i saw somthing really wierd in the sky

I have seen something like that before. Later I found out it was an old communications satelite.


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Most likely, a plane, and the wind currents up there were ideal to give the type of show that you saw.

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Sorry for the >'s and the length, but here's a copy and paste of an email someone sent me this morning. This is likely what you saw if you live in Southern California...

> ASTRONOMY/SPACE ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
>
> Brian Webb, KD6NRP
> Ventura County, California
> E-mail: kd6nrp@earthlink.net
> Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp
>
> 2002 October 12 (Saturday)
> 18:05 PDT
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> MONDAY VANDENBERG LAUNCH
>
>A refurbished Minuteman II strategic missile is scheduled for launch
>this Monday evening from Vandenberg AFB. The vehicle will send an
>unarmed warhead and decoys to the central Pacific as part of a missile
>defense test.
>
>The launch window runs from 19:00 to 23:00 PDT. Although there's no
>guarantee when the Minuteman will be launched, there's a good chance
>it will go at 19:00 or shortly afterwards.
>
>If the Minuteman is launched between 19:00 and 19:19 PDT, the vehicle
>will exit the Earth's shadow as it heads downrange. The exhaust
>plume will be backlit by the Sun with a twilight or dark sky as a
>backdrop, creating an impressive sight.
>
>The display could be visible across a large portion of the U.S.
>southwest and Mexico.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The following is a Defense Department press advisory
> related to Monday's launch
>
>PRESS ADVISORY from the United States Department of Defense
>
>The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will conduct a developmental flight
>test to include the planned intercept of a long-range ballistic
>missile target in support of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
>test program on Oct. 14, 2002.
>
>The test will involve the launch of an Orbital Suborbital Program
>long-range missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The OSP, a
>modified Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile, will carry a
>mock warhead and decoys. About 20 minutes after the target missile is
>launched, and about 4,800 miles away, a ground-based interceptor (GBI)
>carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) will launch
>from the Ronald Reagan Missile Test Facility at Kwajalein Atoll in the
>Republic of the Marshall Islands. About 10 minutes later the
>intercept is planned to take place at an altitude of approximately 140
>miles above the central Pacific Ocean during the midcourse phase of
>the target warhead's flight.
>
>This will be an integrated system test, with all representative system
>elements participating: space-based missile warning sensor;
>ground-based early warning radar, the prototype X-Band radar at
>Kwajalein Atoll and the GMD battle management, command, control and
>communications system located at Kwajalein Atoll and the Joint
>National Integration Facility in Colorado Springs, Colo. Since the
>system is in its research and development phase, these elements serve
>as either prototypes or surrogates for system elements which are in
>the developmental stage and have not yet been produced for actual
>operational use.
>
>A U.S. Navy Aegis destroyer, the USS John Paul Jones, will participate
>in the test, using its SPY-1 radar to gather data about the target and
>interceptor missiles. While the ship's radar will not take part in
>directing the interceptor to its target, the data gathered will be
>used to confirm the potential role the SPY-1 radar and the Aegis
>weapon system could play in a defense against long-range missile
>targets. This will be the first time an Aegis radar is participating
>in a GMD flight test.
>
>This will be the seventh intercept test of the Ground-Based Midcourse
>Defense element research and development program. The first test on
>Oct. 2, 1999 resulted in the successful intercept of a ballistic
>missile target. The second test took place on Jan. 18, 2000, and did
>not achieve an intercept due to a clogged cooling pipe on the EKV, but
>did successfully test the integrated system of elements. The third
>test, on July 8, 2000, did not result in an intercept when the EKV and
>booster rocket failed to separate. The fourth test, on July 14, 2001,
>achieved a successful intercept of a ballistic missile target, as did
>tests on Dec. 2, 2001 and March 15, 2002. These last three tests used
>all GMD components as part of a fully integrated flight test.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> VANDENBERG LAUNCH NET
>
>Amateur radio operators interested in discussing the launch are
>invited to participate in one of the Vandenberg Launch Nets beginning
>at 18:30 PDT on Monday.
>
>The primary Vandenberg Launch Net will be held on the the WB6OBB
>repeater in Santa Barbara. This repeater has very wide coverage and
>simulcasts on 147.000, 224.900, and 449.300 MHz.
>
>Since Mondays's launch may be visible over a wide area, secondary
>launch nets will be held on the 147.090 MHz Catalina Island repeater
>and on 3.815 MHz, LSB. The Catalina repeater covers areas to the south
>that the Santa Barbara repeater cannot. Meanwhile, 3.815 MHz is in the
>high frequency, or shortwave, portion of the radio spectrum and covers
>the western U.S.
>
>There may also be some launch-related discussions on the Condor linked
>repeater system, but these are not officially part of the launch nets
>described above. The Condor system covers much of California and
>currently consists of the following repeaters:
>
> 223.840 Mount Vaca (Vacaville)
> 224.600 Mount Hamilton (San Jose)
> 224.900 Goat Mountain (Fresno)
> 224.920 Tassajara Peak (San Luis Obispo)
> 224.640 Shirley Peak (Lake Isabella)
> 224.820 Tranquillon Peak (Lompoc)
> 224.720 Frazier Mountain (Gorman)
> 223.840 Quartzite Mountain (Victorville)
> 224.000 Brush Peak (Santa Barbara)
> 223.940 Raznow Peak (Thousand Oaks)
> 224.820 Santiago Peak (Orange County)
> 224.180 Toro Peak (Palm Springs)
> 223.940 Lyons Peak (San Diego)
> 224.880 Hayden Peak (Kingman)
> 224.900 Mount Potosi (Las Vegas)
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> LAUNCH PHOTOGRAPHY
>
>If Monday's launch creates a dusk light show, you might want to record
>it on film. Doing so should be farily easy. All you'll need is the
>following:
>
> 35mm camera
> 50, 100, or 135mm lens
> Film
> Cable release
> Tripod
>
>To capture the vehicle on the way up, use Fuji Superia 800 film and 4,
>2, 1, and 1/2 second exposures at f/2.8.
>
>To capture the aftermath (twisted contrail), use Fuji Superia 400 with
>exposures of 16, 8, 4, and 2 seconds at f/2.8.
>
>_______________________________________________
>
>To subscribe or unsubscribe from this newsletter, go to:
>
>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/launch-alert
>
>Questions and comments regarding this newsletter and editorial contributions
>should be directed to kd6nrp@earthlink.net


