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Was it the ISS

BravoTango · 2009-05-25 14:57:48

Hi guys, Was walking home from the pub Saturday night at about 02.30/03.00 ish and happend to look up at teh sky and for all the world it was like a star but moving across the sky quickly, it was not a plane either, wasn't that drunk thankfully haha. It would of been moving in the direction roughly east - west. I came to…

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25-05-2009 3:57pm

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BravoTango

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Hi guys,

Was walking home from the pub Saturday night at about 02.30/03.00 ish and happend to look up at teh sky and for all the world it was like a star but moving across the sky quickly, it was not a plane either, wasn't that drunk thankfully haha.

It would of been moving in the direction roughly east - west.

I came to thinking it was the international space station of a shuttle heading to it would I be right.

I was in Waterford as well.

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#2 25-05-2009 4:21pm
squonk

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Probably a sattelite. It wasn't the ISS. That moves West-East. Generally sattelites move fairly quickly, usually a matter of seconds. If that's what you saw then that's the most likely case!

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#3 25-05-2009 4:39pm
BravoTango

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Thats sounds right as it was only a few seconds first time I seen one wooho!

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