Dank Janniels wrote: » Saw on twitter earlier sum1 saying New Zealand launched a rocket with a satellite onboard and it travelled up this way. Could explain it?
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » Since when have New Zealand had a space rocket/satellite launching site?
_Brian wrote: » Here’s the thing. I’ll put my hands up and say I nor I guess anyone else can’t prove it was an alien spacecraft. I’ll opem the floor for you or anyone to prove 100% it wasn’t ??
josip wrote: » Last few years, it's battery powered. Not the Duracell type.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-rocketlab-launch/new-zealand-launches-into-space-race-with-3d-printed-rocket-idUSKBN18L0I3
kneemos wrote: » Didn't see any reports of stopping or reversing.
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » BTW while on the subject of the NZ spaceport I just spotted something interesting. Take a look at this photo of Sunday`s launch. What is that object in the sky to the left of the rocket?:eek:
josip wrote: » No. We don't live in New Zealand.
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » I didn`t know that this existed. If NZ can have a spaceport then maybe Ireland can too. There are a few suitable locations I can think of.;):rolleyes: Anyway the latest launch was on Sunday, not Friday so unless the Kiwis have also developed time travel then it had nothing to do with what was observed by the aircraft crews. BTW while on the subject of the NZ spaceport I just spotted something interesting. Take a look at this photo of Sunday`s launch. What is that object in the sky to the left of the rocket?:eek:
ThunderCat wrote: » Rockets don't enter space by shooting straight 'up' from their launch sights. When they escape the atmosphere they are travelling on a far flatter plane. Quite plausible and entirely possible that a rocket launched from NZ is no longer still over NZ when it reaches escape velocity.
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » What is that object in the sky to the left of the rocket?:eek:
bangkok wrote: » Correct but its also not over the south west coast of ireland either
topper75 wrote: » The amount of Irish people pushing for aliens on this concerns me. I'm concerned about my own failure to devise a money-making scheme to capitalise on their naïvety.
bangkok wrote: » So you think 3 pilots reported on something strange just for the craic?
"The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”
josip wrote: » The 787's service ceiling is 13,100mhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner New Zealand is roughly on the other side of the world. (I can include a link if you need it) Do you really believe that it's plausible for a rocket to do 6 laps of the earth before it makes it to even LEO?
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » This is all irrelevant anyway as the NZ rocket launch took place on Sunday morning GMT not Friday morning. Whatever was seen by the aircfaft crews was definitely not any NZ rocket.
punisher5112 wrote: » Northern lights
An Ri rua wrote: » Similarly, less than a decade ago, in the horizon east towards Croghan Hill/Kildare border direction, I saw a starlike light travel at a fixed speed in a dead straight trajectory from right to left across the horizon. Then at the end of that run, shoot up vertical having g changed direction at a right angle. I was perplexed, then dumbfounded afterwards as I thought about it. I am a night sky observer and what I saw was highly unusual. Upon research, that trajectory matched other sightings. Imagine people second-guessing pilots, Gardai, army personnel, etc etc. Is there no end to the hubris of science worshippers? Quality observations gleaned from quality observers should be treated with sceptical respect.
yourdeadwright wrote: » Most likely they say a Russian or US fighter jet, IF anyone remembers last year there was two Russian fighters seen over the coast here keeping a close eye in the UK I know a pilot and he say's plenty of the older guys have see nod things in the sky but don't report it as they don't want to be seen as going a bit crazy, No body wants a crazy pilot Aliens claim is what governments with new technology want the general public to think , Its funny as humans we go for the outrageous answer instead of the obvious that its a man made craft that someone doesn't want you to know about,
topper75 wrote: » Which pilot claims it was aliens?
topper75 wrote: » True there is history with this in Roswell. I don't the initial thing was that clever. They botched the attempted cover up (balloon to catch evidence of Soviet nuke testing on the ionisphere) and only when they saw the initial paranoia did they realise how 'healthy' that would be to avoid attention coming on to what they were really at. What was initially accidental became deliberate. Crazies nattering about aliens is just the ticket to keep noses out of your classified work. Hollywood didn't shirk its role.
Last year, reports emerged that Lockheed might test an "optionally piloted" flight research vehicle in 2018, and an actual test flight in 2020. Reporters at Aviation Week also reportedly caught a glimpse last year of a "demonstrator vehicle" that may have been linked to the SR-72.
wexie wrote: » Here you go folks, I give you the Lockheed Martin SR-72, aka Son of Blackbirdhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72http://uk.businessinsider.com/sr-72-lockheed-martin-hinted-may-already-exist-2018-1?r=US&IR=T
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » I suppose this is plausible although why they would choose to test fly this proposed aircraft right in the middle of a busy transatlantic air corridor rather than in some more isolated airspace is beyond me.
bangkok wrote: » Would you call people in top level jobs "crazies" or astronuts who have also claimed to have seen ufos in space?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident
Deleted User wrote: » Maybe this was shared already. Someone seemingly caught it on camera....https://youtu.be/w228jJJI1UE Edited to add: prepare to be underwhelmed!!!
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