Re: Maverick's 2016 Annual HST Meet-up
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 8:34 pm
Oleander's friend here. The meet-up was spectacular - it was such a pleasure to meet kindred spirits! It was great to talk to each of you! A huge THANK YOU to Mav for organizing and to Oleander for letting me tag along.
Rocky Road, so sorry to hear of your accident. Sending you all kinds of well wishes and healing thoughts. I wish you a speedy recovery - here's to being back in the backcountry as soon as possible!
Shhsgirl, my sympathy on the loss of your gear. Very, very sad to see that kind of crime in the wilderness.
For those like us who saw a mysterious light on Wednesday night (7/27), it might have been this. This was Tom Sinestra's column from August 1. [Some interesting links here too!]
Bright lights, big mystery in the night skies
By Tom Stienstra
August 1, 2016 Updated: August 1, 2016 12:05am
Back-to-back sky shows Wednesday evening led some Northern California campers to believe they possibly had seen UFOs.
The more spectacular of the two, what looked like multiple streaking objects with strobe-bright trails, occurred at 9:36 that night.
That event was the result of a Chinese rocket, reported as the size of a school bus, that burned up on re-entry, according to a consensus of reports.
Another night spectacle followed at 10:18, a bright light flying in a line faster than a jet, brighter than a satellite, and visible to campers for six minutes. This object was verified as the International Space Station (ISS).
It gets better. Projections show that the space station will appear in the Northern California skies four times in the coming week, starting Monday:
Monday: will appear for one minute at 9:10 p.m.; look 14 degrees above north by northwest.
Thursday: will appear for less than one minute at 11:21 p.m.; look 14 degrees above north.
Saturday: will appear for less than one minute at 11:11 p.m.; look 14 degrees above north.
Sunday: will appear for two minutes at 10:18 p.m.; look 10 degrees above north.
To track the ISS, go to the website: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov. To track satellite and rocket re-entries, go to http://www.space-track.org.
One night in the late 1990s, my son and I sighted a silver-red fireball. We then stood on a picnic table for a better view and the object split into 20 pieces, each with long, orange-red tails, and then flew right over the top of us.
The U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, through a series of contacts, confirmed it had tracked the event.
It turns out the bright lights were from a spaceship that had time traveled from a planet near Antares. Little green men called Lemurians then landed on Mount Shasta and asked: “Take us to Captain Kirk.” Heh-heh.
A story roughly similar to that made the rounds, but I was able to connect with U.S. Space Command to set the record straight: We, along with hundreds across Northern California, had seen the re-entry and burn-up of a booster rocket that had been used to launch a Russian satellite.
Rocky Road, so sorry to hear of your accident. Sending you all kinds of well wishes and healing thoughts. I wish you a speedy recovery - here's to being back in the backcountry as soon as possible!
Shhsgirl, my sympathy on the loss of your gear. Very, very sad to see that kind of crime in the wilderness.
For those like us who saw a mysterious light on Wednesday night (7/27), it might have been this. This was Tom Sinestra's column from August 1. [Some interesting links here too!]
Bright lights, big mystery in the night skies
By Tom Stienstra
August 1, 2016 Updated: August 1, 2016 12:05am
Back-to-back sky shows Wednesday evening led some Northern California campers to believe they possibly had seen UFOs.
The more spectacular of the two, what looked like multiple streaking objects with strobe-bright trails, occurred at 9:36 that night.
That event was the result of a Chinese rocket, reported as the size of a school bus, that burned up on re-entry, according to a consensus of reports.
Another night spectacle followed at 10:18, a bright light flying in a line faster than a jet, brighter than a satellite, and visible to campers for six minutes. This object was verified as the International Space Station (ISS).
It gets better. Projections show that the space station will appear in the Northern California skies four times in the coming week, starting Monday:
Monday: will appear for one minute at 9:10 p.m.; look 14 degrees above north by northwest.
Thursday: will appear for less than one minute at 11:21 p.m.; look 14 degrees above north.
Saturday: will appear for less than one minute at 11:11 p.m.; look 14 degrees above north.
Sunday: will appear for two minutes at 10:18 p.m.; look 10 degrees above north.
To track the ISS, go to the website: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov. To track satellite and rocket re-entries, go to http://www.space-track.org.
One night in the late 1990s, my son and I sighted a silver-red fireball. We then stood on a picnic table for a better view and the object split into 20 pieces, each with long, orange-red tails, and then flew right over the top of us.
The U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, through a series of contacts, confirmed it had tracked the event.
It turns out the bright lights were from a spaceship that had time traveled from a planet near Antares. Little green men called Lemurians then landed on Mount Shasta and asked: “Take us to Captain Kirk.” Heh-heh.
A story roughly similar to that made the rounds, but I was able to connect with U.S. Space Command to set the record straight: We, along with hundreds across Northern California, had seen the re-entry and burn-up of a booster rocket that had been used to launch a Russian satellite.