see a bright star in the middle of the day. I gave her the binoculars and she also commented that it was changing shapes. I observed the UFO dividing into two spheres, and another long shaped craft appeared between the two spheres. There was suddenly a lot of wispy "steam" where the long UFO was, and then my daughter yells " Look, there's a jet." I looked down to where she was pointing, and there was a long object, moving at an angle towards us. Without sound. I saw a bright luminous elongated shape moving against the sky, that changed to a tan color and I could then see it in detail. It was shaped like a cigar with a triangle on the front of it. On the sides were many rectangular features.
 
After lunch, I got the video camera and spotted three UFO's coming from the north and recorded the UFO's as they traveled above the house. These UFO's were spherical in shape, bright and closer, and are the ones in the video. They traveled in unison. About 40 minutes later, I also got another shot of a UFO moving above the tree. Thanks to R. David Anderson
 
Washington - Saucer Plus Strange Black Cloud
 
SPANAWAY -- I was walking home from school and saw one saucer shaped craft heading East towards Mt. Rainier. It was silver, with a visible shadow on the bottom where the sun didn't hit on October 30, 2003. It wasn't going incredibly fast, but it was steady. It zigzagged a couple of times and then finally disappeared behind the clouds. Thanks to Peter Davenport
 
INDIANOLA -- Dr. Annamarie K Johnstone reports, "I was taking photographs with my 35 mm camera over Highway 82 and noticed a dark shadow or silhouette to the right of a chemtrail curve." Clouds are pushed in front of a dark shadow, perhaps indicating its movement forward. Much fainter behind the lead shadow, forming a rough triangle with the lead are two more suspects. The second photo shows that the dark shadow clouds have moved, but maintain their shape. Similar shadows are occurring in Fostoria, Ohio and photographed by George Ritter. Thanks to A. K. Johnstone Ph.D.
 
Canada - Large Craft And Disk Seen On Halloween
 
HAMILTON, ONTARIO -- On October 31, 2003, I saw a large craft, from about four miles away on Halloween night at 7 PM, with a white/blue aura over its length. The craft was lighted all along its length unlike an airplane, with some blue, red, and white lights flashing, within the overall white/blue light of the craft. I attempted to get to a better vantage point quickly, but had to proceed with caution since the streets were filled with thousands. When I got there, the object was gone. Our airplanes do not have blue lights and our airplanes do not light up so you can see them at night. Only their navigation lights and headlamps are visible.
VANCOUVER - The observer reports seeing a disk that appeared like the original craft from "Lost in Space" at 3 PM, on October 31, 2003. It had rotating multi-colored lights on the bottom and side of red, orange, green, blue, yellow, and white. It flew silent, low, and hovered. There were many more lights than any conventional airplane with rotating lights under and around the side. It didn't seem real, like Christmas tree lights rotating. It was eerily silent, and moved in more of a hover, with almost a slight wobble from too low a speed. It was enormous in size and would have been visible to anyone who was outside at 3 AM, near English Bay.
 
STONER, BC -- On October 26, 2003, at 5 PM, while traveling along Highway 97 just south of Stoner a couple saw what looked like an aircraft coming in for a landing with its landing lights on, just over the top of the trees. The light was extremely bright and too big to be a normal aircraft due to its size, brightness and how low it was flying. The couple was driving at 100 kilometers an hour (60 MPH) and catching up to the flying object. It hovered, then started moving again. Occasionally they lost sight of it due to the trees but when they got to the crest of the hill, they spotted it again flying slowly just underneath the 8,000 feet cloud cover. It was traveling straight across from them when the light disappeared, reappeared and then finally vanished. Others on the highway probably saw it. Thanks to: Brian Vike, Director, Hotline 1 866 262 <http://www.geocities.com/hbccufo/home.html>CANADA HBCC
 
Venezuela - More UFOs Sighted
 
CARACAS -- Luminous UFOs were seen again last week near Cerro El Avila, a mountain on the outskirts of the capital. On October 21, 2003, Sra. Ligia Peralta reported sighting of a strong luminous object of extremely large dimensions at 7:30 p.m. The object flew over the barrio Ola Juliano and then darted away and disappeared behind the peak of Cerro El Avila. At one point, the object descended to within eight meters (26 feet) of a house located on the hillside. She described the object, as generating a very resplendent white light, which spread across the residential zone for several minutes before the UFO retreated behind the mountain. On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 2 p.m., five witnesses watched the aerial maneuvers of a circular black object, which moved dizzily over the highly-populated area at the foot of Cerro El Avila. The witnesses stated the object appeared repeatedly and flew over the greater Caracas, before shooting off toward the horizon.
 
Another witness, Srta. Raquel Rivero, spotted another UFO later the same day at 6 PM, over the Urbanizacion Mario Porezo. The young lady spotted an intense bluish-white light that was stationary for ten minutes, as its luminosity gradually diminished. Thanks to Arturo Escalante para estos informes and UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 8 #42, Joseph <mailto:Trainor@aol.com>Trainor editor
 
Greece - The Light Was Too Fast For A Plane!
CORFU -- While fishing from a dock for squid on October 27, 2003, I looked up and saw a light moving (star size) at 8 PM. At the beginning, I thought it was a plane but the speed was what made me follow the movement. No, it wasn't a falling star. The speed was slower, yet faster, than that of an airplane then it made a turn and vanished behind some clouds, before I had a chance to tell my two friends standing a few feet away. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
India - UFOs Sighted In Valley
 