-- Ah sh*t! sys64738 --

Also, <A HREF="http://www.camerasupport.com/temp/minuteman.jpg" target="_new">HERE</A> is a picture of the launch of a minuteman missle a few months ago from the same location, taken from Los Angeles.

<A HREF="http://www.camerasupport.com/temp/minuteman.jpg" target="_new"></A>

-- Ah sh*t! sys64738 --

im in sacramento, CA you on the west coast?

how do you shoot the devil in the back? what happens if you miss? -verbal

I'm on the CA/AZ border (Yuma, AZ).

Glad you got a good view of this one...it's pretty alarming isn't it? We didn't know what it was...and we went running back to the house for a camera and to check the news!! LOL

<font color=purple>"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
- Benjamin Disraeli</font color=purple>

That was something else. The rocket didn't launch until later in the evening.

-- Ah sh*t! sys64738 --

What you saw was a particularly violent jet of my man-muck. Much more powerful than an ICBM.

Wingding - proof of the need for genetic screening

So much for your peltier. You mother-grabbing donkey molester.

Wingding - proof of the need for genetic screening

Whatever... everything OK Wingding? And why are you still in... does your home connection work?

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I am currently in Physics, and if I am not mistaken, according to the visual by Lou, you didn't see a diffusion phenomenon but a dispersion one, if light turned into colors!

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Cool... then even in weekends THGC will be busy.

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Always logout after posting... and delete the history every day.

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Yeah, otherwise they will put you in jail for 50 years.

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Avril Lavigne has a screetchy whiney voice.

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And tiny Hooters.
She'll have to wait another five years for a proper inspection.

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And what the hell is up with her wearing a sock on her arm?

Yeah? Well if my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle.

It's still retarded.. and she wears to much eye makeup. I originally thought she was 14 maybe 15 but a friend of mine proved to me that she was 17... i still don't believe it.

Yeah? Well if my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle.

It be to much like child molesting. I wouldn't go near her for at least anoter 8 years.

Yeah? Well if my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle.

Go for the cactus... it is more rough.

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Many people would look at her and her songs, and easily mistake her for an adult, despite her child looks. I like that.

About the eye makeup, I like that, mystical eyes attract me a lot!
We can all learn a lot from her, if we feel like it. I know I did, her songs were the only ones ever to open me up to music and relate.

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Muff service is also available.

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Strict rules
1) Only women are inspected.
2) Hot and horny women get inspected for free.


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Inspecting with the lights out is free of charge.
Inspecting with the lights on is $3.95/hour.


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