[bradufo]

being interested in that sort of thing, i enjoy waching space lab at night. i luv the way it moves acros the sky. a whil ago i was wachin it wen it made a 90 degre turn. i dont think it is sposed to do that, it changed direction many times befor disapering, any thoughts

[Shannygragger]

It was a helicopter flying a lot lower than the ISS.

[bradufo]

no, not a helicopter, if it were it woldent have just turned orange and dissapeard like spacelab does, pluse the compleet silence.

[Shannygragger]

Originally Posted by bradufo

no, not a helicopter, if it were it woldent have just turned orange and dissapeard like spacelab does, pluse the compleet silence.

To judge how silent this thing was, how far away was it? A jet with landing lights on can be seen but not heard if it has some distance betwixt it and the observer.

[bradufo]

no lights, just looked like a small star, like space lab.

[Shannygragger]

Originally Posted by bradufo

no lights, just looked like a small star, like space lab.

How do you know what "spacelab" (by which you mean the International Space Station, I take it?) looks like to the naked eye?

So a small star-like object, the distance of which you don't know, which you can't distinguish from a man-made object you've seen lots of times before appears to do a 90 degree turn and then turns orange before disappearing? Have you ever watched 'planes in the stack at an airport? Their landing lights (the main beams, not the red and green nav lights) can appear to turn orange as they turn to land.

[bradufo]

i live in wales, it is a temporaraly unmanes lab in space, it passes over us and it just lookes like a star, there should be a website somewere were u can moniter it. i see it most clear nights

[Shannygragger]

Originally Posted by bradufo

i live in wales, it is a temporaraly unmanes lab in space, it passes over us and it just lookes like a star, there should be a website somewere were u can moniter it. i see it most clear nights

Yes, I know of the International Space Station (which is not unmanned, by the way) - I was just making sure that you were not under the impression that it was Skylab. That thing fell out of orbit years ago.

But Bardufo...this is what I was talking about on the "Did they fake the moon landings?" thread....so many times, people will witness something that is not obvious and instead of thinking of the simplest explanation, they assume the most far-fetched and bizarre scenario.

There's a light in the sky which suddenly and silently turns at 90 degrees. No mention of how high, how distant from the observer, how close to military bases/airports...no...a light makes a turn (ever seen a weather balloon caught by a sudden side-shear of high altitude wind?) and suddenly it's classed as 'mysterious'.

And really...if you see the ISS most nights, how could you confuse it for the object you saw?

[bradufo]

ok, im cant stress this enough. SPACE LAB IS NOT THE ISS!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is a slightly modified space shuttle to do scientific experements in space. i can tell the differans. look on the web a bit. it was far away, deffinatly in space. and a wether baloon caught in a draft would not da a perfict 90 degree turn. it would make a turn and still moove in a forward direction.

[oktor]

i used to be a fruit picker on some farm lands, we would kick back and watch a tinny white speck move slowly across the sky every night, we assumed it was a satellite but we could have been wrong, regardless of what it was there was no way it was a weather balloon, not from horizon to horizon in a perfect smooth arc every night.
if what we where looking at suddenly turned one night at a right angle after we had been watching it for a month then diapered in any colour flash, we would assume. 1, someone threw the wrong grass on the fire. 2, what was up just tried to come down, and failed.
just a question, did the original speck come back the next night on cue or was that the last you saw of any slow moving space specks?