MALSHEJ GHAT - The witness who is 38 years old took his family on a short holiday to a resort on October 28, 2003. At about 4 AM, we were awakened because we had lost electricity and it was very hot inside the hotel room. We opened the balcony door and sat there a while. Soon my daughter noticed the valley was lit up by a pale white light. It was like a dull white florescent glow. Soon it faded out and we were confused. Then, we noticed that a 'star' was moving overhead. It was fast but not as fast as a shooting star. Then we noticed another big star moving left to right slowly. Again, this was hard to believe but then we noticed that as compared to other stars in that area this was the only one moving. Soon this bright star lost its light and faded away. After a lot of thought, I am convinced that this was a sighting of two UFOs. Thanks to Peter Davenport
 
South Korea - Disk Among Pictures
 
SEOUL -- I took a picture of my daughter on November 2, 2003, at 1:19 PM. Among 3 pictures taken for 1 second in a row (automatically), the UFO (believed so) showed only in the middle one. It was shown over the mountain and looked like a dish which had about a 45 degree slope. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
 
Orbiting Astronaut Sees Mystery Lights
October 30, 2003 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>The Guardian Astronaut Ed Lu returned on Monday from a six-month tour as science officer on the international space station with loads of memories and at least one nagging puzzle: what caused the mysterious flashes of light he saw while studying the Earth's aurora from orbit? Lu, who was a research astrophysicist before becoming an astronaut in 1994, estimates that he spent 100 hours watching the northern and southern lights during half a year in space. The aurora light show, which takes place well below the station's 380 km altitude, shimmers and pulses depending on natural variations in incoming solar particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field.
On three occasions - July 11, September 24 and October 12 - Lu saw something markedly different: flashes as bright as the brightest stars, which lasted only a second then blinked off again. In one instance, he called crewmate Yuri Malenchenko over to the window to see the bursts. Lu says they appeared very different from the random but harmless retinal flashes that many astronauts experience when heavy cosmic rays hit their eyeballs. The flashes weren't like sun glint from dust particles outside the station, which rotate and last longer than a second. Nor were they meteors, which look like linear streaks. Viewing conditions were wrong for a satellite or other artificial object. They only appeared in the direction of the aurora. And Lu checked weather maps, which showed no lightning storms below at the time of his observations. All of which leads him to the tentative conclusion that he saw some previously unreported phenomenon associated with the aurora. http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1073527,00.html
 
Biggest Solar X-ray Flare Classified As X28
 
The massive solar X-ray flare which occurred on 4 November was, at best estimate, an X28. There is still a small chance this will be revised by a small amount, but it is now official: We have a new number 1 X-ray flare for the record books, the most powerful in recorded observational history. There has never been a time with so much activity on the sun. There is speculation that meteors are striking the sun because sunspots suddenly developed at area 486 exploding into massive solar flares. Thanks to David Kingston http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEMNFTWLDMD_index_0.html
 
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Comment
From Nick Balaskas
Nikolaos@YorkU.CA
11-14-3
 
Hi Guys!
 
I thought I would share my reply to Dan Bright regarding his "lunar image anomaly" with you too.
 
Nick
 
 
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:38:12 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Nick Balaskas <Nikolaos@YorkU.CA> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net> Organization: York University Subject: Re: Lunar Image Anomaly - Balaskas
 
From: Dan Bright <ufo@zaziork.com> To: UFO UpDates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:03:33 -0000 Subject: Lunar Image Anomaly
 
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I am currently in the process of soliciting analysis and comment from several astronomers and astronomical institutions of an image that shows an object passing over the lunar disk, as photographed from the West Midlands (UK). The image also appears to show an associated shadow cast on the lunar surface.
 
If anyone on List knows of any astronomers who may be willing to take a look, may I request that you point me (or them) in the right direction?
 
I'd also like to call upon the wealth of experience represented on this List, and ask if anyone here has observed anything similar.
 
The case file can be viewed here:
 
http://zaziork.com/theunexplained/case_files/case_008/main.htm
 
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Hi Dan!
 
If these two identical looking darks spots are not something such as camera/image artifacts or defects (which I suspect they are), then they must be very small objects in the Earth's atmosphere and close to the observer for the following reasons:
 
1) The two spots are as dark as the black background night sky. If these two objects were in space, the sunlight reflecting off their surfaces would make them at least as bright as the dark mara or "seas" of the Moon seen in the background. If these two objects were instead in the Earth's atmosphere, then they would be black since being in Earth's nightside they would not be illuminated by direct sunlight at all.
 
2) One of these two spots cannot be the shadow of the other on the surface of the Moon (the lunar phase is just after full) since the object would be much brighter than its shadow. There are many such examples of this in photos taken by amateur astronomers of the bright Galilean satellites and their darker shadows on the upper cloud layers of Jupiter. Also, because the Sun is not a point light source but an extended round luminious object, the shadow would show some evidence of an umbra and penumbra and look very different from the object. It doesn't.
 
3) If these two spots were temporarily in lunar orbit, they would be present long enough for many more pictures to have been taken with the digital camera used. Do these other images exist, and if not, why not? If these two spots were satellites in Earth orbit, distance aircraft or even bats or bugs flying in formation, they would have crossed the face of the Moon so quickly that it seems very unlikely that the witness (the son) would have had enough time to position his hand held digital camera and taken a quick picture of these (or some other object?) he claims to have seen moving across the Moon.
 
For the above reasons, I think we can rule out the large UFO or meteoroid in space as the explanation for these two spots that appear in this single picture.
 
That said, there are other more compelling images of a massive(?) UFO in the vicinity of the Moon taken during the flight of Apollo 16. These images along with the full details can be seen in the paper by Hiroshi Nakamura published in the lastest issue (Fall, 2003 - Volume 17, Number 3) of the 'Journal of Scientific Exploration'. I still think this UFO is a window reflection of something from inside of the Command Module...
 
 
Nick Balaskas Physics and Astronomy York University

 

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